Sentences with phrase «christian allegories»

Shadowlands Perhaps my all time favorite film, Shadowlands retells the romance between C.S. Lewis (Anthony Hopkins)-- a quiet bachelor famous for his Christian allegories including the Narnia children's fantasy novels — and Joy Davidman Gresham (Debra Winger), an outspoken Jewish poet who had previously explored philosophies of atheism and communism.

Though there have been several film versions of the Christian allegory, the latest version, which is currently in production, will likely be the biggest budget effort to date.

This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).

Christian allegory has similarities to this kind of allegory, but what sets it apart is that it is centered on Christ.

In his celebrated Christian allegory The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis represents evil's hold on the world with the image of an enduring winter — Narnia under the power of the White Witch, who makes it «always winter and never Christmas.»

Saint Paul creates this Christian allegory.

C. S. Lewis did so in his Christian allegory the Chronicles of Narnia.

In his Christian allegory the Chronicles of Narnia, the lion Aslan, the Christ figure, allows himself to be killed so that the evil powers will release those they hold hostage.

There are echoes, too, of Christian allegory and the Reichenbach Falls, as well as less literary entanglements: the mortal tango of Nagini and Severus, snake and Snape; first kisses between — well, far be it from me to tell.

On a surface level, it essentially represents a children's version of The Matrix, thought much lighter on the Christian allegory.

I know of many who read it as a child, but didn't get the Christian allegory until they read it as an adult.

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For its full effect, the isolation and vulnerability of the lamb requires a menace: the wolf in traditional European folklore (sin and the devil in the Christian allegory), in place of which the shark embodies the principle of predatory, soul - stealing monstrosity at a magnified intensity and thrillingly exotic guise more naturally suited to the environment of the tank» (A. Gallagher (ed.)

The moving panorama, which originally toured the east coast in 1851, excited audiences with the possibility of seeing the Christian allegory come to life throught the sequential imagery.

Not exact matches

But very few Christians understand that the Gospels were originally intended as allegory, not biography.)

I should have specified at the beginning that only fundamentalist Christians believe the Bible is the literal, inerrant word of God, and that many people interpret the stories as allegories.

For Christians, sexual difference and union is a type of Christ and the church... Only as allegory can the Song play its central role in healing our sexual imaginations.»

Both the message and the allegory have been sturdy traditions in Christian literature and, as Lynch suggested in his comments on the univocal imagination, they share the characteristic of tending to flatten out the complexities of historical life for the sake of the «idea.»

In that sustained religious allegory of moral heroism and imagery both vivid and frightening, the reader lives through Christian's travails and all - too - human backsliding, until finally tasting his victory as one's own.

Allegory in Christian usage means interpreting the Old Testament as a book about Christ.

Verse 20 immediately falls under suspicion, since it seems to provide a reason for early Christian fasting, and, more importantly, it uses the allegory bridegroom = Jesus (This allegory is itself a product of early Christian piety, arising out of the concept of the Church as the bride of Christ [II Cor.

The customary term for this kind of exegesis is allegory, a word first introduced into Christian speech by St. Paul in the Epistle to the Galatians: «It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman.

For LaHaye, Revelation is no allegory or first - century Christian wishful thinking about Rome's destruction.

Because the story is an allegory; Jesus speaks in parables, because he is a parable, for his alter ego, Judas, who for the last 2,000 years has been in the hands of self - confessed sinners (Christians), who have indeed entreated him spitefully, and have done every thing in their power to have you believe that he is dead, (although it's never written that he has died, or that he was ever buried, either).

Yep, there are many, many Christians outside the US, but most understand that bible stories from the so - called Old Testament are primarily allegory, not literal truth.

The book is a satirical allegory about Christian attempts at world evangelism.

The book was revolutionary for combining science - based fantasy with spiritual allegories inspired by L'Engle's own deep Christian faith.

Within the Church, «scientific» exegesis has often been regarded as the gold standard of serious biblical scholarship, and modern Christians are often as contemptuous of premodern allegory, figural exegesis, and typology as your neighborhood philosophe.

