Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic final»

It is this lack of farsightedness which informs the apocalyptic final vision, fields strewn with bits of broken battleships, depicting how the «beautiful dreams» he has created have borne terrible nightmares.

Taken on its own terms, it works quite agreeably as a visceral blow to the breadbasket, with one of the most outrageous and apocalyptic final scenes in the entirety of the subgenre.

If this be the case, then an understanding of the kingdom in three senses — the eternal, righteous rule of the sovereign God; the call to moral obedience in love; and an apocalyptic final consummation — seems less inconsistent in the thought of Jesus than they have often been assumed to be.

Not exact matches

O'Brien begins with a frankly apocalyptic charge: the Pope has created a «Rome — Riyadh axis» in order to unite «the religious of the world... for a final victory over the irreligious.»

Apocalyptic thought provokes resistance, because it fuses an alternative vision of history's telos with warfare and final judgment, all within the context of a prophetic claim to have removed the veil that keeps humans from truly perceiving the world.

Furthermore, the forgiveness of sin is a universal and apocalyptic process of redemption: all those spaces separating a fallen humanity from its isolated parts must be annulled by a forward - moving process drawing the apocalyptic futurity of Jerusalem into the present moment, thereby making possible the final triumph of «The Great Humanity Divine.»

The Creator is on the left and is moving downward toward Jerusalem in his final manifestation as Satan, while Jerusalem, or the apocalyptic epiphany of Christ, appears as a naked female form moving upward toward Satan.

Satan must become totally and comprehensively present in his apocalyptic form as the lifeless residue of the self - negation of God before the atonement will have become wholly actualized in history; and then, the radical apocalyptic seer assures us, Satan must undergo a final metamorphosis into an eschatological epiphany of Christ.

However, the traditional apocalyptic symbol of the Son of Man is a symbol of a heavenly and divine Being; and his epiphany — which marks the advent of the final Eschaton — occurs in the heavens, where he appears with legions of angels.

The closing pages of Jerusalem record a vision of a coming apocalyptic coincidentia oppositorum, revealing how the final union of God and man will annihilate the God who alone is God by resurrecting him as «The Great Humanity Divine.»

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

As one who accepted the strange vocation of being an apocalyptic seer, Blake was not in quest of a hidden but ancient mythical form; instead, he was engaged in a desperate search for a new mythical «system» by which he might record the dawning of a final movement of redemption in the arena of our totally fallen history.

The content of this hope is: i) Marx ascribes soteriological function to the proletariat, ii) the apocalyptic conflict between Good and Evil in society and iii) the final victory belongs to Christ.

Thus the apocalyptic story, with its vision of an all - encompassing end, tends to shift the new from being a surprise in the plot to being a final cessation of new occurrence at all.

At the same time, the struggle to avert chaos in ancient apocalyptic pushed it also in the direction of devaluing the concrete new event by absorbing the whole into the final totality.

In the third place, the final end, and with it the total unified meaning of the whole of experience, that has played so large a role in apocalyptic symbolization, does not have any place in a process system.

That is what apocalyptic is all about: God's sovereignty in spite of the present power of evil and God's final vindication of the faithful and just.

He speaks of himself repeatedly as Son of man in the prophetic sense in which Ezekiel had used the term, and numerous passages suggest that the final consummation will be ushered in by the apocalyptic coming of the Son of man.

Nothing so clearly unveils Hegel's system as an apocalyptic system as does this ending, but such an ultimate ending is unique to apocalypticism, for even if it parallels archaic visions of eternal return, it wholly differs from all primordial vision in knowing an absolute and final ending, an ending which is apocalypse itself.

As opposed to Novitas Mundi, now American pragmatism is the true prelude to the thinking now occurring for the first time, and most immediately so the uniquely American theology of the death of God, a theology which while voiding pragmatism is the last gasp of modernity, and it in these death throes that a final apocalyptic thinking is born.

As Israel moved through the violence and terror of the years approaching the birth of Jesus the hope for a Davidic King and a perfected state yielded to the vision of an apocalyptic shattering of this world in the final clash of God's power with the power of Satan.

Altizer goes on in History as Apocalypse (1985) to interpret Blake's final apocalyptic vision in Jerusalem 96 that God, who is love, dies precisely in order that the human being, who is love, may be fully actualized.

