prefigurative

In doing so, we are following a process known as prefigurative politics - or as Obama supporters might say, we are seeking to "be the change" that we envision for the world.

rabble.ca - News for the rest of us Campus Notes 2010

In other words, if such concepts were practiced by businesses or housing co-ops or communes, I think this is effective in the sense that individuals are creating the social relationships they want to see in the new world, one example of many what might be called prefigurative politics.

Anarkismo.net Alex Bradshaw 2010

For revolutionary syndicalists, the development of a mass workers movement where the organizations and struggles are "self-managed" by the workers themselves is "prefigurative" of a society self-managed by the working class.

Anarchist news dot org - Comments 2010

The old Ark of the Covenant is a prefigurative type of Mary—it was considered by the Israelites as a very holy object, something so holy that no one could touch it!

Marian Devotion de Brantigny........................ 2008

The old Ark of the Covenant is a prefigurative type of Mary—it was considered by the Israelites as a very holy object, something so holy that no one could touch it!

Archive 2008-09-28 de Brantigny........................ 2008

Though the Bible from Philo Judaeus and Augustine on needs exegetical glossing, it remains the Word of God, the Old linked to the New through prefigurative typology.

MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968

She, that would not suffer at his birth even a prefigurative or mimic degradation for her awful ward, far less could be supposed to suffer the real degradation attaching to the non-development of his powers.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

Passion, as containing Christ crucified; consequently it could not be instituted before the Incarnation; but then there was room for only such sacraments as were prefigurative of the Lord's Passion.

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

She, that would not suffer at his birth even a prefigurative or mimic degradation for her awful ward, far less could be supposed to suffer the real degradation attaching to the non-development of his powers.

Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow 1909

Let us whose souls were sealed with the blood of Christ in the day of redemption, with spiritual exultation, prophetically, draw the holy blood that is flowing unto us from the source of martyrdom, and is prefigurative both of the life-bringing passion of the Saviour and of the eternal glory; let us therefore cry unto Him: Thou that art glorified in thy saints, O

The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints Anonymous 1899