Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic writing»

Written quite late, probably not far from the Maccabean period of revolt, it couches its hopes in a queer figurative language which becomes the earmark of apocalyptic writing.

By virtue of being canonized in Holy Scripture, the many pieces of apocalyptic writing in the New Testament, including the Apocalypse of John, have become permanently associated with the cardinal Christian doctrine of the expectation of the Second Coming of Christ, as expressed in the Creed: «He shall come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead and his kingdom shall have no end.»

For a brief discussion of the typical features of apocalyptic writing, see the article «Apocalypticism» by Martin Rist in The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, ed.

«It seems to me that an illustrative sample of quietist or pacifist apocalyptic writing is the Revelation of John.

The Revelation is so typical of apocalyptic writing that it is often called the Apocalypse.

The period we are studying offered ample opportunity for this, and there is an element of it in the apocalyptic writing that became so popular.

This order of events is quite common in both Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writing of this kind.

Daniel is the only apocalyptic writing in the Old Testament, and Revelation the only one in the New Testament.

The most typical example of apocalyptic writing in the Old Testament is to be found in the Book of Daniel.

Not exact matches

Similarly the Book of Daniel, written in the second century B.C., represents a type of Judaism in which new apocalyptic hopes were blended with the old devotion to temple and sacrifice.

Apocalyptic literature follows the pattern of a vision in which the author receives a call to write, and then describes, with highly cryptic imagery, a series of symbolic events which predict the overthrow of evil and the triumph of righteousness.

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.

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.

angel, open, number, lamb, star, book, thunder, dragon (snake), seven, animal, beast, throne, horse, smoke, white, great, repent, temple, conquer, like, wear (clothing), blow («plague»), gate, fire, blow (trumpet), mouth, seal, four, third, vial, voice, thousand, and gold — all of them characteristic of apocalyptic - symbolic writing.

Reading each reference, it is clear that Calvin treated it as apocalyptic literature, written for the comfort of the suffering, persecuted church in the first century and that he found in it notes of comfort for every age.

In the August issue of Bible Review magazine, Witherington noted the popular appeal that apocalyptic literature has in unsettling times, «Unfortunately, not all apocalyptic thinking is good apocalyptic thinking, and this is especially true of the so - called dispensational theology that informs these novels,» Witherington wrote.

In some intertestamental writing the apocalyptic establishment of God's kingdom seems to require no mediator.

If we look at the composite whole of Jesus» message and ministry as those who loved him told and retold it until it came to be written in the form we have, the prophetic element predominates over the apocalyptic; yet it does not eliminate it.

The bestselling Left Behind novels, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins between 1995 and 2007, dramatize the premillennial view of the End Times favored by earlier generations of American fundamentalists, in which Christ «raptures» his followers to heaven before a series of apocalyptic events unfold on earth.

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

Knowing things like the parallelism of Hebrew poetry, the ancient letter form, and the characteristics of apocalyptic literature would help us receive the books that biblical authors actually wrote.

It is a combination of historical story, with the scene laid in the time of King Nebuchadnezzar, and a new type of writing, the apocalyptic literature.

The people who write apocalyptic or consoling or hortatory messages on their houses and barns, or nail them to their fence posts, might well tell you stories, long stories if they had any opportunity at all to do so.

When things didn't go her way, she did not despair, or write in apocalyptic terms, or withdraw from the public square, or ignore the power of faith to move mountains.

(As quoted by J.T. Barclay: City of the Great King, p. 90) Hell itself, according to the teaching of the apocalyptic writings, was a great abyss full of fire, (The Book of Enoch 18:11 - 16) in the midst of the earth, and so vividly were its tortures imagined and the satisfaction of the righteous in the contemplation of them conceived that, according to Charles» understanding of the text, a notorious element in the later Christian doctrine of hell appears in a Jewish book, probably written during Jesus» lifetime:

Woza Albert, written and presented by two spectacularly energetic young black Africans, is a dazzling set of skits and mime that works off the single premise of Christ staging his Second Coming in South Africa; it is comic apocalyptic that sizzles with satire.

