Sentences with phrase «for revelatory»

It is a loss that no New York museum could find room for this revelatory show.

To crank out the awful, unusable designs that pave the way for the revelatory ones.

Destined to be a possible career resurrection not so much for the slightly overmatched Carradine as for the revelatory Hannah (who reprises at the end of one stunning sequence the death rattle of her replicant Pris), Kill Bill, Vol.

Both actors are on career - best form here, though Douglas, perhaps deservedly will grab the majority of the limelight for his revelatory turn — nothing he's done before even hinted at the level of commitment and humanity he brings to Lee.

For every revelatory moment of sharp perception there's an eternity of goofy smiles, stuttered dialogue and embarrassed glances.

For the revelatory response lies on a different plane from the one shaped by our usual social expectations and planning.

The social context of our existence is therefore a major aspect of the situation out of which we look for some revelatory «answer» to our quest for the optimal «order» by which to enhance the quality of human existence.

We naturally look for some revelatory image that will illuminate reality and make it intelligible.

What I am saying, however, is that we can not take pride in our ability to master the text, for its revelatory impact is available to us only when the text masters us.

That was for me a revelatory moment.

Thank you so much for your revelatory insights into this parable and it's context.

But he can tell us whether or not it is probable that the Exodus from Egypt ever happened; and if he were to tell us that in all likelihood the whole story is unhistorical then it would cease to be for us a revelatory event, since it would have ceased to be an event.

Not exact matches

For most, it'll start out revelatory, then settle into good enough, where it belongs.

Guber, who has been coached by Robbins for two decades, and become one of his closest friends, calls his counsel revelatory.

It was a revelatory moment for Klein.

A partnership between The Observer and the New York Times, and in collaboration with a whistleblower and former Cambridge Analytica employee unveiled a revelatory amount of information; most significantly that Facebook sold and willingly participated in the extraction of information for years, even though CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims that this was done on false pretenses.

This was a revelatory moment for me.

I expect it to be revelatory and illuminating because it is scripture and for me as an Episcopalian; those are my presuppositions.

But, if I am understanding Wright correctly, this idea has consequences for both uber - conservative Christians (who may tend to see God's presence and revelatory activity as limited the words printed in the Bible) and more liberal Christians (who may prefer to think of the words of Joshua and Jeremiah as entirely their own, and not the words of God).

He believes there is some point to the criticisms that Bultmann dissolves Christology into soteriology, 3 for he has been unable «to express in an adequate way the «objective» reality of the revelatory event Jesus the Christ «4 even though he does «intend a divine act in the fully real and «objective» sense.

For Ogden, this seems to be enough to establish the «objective» side of a «revelatory» act.

In the one understanding of contextualization, the revelatory trajectory moves only from authoritative Word into contemporary culture; in the other, the trajectory moves both from text to context and from context to text, and in the midst of this traffic the interpreter, rather like a police officer at a busy intersection, emerges as the sovereign arbiter as to what God's Word for our time actually is.

It is the experiential insight that gives succor to man's deformed yearning (sehnsucht) for perfection in life, and it reveals to us that «God can not be contained within reason, because what he does goes beyond reason,» therefore the initial anticipation of the revelatory act / reality is signaled by the existential realization that God's «unnecessitated» love for us as created being, both corporately and individually, makes transparent «God's gift of Himself.»

The abuse I've suffered at the hands of church leaders, other Christians, the insane chaos of a church split, being fired from another international ministry for «insubordination», etc., are all not just little episodic blemishes in church life, but revelatory symptoms of deeply serious defects, profound flaws, and continental faults that need immediate and radical treatment.

Since you bring the topic up, let me sketch out what I see as the dimensions of the issue for someone who hasn't experienced a persuasive altar call or revelatory «Road to Damascus» experience.

Even more must it be the case for the Christian Scriptures, of which we confess that they testify to us of uniquely revelatory intervention.

