Sentences with phrase «narrative tradition of»

It also removes a lot of the narrative tradition of comics — for instance, there's no page layout to situate the single panel within (the «spatio - topia» (Groensteen, 2007) or «architecture of the page»), and there's no natural page break to punctuate or create natural cliff - hangers by adding anticipation about what might be on the next page.

For a time, it slips into the frustrating narrative tradition of the terrified female lead and the partner that won't believe her, and although this is eventually addressed, it's annoying all the same.

Both christology and trinitarian theology were articulated according to an ontology that not only gained little or nothing from the narrative traditions of the Jews, but displaced those traditions very effectively.

The Kabakovs are amongst the most celebrated Russian artists of their generation, widely known for their large - scale installations which draw upon the visual culture of the former Soviet Union and narrative traditions of Russian literature, often addressing universal themes such as utopia, dreams, fears and the human condition.

Not exact matches

But despite MacIntyre's eloquent exploration of what makes a human life coherent, theologians tended to find more compelling what he says about the narrative coherence (or incoherence) of whole traditions.

The triviality, even fatuousness, of many current ways of talking about «our stories» has led many thoughtful Christians to abandon the traditions of personal narrative or testimony as tokens of misbegotten «individualism.»

«The tone of the writing, the format of the page, and the directness of the dialog allows the tradition of passing down the biblical narrative to come through in «The Voice.»»

V «Priestly» laws and narratives of Genesis - to - Joshua («P») written on basis of earlier traditions.

The passion narrative — its basis derived from the common Christian tradition of Jesus» last days in Jerusalem.

Familiarity with stories of cures by similar methods in Jewish and pagan literature may have influenced the tradition of this miracle, so different from Jesus» usual practice in the Synoptic narratives.

To begin with, there was the narrative of Jesus» death — the longest continuous narrative in the traditions about him and the earliest to take fixed form, according to modern form critics.

Perhaps it is necessary to admit that the narrative, at least in the grand nineteenth - century tradition of Tolstoy, Austen, and Melville, is not the form for our time.

In two brief narratives belonging to the later stratum of the tradition, the church has shown vividly how this decisive Either - Or dominates the preaching of Jesus, how every other interest disappears before the exclusiveness of the demand of God.

Its narratives Contain many echoes of the stories in Mark and some of those which occur in Luke, and the evangelist has modified and added to the earlier traditions (his Gospel is generally agreed to be the latest of the four) in such a way as to make them the vehicle for a great body of deep religious truth.

In fact, however, as I have indicated, I do not think that the Synoptic traditions should be taken for the most part as factual history, but rather as reflections, cast in narrative form, of the theological thinking of the early Church about the Easter appearances and of various current controversies about them.

In any case, these words about painting are a fitting description of Davies's own narrative art, provocative in its «farcing out» of Christian tradition and powerful in its evocation of our human depth and variety.

Unlike the authors of Habits, who give the impression that individualism simply leaves people without communities of memory, MacIntyre correctly perceives that everyone lives within these communities, if only because our personal narratives always depend on a sense of history and tradition.

The church is also being regarded as an important community of memory because the other sources of a rich narrative tradition — families, ethnic groups, residential communities — are also subject to the growing pressures of change, while more recent institutions, such as business firms and the mass media, are believed to have only shallow ties to the past.

It is largely another attempt to carry out the old Enlightenment program of demolishing tradition, ritual, cult and historical narrative, except now without the Enlightenment's faith that reason and technology can assume their place.

that is, the mixing of indigenous traditions with Christian biblical narratives, are not only identified but often encouraged as a continuing creative practice.

The skills in counseling, preaching and organization need to be informed by the great narratives and insights of the tradition.

The feminist theologian approaching this question faces an additional dilemma insofar as the religious narrative of the Western introspective confessional tradition grounds identity in culturally «feminine» terms.

In the present text of this narrative, Moses goes up and down Mount Sinai no less than three times, and for a man reputed in the biblical tradition to be in his eighties, that is no small chore.

The other narrative form is from the settled tradition of Israel that developed after the people took root in Canaan.

Instead, he tried to combine it with a number of theological ideas — community, tradition and universality — under one rubric, «narrative.»

The writers of Scripture sought to be faithful to available tradition, with all the limitations of oral culture, and were not necessarily averse to adjusting narrative to Old Testament prophecy, iconic stories of their culture, and theological proclamation.

