Sentences with phrase «great biblical theme»
How can captivity, a great biblical theme, have any meaning today if we treat incarceration as nothing more than «serving time»?
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Like the other great American songwriters his poetic songs about politics, love and life are steeped in biblical imagery and spiritual themes that weave beautifully through guitars, string sections and banjos in brilliantly earthy compositions.
All of this — his deeply felt ideas, his biblical knowledge, his autodidactical education, and his convoluting development of a theme — shows to clear effect in what most critics think his greatest story, «Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street.»
In fact, their suffering is the best evidence of it, for as Jon Levenson has demonstrated in his powerful study on this biblical theme, it is the beloved, elect son who undoubtedly has the greatest sorrows in store.
The biblical story is a great symphony, whose opening is the announcement of the major theme, the creative love of God in action, and whose grand finale is the magnificent and triumphant re-affirmation of the same theme.
«Creation,» based on the book written by Darwin's great - great - grandson and entitled Annie's Box, is a secular hagiography of Darwin, which is not surprising, given that modern films have a proclivity towards themes that fly in the face of biblical teachings.