Sentences with phrase «drama of human history»

Is not the course of natural events entirely different from the drama of human history?

The word of God can not be kept safe from the rough - and - tumble drama of human history.

This is the drama of human history, the story of Caritapolis, as the Catholic people see it.

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It is hoped that many will find it of aid in understanding what some of us are convinced is the central current of human history, at once the clue and the hope of the human drama.

Where Sartre seeks to recoup humanism through a methodology that allows him to debunk any competing ideology, Solzhenitsyn seeks to recover human integrity by attending to the particulars of history as part of a larger, if hidden, spiritual drama that must be lived to be understood.

In this history, he claimed, we learn to see historical conceptions of God as symbolic representations of the human drama of cultural development.

The study of history thus provides opportunities for the practice of freedom, by participating imaginatively in the decisions of persons who have acted in the past, thereby transcending the narrow confines of one's own existence, and by engaging in the activity of constructing and reconstructing a picture of the past, in the search for an ever more adequate account of the human drama.

For the first time on the stage of world history, we humans can envisage the possibility — some would say, the probability — of a self - inflicted, abrupt, and apocalyptic nuclear end of the drama as we have lived it till now.

But with this important exception, the Bible contains reflections of every human interest — not only religion, but also history, philosophy, poetry, drama, great addresses, stories, letters, law - making, the struggles of war, the pursuits of peace.

However, I do believe that ideas of biblical eschatology, of a final consummation of the human drama, of heaven and hell, have primary relevance for history itself.

I, too, find myself convinced of the importance of developing a theology of hope based on the scriptural drama which runs from creation to consummation, telling of God's purpose to bring his Kingdom to pass in cosmos and in human history.

God withdraws and blends in, setting the stage for a free and historical encounter of humans with God as a single «Thou» in the drama of history.

The Cambridge historian, H. Butterfield, has said of the Old Testament «Altogether we have here the greatest and most deliberate attempts ever made to wrestle with destiny and interpret history and discover meaning in the human drama; above all to grapple with the moral difficulties that history presents to the religious mind.»

Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars in this original, history - based drama series as the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.

By focusing on the internal machinations of Catesby and his Protestant antagonists, Gunpowder locates a human drama at the heart of an event codified in history books as a conflict between monoliths.

«Ran» is a heroic saga of human destiny, a war movie with some of the greatest battle scenes in the history of the cinema, a costume drama of the utmost magnificence — and a crackling good samurai movie chock full of swordplay and palace intrigue.

It is part human drama and part history lesson, complete with detailed statistics and animated maps of troop movements to put the big picture around human experience.

Many may wish to give the film a spot in their collections too, whether if it's as one of the 1980s» biggest blockbusters, as one of the Walt Disney Company's earliest and most successful Touchstone films, or more likely, as an amusing human drama which provides a unique and compelling take on a cinematically well - tread period of history.

«Darkest Hour» is history made drama; a portrait of a leader both larger than life and utterly human.

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The strangest and most uncompromising of all musician biopics, Jean - Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's 1968 debut feature, The Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena Bach disregards most conventions of costume drama to ask some very human questions about history, what it takes to be an artist, and what movies can tell us about ourselveof all musician biopics, Jean - Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's 1968 debut feature, The Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena Bach disregards most conventions of costume drama to ask some very human questions about history, what it takes to be an artist, and what movies can tell us about ourselveOf Anna Magdalena Bach disregards most conventions of costume drama to ask some very human questions about history, what it takes to be an artist, and what movies can tell us about ourselveof costume drama to ask some very human questions about history, what it takes to be an artist, and what movies can tell us about ourselves.

The Golden Age offers up United States history as only Gore Vidal can, with unrivaled penetration, wit, and high drama, allied to a classical view of human fate.

Combining the human drama of Isaac's Storm with the sweep of The American People in the Great Depression, The Worst Hard Time is a lasting and important work of American history.

The program includes a variety of formats, including a cooking show by Will Benedict and Steffen Jørgensen; a show on human - animal relations in Africa and Thailand by Korakrit Arunanondchai; a «general intellects» video with McKenzie Wark; a visual essay by Aria Dean; a docu - short on «seasteading» in Tahiti by Daniel Keller and Jacob Hurwitz Goodman; a report on «reparation hardware» by Ilana Harris - Babou; a cartoon by Amalia Ulman; a docu - short on «economic utopias» by Christopher Kulendran Thomas; a fictional drama by the South African collective CUSS Group exploring the influence of technology and digital culture in South Africa; and a contribution by the Women's History Museum.

The title of this project programmatically refers to the namesake book by Hannah Arendt, whose philosophical thought tried to answer the key question of the past century — how to be and stay Human in the face of the drama of History.