Sentences with phrase «biblical story into»

Not exact matches

The religious insight of the exodus story works itself into the Biblical tradition in many ways.

In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

Suzanne Collins» trilogy was the first foray into fiction I enjoyed after a year of research and writing for «A Year of Biblical Womanhood», so I surrendered myself totally to the unfolding stories and, like so many others, lost a lot of sleep as I worked my way through The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and The Mockingjay.

Most Popular Comment: In response to «Esther and Vashti: The Real Story,» Ed wrote, «While biblical literalists can make an interesting case for wifely submission, (provided you first accept their literal perspective) they also need to take into account the story of Ananias and Sapphira - where Sapphira was held accountable separate from her husStory,» Ed wrote, «While biblical literalists can make an interesting case for wifely submission, (provided you first accept their literal perspective) they also need to take into account the story of Ananias and Sapphira - where Sapphira was held accountable separate from her husstory of Ananias and Sapphira - where Sapphira was held accountable separate from her husband.

Other stories there were, to be sure, but these were absorbed into and brought into the service of the dominant biblical story (witness Aquinas» «sanctification» of Aristotle).

To bring some biblical examples to Wright's point, Hebrews 11 and 2 Peter / Jude employ the strategy of fitting the readers and their circumstances into the ongoing story — complete with a future ending.

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

Like most, I've spent a lifetime scanning through the pages of Scripture searching to find «my» story: a biblical narrative I could write myself into.

In the process of telling both biblical and contemporary stories, Campbell constantly co-opts her into them with subtle cues.

Joining the ranks of Christian fundamentalism means also submitting one's own story to the biblical lens; conversion is really conversion into a particular narrative tradition.

This is a great way to bring children into the spirit of the Advent season through biblical stories and images, and Ann Voskamp has quite a few resources for doing this well: The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping the Full Love Story of Christmas, Unwrapping the Greatest Gift: A Family Celebration of Christmas, and a whole Web site full of FREE printable ornaments, coloring pages, cards, gift tags, etc..

The tone is so different in the last poem, that one can not help wondering if it may not have been the thought of one who lived later, interpolated into the total poem, very much as seems to have been true in the case of the Biblical story of Job and Ecclesiastes.

The stories do not appear to have been radically altered in the course of their appropriation into the biblical corpus.

The biblical story of God's mighty acts was elaborated into the classical doctrine of divine omnipotence.

And because of our passion for order we are willing to put up with any punishment that sustains this order.7 The problem with this vision, however, is that it is ultimately shipwrecked, as Paul Ricoeur puts it, on the rocks of tragic suffering.8 The story of Job, the innocent sufferer, is evidence that biblical religion itself was uncomfortable with the simplistic theodicy that makes all suffering into punishment.

With Gutenberg's printing press the story of creation, fall and redemption was put into linear form, and Protestants have always been proud of their control over the biblical narrative of redemption.

In situations of suffering and even death the dominant biblical stories hold up to us a promise that the «God of the living» can never be defeated even by the most hopeless extremes into which our experience leads us.

But if it is because of a real conflict with the way in which any decent modern man is bound to think, then indeed it is time to talk about removing the offensive elements from the Biblical story by radical translation into harmless terms.

When we dig deeper into the Biblical stories, we begin to see that they don't just describe a political context, but present political proposals.

Screenwriters Giorgio Prosperi and Hugo Butler loosely based the script on the book by Richard Wormser, taking great liberties with biblical texts to flesh out Lot's story into a 2 1/2 hour movie.

This melancholy parable was adapted by Academy Award - winner Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) who managed to stretch a 14 - page short story into a meandering, 167 - minute parable of Biblical proportions.

Screenwriter Ari Handel and several religious leaders talk about how this small Biblical story was crafted into a big - budget epic.

With Russell Crowe's «Noah» turning the Biblical figure into a certified Hollywood hero, we name 5 other stories that could make for epic movie adaptations.

Starring Russell Crowe, director Darren Aronofksy's visually compelling take on the Biblical story drifts frequently into silliness.

Moving belatedly into Biblical territory, Stevens» next film, «The Greatest Story Ever Told» (1965) would ultimately consume several years of his life, and pretty much ruin his filmmaking career.

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