Sentences with phrase «with biblical metaphor»

Nissar Modi's screenplay sometimes treads too heavily with the biblical metaphors, but Zobel never does.

Not exact matches

Like biblical Hebrew, Atwood's witty prose is thick with double entendre and allusion, including hidden puns whose meanings dawn on us only later, and outrageous jokes that don't so much dawn as «bomb» (one of the book's metaphors and an effect of Atwood's powerfully laconic style)

Some years ago, when revisionary theologians proposed baptizing people «in the name of the creator, the redeemer, and the sustainer,» their opponents insisted that the traditional biblical formula, «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,» could not be dispensed with, because it is not merely a metaphor but God's own name.

Since the biblical authors tend to make reference to the ending, if I were going to steal Wright's metaphor, I'd prefer to characterize it as «living in the fourth act,» where you've read the first three acts and the fifth, and you have to continue where the third act leaves off, mindful that what you do must fit in with the ending specified in the fifth act.

And he is at his usual best here, casting fresh light on biblical truths, engaging readers with the compelling metaphor, turning the arresting phrase, and reminding all that the love of God is more powerful and sweeping than we can imagine.

«As an argument against this way of thinking, this kind of idolatry, I turn to the work of Walter Brueggemann, who, in an interview last year with Krista Tippett for On Being, explained the reason for the abundance of metaphors we find for God in the scriptures this way: «The Biblical defense against idolatry is plural metaphors.

To suggest to you how central this notion is to the biblical tradition — one of the central biblical metaphors for infidelity to the relationship with God is adultery.

My hypothesis is that very few «postliberal»: pastors, theologians, or laypeople use biblical symbols, analogies, metaphors or explanations as their first order of discourse in dealing with life in society, history or nature.

Elizabeth Achtemeier and Roland M. Frye deal specifically with issues of biblical interpretation, while Garrett Green, Colin Gunton, and Janet Martin Soskice explore larger questions of metaphor and religious language.

As a biblical metaphor, it is incomplete — it doesn't tell us everything about man's relationship with God.

He observes, for example, that the biblical texts are filled with metaphor, especially metaphors of the «anti-logical» A-is-B variety (e.g., «Joseph is a fruitful bough»).