Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic narratives»

That the belief in climate consensus — and the apocalyptic narratives that emerge — is the most widespread manifestation of the madness of crowds in the history of the world.

For Geert Goiris, this mechanism is a metaphor for reactions to the complexity of the modern world and the dilemma it creates: should we take on board constructive realism or take refuge while we wait for the radical rupture (as prophesied in apocalyptic narratives) to occur?

They draw upon existing archives of film, photography and physical collections of art to invent new, apocalyptic narratives.

Anchored by Charlize Theron's emotionally raw performance as the fearless Imperator Furiosa, the movie flips the grim «one sad bro - dude wanders the scorched landscape» script of most apocalyptic narratives, instead presenting a vision of a fallen world where equality is still achievable through collaboration, trust, and heaps of scrap metal.

The great apocalyptic narratives do not go this far, although they prepare the way for this breakdown of narrative by their announcement of the end.

The determinism of so many apocalyptic narratives serves to assure the believer that, despite all appearance to the contrary, all these new things that are happening are not out of God's hand.

They reversed the trend of apocalyptic narrative: instead of thrusting the decisive change out of the plot into the consummation, they brought the symbols of the end into the midst of the crisis of the story by applying them to Jesus.

Another way of getting at what is at issue is to say that apocalyptic narrative is instructive for us because it shows the difficulty of working both God and man into the same story.

Author Rev. Antonio Spadaro told the newspaper it was important to examine the «apocalyptic narrative which inspires» Bannon.

VOID consists of tapestry - like canvases that unfold through the artist's apocalyptic narrative.

The apocalyptic narrative looks less convincing in the context of global economic meltdown, and the works feels like a weak art in - joke, a flailing attempt to draw attention.

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She carried a very complex narrative that addresses common humanity and big ideas about how and why we communicate, while also exploring space travel and even an apocalyptic world in some ways.

The apocalyptic literature represents just such a crisis of narrative vision.

The ancient apocalyptic story thus shows a real tension in its narrative vision.

Thus, ancient apocalyptic brings into focus some of the issues that a narrative vision struggles with today.

Some attention to the story form in apocalyptic can show us some of the reasons why the narrative form is in trouble, while process theology has some fundamentally useful hints about how we may re-imagine the story, or grasp a new narrative vision of the world, which will enable us to set the new into a meaningful framework and respond to it with hope.

Ancient apocalyptic represented a crisis in which it was a question whether the narrative vision could survive, and now, in the world of imaginative writing, it is equally or even more questionable whether narrative vision can survive.

The modern crisis of narrative vision has much in common with the apocalyptic crisis.

As we approach the narrative of the Passion, the place of the Apocalyptic Discourse in Mark is taken by the discourse in the Upper Room.

xiii Mark has interrupted the narrative to insert the apocalyptic discourse to which I have already referred.

The Bible is written in narrative, poetry, and the highly imaginative genre of apocalyptic.

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

Although Metz views the categories of narrative and memory as essential for Christian solidarity with the world, his categories refer primarily to the collective experience of the church universal expressed in theological terms (memory of the dead, apocalyptic hope, etc.).

The exhibition cleverly skips smoothly through loose themes like war, enemies within, public health — the apocalyptic anti-AIDS television campaigns are certainly worth watching — all the way to a giant, rather menacing Twitter aggregator, demonstrating how we are now the authors of our own propaganda, buying into an online narrative, but also creating a new narrative.

He looks on the Ivy League prospects of his teenaged son (Austin Abrams), the narrative engine that gets him out of his house and onto the road, as an apocalyptic test of his own failings in his formative years.

The wise - cracking droid is thrown into the mix of jaw - droppingly apocalyptic vignettes and the dichotomy of the light heartedness and the dark, lethal nature of its narrative doesn't always coalesce.

But Snyder and his screenwriters have dumbed down Miller's smarter, more resonant narrative and turned it into an apology for the apocalyptic finale of Man of Steel, in which Superman (Henry Cavill) and the evil General Zod (Michael Shannon) flattened half of Metropolis during their climactic showdown.

The apocalyptic stakes are pushed to the fringes initially — not for narrative convenience but for the narcissism of the film's 15 - year - old American protagonist, Daisy (Ronan).

Yes, it's another apocalyptic zombie game, but this time, rather than a straightforward narrative adventure, players get a vast open world to explore and survive in, crafting tools and developing strategies to deal with vast swarms of intelligent monsters.

Curated by Fairfax Dorn, Comic Future features paintings, drawings and sculpture by artists who combine abstraction, formalism and narrative with political satire as well as cultural and biographical commentary to explore both comedic and apocalyptic visions of the future.

Here, though, there are narrative interests evident in the Marcianos» collection, perhaps highlighted by the apocalyptic nature of the Jim Shaw show and the site - specific «behind - the - scenes» vibe of the Trecartin / Fitch collaboration — namely an interest in social tension or upheaval and works that reveal their process, respectively.

Richardson is fascinated by the ways we connect with landscape; within her deeply layered practice, she draws on narrative devices used in science fiction and B - movie horror films, as well as nineteenth - century landscape painting, with particular interest in the apocalyptic conjurings of John Martin (British, 1789 - 1854).

Kuksi's baroque wall sculptures are windows onto apocalyptic scenes, using a narrative style of assemblage to critique war, and portray devastation and the rebirth of society atop the ashes.

Pop Surrealist artist Laurie Hogin creates beautiful yet bizarre apocalyptic landscapes and allegorical animal portraits saturated in brilliant color and imbued with elaborate narratives reflecting pop culture and the human experience.

The narrative of An Answer, begins with myths of classical antiquity, moves towards Renaissance intellectual history, modernity, and, ends finally, with an apocalyptic time beyond our time where that dripping paint has become the form of trees and archways.

With their rough - hewn textures and expansive narrative formats that often evoke charred landscape and historical, sometimes apocalyptic settings, Kiefer's work did not conform to the pared - down Minimalist or Conceptualist movements that were becoming mainstream at the time he was a student.

Apocalyptic and misanthropic environmental narratives, as Clive Hamilton represents them, have had an important role in stirring up the public.