Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic thought with»

In this great parable of the last judgment there is a striking combination of apocalyptic thought with the prophetic.

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John Paul is apocalyptic, obsessed with martyrdom and with the Virgin Mary, and, worst of all, self - important: «The pope himself seems to think the whole church depends on him — on his being saved by the Virgin of Fatima, on his living into the new millennium, on his visiting every Marian shrine, on his Stakhanovite canonizing, on his re-definitions of every truth, on his creating a like - minded episcopate....

I know, I know, our time is not God's time, but perhaps there is room to think outside the apocalyptic box altogether, and to be fully satisfied with the first coming.

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.

We often think of the Revelation as a quite unique book with nothing else like it; but it is of the first importance to remember that in fact the Revelation is the one representative in the NT of a type of literature called apocalyptic literature which was very common between the Testaments and in NT times.

The only connection which would be possible for his thought would be that which is here and there expressed in Jewish apocalyptic, namely, that in the blessed time of the end the first age of creation, with Paradise and its felicity, will return.

Yet to this prophetic or «immanental» point of view the apocalyptic passages in the Bible are a blend of first century thinking with symbolic imagery.

While Paul, for example, always expected the speedy advent of Christ, the old apocalyptic scheme with its dramatic details was in his thinking increasingly sublimated.

«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.

It also could have made sense to some strict monotheists, to people who had been brought up in the synagogue circles of the diaspora and were acquainted with the apocalyptic thought of the time.

With the ecological crisis, the threat of nuclear war, and international monetary problems, everyone is thinking in apocalyptic terms — except the liberal, contented church, which long ago made its peace with the present and trusted in tomorWith the ecological crisis, the threat of nuclear war, and international monetary problems, everyone is thinking in apocalyptic terms — except the liberal, contented church, which long ago made its peace with the present and trusted in tomorwith the present and trusted in tomorrow.

While Dr. Altizer sees the death of God as liberation and apocalyptic promise, Sartre, I think more correctly and with deeper insight, understands this event in terms of condemnation and anguish.

It is to be remembered that Christianity began with an apocalyptic proclamation of the end of history, one which dominated the earliest Christian communities, and one which was renewed at each of the great crises or turning points of Christian history, just as it was renewed in each of our great modern political revolutions, and equally if not more deeply renewed in the advent of our deepest modern thinking and imaginative vision.

Start with: a base of early»70s technological / apocalyptic thought.

I couldn't help but think that the way Lifeforce was combining science fiction with the supernatural with apocalyptic elements that it was just a ripoff of John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.

Giamatti, who last shared the screen with The Rock in San Andreas, is on our screens in the latest season of Billions and is part of the cast for apocalyptic indie drama I Think We're Alone Now.

Random and somewhat sort of kind of connected thought... Since Sony is basically making their own version of DayZ with a few differences / additions, they could take that Planetside 2 engine and make a giant post apocalyptic world with a more sci fi flavor.

Seriously, we've had apocalyptic worlds filled with mutants and robotic dinosaurs before anyone thought to check a history book.

In the apocalyptic «Figure at Window with Boat» (1964), a woman leans on what I think is a parapet, looking down at a lone sailboat.

I think the word «cult» is critical — so much of the language around climate change is charged with apocalyptic tones strongly reminiscent of millenarian cults.