It is wonderfully shot
with symbolism in abundance, a score by Jonny Greenwood that is as eerie as the film itself and stellar acting performances.
Not exact matches
The festival of lights, which is rich
with symbolism, was conceived during one of darkest periods
in Los Angeles» history, during a key moment
in the civil rights movement.
For Venezuelans,
in the midst of an economic crisis that has included severe food shortages, the moment was ripe
with grim
symbolism.
The name change was an obvious one — by then customers could already run a whole host of non-Windows related software, including Linux — but the
symbolism tied
in perfectly
with the Office on iPad announcement: Windows wouldn't be forced onto Microsoft's future.
I think of 1 Corinthians 5:6 - 8 where Paul uses the
symbolism of Passover to show that the physical meal is not what is important, but the spiritual reality that is
in Jesus Christ and our unity together
with Him.
I guess it is just to fulfill the words of Christ's prophecy, and also fit
in with some of the Passover
symbolism as Matt mentioned above.
Although this is only a footnote to the main line of this address, we may properly note
in passing that some of Protestantism's subsequent difficulties
with prayer and the devotional life, and
with religious
symbolism, come from neglect of those aspects of the medieval image of ministry that ought not to have been set aside.
As Bellah noted
in his initial essay on the subject, civil religion
in America seems to function best when it apprehends «transcendent religious reality... as revealed through the experience of the American people»; yet the growing interdependence of America
with the world order appears to «necessitate the incorporation of vital international
symbolism into our civil religion» (Beyond Belief [Harper & Row, 1970], pp. 179, 186).
In the early Church the symbolism was applied to the individual as an image of his or her membership in the Church and union with Christ, common to all Christian
In the early Church the
symbolism was applied to the individual as an image of his or her membership
in the Church and union with Christ, common to all Christian
in the Church and union
with Christ, common to all Christians.
If Jesus is said to have cured blindness, it is a «sign» that he brings spiritual «illumination» (the
symbolism is embedded
in our language); if he feeds a multitude on an impossibly slender allowance of loaves and fishes, it is again a sign of the nourishment of the soul
with the life of Christ himself.
Instead of asking questions, the Romans, reacted
in disbelief, discounting the importance of what such
symbolism could mean to a broken person who discovers what it means to have a relationship
with Christ.
Such forms of expression are subject to great variety
in the course of history, for they are the product of the fertile human imagination, and their popularity depends upon the prevailing mood of an age, and upon the capacity of their
symbolism to communicate
with the «ring of truth».
It is evident that the sexual
symbolism so fully used by Blake (and so widely felt to be the fullest
symbolism for total presentness
in the imagination of our time) carries
with it this sense of the dissolving of structure, of the loss of self
in total union.
Some are obviously just me working things out
in my mind but others are so filled
with symbolism, and meaning
in my life — much like a parable — that I know the Lord is showing me something.
Baptism
in the book of Acts led to a change
in lifestyle and to evangelism opportunities
with friends and family who understood the
symbolism of baptism.
On the assumption that little Mahershalalhashbaz survived (quite an assumption,
with such a name) we can not but wonder whether Isaiah may not later have referred the name
in a now negative
symbolism to Judah herself.
Allowing for the
symbolism involved, this is how the second birth takes place: «The dogmatization of the Assumptio Mariae points to the hieros gamos
in the pleroma, and this
in turn implies, as we have said, the future birth of the divine child, who,
in accordance
with the divine trend towards incarnation, will choose as his birthplace the empirical man.
If it is true that religion is becoming more highly differentiated, then it may be especially important to develop greater effectiveness
in dealing
with new distinctions,
with new understandings of
symbolism, and
with new kinds of religious organizations.
I shall employ his theory of
symbolism in a modified fashion
in Chapter 11 where I shall deal directly
with the question of the relationship of science to religion.
But,
in the end, a radical empiricism refuses the ideal that strives to do away
with symbolism altogether.
It is the image of a suffering God presented
in the
symbolism of Christian faith that has led me toward Whitehead's thought as an approach to cosmology which corresponds
in most respects
with the Christian
symbolism.
It is at this pole that all beings experience God as the silent horizon of their actuality, as the source of their intrinsic order, as the lure summoning them toward self - transcendence and, finally, as the care into which their existence is ultimately synthesized.14 Religious
symbolism represents this felt ultimacy and care by couching it
in images that we may correlate
with the secondary pole of perception and
with our concretely limited historical experience.