If we didn't have the tools to understand the cosmos, would Chad or other christians insist that the Genesis account was just a model or allegory, or would they be screaming just as loudly that Genesis was absolutely correct - and they knew that by faith and trust in god's word?

«Some people seem to think that I began by asking myself how I could say something about Christianity to children; then fixed on the fairy tale as an instrument; then collected information about child - psychology and decided what age group I'd write for; then drew up a list of basic Christian truths and hammered out «allegories» to embody them.

The book is a satirical allegory about Christian attempts at evangelism.

The net result is the Christian religions have obfuscated the spiritual truths hidden in the Bible as allegories often wrapped in an enigma.

The story is an allegory (and a satire) about modern methods of Christian evangelism.

Pat likely doesn't believe that; however, many Christians view the Genesis account as allegory which does not «discredit» the spiritual relevance of the stories.

While commentators of an earlier generation sought to save Shakespeare and the Christian characters from the charge of intolerance and anti-Semitism by turning the play into an allegory, more recent readings often maintain, to the contrary, that Shakespeare in fact lays the groundwork for the racialist anti-Semitism of a later era in the character of Shylock.

In his view, literature did not need to have an explicitly Christian message nor operate as a direct allegory — which was, in fact, a point of disagreement between Tolkien and Lewis.

Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014) Petzold's sixth collaboration with muse Nina Hoss is his most cinematically inspired meditation yet on Germany's traumatic past and collective reinvention, skilfully merging Hitchcockian melodrama with political allegory while remaining human - scaled and deeply affecting, and culminating in an astounding, unforgettable mic - drop moment of film music magic.

Allegory for a certain Christian - paranoia in the United States?

Perfect Praise Publishing is a Christian, family - owned and operated publishing company that began in 1999 that publishes Christian Novels, Books, Audios, and Allegories for Youth and Adults

I also see Christian romance novels as an allegory of our relationship with Christ.

From a critical perspective it is an awful awful movie that adds ideas that retroactively hurt the better Alien movies, though it might be an hyperbolic statement that will depend how much one does care about that aspect, since certainly Ridley Scott is more interested in using the IP to do creative visuals to tell a really weak allegory of christian themes.

1992 Picturing Paradise: The Rain Forest at Risk, Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, USA Summer Group Show, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany Quotations, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton Art Institute, USA Painting, Self Evident: Evolutions in Abstraction, The William Halsey Gallery, Simons Center for the Arts, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA (Exhibition on view here and simultaneously at two other venues, The Meddin Building and the Gibbes Museum of Art, during the Spoleto Festival) Summer Group Exhibition, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, USA Slow Art, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York, USA Selective Vision, TransAmerica Corporation, San Francisco, USA Psycho, Kunsthalle, New York, USA (Inaugural exhibition curated by Christian Leigh) Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2/16 — 5/5/92) Twentieth Century Prints of the East End, Renee Fotouhi, East Hampton, NY

Formerly a slick, realist painter of dreamy allegories in the Bo Bartlett mold, Mr. Vincent evidently has been transformed in... read more... «NY TImes Art in Review: Christian Vincent, PN&FP 2»

PART 2: LIGHT AND SHADOW The ESSAY «Light and Shadow» discusses... flicker films, Plato's allegory of the cave, H.P. Robinson's allegorical images, working with the absence of light, Tony Conrad's slow emulsions, photography as fairy magic and sun drawings, Adam Fuss's photograms, Hiroshi Sugimoto's feature - length exposures, Cai Guo - Qiang's explosions, light as cancerous radiation, light and shadow in city planning, contrast and lighting in works by Rineke Dijkstra, Jacob Riis, Weegee, Adrienne Salinger, and others, O. Winston Link's environmental light, darkness and light as metaphors for knowledge, morality, and power, pools of light in Expressionism, film noir, and works by Hans Bellmer, Esther Bubley, and Anna Gaskell, Group f / 64, available light in the work of Roy DeCarava, Yinka Shonibare's interpretation of Dorian Gray, public projected images, Indonesian shadow play, Gregory Barsamian's kinetic sculptures, flickering portraits by Christian Boltanski, Kara Walker's silhouettes, and more...