Sentences with phrase «in apocalyptic language»

Cuomo spent months lobbying against the tax plan, which he has denounced in apocalyptic language, calling it «an economic civil war» that will put the state at a structural disadvantage when it comes to competing for jobs.

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JWH: I've got another thing to say, in light of the kind of apocalyptic type language, is that the apocalypse is always an invitation to come and enjoy God's feast.

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It has no apocalyptic language and only a brief reference, in what is probably a later addition, to Christ's return (21:22).

All this is the language of mythology, and the origin of the various themes can be easily traced in the contemporary mythology of Jewish Apocalyptic and in the redemption myths of Gnosticism.

As far as I know the apocalyptic language and expectation of the early Church was not in error (perhaps some of our modern understandings are incorrect).

A widespread assumption, especially in German language research, is that there existed in Jewish apocalyptic the conception of a transcendent, pre-existent heavenly being, the Son of man, whose coming to earth as judge would be a major feature of the drama of the End time.

Written quite late, probably not far from the Maccabean period of revolt, it couches its hopes in a queer figurative language which becomes the earmark of apocalyptic writing.

What needs demythologizing is the secondary language in which the primary was expressed, the language which speaks in a «worldly» way of what is «unworldly», the language of Jewish apocalyptic mythology or of Hellenistic Gnostic mythology.

County executives welcomed it, but the governor railed against in similarly apocalyptic language at the time before the health care bill it was attached to went down in flames.

Into the Forest Rated R for a scene of violence involving rape, language and some sexuality / nudity Rotten Tomatoes Score: 79 % Set in the near future, two sisters (Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page) who have moved off the grid must figure out how to stay alive after an apocalyptic event takes place.

What he wrote in the 1960s was comparatively mild, he suggested, telling Retro Report: «My language would be even more apocalyptic today.»

Such language merely makes us sound like another voice in a clamour of competing, apocalyptic religions, each one warning in its own way of «the end of the world» and our need to repent, worship the true God / prophet / cause etc..

Doubling down on the apocalyptic language guarantees it in that event.