Is it possible for you to examine the sacramental theology of the former
in his work «For the Life of the World» (especially
in the two supplementary essays that are published
with it regarding secularism and
symbolism) and the theory of the person
in the latter's theology?
This is the line taken by what
in North America today is frequently described as «process thought»; its greatest exponent was the late Professor Alfred North Whitehead
in his works Process and Reality (his book has been re-arranged, and provided
with excellent explanatory notes by D. W. Sherburne, under the title of Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality), Science and the Modern World, Modes of Thought, Adventures of Ideas, Religion
in the Making, and
Symbolism, all of them written after Whitehead had joined the faculty of Harvard University
in the United States
in the 1920's.
The
symbolism involved
with food, thread and stick suggests they believed
in God (dess) who can be hungry32 and thirsty, 33 God (dess) who is industrious.34 and God (dess) who is vulnerable.35
2 Whitehead deals further
with the relation between
symbolism and perception
in Process and Reality.
Correlative
with these new
symbolisms of religious meaning is the emergence of structures of religious authority that are
in principle independent of the state.
Rather it is, as already stated, a repudiation of the dilemma
with respect to its failure to include
in its description of the contents of the mind the aspect of
symbolism which, to Whitehead, is as important as the aspect of mere perceptual contents.2
We can test the revelatory resourcefulness of the
symbolism in which our consciousness dwells by asking whether it opens us up to the otherness of foreign ideas and traditions, and thus leads toward deeper and wider integrations of meaning, or instead keeps us locked
in the narrow fortress of obsession
with our own dogmatic certitudes.
In the same manner, the symbolism of the number 7 and, consequently, the image of the Cosmic Tree with seven branches did not appear before the discovery of the seven planets, which in Mesopotamia led to the conception of the seven planetary heaven
In the same manner, the
symbolism of the number 7 and, consequently, the image of the Cosmic Tree
with seven branches did not appear before the discovery of the seven planets, which
in Mesopotamia led to the conception of the seven planetary heaven
in Mesopotamia led to the conception of the seven planetary heavens.
Regarding the contents of the book, this meant that all the subjects of higher mathematics (such as mathematical logic, group theory, analytic, non-euclidian, and projective geometries, and integral calculus) could not be dealt
with.2 The simpler manner of presentation was conditioned by the fact that neither the necessary mathematical symbols (such as the
symbolism of mathematical logic used
in PM or that of analytical geometry used
in UA) nor the rigorous mathematical methods (such as axioms, definitions, and proofs) could be utilized.
One speaks, for example, of the wheel as a solar symbol, of the cosmogonic egg as the symbol of the non-differentiated totality, or of the serpent as a chthonian, sexual, or funeral symbol, etc. (
In like manner it is agreed that the term «symbolism» should be reserved for a structurally coherent ensemble, for example, we speak of aquatic symbolism, the structure of which can not be deciphered except through studying a great number of religious facts which are heterogeneous in appearance, such as baptismal and lustration rites, aquatic cosmogonies, myths relative to floods or to marine catastrophes, myths featuring fecundity through contact with water, etc. [Cf. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, pp. 188 ff., and Images et symboles, pp. 164 f
In like manner it is agreed that the term «
symbolism» should be reserved for a structurally coherent ensemble, for example, we speak of aquatic
symbolism, the structure of which can not be deciphered except through studying a great number of religious facts which are heterogeneous
in appearance, such as baptismal and lustration rites, aquatic cosmogonies, myths relative to floods or to marine catastrophes, myths featuring fecundity through contact with water, etc. [Cf. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, pp. 188 ff., and Images et symboles, pp. 164 f
in appearance, such as baptismal and lustration rites, aquatic cosmogonies, myths relative to floods or to marine catastrophes, myths featuring fecundity through contact
with water, etc. [Cf. Eliade, Patterns
in Comparative Religion, pp. 188 ff., and Images et symboles, pp. 164 f
in Comparative Religion, pp. 188 ff., and Images et symboles, pp. 164 ff.
Still more, the liturgical character of many of them is obvious: they are hymns used
in connection
with some sort of enacted religious
symbolism.
However, since the «cipher» constituted by this
symbolism carries
with it
in its structure all the values that have been progressively revealed to man
in the course of time, it is necessary
in deciphering them to take into account their most general meaning, that is, the one meaning which can articulate all the other, particular meanings and which alone permits us to understand how the latter have formed a structure.
