Sentences with phrase «most apocalyptic»

But as our planet heats up, as ice in the Arctic, Antarctic, and Greenland slides away, as California continues to suffer its most apocalyptic drought on record, pointing a finger at such things will get easier and easier.

In 2010, psychologists at the University of California Berkeley conducted an experiment on undergraduates and found that people tended to discount the most apocalyptic warning if it challenged their view of a stable and orderly world.

While I reject most apocalyptic scenarios as unfounded or unduly speculative, I am convinced that the human contribution to climate change will cause or exacerbate significant problems in at least some parts of the world.

The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true.»

Anchored by Charlize Theron's emotionally raw performance as the fearless Imperator Furiosa, the movie flips the grim «one sad bro - dude wanders the scorched landscape» script of most apocalyptic narratives, instead presenting a vision of a fallen world where equality is still achievable through collaboration, trust, and heaps of scrap metal.

Nowhere in modernity is apocalypticism more open and manifest than it is in our great political revolutions, and if these begin with the English Revolution, this was our most apocalyptic revolution until the French Revolution, a revolution which innumerable thinkers at that time, and above all Hegel himself, could know as the ending of an old world and the inauguration of a truly new and universal world.

The essays in this reference work are of uniformly high quality» especially Thomas J. J. Altizer's fine essay on D. G. Leahy, an American who might have been the Catholic Church's most apocalyptic thinker since Boethius.

The choice between Judaism, even in its most apocalyptic forms, and Gnosticism remained clear - cut.

Some scientists argued that artificial intelligence might be the most apocalyptic technology of all.

Not exact matches

While most discussions of this topic focus on potential lost jobs or apocalyptic scenarios, these authors — Accenture's Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson — see the glass as decidedly more than half full.

It's clear what his priorities are, to punish those programs and people most deserving of funding in order to portray the «draconian» 1.2 % cut in the growth of spending as nigh unto apocalyptic.

Boethius... thx for yr reply... I don't think it's that simple to say that» they got that from reading ancient documents incorrectly»... the specifically Christian apocalyptic thinking that has survived in various theologies, whether traditionally Catholic or the most horrific end time sect appears to have it's roots in both the old and new testaments, but that begs a question.What are those documents?

The Obama administration's policy requiring most employers to provide free birth control coverage in their health insurance policies takes effect on Wednesday (Aug. 1)- a deadline that has sparked apocalyptic warnings from conservative activists and some faith groups.

The most typical example of apocalyptic writing in the Old Testament is to be found in the Book of Daniel.

Or, at least, hope is impossible and absurd if it is an eschatological or apocalyptic hope, and it is precisely Christianity's eschatological ground that most fundamentally distinguishes it from Judaism.

One of the most important steps in the development of primitive Christian doctrine, and by far the most important for the tradition embodied in Mark and the Synoptics, took place when Jesus was identified with this celestial figure of apocalyptic expectation.

In spite of great diversity of origin and symbol, and widely varying degrees of spiritual sensitivity, most of them are not only critical but contain an apocalyptic or millennial note.

The most striking instance of the concrete new taken into an apocalyptic story so that it becomes the peripety or surprise in the plot would be the adaptation of the apocalyptic story by the early Christians to the new which they saw in Christ.

Yet it has its own immanental apocalyptic, of a most intense and radical sort.

Most observers agree today that this chapter is a composite one, containing some general apocalyptic material from Mark's own as well as some genuine reflections of Jesus» own teaching.

This individualism has dismissed both the extrinsic and the intrinsic value of each human being in favor of material and professional indices of success that most people believe are due to luck as much as anything else (hence the increasing popularity of lotteries) Because the apocalyptic worldview of the early church has now been replaced with the desperate and meaningless finality of possible nuclear annihilation, eschatological expectations and hope for reversal of human fortunes have given way to a «present - only» scheme of refetence even in Christian theology.

And there is good reason for this, apocalypticism is inevitably subversive, and perhaps the most purely subversive force in history, all of the great political revolutions in modernity have been apocalyptic revolutions, and even the advent of both Christianity and Islam can be understood as the consequence of apocalypticism.

We see this blend of an apocalyptic framework with a prophetic message most clearly in the parable of the last judgment or the sheep and the goats.

It is well known that Hegel could conclude his lectures on the philosophy of history by speaking of the last stage of history as our own world and our own time, but it is not well known that this apocalyptic ground is absolutely fundamental to his two most ultimate works, the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Science of Logic.

