Sentences with phrase «of biblical allegory»

Not exact matches

I can not wait to hear the justification for how the Twilight series is a dramatic retelling of some heretofore unpopular Biblical allegory.

Or a fisherman since so many of his later Biblical allegories were around fishing?

With the emergence of historical criticism as the dominant form of biblical interpretation, allegory was discredited as a feckless style of medieval exegesis that twisted the words and phrases of Scripture into arbitrary symbols of hidden truths.

Within the Church, «scientific» exegesis has often been regarded as the gold standard of serious biblical scholarship, and modern Christians are often as contemptuous of premodern allegory, figural exegesis, and typology as your neighborhood philosophe.

Trigger - happy soldiers shoot Klaatu and whisk him away to a government facility from which he subsequently escapes and disappears into the city, blending in with common Earthlings and eventually taking up residence in the home of single mom Helen Benson (Patricia Neal) under the assumed name, Mr. Carpenter, (to reinforce the allegory lest anyone missed the biblical overtones).

The revelations that finally materialize are of an unexpected and downright inexplicable sort, exposing the proceedings as a self - conscious biblical / Grimm's fairy tale allegory about crime and punishment — as well as the cost of refusing to take responsibility for one's actions.

Reeves is at the top of his game as a director, imbuing this film with Biblical allegories and exploring grounded, relatable emotions through an unlikely group of protagonists.

There's a seduction / rape in the picture that spools out slippery like a biblical allegory, climaxing with a message of self - abnegation written on a bathroom window and a realization by our antihero that he's doomed to learn something from the destruction of every single thing in his life that's pure, of everything that comes with the potential for a future.

is an overt Biblical allegory that proudly eschews any sort of recognisable reality, taking place in a single location with the outside world either an illusion or an unknowable mystery.

A decade after the release of his award - winning Adam's Apples, Men & Chicken arrives to remind us of Jensen's gift for crafting meticulous worlds filled with outrageous black humor, enlightening and often biblical allegory, and tortured characters.

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.

Or perhaps forced to sort out which allegory is identifiable and purposeful at any given time: Aronofsky's ambitions here reveal a fairly coequal plunge into biblical prophecy (from Old Testament furor to New Testament evangelism), environmental metaphor, and, most explicitly, the labors of artistic creation.