Sentences with phrase «new apocalyptic world»

That world can be understood as a new apocalyptic world, one which becomes manifestly apocalyptic in the French Revolution and German Idealism, and then one realizing truly universal expressions in Marxism and in that uniquely modern or postmodern nihilism which was so decisively inaugurated by Nietzsche's proclamation of the death of God.

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The Mozilla Foundation has hidden pieces of fake apocalyptic scripture, including lines about «the beast reborn» and a battle that «plunged the world into a new darkness» in every one of its browsers, including Firefox.

the one is the old theocratic messianic title, given to anointed kings in ancient times; the other is the new apocalyptic title of the heavenly Man, the celestial Anthropos, Urmensch, the Primal Man, who is to appear at the end of days, raise the dead, and judge the whole world — angels, demons, and men.

Like the ancient apocalyptic seer, the modern artist has unveiled a world of darkness, but whereas earlier seers could know a darkness penetrated by a new æon of light, the contemporary artist has seen light itself as darkness, and embodied in his work an all - embracing vacuity dissolving every previous form of life and light.

Both early Christian apocalyptic and Zealot apocalyptic drew on the openness of this form of world - vision to the new, to make possible a meaningful participation of the believer in the «big story» to which he found that he was contributing as it moved forward to its end.

Insofar as apocalyptic is open to the new, it is not because its authors «liked» the new, but because they could not tolerate the existing world.

Some attention to the story form in apocalyptic can show us some of the reasons why the narrative form is in trouble, while process theology has some fundamentally useful hints about how we may re-imagine the story, or grasp a new narrative vision of the world, which will enable us to set the new into a meaningful framework and respond to it with hope.

She rejects apocalyptic hope in favor of prophetic hope, in which the outcome depends upon human obedience.5 She asks rhetorically: «Can God — independently of whatever «the world,» and therefore society, does or fails to do — bestow forgiveness directly on a penitent man and make possible a new beginning for him?»

Their apocalyptic vision promised a new era of German world domination under the leadership of wise pagan priests — an empire of light, inhabited by noblemen, which would be cleansed of all Judeo - Christian influence.

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.

To summarize, to literalize the apocalyptic passages in the New Testament, is to run counter to all we know of astronomy and the world of space; they are tied in with the then - current Jewish eschatology and Persian dualism which saw evil in command of creation; as commonly accepted, they encourage passivity about the evils of the present world; they emphasize only one side of the message of Jesus to the exclusion of essential elements; they are grounded at least in part on a misconstruction of biblical poetry and drama.

But it may be asserted in general terms that whereas prophecy foretells a definite future which has its foundation in the present, apocalyptic directs its anticipation solely and simply to the future — to a new world - period which stands sharply contrasted with the present.

Indeed, the very advent of modernity can be understood to be an apocalyptic event, an advent ushering in a wholly new world as the consequence of the ending of an old world.

Indeed, if only here, we can understand the Crucifixion as a full and pure apocalyptic event, one shattering all ancient horizons and worlds, and ushering in an absolutely new world.

Historically, this does not actually occur until the full birth of the modern world, and then it subjectively or interiorly occurs in the realization that God is dead, a realization inaugurating a new universal self - consciousness, which is the very center and ground of an apocalyptic explosion and transformation of the world.

The result was a new and peculiar literary form, apocalyptic, which sought to unravel the secrets of the divine plan for the world, to recognize the signs of the end, to calculate the time of its arrival, and to invent fantastic elaborations of the heavenly glory.

With regard to war, two factors prevented international conflict from being specifically dealt with in the New Testament as a pressing problem: the apocalyptic expectation of the world's immediate end, so that the gradual reform of social institutions was not in the picture, and the further fact that the first Christians had no responsibility for governmental policies or influence in determining them.

It is an apocalyptic act, creating a new way of envisioning and thinking about the world.