As opposed to Novitas Mundi, now American pragmatism is the true prelude to the thinking now occurring for the first time, and most immediately so the uniquely American theology of the death of God, a theology which while voiding pragmatism is the last gasp of modernity, and it in these death throes that a final apocalyptic thinking is born.

In Augustine's long and influential treatment of apocalyptic expectations in The City of God, he «rejects the two most common options: neither say soon, for it can lead to disappointment and loss of faith; nor say later, for it discourages the faithful.

All find scriptural warrant for progressive views, most commonly in prophetic and apocalyptic texts.

Perhaps the most insidious by - product of modern apocalyptic scenarios is that grief is shoved right off the table.

The apocalyptic passages are too deeply imbedded in the Gospels for most biblical scholars to feel that they can be thus disposed of.

It is in this peculiar tension between the future and the present that Jesus introduces a novel element ultimately destructive of the apocalyptic framework within which most of the New Testament is articulated.

Since through most of its history the church has championed a doctrine of physical resurrection similar to that of apocalyptic Judaism.

The most important change of view has come in connection with the apocalyptic Son of man sayings.

While these are the longest and most explicit examples of apocalyptic thinking, there are many shorter examples.

The religion of the Qumran people was characterized by some of the most exclusive sectarianism the world has ever seen, an apocalyptic - eschatological sectarianism which looked for triumph in this world, and soon.

The consistent biblical teaching, which becomes most explicit in the apocalyptic literature, is that the future is ultimately God's future.

Let us remember that when he used Kingdom of God, an apocalyptic concept, he none the less used it in a way most unusual in apocalyptic.

Further, the Jewish apocalyptic texts would then have had to lose all trace of this form of the conception, for in no other such text does the Son of man «come with the clouds», except for this one instance preserved by Christians, and, finally, the Christian tradition would have had to be indebted to this one Jewish saying for the features most characteristic of the specifically Christian expectation.

Most previous studies of apocalyptic astronomical events — like asteroid impacts, neighboring stars going supernova or insanely energetic explosions called gamma - ray bursts — focused on their threat to humankind.

Admittedly, some of these technologies would stretch the imagination of the most creative of apocalyptic screenwriters — it'll be a while, I suspect, before «Graphene Apocalypse» or «Day of the Perovskite Cell» hit the silver screen.

Taken on its own terms, it works quite agreeably as a visceral blow to the breadbasket, with one of the most outrageous and apocalyptic final scenes in the entirety of the subgenre.

Most recently Mandy debuted the new musical THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH: AN APOCALYPTIC VAUDEVILLE, co-starring performance artist Taylor Mac, with direction and choreography by Susan Stroman.

The premise of Turbo Kid not only sounds unique but much different than most post apocalyptic films that have been coming out over the past years.

The Flame in the Flood is a post apocalyptic survival game by developer The Molasses Flood, taking place in America after most of it flooded.

Set after an apocalyptic nightmare in which ugly - ass blind giant insect - y creatures (looking like atomic grasshoppers) have done in most of the planet, Krasinski's film focuses on one family in rural New York who have abandoned their farmhouse to live in the barn where it is easier to control the sounds they make.

Dawn of the Dead opens gangbusters, its prologue — which segues into a title montage scored just right to Johnny Cash tune — the most nihilistic - feeling bit of cinema I've seen since the first broadcast of The Day After, and right in line with our apocalyptic cinema environment.

If you grew up as a horror film fanatic in the 1980s, you may have run through most of the American slasher flicks and occult thrillers — and then you rented Lucio Fulci's 1980 cult favourite Zombie, which hopefully led you to all sorts of gore - laden apocalyptic mayhem from Italian splatter - slingers like Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare -LRB-...)

Not only does it see a celebrated filmmaker at long last make sense of his strengths and weaknesses, its third act is a staggering audiovisual experience that calls to mind the most ambitious, apocalyptic theme park ride never made.

In most TV series, the apocalyptic violence that befalls person after person would be cause for grim discussion or simply seeking out justice in a crime procedural (a la «CSI» or «Law & Order»).

While the 50 - year - old actor is 6 - foot - 1, he's not exactly what most fans picture when they think of Cable, the hulking mutant cyborg from an apocalyptic future.

Most of us suspected that the soulless drones in our home town were actually from outer space, after all, and what is an apocalyptic invader if not a schoolyard bully in jumped - up form?