When Girard first argued for the superior revelatory power of the gospel of Jesus Christ in Part 2 of Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, he immediately followed it with an analysis that did not in a like manner argue for the superiority of «Christian» culture.

Since you bring the topic up, let me sketch out what I see as the dimensions of the issue for someone who hasn't experienced a persuasive altar call or revelatory «Road...

For if the cosmos is itself a revelatory adventure aroused by God's promise, then we may embrace both the natural world and the biblical ideal of homeless searching.

Through participation in the life of the Church, its liturgy, sacraments, teachings, and praxis, we are enabled to situate ourselves within the revelatory vision of Christ with its promise for the liberation of the whole of history and creation.

At such times a relaxation of the apologetic approach and a new openness to the foreignness of alternative ways of looking at mystery become essential simply for the sake of the vitality and survival of the tradition's revelatory capacity.

Jesus» repertoire of images of the kingdom, his habit of presenting what we can hope for in the idiom of parables of God's reign, is an exceptional illustration of these four revelatory aspects of religion.

So if there is something unsurpassable about him for believers, it is ultimately derived from the mystery that he sacramentally mediates - Whenever a religion speaks of the «unsurpassability» of its central revelatory event, personality, or doctrine, religious wisdom exhorts us to acknowledge that only the unfathomable mystery to which these realities point is indeed unsurpassable.

The exclusively Christo - centric character of revelation theology made it difficult for us to take seriously the revelatory character of primal religions, of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other religious ways.

As long as we leave the cosmos out of our theologies of revelation we display an exclusivity that in the end impoverishes our sense of God's revelatory vision for the world.)

In recognizing the wider Mystery of all self - revelatory beings, one would listen for or speak with the truth of the Other in co-equal conversation.

11 And Sallie McFague, professor of theology at Vanberbilt Divinity School, takes on the fundamentalist viewpoint head - on: «This may be blasphemy to the literal - minded; but it is fortunate that the New Testament writers were endowed with rich imaginations, for otherwise the New Testament would hold little chance of being revelatory.»

To see the text as revelatory poesis is to understand that it «makes sense» by projecting a reference as a possibility for me.

This orientation had the effect of lessening the theologians» concern for static truth or revelatory fiat and diverted effort away from a search for any metaphysical Absolute.

Jacob's all - night wrestling match with a mysterious stranger was strenuous, frightening and revelatory; sleeping soundly in preparation for the next day's work would have been useful.

As for Humanae Vitae, it was not we 1950s Catholics who refused to let that sleeping dog lie, but John Paul II, who sought to prop it up with the hopelessly strained «theology of the body» that Noonan finds so revelatory.

For most of us every act of God, every revelatory experience, comes in the form of worldly occurrences that can be read in naturalistic terms.

The growing difference within evangelicalism regarding contextualization is described helpfully by David Wells in his essay: «In the one understanding of contextualization, the revelatory trajectory moves only from authoritative Word into contemporary culture; in the other, the trajectory moves both from text to context and from context to text...» Increasingly, evangelicals are opting for the second of these models - an «interactionist» approach, to use William Dymess» terminology.

The answer is always revelatory, which is one of the reasons Chesterton was right to say that «the simple need for some kind of ideal world in which fictitious persons play an unhampered part is infinitely deeper and older than the rules of good art, and much more important.»

For this reason, Christian teaching rightly rejects a quietism that leaves our human activity and creativity out of God's revelatory vision.

Without losing its distinctive boundaries (which are essential for the passing on of information) a «truthful» revelatory vision must nevertheless be continually open to new data.

The conditions for experiencing anew the power of a revelatory promise are just as much with us today as during the biblical period of human history.

A truly revelatory symbolism is revelatory precisely because of its capacity for integrating a multiplicity of clues into new and life - giving patterns.

And everything has the potential for disclosing this horizon in an exceptionally revelatory way for a particular group or person at any particular time.

What is revelatory is not the particular clues themselves, for many of them (such as the lexicon of terms used) are shared by others in our culture who are not of our faith.