Sentences with phrase «alien body of»

Above all, a Christ who even now is manifest in the preincarnate form and epiphany of God, and who can be reached only by a total reversal of our history and experience, must be named as the Antichrist, as the dead and alien body of the God who originally died in Christ.

Perhaps we can not yet name such an experience as the atoning body of Christ; but we can know it as the dead and alien body of God, and consequently we can not dissociate the alien body of the Antichrist from the Christ who is the embodiment of the self - negation of God.

Not exact matches

The Son's body was not an alien or unanticipated addition to his eternal nature; it was a revelation of that nature.

That is: the mind caught in an alien body; the not - quite - genius nerd who's «the king of foreplay» or will do anything to «get laid» and, really, anything to have a relational life with a pretty girl; the highly erotic metrosexual who turns the whole cosmos into a romantic tale that has room for appreciating «The Good Wife»; the guy who is better than he says (but still genuinely short on manliness), but who is creepy in his ingenuity when it comes to using his robotic gadgets for personal satisfaction.

Arnold Toynbee once warned that the Western technology will be corrosive of the non-Western civilizations, creating effects like ultra voilet or red lights or alien virus in the body.

It has been common in recent years for scripture scholars to tell us that the idea of the separation of body and soul after death — indeed that any systematic distinction between body and soul — was alien to the Hebrew vision of the Old Testament.

All three interlocutors were willing to grant that the Church of Rome is a part of the body of Christ, a diseased part, perhaps, but still a part of us whose sufferings and triumphs we can share in, and whose healing we desire, not some alien entity to be scorned or ignored.

Despite numerous worldwide claims of UFO sightings over many decades not one piece of solid evidence, no crashed UFO, no dead alien bodies, nothing.

If we conceive of the Word or Spirit as moving more and more fully into the body of the profane in response to the self - negation of God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous nothingness.

because the Christian lives in the fully incarnate body of Christ, he acknowledges the totality of our experience as the consummation of the kenotic passion of the Word, and by giving himself to the Christ who is present to us he is liberated from the alien power of an emptied and darkened transcendence.

We must understand this whole movement as an atoning process, a forward - moving process wherein a vacuous and nameless power of evil becomes increasingly manifest as the dead body of God or Satan; but it is precisely this epiphany of God as Satan which numbs the power of evil, and unveils every alien and oppressive other as a backward - moving regression into the now lifeless and hence ultimately powerless emptiness of the primordial sacrality of God.

Objectivity could perhaps lead Roman Catholic theologians to see that formal institutionalism is alien to the New Testament while voluntaristic Protestants might see that the mystical body of Christ has «space» in the world and is where Jesus Christ is to be found.

The ecstasy of liberation that is the gift of sex reverses the repressed energy of a fallen body, and resurrects the dead who are enslaved to an alien law and an inhuman Creator.

As the presence of Christ in this world, then, can the church — his body — strive for an existence alien to the way of its incarnate Lord?

As a physics teacher, I teach the therapeutic effects of gamma radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.

It would be invidious to mention the names of popular books which commend prayer and set forth techniques of praying, but are so alien to the whole Christian position — although written sometimes by ministers of Christian bodies — that it is astounding that they are accepted so readily by people who profess and call themselves Christians.

The Greeks taught the immortality of the soul; the Jews taught the resurrection of the body, an idea alien to the Greek mind at its best.

Thus, too, Christendom has known the most terrible guilt in history, and as a religious Christianity has progressively and ever more fully reversed the movement of the Incarnation, the Christian God has increasingly become alien and abstract, until in our own time he has only been present and real in actual experience in a totally alien form, and the whole body of Western humanity has been initiated into a radical and total state of guilt.

Like an alien body, like an activating ferment injected into the mass, it gives the world no peace, it bars slumber, it teaches the world to be discontented and restless as long as the world has not God, it stimulates the movement of history.

They are the ones that started the process towards intelligent life on many of the planets in the Star Trek universe (though I think this wa a cheesy way to explain why all the «aliens» looked like guys with green body paint).

I swore that there would be a small alien tearing its way out of my stomach in about 8 to 12 hours, only after it had taken over my thoughts and found my human body was no longer needed.

All of this is analogous to allergies, and the varying degrees of individual sensitivity to what the body perceives as «alien invaders» — pollen, dust, the oil from poison ivy plants, etc..

