Sentences with phrase «non-wry biblical drama»

Death is one of the major characters in the biblical drama.

But I also meant the continuing work of our great high priest, helping to provide meaning to this altered world from the depths of our faith and the biblical drama.

That divinity is given a particular shape and history by the biblical drama, conceived in orthodoxy as enacted by a single God in three persons.

A more fundamental set of issues concerns the status of political relationships as such in the various stages of the biblical drama: creation, fall, redemption, and future transformation.

Yet this God is wholly other, for this is the God we meet in the biblical drama.

The God of the biblical drama is a God of intention as well as love, a people is chosen to be God's own, both out of love and with a divine purpose.

Even the biblical work of Aquinas on Romans and Job has elicited the interest of Protestant historians, who have found his commentaries to be sources of wisdom and insight into the biblical drama of redemption.

Speaking of Burton, forget the Jews, because this film really looks bad for atheists, as I can see some Bible thumper saying that the most inaccurate thing in this (Snicker, snicker) Biblical drama is Burton's character feeling guilty about killing Christ.

Rochelle and Lee look back at some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's pop culture paean Ready Player One (00:46), Aki Kaurismäki's wry Finnish comedy - drama The Other Side of Hope (05:49), Ruben Östlund's wry Swedish comedy - drama The Square (08:08), Armando Iannucci's wry Russian comedy - satire The Death of Stalin (11:51), and Garth Davis's non-wry Biblical drama Mary Magdalene (14:32).

Rochelle and Lee look back at some of this month's new releases, as they debate Steven Spielberg's pop culture paean Ready Player One, Aki Kaurismäki's wry Finnish comedy - drama The Other Side of Hope, Ruben Östlund's wry Swedish comedy - drama The Square, Armando Iannucci's wry Russian comedy - satire The Death of Stalin, and Garth Davis's non-wry Biblical drama Mary Magdalene.

This Biblical drama directed by «Lion's» Garth Brooks and starring Rooney Mara as Mary Magdalene and Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus Christ was just released on March 16 in the U.K. by Focus Features.

This year will see him star alongside Rooney Mara in biblical drama Mary Magdalene and Gus Van Sant's new drama He Won't Get Far On Foot, which premiered at Sundance in January.

The Oscar - nominated 12 Years a Slave star is in talks to star alongside Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix in the biblical drama

Director Darren Aronofsky and his crew used the dimensions laid out in the Bible to create this massive ship in the upcoming biblical drama.

A Biblical drama with a stylish high - art look and a timely feminist angle, Mary Magdalene sets out to right historical wrongs by putting Jesus of Nazareth's most famous female follower back at the heart of his story.

I thought Mara would be one of this season's front - runners for playing the title role in the biblical drama Mary Magdalene, but the Weinstein Company pushed that film to Easter and now Mara's only horse in the race is Una, a stage adaptation in which she confronts the man who took sexual advantage of her as a child.

But she's reuniting with Lion director Garth Davis for her next bid for an Oscar, playing Mary Magdalene in a high - profile new biblical drama.

Not exact matches

The heart of Santmire's quarrel with us is that he thinks biblical theology, read correctly, allows a kind of parallel track alongside the drama of human redemption.

Theologians and biblical scholars have customarily approached such passages under the rubrics of «Salvation History,» «Drama of Redemption,» and the like.

The biblical biopic, directed by Garth Davis, who Mara worked with on epic drama Lion, recounts the life and death of Jesus Christ from a female perspective.

As primary actors in the speaker's drama they stage in pulpits, chancels, or at Table, preachers first play roles in the speaker's dramas present in the canon as biblical texts.

The epic is just the latest in a long line of biblical adventures and dramas from Hollywood that combine modern storytelling with the ancient tales from scripture.

The biblical understanding of nature, therefore, inheres in a human ethical vision, a vision of ecojustice, in which the enmity or harmony of nature with humanity is part of the human historical drama of good and evil.

The biblical understanding of nature inheres in a human ethical vision, a vision of ecojustice, in which the enmity or harmony of nature with humanity is part of the human historical drama of good and evil.

Featuring a truly all - star voice cast back when stars were less inclined to do voice work (Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Sandra Bullock, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Jeff Goldblum and even Steve Martin got in the game), Prince of Egypt is largely faithful to the biblical narrative and even manages some real moments of human drama.

It is necessary that we think of the Bible as a record of the mighty acts of God, and it may well be understood as a drama, the five acts being Creation, Covenant, Christ, Church, Consummation (See my Biblical theology and Christian Education [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956]-RRB-.

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.

However, I do believe that ideas of biblical eschatology, of a final consummation of the human drama, of heaven and hell, have primary relevance for history itself.

Historical occurrences do not appear like the acting out of a drama on the neutral stage of nature, whatever certain recent biblical theologians may have seemed to suggest to the contrary.

In the biblical view, by contrast, the natural world is no mere setting but part of the drama which is a single unified creative - redemptive work.

N. T. Wright puts what I'm trying to say succinctly when he argues that the entire burden of the Pauline letters is to teach new Christians to «think within the biblical narrative, to see themselves as actors within the ongoing scriptural drama: to allow their erstwhile pagan thought - forms to be transformed by a biblically based renewal of the mind» (emphasis added).

But expect drama and stupidity from your associates and family when you first take a stand against a tradition of man which violates biblical truth.

But it may suffice to say that the unfolding drama and challenges that the implementation of the 2016 budget may throw up may be trapping the Nigerian populace between the biblical Pharaoh's Army and the Red Sea.

After being typecast as a gangster he gradually expanded the scope of his roles, and, in the»40s, gave memorable «good guy» performances as in a number of psychological dramas; he played federal agents, scientists, Biblical characters, business men, bank clerks, among other characters.

This biblical action drama that feels excessive in every way imaginable, from running time (nearly 2 1/2 hours) to melodramatic acting to the conspicuous amount of computer generation.

Is this intended to be a devoutly Christian film a la God's Not Dead, or is it more of a historical drama using Biblical figures?

The former, a biblical - themed Roman drama starring Joseph Fiennes, always looked a tough sell in the relatively secular UK, despite an Easter - topical story hook.

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There is virtually no precedent for this film, with past Christian movies looking to inspire, move, or awaken with sentimental family drama, Biblical stories, and apocalyptic tales of the Rapture.

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Best known for his acting credits, including In America and the cocky detective in Hot Fuzz, Paddy Considine elevates the British social drama into something more than your average miserable affair, tapping into the grandeur of Western archetypes as Joseph (I am sure there is a biblical parable in there somewhere as well) tries to do one right thing in a maddening world.

The title of this sinewy boxing drama refers to a passage about Samson, the super-strong biblical figure who was sworn off wine and would lose his strength if he shaved...

Samson (PG - 13 for violence, including battle sequences) Faith - based drama recounting the Biblical tale about a heroic, Hebrew he - man (Taylor James) called upon by God to free Israel from the Philistines.

There's DeeAnna Moran's aquatic mermaid pageant, Laurentz's stuffy drama «Merrily, We Dance», Doyle's sing - a-long Western» Lazy Ol' Moon» and, naturally, the central biblical epic «Hail, Ceasar!».

Whether portraying modern couples sitting in a park (Gay Liberation, 1980), or a biblical family's unfolding drama (Abraham's Farewell to Ishmael, 1987), George Segal's life - size human figures express the fragility of the human condition.

He painted haunting portraits of saints and scholars, biblical scenes, martyrdoms, and miracles in a highly personal, visionary style charged with emotion and drama.