Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic world of»

Paradigm is a surreal point - and - click adventure game for Windows, OSX and Linux set in the strange and post apocalyptic world of Krusz; a land inspired by a mix of Eastern Europe and the 70's & 80's.

Paradigm is a surreal point - and - click adventure game set in the strange and post apocalyptic world of Krusz; a land inspired by a mix of Eastern Europe and the 70's and 80's.

In the apocalyptic world of DayZ, resources are sparse and every useful bit should be utilized.

The post apocalyptic world of The Commonwealth has made it's way onto our Best Games list.

With WOOL, he immersed us in the post apocalyptic world of the silos.

The Black Ghiandola is a story about a young man risking his life to save a young girl he has grown to love, after his family has been killed in the Apocalyptic world of Zombies.

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The Mozilla Foundation has hidden pieces of fake apocalyptic scripture, including lines about «the beast reborn» and a battle that «plunged the world into a new darkness» in every one of its browsers, including Firefox.

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.»

Uganda: An Apocalyptic Mystery - The End of the World Was Delayed, So a Cult Leader Took Matters Into His Own Hands,» Newsweek.

The respected Christian apologist and author, C.S. Lewis 1960 essay «The Worlds Last Night» «Say what you like,» we shall be told, «the apocalyptic beliefs of the first Christians have been proved to be false.

(CNN)- Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed relics from an apocalyptic plague that some Christians believed heralded the end of the world - an idea that likely helped spread the faith centuries ago.

He noted that «Those who expected exciting apocalyptic revelations about the end of the world or the future course of history are bound to be disappointed.

Thomas Paine's assertion in Common Sense that «we have it in our power to begin the world over again» represents secularized apocalyptic thought in the form of a revolutionary overthrow of monarchy, which was demonized as anti-Christ.

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.

An inevitable temptation of Christian theology, and particularly so in our own time, has been to think that the idea or symbol of an actual end of the world was no part of the original proclamation of Jesus, and rather derived either from the apocalyptic religious world that so dominated Jesus» disciples or from the all - too - human or fleshy component of their minds and hearts, which was impervious to the higher call of the Spirit.

the one is the old theocratic messianic title, given to anointed kings in ancient times; the other is the new apocalyptic title of the heavenly Man, the celestial Anthropos, Urmensch, the Primal Man, who is to appear at the end of days, raise the dead, and judge the whole world — angels, demons, and men.

The apocalyptic book of Enoch also says that the Son of man will sit on his glorious throne to judge the world (Enoch 62:3, 5).

Because the doctrine of Creation is thus an affirmation of the world, the early Altizer rejected it as a perversion of the apocalyptic negation of the world that was for him then the heart of faith.

Cohn, Norman, Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith, Yale University Press, 1993

Saddam Hussein's invasion and annexation of Kuwait may have thrown the world economy into confusion, but it has revived one flagging and undeniably American industry: dispensationalist pop - apocalyptic.

Redemption is not dependent upon Messianic calculations or any apocalyptic event, but on the unpremeditated turning of our whole world - life to God.

Like the ancient apocalyptic seer, the modern artist has unveiled a world of darkness, but whereas earlier seers could know a darkness penetrated by a new æon of light, the contemporary artist has seen light itself as darkness, and embodied in his work an all - embracing vacuity dissolving every previous form of life and light.

«51 Since a world, in which God reveals Godself as an eschatological event, is of almost apocalyptic nature, no one can claim to know any given rule or any world - law that God has to follow.

Journalists have lately been writing about the Watergate syndrome in almost apocalyptic terms: as not merely the worst political disaster in U.S. history but also the nemesis of U.S. world power and effective leadership in government at home.

Both early Christian apocalyptic and Zealot apocalyptic drew on the openness of this form of world - vision to the new, to make possible a meaningful participation of the believer in the «big story» to which he found that he was contributing as it moved forward to its end.

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.

In The Descent into Hell (Lippincott, 1970) Altizer has attempted a systematic theological exploration of the radical and apocalyptic faith of Jesus and Paul, and has done so with the conviction that this has not yet been attempted by Christian theology and that a decisive key to this endeavor lies ready to hand in the world of Mahayana Buddhism.

