Sentences with phrase «architectonic moral»

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In our effort thus far to describe and illustrate the role of the imagination in preaching, we have considered two aspects of its power: the investiture of the Christian moral vision with such sensibility as sometimes enables it to enclose within the meaning of the Word of God the subtler perditions that stalk men's lives; and the power to behold, and in part reenact, the architectonic structure of grace that is the subliterary matrix out of which the witness emerges.

As Toller's physical, moral, and spiritual torment escalates to a metaphysical degree, Schrader builds baroqueness into the film's architectonics, adding artifice to austerity with soundtrack music, mobile shots, and even special effects.