Sentences with phrase «of apocalyptic events»

One of the great exponents of Romanticism, the 19th century English painter, illustrator and mezzotint engraver John Martin, achieved huge popular acclaim with his history painting (more accurately, historical landscape painting) featuring melodramatic scenes of apocalyptic events taken from the Bible and other mythological sources.

These particles are high - energy neutrinos: subatomic hints of apocalyptic events occurring millions of light years away.

The bestselling Left Behind novels, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins between 1995 and 2007, dramatize the premillennial view of the End Times favored by earlier generations of American fundamentalists, in which Christ «raptures» his followers to heaven before a series of apocalyptic events unfold on earth.

While far from subtle, von Trier's use of an apocalyptic event as a metaphor for the nature of depression is an apt one.

Many of the zombie games tell a story of an apocalyptic event and the players need to survive and fight the mutated humans that turned into zombies.

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Redemption is not dependent upon Messianic calculations or any apocalyptic event, but on the unpremeditated turning of our whole world - life to God.

«51 Since a world, in which God reveals Godself as an eschatological event, is of almost apocalyptic nature, no one can claim to know any given rule or any world - law that God has to follow.

Apocalyptic literature follows the pattern of a vision in which the author receives a call to write, and then describes, with highly cryptic imagery, a series of symbolic events which predict the overthrow of evil and the triumph of righteousness.

At the same time, the struggle to avert chaos in ancient apocalyptic pushed it also in the direction of devaluing the concrete new event by absorbing the whole into the final totality.

Now Christianity has produced its own false form of apocalyptic in which the apocalyptic goal (eschaton) is thought of in a chronological sense as some far - off divine event toward which all creation and all history move.

That book, along with The Gospel of Christian Atheism (Westminster, 1966), should make it clear that for Altizer the death of God is a Christian and apocalyptic event.

Jesus's Messianic consciousness was probably influenced by the apocalyptic Book of Enoch, in which the form, but not the person, of the servant has pre-existence, and by the events of the end which may have led Jesus to step out of the concealment of the «quiver» and imagine himself, after the vision of Daniel, as in his own person the one who will be removed and afterwards sent again to the office of fulfillment.

This order of events is quite common in both Jewish and Christian apocalyptic writing of this kind.

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.

Seeming historical allusions have been variously identified with events in the history of the Middle East from the beginning of the Persian period down through the Maccabean Wars of the second century B.C. Happily, since the major thrust of Isaiah 24 - 27 is apocalyptic, the matter of date is not crucial.

Prophecy is about sin and repentance, action and decision, here and now in the human situation; apocalyptic is about wars in heaven, divine actions and purposes, and events of a future beyond time.

This same subordination of person to event in Jewish prophecy and apocalyptic appears also in the wide variety of ways in which the «Messiah» was conceived by those who expected his coming at all.

Note that the mighty events recorded in the New Testament are often given musical settings, as in the Christmas stories and in the apocalyptic visions of the Revelation of John.

Despite all of the lessons that could have been learned from Y2K and Harold Camping, people will still rally around the idea that apocalyptic events are on the calendar for 2012.

However we are to understand this apocalyptic event, whatever form it takes, the second coming of Jesus Christ means to a Christian that God's righteousness will at last fill the earth.

It is entirely characteristic of apocalyptic in general, and the «these things» clearly refers to the whole sequence of signs, portents and events with which the apocalyptic discourse, Mark 13.5 - 27, is concerned.

While Dr. Altizer sees the death of God as liberation and apocalyptic promise, Sartre, I think more correctly and with deeper insight, understands this event in terms of condemnation and anguish.

Today I think that, while the list of dreaded apocalyptic events may change, what is constant is a certain state of mind.

If, in the post-modern world, a congregation or whatever wants to be «relevant,» its assemblies must be unabashedly events of shared apocalyptic vision.

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.

It's set in Appalachia, after some apocalyptic event has left Small Town, USA, looking as if aliens have bombed the sets of a Gregory Crewdson photo shoot.

While investigating the death of a hacker in London, Detective Chief Inspector Robert Hicks (Jim Sturgess) and Detective Inspector Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn) discover proof the world has five years before an apocalyptic event destroys the planet in this BBC co-produced drama from Neil Cross.

Into the Forest Rated R for a scene of violence involving rape, language and some sexuality / nudity Rotten Tomatoes Score: 79 % Set in the near future, two sisters (Evan Rachel Wood and Ellen Page) who have moved off the grid must figure out how to stay alive after an apocalyptic event takes place.

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 story told here by Garland — whose screenwriting credits also include 28 Days Later, Dredd, Sunshine, and Never Let Me Go — contains elements familiar from his past works: apocalyptic events, authority figures or scientists faced with ethical dilemmas, the exploration of the issues of gender, identity, and creation.

Although the game starts in Tokyo, your world is soon turned into turmoil when you find the hospital that once cared for your teacher deserted and you become drawn into the apocalyptic Conception, an event which is surrounded in occult prophecy about the rebirth of the world.

As suggested by the Norse apocalyptic event mentioned in the title, the trailer finds Thor's homeland of Asgard leveled and his beloved hammer Mjölnir destroyed by new villain Hela, devilishly played by Cate Blanchett, all while Led Zeppelin's «Immigrant Song» rages in the background.

In Thor: Ragnarok, the God of Thunder not only witnessed the death of his father, but also the titular apocalyptic event.

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For example The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the earliest surviving works of literature (some of it dating back almost 4000 years), contains references to apocalyptic events.

When a young man living in a converted goldmine suspects the shocking truth about the apocalyptic event that destroyed the world generations ago and tries to reach the surface in search of a better life, he unleashes a torrent of secrets that changes his world forever.

A meteor sets off a chain of horrific events in this apocalyptic story filled with honest characters and emotions.

It's the final installment of her Broken Earth trilogy, about a far - future Earth that experiences periodic, devastating apocalyptic events.

Sheltered will pit players with the task of keeping their family alive in an underground bunker, following a catastrophic apocalyptic event.

Your world was broken into a mass of floating islands in the past and you need to figure out what caused that apocalyptic event and stop it from happening again.

Developed by Sold Out Sales & Marketing Ltd., this sci - fi action RPG puts players in the role of the ultimate living weapon tasked with taking down challenging adversaries and ending a major apocalyptic event.

Revelations will take place before the apocalyptic events of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2.

Set 100 years after the apocalyptic Russian event, players assume the role of a clone created by one of the remaining Soviet scientists.

Rapture told the story of how an apocalyptic event affected one small English village and the normal people caught up in the extraordinary event.

Bastion is an isometric action role - playing game where you pick up the pieces after an apocalyptic event - called the Calamity - which has splintered the beautiful lands of Caelondia into floating fragments in the sky and filled them with angry critters.

There's a good measure of classic MotorStorm tracks to balance out the brutally apocalyptic tracks, and I think it's worth pointing out that all of the dynamic earthquake tracks can be raced without the earthquake events in multiplayer too.

Moreover, after I finished Killzone 3 — with its ending that blows up an entire planet — I found a surprising lack of chatter about such an apocalyptic event.

Where there has always been an engagement with the sociological in his work, Current Events provides a platform for Tomaselli to inject new «tendrils of the apocalyptic and pathological» into what he sees as the profuse, ornate and beautiful shape of nature.

We recently reviewed Andrew Schoultz's solo show at Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco, «Blown to Bits,» where he reflected on the chaos of world events through an apocalyptic lens.

It might be an eventuality in the event of civilizational collapse; unleash all the Apocalyptic horsemen and the global population could come down really fast.