His writing in the sixties was suffused with an apocalyptic imagination, much of which was on the side of judgment, not salvation, but this song is surprisingly consoling.

He writes about prophecy and apocalyptic literature.

If you'd like to continue this conversation, especially if you are a fellow proponent of «sane eschatology» (the opposite of Hal Lindsey's apocalyptic literalism), please write to me at my email address: [email protected].

The first is a conviction that the natural order need not be written off as in bondage to evil — the apocalyptic view — but contains both clues to the nature of God (Mt 5:45) and conditions within which we can learn to be authentic children of our Father in heaven.

Because of these emphases, and also because later situations seemed to resemble that in which Daniel wrote, his book was influential both among apocalyptic - minded Jews (e.g., Enoch and Sibylline Oracles 3, 388 - 400) and among many early Christians.

It is now acknowledged that much of the New Testament was written within a context of apocalyptic or eschatological thought, in which the early Christian movement looked towards the imminent end (eschaton) of the present age and the breaking in of the new age (the Kingdom of God).

In a letter to a friend at Zwickau, Luther wrote about Eck's text in desperate apocalyptic mood: «The book... is nothing less than the malice and envy of a maniac... Rejoice, Brother, rejoice, and be not terrified by these whirling leaves... The more they rage the more cause I give them...»

(But presumably keeping this open depends on pressure to not escalate violence to the catastrophic apocalyptic endgame the authors write of, if the regime retains sufficient control of the military to wreak such havoc).

Thomas Wilkins wrote in to suggest that antibiotics becoming ineffective would not be an apocalyptic threat, since we have innate...

Ehrlich has said that if he wrote The Population Bomb today, he'd be even more apocalyptic than he was in 1968.

Finally, the largest group that this will appeal to are the crowd that enjoys the cheesiness of bad sci - fi, especially ones with horrendous apocalyptic plotlines, corny dialogue (what's with the plant - lover's diatribe about people who've written off the worth of hot dogs?)

The movie can best be described as an apocalyptic «Grown Ups» with better casting, better writing, better acting and overall betterment on all fronts.

Though I greeted the debut of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's apocalyptic comedy with effusive praise, in particular for its ingenious pilot episode and the hilarious Kristen Schaal, I soon learned the hard way to avoid writing too soon in a series» run.

Shyamalan wrote himself into a corner of diminishing returns with his «thrillers with a twist ending» by the time The Village escaped in 2004, and endeavored to push his directorial ambitions in new dirctions with Lady in the Water (a fable), The Happening (apocalyptic horror), and The Last Airbender (grand - scale fantasy).

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To date, I've written novels with the apocalyptic Horseman Pestilence as the hero.

About the Author: J.B. Simmons writes thrillers with an apocalyptic twist, and political philosophy clothed in fantasy.

I've spent months writing a series of apocalyptic science fiction novelettes and novellas that I planned to begin publishing in September, in order to try to succeed with what was the hottest new way to sell books: series!

Or, like me, have you ever tried to write in copycat genres dictated by agents (like steampunk or apocalyptic dystopian) instead of the book you really want to write?

As someone who writes apocalyptic fiction, it comes quite naturally for me to announce that tomorrow should never happen.

THE WAKE # 2 / Written by SCOTT SNYDER / Art by SEAN MURPHY and MATT HOLLINGSWORTH / Letters by JARED K. FLETCHER / Published by VERTIGO Review by MARCUS HAMMOND In the first installment of The Wake, Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy began setting up a suspenseful stack of mysteries revolving around an apocalyptic future, an unexplainable past, and -LSB-...]

This well - written debut is great for apocalyptic fiction fans and fans of realistic, character - driven fiction.»

I'm a 19 year old Journalism and Creative Writing student who likes to: play casual video games; write stuff; read apocalyptic dystopian fiction; absorb the entirety of Netflix; waste my money on kawaii things; and meow at cats until they meow back.

The Black Sea's Undersong imagines an apocalyptic, subterranean landscape that evokes a terrible and sublime beauty of the kind described by philosopher Edmund Burke, who wrote, «Whatever is qualified to cause terror is a foundation capable of the sublime.»