If the Bible is an ancient dialogue around the gradually
growing picture of the character of God, fully revealed only in Jesus, it is also a dynamic conversation which, rather than ending with the finalisation of the canon of the Bible, continues beyond it and involves all of those who give themselves to Christ's ongoing redemptive movement.
Not exact matches
When referring to the oldest parts
of the Old Testament, Jesus affirmed the way they represented God, rather than saying that they reflected a «gradually
growing»
picture of his
character (Mark 12:26 and so on).
Martin Scorsese was a fan, hailing the young director as his heir apparent and heaping praise on what he called «a
picture without a trace
of cynicism, that obviously
grew out
of its director's affection for his
characters in particular and for people in general.»
Playing the psychological drama with all the directorial finesse
of a first - rate Alfred Hitchcock
picture, Ostlund allows his
characters to roam the distance between childish self - pity and
grown - up stoicism.
WRECK - IT RALPH appears to be the latest home run from Walt Disney
Pictures based on US reaction, and having
grown up with a lot
of the cameo
characters, I've looked forward to this one for ages.
It's a play for the high and the low, in other words, a movie where a pissing dog is the only
character that
grows as a person — where the final message
of the film are the shockers that there's a difference between men and gods and that real decisions can't actually be made without God (contradicting the
picture's God directly, as it happens).
Jim remains a prickly and elusive
character, but the
picture of him
grows clearer through other
characters» viewpoints and by way
of archival records.
The
pictures grew to mural size; black and white gave way to punchy Pop color; the cast
of characters grew.
Sean Carroll's «The Big
Picture» presents a comprehensive understanding
of how the environment people
grow up in can develop the type
of people they become, develop their
character and ways
of thinking.