Eight years ago the paper launched its first attack on «the Trojan horse of culturism,» and in 1973 the Soviet Sports Ministry declared private body - building clubs alien to the Soviet concept of sport.

«It was like this weird alien overtook my body and every appropriate response was answered with the antithesis of what you would assume.»

We have all heard of the concept used in horror films of aliens invading our bodies and minds, such as in movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

From body invasion Alien - style to hallucinogenic poisons and limpet mines, fungi have astonishingly creative ways of dispatching their foes

Derrickson also skillfully provides an explanation for why Klaatu would be a bipedal hominid (an unlikely product of independent evolution on another planet)-- genetic engineering of placental tissue surrounding his original alien body, with embryological development sped up hundreds of times to transform him into a being recognizably human.

Although we can not run a controlled experiment that would yield a statistical probability of rejecting (or not) the null hypothesis that aliens are not visiting Earth, proof would be simple: show us an alien spacecraft or an extraterrestrial body.

Typically, researchers could observe only the surface of such alien bodies but not the interior; NASA's 2005 Deep Impact mission actually smashed a comet to study its composition.

Intriguingly, radioactive carbon was detected, but then another experiment found no evidence of organic compounds in the soil — there were no alien bodies.

One highlight (spoiler alert) is when a splash of alien DNA that lands on a human's face causes his body to morph, over time, into a human - alien hybrid.

In the 2009 blockbuster «Avatar,» a human remotely controls the body of an alien.

There is a growing body of evidence aliens may be closer than we think.

It suggests the possibility of a string of alien cultures on a single planet which are literally fuelled by the bodies of the predecessors.

The two alien life forms that we envision for this world are animals — mobile predators that live around the planet's few small bodies of surface water.

This observation suggests that «alien hand syndrome» — when people feel that a limb is foreign — or «phantom» limbs that people can feel after amputations could be related to out - of - body experiences, says Blanke.

After a meal containing grains, all sorts of peptides circulate around the body, which our immune system regards as alien intruders and tries to fight with inflammatory reactions.

It's kind of a strange thing for some women to have this little alien inside your body.

The body has been delivered to her by an equally mysterious alien in male form who rides around the Scottish highlands on a motorcycle, cleaning up messes after the abductions but also keeping an eye on his comely partner for any signs of faithlessness to their cruel agenda.

► An alien fish in the head of a fat, hairy robot body puts on a wig and an apron that says «Kiss the Cook» and announces he's a space stepmother.

The screenplay for this 1985 feature is so riddled with character inconsistencies and unmotivated behavior that it plays like science fiction: the unsuspected presence of body - snatching aliens is the only conceivable explanation for the bizarre twists of psychology the film proposes.

Screening in conjunction with the release and signing of American Cinematheque's Dennis Bartok's new book, A Thousand Cuts, is a rarely seen 35 mm print of the 1968 low - budget alien invasion gem GOKE: BODY SNATCHER FROM HELL.

It ranks with The Thing and Alien as one of the best sci - fi / body horror mashups of all time.

There's some business about alternate dimensions (or, more precisely, alternate universes), some Alien - style body horror, bits of metal and flesh that take on lives of their own, even the occasional hint of time travel.

The plot is just non sensical really, dead aliens in the trunk of a car that is being driven around by some scientist guy who is slowly going mad from the radiation emitted from the bodies.

A body - snatching alien and a teenage girl join forces to find the man they both love after the majority of Earth's population is taken over by unseen invaders who have launched an all - out war against the human race.

The wasps themselves feel like Xenomorphs in their growth (infecting a human body and exploding out of them) and there's a sequence towards the end that mirrors Ripley's classic silent showdown with the Alien Queen.

Based on Jack Finney's classic sci - fi novel «Invasion of the Body Snatchers», the film emphasises the tensions and lack of trust in the Malone family as an alien plot to turn all humans into emotionless, unfeeling «pod people» unfolds around them.

At its core, it is a derivative film, not only because it is a remake, but it is also very similar to other films to come out in the years before it, including Alien and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but it still manages to hold its own through the fantastic action, Ennio Morricone's (The Untouchables) sparse and haunting score, and the lively acting by all of the performers, with especially memorable performances by Kurt Russell (Stargate, Tombstone) and Keith David (They Live, Final Analysis).

Pretty quickly, the film turns into a horror show, with the airborne, microscopic spores from a plant on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their human hosts (Scott offers a microscope - level shot of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).