Sentences with phrase «scriptural stories»

The two notes of individuality defined in a social world and action or embodied belief, which we saw are characteristic of Scriptural stories, are also, according to Auerbach, the central qualities of the Western literary tradition.

Awe by itself does not tell the scriptural story — as Pascal added, «It is a remarkable thing that no canonical author ever used nature to prove the existence of God» 6 — but it provides a compass that orients us toward God as creator.

There are many twists and turns to Hegel's philosophical re-narration of the scriptural story, but its most important claim is that God entered history in order to abolish his separation from it.

Once we set Jesus in the context of a larger scriptural story, however, and come to grips with his sense of what exactly the new the new covenant would mean and how it would both fulfill and transform the old one... we discover a much richer, and more narratival, sense of «fulfillment,» which generates that subtle and powerful view of scripture we find in the early church.»

Suitable for 11 years + This lesson takes the scriptural story of David and Goliath and compares it to the comic book Goliath.

Suitable for KS3 or stretch and challenge KS2 This lesson takes the scriptural story of David and Goliath and compares it to the comic book Goliath.

Not exact matches

Among those gathered here in her modem voice (through scriptural images, verbal echoes, parallel situations) are women whose stories have been muffled in the Bible's tradition — Hagar, Bilhah, Zilpah, Mary, the Lord's «handmaiden,» Sarah, Rachel, Leah, Rebekkah, Ruth, Puah and Shiphrah (the Hebrew midwives in Egypt), Jael, Jephthah's daughter, the «Jezebel» of Revelation, and other, unnamed ancestresses, «missing persons without textual authority.

Yet the story of developing Scriptural ideas ought to be popularly known.

His dad claimed to be doing it for «Scriptural reasons», but we were very suspicious that was not the full story.

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.

The spotlight now shifts and the people themselves are entering the plot of the scriptural passage, joining with the characters and living their story.

The story Jesus told of the workers who arrived late in the vineyard and yet received the same pay as others could be adduced as scriptural authority.

Asked for their scriptural authority, Hobbes and Pufendorf would have gone directly to another story, the story of the Fall in Genesis 3, perhaps including the ensuing violence of Cain against Abel in Genesis 4:1 - 9.

For Christians, the story is heightened by the knowledge that Ruth and Boaz are the ancestors of Christ's foster - father, Joseph, by scriptural revelation and of His mother, Mary, by tradition.

The coherence of this story made figural interpretation possible; certain events within and outside of scriptural narrative were viewed as having prefigured or reflected the central biblical events.

Even the Ayatollah Khomeini's infamous edict made no reference to any theological point, not least because his Shiite creed gives no credence to the story of scriptural interpolation upon which Rushdie's offending book was based.

A major writing goal has been to make scriptural principles understandable and relevant through the power of story.