Sentences with phrase «of biblical scenes»

John Martin (1789 - 1854) History painter of Biblical scenes; exponent of Romanticism; printmaker.

He is best known for his paintings of biblical scenes.

Yet enough persons want to know what they can believe about the Bible and its message about God that biblical movies are often major box - office successes, and any television dramatization of biblical scenes usually secures good viewing.

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Almost without fail, he turns his back on representational scenes, opting rather for abstract, geometric patterns out of his feeling that traditional biblical scenes or saintly figures create a distraction to true worship.

It was a fun scene that incorporated both humor and thrilling moments, but it was also easy to embrace the obvious visual cues that suggest what many biblical passages describe as a war of the spirit.

The training at St. John's, in bright contrast to the American scene I had fled, was biblical (unlike anything I had seen or heard of in the Church I knew), serious, and most important at the time, pastoral.

The scene of Jesus with two grieving sisters, weeping at the grave of their brother and his friend, has offered comfort and hope unmatched by any other resource, biblical or nonbiblical.

To that end, you will find articles on theology, biblical interpretation, interviews, debates and changes and trends within the Church scene from a whole range of people.

Furthermore, they are discovering among politicians and powers on the present scene the long - hidden identities of figures in the biblical apocalypse — thus purporting to disclose the plan God has had for history from its beginning.

The movie's so - called sex scenes are throwaways, and, ironically, it presents biblical material with the literal - mindedness of a fundamentalist preacher from Oklahoma.

Paintings of bible scenes on church interiors functioned like a children's picture bible; they taught the scenes of biblical and church history.

Discussions with British evangelicals after the appearance of the SCM edition last summer convinced me that the British evangelical scene is more uniform and more defined by the Inter-Varsity experience and its tradition of biblical exegesis.

Biblical faith, on the contrary, is centered in the existence and activity of a deity who is infinite in wisdom, power, and love, but who nevertheless cares personally for each of us, a God whom we can approach in prayer and from whom we can receive help and strength, a God who is always acting within the human scene and is known to us by his acts.

The contemporary intellectual and sociological scene compelled them to look once again at the profound insights of the Biblical message.

This year's larger - than - life Christmas tableau depicting the biblical scene of Jesus» birth, worth about 90,000 euros ($ 120,000), was donated by the southern region of Basilicata, one of Italy's poorest.

There is a scene, for example, in which Annie is chastised and harshly punished by a pastor for believing in dinosaurs; that is a frequent but false charge made by evolutionist critics of biblical creationists even today: that many Christians believe that dinosaurs never existed and that God may have placed their bones in the ground to «test their faith.»

«I was born the son of a king,» sings the protagonist of «The Song» in an early scene — one of the more explicit moments of self - awareness regarding the story's biblical echoes.

eventually descends into insanity, it's quite understandable that Paramount took the step of hinging much of its promotion on the film's early scenes, which at first indicate a sinister home invasion thriller rather than a maddening biblical allegory.

The new preview for writer - director Darren Aronofsky's cinematic retelling of the biblical flood features more battle scenes than you might have expected, as an army led by Methuselah (Anthony Hopkins) tries to storm Noah's vessel, as Hopkins yells, «Take the ark!»

Four deleted scenes featuring an option of a joint commentary by Lussier and Soisson are likewise useless in context, but do further the idea that the filmmakers really believed that they were involved in something of value not only to vampire lore, but to biblical scholarship as well.

is a deliriously biblical portrait of the artist as a godlike monster (for the record, I liked it), this new film by Paul Thomas Anderson offers a more graceful and far more complicated version of the same idea... Quiet, moody, and deeply perverse (I'll say no more), this fascinating movie reminds us that Anderson is the kind of alchemist - director who can turn somebody ordering breakfast into a classic scene.»

One early scene features a narrator reciting the biblical story of the flood as water cascades around a church, even running over a stack of books held by monks.

Father Velghe then painted the interior of the church with the numbers biblical scenes and scenes portraying the lives of various saints.

Rather than ancient biblical scenes, each these depict the religious history of Canada, complete with images of the faithful forging through the icy wilderness.

Tom Chalk's nativity scene, a realistic interpretation of the biblical Christmas scene that the artist was commissioned to do in 2003, also is found in St Andrew Square.

They included David Butler (1898 - 1997), who fashioned animals, angels and people from cut and painted tin and other found items; the religious painter Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980); Steve Ashby (1904 - 1980), who made raw figurative assemblages out of scavenged materials; and Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984), whose carved and painted wood reliefs depict biblical scenes and national figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..

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

In St. John The Baptist (1947), she incorporated an array of collaged biblical scenes set in an idiosyncratic variation of an underlying Neo-Plastic grid.

For much of his career, Furnas has dealt with the epic — battle scenes, biblical tales, natural disasters, and moments of human triumph and failure.

Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small Thames - side village where he was born and spent much of his life.

In addition to its practical function as a source of light, its use is also replete with symbolism: candles can stand for transience and death, illustrate biblical scenes and charge them with emotion, express feelings such as grief or melancholy, illuminate portrayals of science and the arts in the true sense of the word or subtly add an erotic layer to the scenes depicted.

One cross is decorated with biblical scenes including: Adam and Eve, David and Goliath, and what looks like the only sculpture of the Virgin Mary and Child on a Celtic High Cross.

The Frenchman James Tissot, who fled to London after the fall of the Paris Commune, divided his time between scenes of high society social events and a huge series of Biblical illustrations, made in watercolour for reproductive publication.

His reimagining of brutal Biblical and mythological scenes from the works of Renaissance and Baroque masters Michelangelo, Guido Reni, and Caravaggio, immediately remind us of the timeless nature of war and violence, the use of camouflage canvas acting as the link between past and present.

Not long ago a University of Graz Professor called for the death penalty for scientists who did not agree with the visions of alarmist climate scientists, who have dominated the media and public scene with scare stories of super-storms and Biblical sea level rise for 15 years.

Global warming claims imitate scene from 1984 comedy «Ghostbusters» — «A disaster of biblical proportions... real wrath of God type stuff»)