Sentences with phrase «for narrative history»

Sides, best - selling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers, displays his knack for narrative history yet again as he chronicles the journey of American officer George Washington De Long and his crew of 33 aboard the USS Jeannette.

Organized around the concept that inanimate objects and inert cultural artifacts are conduits for narrative histories, the program considers how artists use moving images to extend the life of things and materials that would otherwise appear to be stable and resolute.

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His signature style is to create elaborate narratives and histories for the characters in his video - game videos to make them «like a movie.»

His signature style is to create elaborate narratives and histories for the characters in his video games to make them «like a movie.»

Mallaby, a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, begins in 1900 with the birth of hedge fund inventor Alfred Winslow Jones, and presses forward through a narrative history of this most inscrutable of financial vehicles, and the men (and they are overwhelmingly men) who have driven them.

In a previous article (HT 14:297 - 313) I suggested the possibility of adapting the doctrines of Alfred North Whitehead for analysis of explanatory narrative in history.

The intricate world views and belief systems of congregations constitute the setting of their corporate narrative, while their traditional histories, the sequences of past events selected for retelling, correspond to plot.

See the answer above — I see the Genesis narratives as God graciously reaching down to an ancient culture in order to communicate to them that he is their creator, that they are alienated from him, and that he desires that they be restored to fellowship through his offer of covenant with him (ultimately pointing to the need for God to step into history himself as the One who can keep the covenant on our behalf).

In fact, however, as I have indicated, I do not think that the Synoptic traditions should be taken for the most part as factual history, but rather as reflections, cast in narrative form, of the theological thinking of the early Church about the Easter appearances and of various current controversies about them.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

One can certainly detect, for instance, a growing skepticism toward «modernity» in the form of master narratives and instrumental reason, possibly because Latin America has so often had a painful experience of these narratives and the exercise of such reason — experiencing them from the «reverse side of history,» to use Gutiérrez's apt phrase.

On the other hand, if we try to treat these narratives primarily as the raw material for critical history, we again miss the point.

I consider this an ambiguous gift: on the one hand, postmodern tendencies open up spaces for the new perspectives and voices mentioned above; on the other hand, as the social critic Jane Flax notes, a hard - core kind of postmodernity which would postulate the death of history, of the human being and of metaphysics undermines the kind of critical reason that is necessary to counter the «master narrative» constituted by capitalist globalization.

Since we can not survey history from some universal, purely rational point of view, narrative theologians argue, we have no choice but to operate out of the historical narrative in which we find ourselves — and for the Christian theologian that means the Christian narrative, shaped by the story (ies) of Jesus Christ as found in the Bible.

Runciman's History resembles the medieval chronicles on which it is based, using narratives of events and depictions of individuals to draw moral as well as historical lessons: «by the inexorable laws of history, the whole world pays for the crimes and follies of each of its citizens.History resembles the medieval chronicles on which it is based, using narratives of events and depictions of individuals to draw moral as well as historical lessons: «by the inexorable laws of history, the whole world pays for the crimes and follies of each of its citizens.history, the whole world pays for the crimes and follies of each of its citizens.»

In his History of the Peloponnesian War, for example, Thucydides recounts speeches at key points in his narrative: «Cleon... spoke as follows:...» «So Cleon spoke.

But the process of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue that Pope Benedict XVI has repeatedly endorsed may cause participants to question whether any canonical story of violence — such as the conquest narratives in Joshua and Judges, or functionally equivalent texts in the history of Islam — may legitimately be claimed to offer a religious warrant for continued violence in today's world.

This story, as I say, is a familiar one to students of art history, church history, or dogmatic history; and for the most part Besançon soberly follows the main contours of the narrative, adding to it only his prodigious learning and a pleasing narrative style.

The operation of such a ruling group is pictured in the story of Boaz» negotiations for the redemption of Naomi's property (Ruth 4:1 - 12); the narrative is presumably from a comparatively late time, but the councils of elders persisted in the smaller communities right through Old Testament history, so there is ground for believing that the author relates practice with which he was familiar.

This history consists, for the most part, of narratives within which are to be found sharply delineated character sketches.

Modern moral philosophy becomes part of the problem, for its stress on autonomy, like its corresponding attempt to free ethics from history, produces people incapable of living lives that have narrative coherence.

Our chief aim in preaching must be to expose the meaning for redemptive history in all the narratives of the New Testament which are written from a mythological point of view.

(CNN)- People visit Jerusalem for the rich history, interwoven religious narratives and crumbling holy walls.

ah, shall we say «the narrative is «the thing»... and does the it have to be rigidly historical or can myth and history be woven fine... a clothing for the soul divine

This notice illustrates Luke's desire to set the gospel narrative in the context of world history; it also reflects a certain lack of familiarity with Jewish affairs, for only Caiaphas was high priest at the time (though his father - in - law Annas doubtless retained the title honorarily).

