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The apocalyptic end of the war» lay upon the church a responsibility to «preach to modern man the good news of possible salvation.»
Not exact matches
With regard to
war, two factors prevented international conflict from being specifically dealt with in the New Testament as a pressing problem: the
apocalyptic expectation
of the world's immediate
end, so that the gradual reform
of social institutions was not in the picture, and the further fact that the first Christians had no responsibility for governmental policies or influence in determining them.
Waves
of startling action counterbalance standard one - man - saves - the - day Hollywood heroics in World
War Z, an immersive
apocalyptic spectacle that tosses the viewer into the deep
end of a global zombie uprising and doesn't let up until close to the
end.
Aside from helping to clarify why some viewers revel in downbeat and sometimes downright disturbing movies like The Woman, the sentiment also speaks to why many contemporary filmmakers» own fears and paranoia — about the
end of civilization, or indie cinema — increasingly inspire dark, depressing works emphasizing domestic abuse,
apocalyptic angst, religious opposition, the after - effects
of war, suffering, and death.
Situated in an alternate history at the
end of the Second World
War, when Nazis managed to release a deadly virus over US territory, the game tells the story
of two brothers and their intricate relation with the
apocalyptic world rising in the leftovers
of the Z0M81 Pandemic ravage.»
The mystery
of the Kett is a fresh spin on the
apocalyptic war of the original trilogy, and following the stories
of people in the Heleus cluster often leads to surprising developments with tough decisions waiting at the
end.
Told that our depravity would bring
apocalyptic wars and the
end of all things, the listener might be uncertain whether the warning came from a moralizing preacher or a concerned atomic scientist.
I don't remember that much
of the 70's, (born in 69) but there definitely was an
apocalyptic gloom and doom, «
end of the world» mentality going on, nuclear destruction, an ice age was coming, (due to CO2 and other pollutants) followed in the 80's, by fears
of nuclear
war and the take up
of the catastrophic man made global warming vision.