If NT theology is understood as a response to certain key events of the life of Jesus in narrative form, a comparison of the different traditions (synoptics, John, Paul) suggest a development, if not different understanding.I view this as a «human construct».

As has often been pointed out, the resurrection narratives in the gospels — like the infancy narratives — have the characteristics of myth, while the tradition in Luke and John that the first resurrection appearances were in Jerusalem can not satisfactorily be combined with the Galilee tradition of Mark and Matthew.

Certainly Catholic Christianity has had the ability to engage the issue with seriousness, with respect for the integrity of science, and with fidelity to the biblical narrative and Tradition of the Church, as evidenced by the efforts of Pope Pius XII (Humani Generis, 1950) and Pope John Paul II [Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, October 22, 1996).

This takes us back to the earliest form of the Jesus traditions, before the development of the narrative gospel by Mark.

Hermeneutics, with its emphasis upon tradition and narrative, is central to the philosophy of science now cognizant of the false dichotomies between objectivity and subjectivity, science and ideology, engendered by the modern Enlightenment.

Narrative is an important dimension of religion — especially within the Judeo - Christian tradition.

Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several features which divide it so sharply from the Passion narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation of that in the stage of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first of which can exist as an independent story, but the second of which can not, for it depends upon the first.

Once the resurrection of Jesus came to be proclaimed by way of a narrative set within an historical context, it is not surprising that, after the death of the apostles, Christians of the latter part of the first century expanded this tradition and produced others.

Every «theology of the traditions,» following von Rad, is built on this basic postulation that the Credo of Israel is a narrative confession on the model of the nuclear Credo of Deuteronomy 26:5 - 9.

The links, which state that the women were observers from a distance at both the crucifixion and the burial, appear to be editorial additions made by a literary editor, rather than part of an original narrative from oral tradition.

In spite of the diversity in the resurrection narratives there is one important common theme which C. F. Evans draws to our attention when he says, «The one element which the traditions, in all their variety, have in common is that the appearance of the risen Lord issued in an explicit command to evangelize the world, yet the early decades of the history of the church, in so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware of any such command.»

These traditions, such as the resurrection narratives and the opening chapters of Acts, certainly give us some very valuable clues concerning the rise of the Easter faith, but each of these has to be examined and evaluated before it can be used in constructing even a skeleton history in the events immediately following the death of Jesus.

While it is true that John's Easter narratives exhibit an advanced form of the evolution of the Easter tradition, it is a mistake to think that John simply took a stage further the developments found in Matthew and Luke.

How do you account for the presence of two discrete forms of the oral tradition (a healing story and a conflict story) in a single narrative?

Accepting the notion that biblical narratives are the product of many layers of oral tradition, they see scripture as paradigmatic of humanity's interpretation of the experience (there is no such thing as uninterpreted experience!)

Most significant, perhaps, such an adult is frequently able to bind this diverse group of young people together through narrative, the telling of stories from the tradition.

Although we can not, today, reconstruct a single authentic healing or exorcism narrative from the tradition we have, we are none the less entitled to claim that the emphasis upon the faith of the patient, or his friends, in that tradition is authentic.

But the congregation, by both tradition and demonstrable narrative composition, is more powerfully associated with the struggle of the whole church, the oikoumene, than often recognized.

It was a collection of earlier written / oral traditions of the 12 tribes fused together into a single narrative.

I had been invited to attend as one who supposedly knew something about narrative structure and the role of storytelling in faith traditions.

Joining the ranks of Christian fundamentalism means also submitting one's own story to the biblical lens; conversion is really conversion into a particular narrative tradition.

«Narrative theology» and ethicists are giving attention to the ways in which tradition informs our understanding of what we believe to be good.

As the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions have known for centuries, and many other churches have discovered too, the only way that this extraordinary narrative will yield its meaning is quite simply if we play the events at their original speed — God's speed, not ours — living in and through the events day by day: the grieving farewells, the betrayal and denial, the shuddering fear in the garden, the stretched - out day of torture and forsakenness, and the daybreak of wonder, color and tomb - bursting newborn life.

Swimme, a Catholic physicist and follower of Thomas Berry, emphasizes how the narrative revolution in science is now capable of placing all our religious and other traditions against the more fundamental backdrop of a cosmic story.