In brief, while the research on symbols in general and religious symbolism in particular by specialists in other disciplines deserves his consideration, the historian of religions is obliged in the final analysis, to approach the subject with his own means of investigation and in his proper perspectiv
In brief, while the research on symbols
in general and religious symbolism in particular by specialists in other disciplines deserves his consideration, the historian of religions is obliged in the final analysis, to approach the subject with his own means of investigation and in his proper perspectiv
in general and religious
symbolism in particular by specialists in other disciplines deserves his consideration, the historian of religions is obliged in the final analysis, to approach the subject with his own means of investigation and in his proper perspectiv
in particular by specialists
in other disciplines deserves his consideration, the historian of religions is obliged in the final analysis, to approach the subject with his own means of investigation and in his proper perspectiv
in other disciplines deserves his consideration, the historian of religions is obliged
in the final analysis, to approach the subject with his own means of investigation and in his proper perspectiv
in the final analysis, to approach the subject
with his own means of investigation and
in his proper perspectiv
in his proper perspective.
In these rituals, patrons are bombarded
with symbolism, rites, gestures, and a variety of stimuli which are entirely out of context
with any religious experience they have heretofore known.
If Havel is right that we are
in a crisis of responsibility and identity, then Christians can and should turn to the rich creation
symbolism within their own tradition, suffused as it is
with imagery of water, air, sky, and earth.
Plus,
with most cultures, but particular Jewish food, food and recipes have
symbolism build
in.
In Romania, Christian
symbolism is associated
with features of pasca type bread.
Online, unearth foods
with religious
symbolism, and see the most unique religion - themed restaurants
in the world at CookingChannelTV.com.
If you gave birth to your own child
in a hospital, you know the enormous
symbolism of walking out of the hospital and into your new lives
with your newborn cradled
in your arms.
It was rumoured that David Cameron had a photo of him
in his office,
with all the
symbolism of Eton, Oxford and «One Nation Toryism».
Speaker of the Commons John Bercow said: «The Elizabeth Tower is an internationally recognised symbol of democracy, and it is right that we remember - both
with words and the poignant
symbolism of the falling poppies - all those who have fought and died
in the course of protecting that democracy.»
May's choice of Switzerland
in also
in contrast
with Gordon Brown who often opted for the
symbolism of a summer break
in the UK to show how
in touch he was
with Middle Britain.
Rackham would have been sceptical to say the least about any attempt to conflate natural history
with political
symbolism, writing on several occasions that he had no time for any discourse which assumed «that trees are merely part of the theatre of the landscape
in which human history is played out.»
Elsewhere attention will be focused on the
symbolism of the meeting,
with Mr Olmert and Syrian counterpart Mr Assad being present
in the same room.
In a summit already overloaded with symbolism, Kim Jong - un and President Moon Jae - in opted for a time - old favourite ahead of a second round of talks by jointly «planting» a tree, or at least throwing fresh soil at the roots of an existing pine, and freshening it with some wate
In a summit already overloaded
with symbolism, Kim Jong - un and President Moon Jae -
in opted for a time - old favourite ahead of a second round of talks by jointly «planting» a tree, or at least throwing fresh soil at the roots of an existing pine, and freshening it with some wate
in opted for a time - old favourite ahead of a second round of talks by jointly «planting» a tree, or at least throwing fresh soil at the roots of an existing pine, and freshening it
with some water.
After initial talks Friday morning, they broke for lunch
in their respective countries before re-emerging for a ceremonial tree planting ceremony, which was laden
with symbolism.
The ceremonial planting on the Military Demarcation Line laden
with symbolism,
with the pine tree standing for peace and prosperity
in an area synonymous
with confrontation and division over the past 65 years.
Off topic questions included: the ISIS
in Iraq and potential threats to New York, his hair color
in a World Cup themed picture, the City's negotiations
with CW Capital concerning Stuyvesant Town, whether he concerned that religion - affiliated CBO's pre-K programs will involve some religious instruction or indoctrination, the Rent Guidelines Board and a possible rent increase, rating his administration on it's FOIL responsiveness, whether subway dancers are a «sign of urban decay», whether he is contemplating a special district for failing schools and whether there is
symbolism is seeking to bring the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn rather than Manhattan and whether he has coordinated that effort
with Hillary Clinton.