In the expansion of Christianity around the world in the wake of European colonialism, new converts from the various indigenous peoples have not infrequently fastened on the apocalyptic component and blended it with their own cultural beliefs to create fresh millennial movements which offer their people hope of deliverance from imperialistic conquest and the arrival of a new age of bliss.

Since the 1890s New Testament scholars have been rediscovering the importance of apocalyptic literature among Jews and Christians in the ancient world, represented in the books referred to as Apocalypses, which offer visions, revelations of the future, and other divine mysteries.

But, whereas in ancient times the apocalyptic writers expected God to usher in the new world, the first science fiction authors described a future created by human invention.

A new analysis of various apocalyptic scenarios suggests that we may be able to detect distant worlds where life has been wiped out by nuclear war or nanotechnology run amok.

It's a film from whose nihilism I would've recoiled just a few years ago, but now I see that as perhaps the definitive trend of the first six years of this brave new world (first five after 9/11, the inciting event of this love affair with apocalyptic cultural reset) and not entirely divorced from our reality besides.

The Internship Poster «Movement is life, treatment» says former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) in the new film World War Z. He's referring to the best way to survive the apocalyptic zombie attacks that are quickly destroying the human race.

Apocalyptic ticking - clock thrillers / buddy road movies are nothing new — Miracle Mile, The Road, and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World are stronger examples — but they're rarely done with the kind of fearlessness, originality, or emotional honesty that writer - director Zak Hilditch delivers with These Final Hours.

But it keeps that decade's crumbling, end - of - the - world look in its near - apocalyptic New Orleans setting and its commitment to serious, entertaining American cinema.

The Internship Poster «Movement is life, treatment» says former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) in the new film World War Z. He's referring to the best way to survive the apocalyptic zombie attacks that are quickly...

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is the fourth instalment of the popular Telltale series based on the Walking Dead graphic novels and is the third season in the story that follows Clementine on her path to surviving the apocalyptic world filled with infected walkers while scavenging the limited resources and secure shelter.

With the upcoming Spring 2018 release of RAGE 2 teaming up original developer id Software and veteran developer Avalanche Studios, it's clear that Bethesda is going for a sort of new gold standard that combines id's FPS expertise and Avalanche's penchant for massive and massively entertaining open world games with that post apocalyptic vibe that's guaranteed to sell a few million copies right out of the gate.

The new Naughty Dog developed IP, set in a post apocalyptic, zombie infested world, will also feature multiplayer, though there's no word on just what this will entail, as yet.

His lurid fantasy landscapes painted on stock - market listings draw contemporary analogies between the state of the planet and industrial capitalism, but their dramatic geography originates in the New World vistas of the Hudson River School, just as their apocalyptic storm clouds derive from John Martin.

http://www.o-matic.com/ Joy Garnett on Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 12:45 p.m., Myrtle Hall 4E - 3 «Painting and the Technical Image World» Joy Garnett is New York - based artist whose paintings are based on news photographs, scientific imagery, and military documents she gathers from the Internet and uses to examine the apocalyptic - sublime at the intersections of media, politics, and culture.

Critics are already taking note, including a glowing review by Holland Cotter for The New York Times, in which he declares, «[Wangechi's] giving us something more like an apocalyptic version of polymorphic perversity, a shot of the libidinal pleasure the art world so loves along with a series of fast, repeat jabs to the head it deserves.»

The works in the series are a combination of digital and silk screen printing, the works address the subcultures and communities that parallel the mainstream of our society, and the aims and behavioural patterns of which create a basis for completely new communities — fighters, amazons, women as future leaders, changed world order, rebirth on apocalyptic fields.

In Edward Struzik's new book Future Arctic: Field Notes From a World on the Edge, he avoids the apocalyptic and offers a vision of how pragmatists could tackle some of the region's many environmental problems.

A new study suggests that the world is already signed up for an apocalyptic rise in temperature.

In between, they'll explore a post apocalyptic world, navigating through ruins, forests and mountains uncovering secrets to unravel new pieces to the story.