The prophetic allows «the evil» to find the direction that leads toward God, and to enter into the good; the apocalyptic sees good and evil severed forever at the end of days, the good redeemed, the evil unredeemable for all eternity; the prophetic believes that the earth shall be hallowed, the apocalyptic despairs of an earth which it considers to be hopelessly doomed... (Moses, p. 188; Israel and the World, «The Power of the Spirit,» pp. 176 - 179.)

It is a theology purporting to be the expression of a radical Christian tradition — a tradition unknown to the world of Christian theology, because that world is irredeemably satanic insofar as it is bound to the dead body of that God negated and left behind by the forward and apocalyptic movement of the incarnation.

Eschatology is concerned about the goal of humanity and the world; apocalyptic is consumed with the actual end of the planet earth as it is presently constituted.

For him, no less than for the apocalyptic emphasis within Judaism, there was a total hiatus between what God was and the actual condition of his world.

(CNN)- Harold Camping, the leader of the apocalyptic movement that predicted the end of the world would begin on May 21, has suffered a stroke, according to a statement on his ministry's web site on Tuesday.

She rejects apocalyptic hope in favor of prophetic hope, in which the outcome depends upon human obedience.5 She asks rhetorically: «Can God — independently of whatever «the world,» and therefore society, does or fails to do — bestow forgiveness directly on a penitent man and make possible a new beginning for him?»

Their apocalyptic vision promised a new era of German world domination under the leadership of wise pagan priests — an empire of light, inhabited by noblemen, which would be cleansed of all Judeo - Christian influence.

For the first time on the stage of world history, we humans can envisage the possibility — some would say, the probability — of a self - inflicted, abrupt, and apocalyptic nuclear end of the drama as we have lived it till now.

Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet that believed God's reign was about to break in soon (not 2000 yrs later) and so a lot of his statements have a very dire and urgent as well as end - of - the - world tone.

Nowhere in modernity is apocalypticism more open and manifest than it is in our great political revolutions, and if these begin with the English Revolution, this was our most apocalyptic revolution until the French Revolution, a revolution which innumerable thinkers at that time, and above all Hegel himself, could know as the ending of an old world and the inauguration of a truly new and universal world.

To summarize, to literalize the apocalyptic passages in the New Testament, is to run counter to all we know of astronomy and the world of space; they are tied in with the then - current Jewish eschatology and Persian dualism which saw evil in command of creation; as commonly accepted, they encourage passivity about the evils of the present world; they emphasize only one side of the message of Jesus to the exclusion of essential elements; they are grounded at least in part on a misconstruction of biblical poetry and drama.

Yet we do not need to reject all the apocalyptic passages, or deny that Jesus expected a speedy end of the world which did not occur.

That world can be understood as a new apocalyptic world, one which becomes manifestly apocalyptic in the French Revolution and German Idealism, and then one realizing truly universal expressions in Marxism and in that uniquely modern or postmodern nihilism which was so decisively inaugurated by Nietzsche's proclamation of the death of God.

Indeed, the very advent of modernity can be understood to be an apocalyptic event, an advent ushering in a wholly new world as the consequence of the ending of an old world.

The principal paths that have been followed are an apocalyptic, cataclysmic, second coming to put an end to the present world and the prophetic or social gospel kingdom that has accented the conquest of earth's evil by human effort to increase love and justice in response to God's call.

It is well known that Hegel could conclude his lectures on the philosophy of history by speaking of the last stage of history as our own world and our own time, but it is not well known that this apocalyptic ground is absolutely fundamental to his two most ultimate works, the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Science of Logic.

And could this be said of the whole world of modern apocalyptic thinking?

Historically, this does not actually occur until the full birth of the modern world, and then it subjectively or interiorly occurs in the realization that God is dead, a realization inaugurating a new universal self - consciousness, which is the very center and ground of an apocalyptic explosion and transformation of the world.

Altizer holds that Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet who proclaimed and enacted the dawning of the Kingdom of God, and that there is a comparable dawning in modern thinking which calls for a transformation of and a break from the old aeon or old world.

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.

Whatever the historical causes for the apocalyptic world view might be, its logical basis is a belief in God's full control of that which is to come.

In apocalyptic the revolt has reached heaven, and the Devil, Satan, Antichrist has become a personal power, disputing the dominion of the world with God.