Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic language»

Revelation 20:7 - 10 is indebted to these chapters, which are oracles in apocalyptic language.

That said, and regarding «AIT», much as I admire Al Gore's sentiment, I think the use of exaggeration and apocalyptic language actually works * against * the clarity of the climate science, such as it stands at present, rather than promoting clarity.

Small wonder he has been using apocalyptic language in trying to stop the Corbyn bandwagon.

County executives welcomed it, but the governor railed against in similarly apocalyptic language at the time before the health care bill it was attached to went down in flames.

There are many reasons why NCLB has been discredited, including, to quote Kevin Carey, the «apocalyptic language out there, that standards and tests have ruined American public education, driven the best teachers out of the classroom, etc., etc..»

Though Pachauri was installed after the Bush administration forced out his predecessor, Dr. Robert Watson, for pushing too hard for action, the accumulation of evidence led Pachauri to embrace apocalyptic language: «We are risking the ability of the human race to survive,» he said.

Cuomo spent months lobbying against the tax plan, which he has denounced in apocalyptic language, calling it «an economic civil war» that will put the state at a structural disadvantage when it comes to competing for jobs.

Despite the apocalyptic language, media heads like Weisberg and Remnick cautioned reporters and readers on Thursday not let succumb to total despair.

But if Moltmann does not intend the promise to give us assurance, his apocalyptic language is misleading.

It has no apocalyptic language and only a brief reference, in what is probably a later addition, to Christ's return (21:22).

Many observers have pointed out the apocalyptic language sprinkled through Bush's speeches to appeal to his Christian fundamentalist base while appearing acceptably nondenominational to the rest of us.

Likewise, an apocalyptic language that presents every presidential election as Armageddon is another kind of theological liberalism.

As far as I know the apocalyptic language and expectation of the early Church was not in error (perhaps some of our modern understandings are incorrect).

Seeing it as apocalyptic language isn't really right given the context.

Wright is very convincing on the fact that apocalyptic language of disaster — the sun and moon falling into the sea, all that kind of thing — was never intended to be about the end of the space - time universe (as has often been assumed by later generations) but is a metaphor for forthcoming socio - political change and tumult.

Doubling down on the apocalyptic language guarantees it in that event.