Sentences with phrase «historical human scene»

We have already seen earlier how the advent of Jesus Christ became the culminating point of Israel's concern with the historical human scene.

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The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

The Yahwist turned the spotlight not on the sanctuary, but on the human scene of historical event, as the sphere in which the will of the God of Israel became manifest.

She turned to a different source as the seedbed of the new form of myth, and that was the human historical scene.

There's no doubt they would make terrific movies, with their vivid characters (both human and dragon), their exciting battle scenes and their lush and varied historical settings.

In his first collection of short stories, Bream Gives Me Hiccups, Eisenberg's sharp comic timing lends plenty of laugh - out - loud moments to stories that span a wide variety of subjects from arguments between college roommates to reimagined historical scenes, but there are also an astonishing amount of introspective moments and tender displays of human vulnerability.

Humans, being late - comers to the scene, obviously had no impact on ancient historical fluctuations, which data shows to be as extreme or more extreme than any change in recent history.

But long standing historical reality and human mass psychology suggests that the underlying belief system in the climate change meme is very shallow and will be rapidly be discarded when another more persuasive meme appears on the scene to either counter it or displace it as circumstances and human attitudes go through their everlasting permutations.