These statements seem to correspond to the predictions in the earlier stages of apocalyptic that after the final battle there would be safety and stability for God's people.

We have seen that the prophetic idea of God's antagonistic warfare against God's own sinful and rebellious people and the apocalyptic idea of final, universal victory survive in Jesus» teaching.

It is to this apocalyptic view of God's final victory and judgment that the following sayings belong:

As God's immanence in man continues to evolve toward a final apocalyptic goal of the complete identification of everything, so that God eventually will be all in all, the memory of the transcendent God becomes ever more distant and alien.

Eire's final chapter on the great Reformer is headed «Luther the reactionary» and deals with Luther's violent repudiation of the apocalyptic radicalism of former disciples like Andreas Karlstadt and Thomas Müntzer, and especially with the Wittenbergers» savage reaction to the Peasants» Revolt of 1525.

The writer of this strange apocalyptic book regarded the millennium as an interlude before the final cosmic battle — an interlude in which peace and joy reign supreme and all evil is completely, if temporarily, suppressed.

With a release set for the 12th April 2016, DARK SOULS III will take the fans through an apocalyptic, dark journey and unfold the final secrets of the unique universe create by Hidetaka Miyazaki

If you're like me then you probably missed her in Julia Leigh's unsettling Sleeping Beauty, but as recently as 2012 she was hailed as Australia's Emma Stone (just google «sarah snook australia's emma stone») for her excessively charming performance in the (otherwise terrible) local rom - com Not Suitable for Children and last year impressed in a small role in the apocalyptic rave thriller These Final Hours.

The series, with the exception of the final two episodes, functioned as narratively complete short stories with a definite Zane Grey - cum - Edgar Rice Burroughs - cum - Philip K. Dick feeling (pulp as masticated by an apocalyptic culture, the only one that has experienced an atomic weapon attack)-- building as it progressed a bebop quintet of characters with hero Spike, mentor Jet, buxom femme Faye, spirit guide Ed, and animal sidekick Ein.

The first trailer has been released for writer / director Zak Hilditch's apocalyptic thriller These Final Hours, which we have for you below... In this apocalyptic drama, James is a troubled young man on a mission.

Apocalyptic ticking - clock thrillers / buddy road movies are nothing new — Miracle Mile, The Road, and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World are stronger examples — but they're rarely done with the kind of fearlessness, originality, or emotional honesty that writer - director Zak Hilditch delivers with These Final Hours.

Even more problematic is that Marvel's tendency toward overblown, apocalyptic finales is in full effect, with a final act comprised of mass death and destruction and very few allusions to character development.

As directed by Zak Hilditch (whose 2013 debut «These Final Hours» was an expressionistic apocalyptic tale), «1922» has the merits of a solid «Tales From the Crypt» or «Masters of Horror» episode, with a straightforward story that folds the delicate visual language of a rural Terrence Malick drama into the mold of existential horror.

James Tynion IV unveils Eugenic, the final chapter in his Apocalyptic Trilogy, a series that features a hundred year gap between each issue.

It's the final installment of her Broken Earth trilogy, about a far - future Earth that experiences periodic, devastating apocalyptic events.

The Final Station takes you on a journey through a post apocalyptic world where your goal is to get from station to station, putting together the bigger picture of what happened, and where you fit.

With a release set for the 12th April 2016, Dark Souls III will take the fans through an apocalyptic, dark journey and unfold the final secrets of the unique universe create by Hidetaka Miyazaki.

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron transports you to the final days of the planet Cybertron where you will experience the darkest hours of the apocalyptic war between the Autobots and Decepticons.

Of course, Final Fantasy VII's apocalyptic city of Midgar isn't a sunny place.

The building phase is a case of rapidly prioritising the buildings and technologies that'll stop you from dying, but there's also the looming threat of a massive undead assault, with bigger and bigger waves of attackers until one final apocalyptic crowd of zombies tries to tear your settlement apart.

Windy Hill Studios «s new side - scrolling Appalachian Apocalyptic Alien Adventure game, Orphan, reached its $ 32,000 funding goal in the final 48 hours of fundraising today.

TinyBuild had a few stations set up to play Final Station and from what I played its 16 bit retro game, players traverse a post apocalyptic world.