Sentences with phrase «biblical stories given»

Biblical stories given a naturalistic coat and transposed to the modern everyday have been the order of Jeff Nichols since his debut.

Not exact matches

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, an Italian biblical scholar, suggests that we might begin to appreciate how Easter changed everything — and gave the birth of Jesus at Christmas its significance — by reflecting on the story of Jesus purifying the Jerusalem Temple, at the beginning of John's Gospel.

He describes his work simply as that of making pictures for Christians, and he gives the impression that he works in the spirit of those early medieval artisans who carved biblical characters on capitals and reredos to remind worshipers of well - known stories.

It embraces a fruitful abundance of descriptions of God, including all the substantive terms that can legitimately complete the sentence, «God is...,» beginning with scriptural terms such as Word, Wisdom, Water of Life, Bread from Heaven, Truth, and Comforter, as well as alternative proper names such as El Shaddai and also El Roi» Hagar's name for God, in the only biblical story where a human being gives God a name.

I wish now to give an account, inadequate because of necessary brevity, of what the biblical story as a whole has to tell us.

It may give us an idea of what really happened, and so aid in our understanding of the Biblical stories.

The film's plot is similar to the story in the Biblical Book of Ruth, and the film's title was derived from Deuteronomy 11:21 («That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.»)

Underpinning these values are Biblical texts and stories, which the pupils can retell and discuss the inspirational examples that these give in our present lives.

Here too there is a curious oblique Biblical resonance: the story of the escape of Israel from Egypt describes how the Israelites were guided in the wilderness: «And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light...» (Exodus 13:21) The natural «fire from heaven» reverses this supernatural pattern: by day the ground and sea receive fiery direct sunlight, while (as we shall see) a significant fraction of the nocturnal «fire» is provided by cloud.

Indeed, the cultural origins of property rights based on John Locke's theory can be traced back to the biblical story of Adam and Eve, where God gave the earth to the two initial inhabitants and their children.