Sentences with phrase «hagar as an allegory»

The Hanfree case serves as an allegory for Kickstarter's growing pains as a crowdfunding platform, a largely new and unregulated world in which anyone with any idea — good or bad — can get paid to create it, largely without any vetting or approval process from the site itself.

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.

They are not written for children, and do not function in any way as allegories.

As an allegory about humanity's moral freedom, the Tree of Life would represent the instinctual innocence of the animals and very young children.

The problem with Christianity is that you've taken fictional stories meant to stand as allegories and moral lessons... and attempted to force them into being literal and factual.

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.»

Peter Leithart, Reformed Pastor: «Sex is allegory... and as allegory it is... theology.

If viewing these accounts in the bible as allegory helps you come to faith, then I know God can straighten out your thinking from there.

Genesis is best looked at as an allegory.

Looking at the OT through the lens of Christ for me means looking at it as an allegory showing our need for G * d's love.

as an adult i realized that it is infinitely difficult to have a personal relationship with anything described in any book of the bible, though it is very possible to relate to the book, as allegory, or possibly history.

Each parable has a single focus, and distortion occurs when we try to treat it as an allegory.

I think perhaps this is what the Apostle Paul did in Galatians when he interpreted the historical narrative of Sarah and Hagar as an allegory of the two covenants.

(Inherit the Wind was supposed to be a bit like Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which also served as an allegory to McCarthy Trials.)

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

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.

I've talked with Jews about this matter, and they said the stories in the Torah (Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, etc.) aren't meant to be taken as literal, historical facts, but as allegories and moral tales.

They may arise as overelaborated accounts of historical events, as allegory for or personification of natural phenomena, or as an explanation of ritual.

The end of the play would be much more comfortable for us if we could treat the Portia of the trial scene as an allegory of the Divine Judge who forces Shylock (the allegorical sinner) to relinquish all his wealth with the conditional restoration of a part of it upon his baptism» that is, he must throw down everything he has and follow Christ.

Pilgrim's Progress, cited by Braithwaite, was an influential guide to behaviour only because it was read as an allegory faithfully representing the way of life recommended by the Bible and supported by the claims therein about God and the world.

You and people like you rationalize it as an allegory in order to sidestep your cognative dissonance.

Evolution could be seen as God's method of creation, and the Genesis account of creation taken as an allegory, they said.

I don't have a problem with you reading Genesis as an allegory, but I hope you can see that there is resonant meaning here beyond your limited understanding.

Now, as an allegory we are living out the days exactly as described.

If there was any other book claiming to be the authority on everything that you kept having to make excuses for like «Well, that part is ment as an allegory» or «God years are different than man years» or «Well, its says to not eat shelfish or pork in the hebrew scriptures, but apparently God changed his mind later, but that part about ga y's stays» I don't think anyone would have given it a second look had it not been at the point of a sword.

White does not simply present Malory's romance as an allegory for the ills of his age, though he recognizes its relevance, much less as a panacea for his own afflictions in any sense other than the humble one in which all polite literature is a welcome respite from terrestrial agonies.

Three of these, the feeding of the five thousand and the four thousand and the walking on the sea, may have originated as allegories of the power of Christ to preserve his disciples and supply their needs.

I also believe that the Bible is meant to be taken as allegory, not scientific fact, and that young earth creationists and evolution deniers are among the dumbest people on the planet.

And then the third person is Peter Usher, who we talked about, who had this rather extravagant theory of Hamlet as an allegory.

Like «The Zone» in Stalker, The Shimmer has been largely viewed as an allegory for different states of being.

Even though it relies on a gripping feel of intense paranoia, this is an overlong sci - fi / horror movie that suffers from certain problems in logic and kills its tension with long passages that make the pacing irregular, not even being smart enough as an allegory like the original film.

I would also argue that the shimmer is designed as an allegory for a disease that causes mental degeneration; the fact that the crew keep forgetting important events, and crew members keep disappearing without any conventional forewarning, puts us in the uncertain headspace of somebody suffering from an illness like Alzheimer's, for example.

As an allegory of racial conflict and mass immigration, District 9 never really goes anywhere: The appealing premise fades into the background before 20 minutes have elapsed.

I think that this is the way to look at the film: as an allegory for whatever is called New European Populism right now.

Being about a town where people can't discuss the past — and must always put up a happy front — «Wayward Pines» could be interpreted as an allegory about modern America.

The film works best as an allegory of what men fear: loss of family, loss of profession, loss of respect, loss of sanity (resembling in this aspect the suburban unease of the director's Arlington Road), going so far as to cast a woman (Laura Linney) as the film's only representative of order.

Although this is an animated film and is at its core a comedy (with many dog - related jokes), the story also serves as an allegory for serious topics.

When this Night of the Living Dead seems content to blame an external agent, it dilutes itself as an allegory.

As allegories go, «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» is elastic enough to support any number of readings.

Gene Roddenberry often pushed his series to explore stories as allegories for modern life and politics; here «Trek» becomes a Cold War story in which the Federation and a nearly bankrupt Klingon Empire are dropped into the context of a political thriller.

Miller describes him as «a wild animal, trapped», and this could play as allegory in correlation to the many men who feel robbed of their manhood in 2015.

Considered by some to be an unusual choice, «The Square» stars Dominic West and Elisabeth Moss, and uses the art world as an allegory for middle - class guilt and incorporates aspects of both conceptual and performance art.

In the original comic the X-Men's status as mutants was used as an allegory for the civil rights movement.

As allegories, the Apes films have always been messy, and there's not the least bit of subtlety in the film's political commentary.

Whether you view these two pieces as allegories for our fallen times, as postmodern reconstructions of films that were never made and events that never took place, as the sustained pedantry of a lunatic, or as a comprehensive encyclopædia of human absurdity and banality, they are ingenious, kaleidoscopic works that will boggle the brain and tickle the fancy.

The film, which has been interpreted as a commentary on the empty bromides of self - help culture as well as an allegory of the AIDS crisis, became a breakthrough for both Haynes and Moore, who would go on to collaborate on such ravishing period pieces as Far from Heaven and Wonderstruck (which premiered at Cannes last month).

Worse, Vanderbilt seems to be referring to author Thomas Hardy in the naming of Travolta's character (and Barbarino's recent sour grapes concerning his passing over Chicago doesn't say all that much for the film he was shooting instead), pushing the connection by tying Hardy's hallmarks of personal archetype and use of forces of nature as allegory into what is essentially a stupid rip - off of any stupid David Mamet film.

The tension between Anderson's wicked sense of humour and his immaculate craftsmanship — the latter placed in even sharper relief by scenes depicting Reynolds's own meticulous process, legible but not underlined as an allegory for filmmaking — is potent stuff.

For as much sound and fury Deadpool makes about breaking the boundaries of superhero convention, Zootopia is a lot quieter about its story that manages to work as an allegory about — of all unlikely subjects — racial profiling.