For him, the Bible's story of the world's history and destiny is a narrative fiction that has lost its credibility and usefulness in late modernity.

For Spinoza and emerging critical Protestants, the Jahwist was one of several successive phases of better — or worse — history writing to be detected below the surface of the biblical narrative.

We shall see, as we proceed with our narrative, that the way the Scriptures picture God as dealing with man characterizes the history of Christianity, not only in the preparation for the coming of His Son in the flesh and in the reception of His Son, but as well in the subsequent record of the religion named after the traditional designation of His Son.

Here we meet for the first time history on a world scope; the tenth chapter of Genesis, particularly against the background of the preceding narrative, though made up of lists of names, is yet an astonishing document, revealing the writer's knowledge of the world of his time, and even more remarkable, his recognition of the essential unity of the entire human process.

This survey of commentaries and books on Genesis is not exhaustive, but it should show that the practice of interpretation has continued to move away from concerns for the history of the composition of Genesis as it moves toward the study of the way the narratives tell their stories.

For example, the narrative of some churches has come to be broadened to include the internal history of other groups.

We would have two criticisms of this view: (1) form criticism is bursting the bounds here set to it, and is showing that gospel narratives and sayings can be purely and entirely products of the early Church; and (2) the view involves an unnecessary capitulation to the very view of history it sets out to controvert, since it seems to agree that there must be a «something actually happened» quality to the gospel myths for them to be «true».

Other writers have attempted to explain the capacity of narrative to summarize the complexities of self - understanding: «Narrative history of a certain kind,» says Alasdair MacIntyre, «turns out to be the basic and essential genre for the characterization of humannarrative to summarize the complexities of self - understanding: «Narrative history of a certain kind,» says Alasdair MacIntyre, «turns out to be the basic and essential genre for the characterization of humanNarrative history of a certain kind,» says Alasdair MacIntyre, «turns out to be the basic and essential genre for the characterization of human actions.

Rather, it sought a kernel of history in the narratives, which would stand the test of criticism and could become the basis for faith.

His seminary education (where «I could concentrate on critical biblical scholarship because I already knew the biblical content and narratives so well») and his later faith experiences and human encounters made it possible for him to analyze and interpret his own history in a way that has freed him to preach from the totality of that experience to the totality of human experience, encompassing as it does suffering and celebration, alienation and reconciliation, sin and redemption.

For example, he holds, and we will agree, that the sheer reasoning of scientific history would not oblige us to grant that the narratives of the virginal conception in Sts.

On the Men's side — the narrative remains the same — can anyone dethrone the reigning and defending 3x Champs Team SigEp — or for the first time in All Sports Series history — will SigEp earn a 4peat!?

Surely everyone knows the narrative — Mansell finally wins the F1 World Championship in 1992, then goes Stateside for 1993 and wins the IndyCar championship, thus becoming the only person in history to hold both titles at the same time.

It was also a nice little narrative bump for one veteran American, who made history and whose round will overshadow the Knox win.

For the first time in Brazilian history, the narrative of a major political crisis has been constructed by an incredibly fragmented media system.

Even the supposedly «constructivist» factors of history, culture and religion have objective bases — these elements make Ukraine a pliable space for Russia to extend influence, and also contain historical narratives tying Ukraine to Russia's geopolitical safety (from the 18th through the 20th centuries, Russia has very often engaged threats from the West and South primarily in the broader Ukrainian / Black Sea region).

He wants pupils to learn narrative British history, has called for spelling, punctuation and grammar to count in exams and wants headteachers to have the power to punish bad behaviour outside school premises.

Just the week before the AAAS Annual Meeting, the New York Public Library along with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture held a Black Lives Matter Wikipedia Edit - a-Thon, which sought to improve the narrative of black history and culture on the site, according to Huffington Post Black Voices.

Revati Crater is named for the main character in the Hindu epic narrative Mahabharata — widely regarded as the first in history (circa 400 BC) to include the concept of time travel.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

Like many movies that turn the past into entertainment, «The Post» gently traces the arc of history, while also bending it for dramatic punch and narrative expediency.

As they try to gain insight into the seemingly irreconcilable narratives, the paradoxes and contradictions born of legend and history along with passionately held ideals and the daily fight for survival surface.

The result is a film of integrity and disclosure, a controversial chapter in American history that substitutes clinical accuracy for Hollywood embellishment, with an impressive attention to detail and an admirable respect for suspenseful narrative.

In particular, an overdue narrative could kick in for Haynes, considering his «close but no cigar» history with the Oscars.

Known for complex narratives that often concern a network of characters engaging with the mediation of identity, truth and history, Egoyan's work over the last decade plus applies these concerns to a variety of film subjects, as well as installations, plays and operas.