Sentences with phrase «dominant biblical stories»
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.
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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).
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Insofar as cultures are defined by their dominant stories, premodern Western Civilization was a biblical civilization.
McKibben's 2012 book, The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation expands on his 2005 Harpers magazine article asserting that the dominant America - as - a-Christian-Nation view is wrong, and explores left - wing politics as the true Christian mandate through the Biblical story of Job.