Sentences with phrase «crucifixions while»

Elsheikh, 29, was said to have earned a reputation for waterboarding, mock executions and crucifixions while serving as a jailer, while fellow guard Kotey was involved in beheadings and known for «exceptionally cruel torture methods», including electronic shocks.

Not exact matches

While, from a pagan perspective, the crucifixion itself could be viewed as a sacrifice in the most proper sense — destruction of the agent of social instability for the sake of peace, which is always a profitable exchange — Christ's life of charity, service, forgiveness, and righteous judgment could not; indeed, it would have to seem the very opposite of sacrifice, an economic and indiscriminate inversion of rank and order.

Within this large design, the violence of the crucifixion and the temple priesthood's highly active part in it are highlighted by smaller touches characterized by ironic reversals: the loyal Peter cowardly denies Jesus, and Joseph of Arimathea» the Sanhedrin member» bravely claims him; the Jewish high priest pronounces Jesus blasphemous and worthy of death, while the Roman centurion supervises the execution and proclaims Jesus the «Son of God.»

While this tradition is quite popular, it's more likely that December 25 was first selected because it was exactly 9 months after March 25 — the day of Jesus's crucifixion.

If the Easter faith is understood primarily as the conviction of the exaltation of the crucified Jesus to be Lord and Savior, it is possible to understand how it could have arisen among the dispirited disciples as their response to the «offence» of the crucifixion of their Master, while they wrestled with that problem in the light of the impact made on them by the life and teaching of Jesus, and in the light of their study of the scriptures, of their current convictions about similar figures and of their belief about God.

Let us not forget that while the disciples fled during the crucifixion, it was faithful women who stayed.

So, too, did a silver cross depicting Jesus» crucifixion, which was untouched in an otherwise ravaged auditorium, while a portable cross brought out specially for the Passion weekend - the time between Good Friday and Easter, which are among the most special times on the Christian calendar - laid on its side, intact.

Zoroastrianism, while recognizing the conflict between good and evil discerned also by Christians, can not admit, without being untrue to itself, that in Christ, God, Who is supreme, revealed His love, and that in the incarnation, the crucifixion, and the resurrection He triumphed over evil.

Essays at syncretism which down - graded the uniqueness of the central core of Christianity — the incarnation, the crucifixion, and the resurrection — and the work of the Holy Spirit, while numerous and recurring, either have been passing phenomena or have failed to enlist large numbers.

In conclusion, then, while there may have been some early Christologies that interpreted the Easter experience as «exaltation» instead of «resurrection», this would not be a surprising response to «appearances» of Jesus after the crucifixion, and so does not address the nature or the probability of these appearances nor the question of whether the exaltation interpretation somehow evolved separately from the appearance traditions.

The life and ministry of Jesus shows us how we humans are to behave, while the crucifixion shows how we actually behave.

It seems at times that while Boyd places a wonderful (and often neglected) emphasis on the crucifixion, he has somewhat neglected the incarnation.

«While the brute fact that of Jesus» death by crucifixion is historically certain, however, those detailed narratives in our present gospels are much more problematic.»

She says that Jesus had the Crowd, then he had his large group of Followers, then his Disciples, then the Twelve, then just the Three — John, Peter, and James — went into the Garden with him while he prayed before his crucifixion.

Our attention is drawn to the twofold act of glorification depicted here: God glorifies Christ in resurrection, while he glorifies God in crucifixion.

In 2014 while promoting «Son of God», Downey's reason for delivering another big budget film about the crucifixion was that it had been ten years since «The Passion of the Christ», and therefore a decade since Jesus was on the big screen.

While you might simply expect this to lead to the familiar Easter narrative of Christ's brutal crucifixion and prophesied resurrection, this is where The Last Temptation most departs from the writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and where both Kazantzakis» novel and Scorsese's filming of it incense certain Christians.

As the first - person account unfolds, Mary relates the events surrounding her son's rise to prominence and climactic crucifixion, all the while questioning how she should have intervened to affect the outcome.

While most cultures today tend to attempt a «humane» death for those who are deemed to deserve such a penalty, the crucifixion was inflicted on criminals particularly because it was inhumane.

While technically, every Fontana ceramic is a literal depiction of a battle scene, crucifixion, flowers, animals... these particular ceramic sculptures, in their dynamic immediacy, raw visceral quality, and hand - hewed gestures, generate a form that is as much an image as it is an abstract trace of the artist's process.

Ofili employs the heads, leaving some as outlines while others are filled in, to represent the eleven perspectives amidst the throng of soldiers that accompanied Judas to capture Christ and ultimately sentence him to crucifixion.