Sentences with phrase «on apocalyptic»

Doubling down on the apocalyptic language guarantees it in that event.

In 1856, the tribe destroyed its cattle and ceased planting crops based on the apocalyptic prophecies of a 15 - year - old girl.»

On the apocalyptic generally, it's a much debated term in biblical scholarship (it originates there, as it describes various passages in the book of Daniel, attributed to Jesus in the gospels and of course the book of Revelation).

«Environmentalists should reduce their over-reliance on apocalyptic scenarios «that tend to create feelings of helplessness and isolation among would - be supporters,» Shellenberger advises.

Without casting every challenge as a political battle or focusing on apocalyptic visions of a despoiled planet, Alex Steffen, first with Jamais Cascio and then a global community of contributors, built a conversation around designing a human future that could work for the long haul.

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.

Conner obtained this government - shot film from the U.S. National Archives and with minimal interventions (editing and, most notably, the addition of music), turned it into a resonant meditation on the apocalyptic sublime, rendering the familiar nuclear mushroom cloud strange again.

The mystery of the Kett is a fresh spin on the apocalyptic war of the original trilogy, and following the stories of people in the Heleus cluster often leads to surprising developments with tough decisions waiting at the end.

Characters: The game centers on Joule Adams, one of the last surviving humans on an apocalyptic wasteland colony called Far Eden.

The experience is a seated experience in on apocalyptic setting where players explore an infested hospital and do what they con to survive.

Killzone developer Guerrilla Games surprised many with this gorgeous adventure following a young warrior investigating her origins on an apocalyptic Earth, dominated by hulking robot dinosaurs.

In preparation for E3 — which, by the way, kicks of in just over a week now — High Moon Studios released this new trailer for their upcoming take on the apocalyptic frenzy between Autobots and Decepticons that is Transformers: War for Cybertron.

Of course, I don't advise this strategy because it is predicated on apocalyptic scenarios that are unlikely.

In «Indoctrination,» a shadowy terrorist is convincing others to kill the family members of elected representatives in hopes of bring on an apocalyptic war that will cleanse the Earth, but two flawed, deeply damaged FBI agents stand in his way.

Thus, Rhames partakes in his usual suave badass routine, Billy Crudup goes the confidently classy route as an agency bigwig, Shaun of the Dead twit Simon Pegg provides flustered British quirkiness — and gets to ominously detail his thoughts on an apocalyptic device dubbed the «anti-God» — as a geeky computer specialist, and Laurence Fishburne relishes the opportunity to supply imperial scowls and devious smiles as Hunt's IMF boss.

Pacific Rim appears eager to stir strong emotions without daring to plunge beyond all - too - familiar riffs on apocalyptic futures and the characters who live there.

Mononoke was the first film to receive wide distribution and in retrospect it may have been the perfect introduction, at least for the adult audience: an environmentalist epic as and blood and thunder fantasy adventure on an apocalyptic scale.

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.

However limited the effect of such ideas on the apocalyptic writings, their importance was very great.

This hip, modern spin on the apocalyptic has become a surrogate religion, making me want to have nothing to do with things apocalyptic.

The faith that tells us to await the coming of the Messiah, though he tarry, safeguards rationality, for in its absence the temptation to act on our apocalyptic impulses will be too strong to resist.

However, I am aware this is book based on apocalyptic ideas and symbols — and is not to be taken in literal form.

My own faith in him and loyalty to him as the Lord Jesus Christ is in no way dependent on these apocalyptic Son - of - man passages; it hinges upon all that he was and did and said during what we know of his earthly ministry and his continuing presence as the living Christ.

Metz meditates at length on the apocalyptic consciousness in its contrast with the dominant modern one, which he calls evolutionary.

For the effect of prophecy on the apocalyptic distortion of Jesus» teaching cf. Chap.

4 On the apocalyptic motifs in contemporary literature, see Frank Kermode.

William McCants on the apocalyptic End Times prophecies that drive Islamic State, why it's so dangerous — and why it is so difficult to defeat

Amid sweeping changes to how apps can interact with Facebook's platform, the mood among developers ranges from optimistic about potential announcements to verging on apocalyptic.

Not exact matches

In a panel discussion in Silicon Valley Saturday, however, Musk took a more measured tone on AI, encouraging members of the audience to think about how to prevent it from progressing along a potentially apocalyptic path.

We are nowhere near the apocalyptic scenario in which smart evil robots turn on humans, said Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet.

If you don't believe me that email is on the deadpool, consider a few highly illuminating and apocalyptic signs.

Drawdown focuses on small, practical steps, not apocalyptic scenarios and impossible solutions.

While most discussions of this topic focus on potential lost jobs or apocalyptic scenarios, these authors — Accenture's Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson — see the glass as decidedly more than half full.

Despite the apocalyptic language, media heads like Weisberg and Remnick cautioned reporters and readers on Thursday not let succumb to total despair.

Asked about a major tariff on Chinese goods, he waxed apocalyptic.

The past few months, with a series of disasters seemingly one on top of another, have felt apocalyptic to many, but the bright side to these dark times has been the outpouring of donations and acts of generosity that followed.

In September 2016, Musk first revealed his plan to send people to Mars in case of an apocalyptic disaster, like a nuclear war, on Earth.

Drivers on the 405 Freeway were met with an apocalyptic scene on Dec. 6, when flames engulfed the surrounding hillsides, threatening the nearby Getty...

Drivers on the 405 Freeway were met with an apocalyptic scene on Dec. 6, when flames engulfed the surrounding hillsides, threatening the nearby Getty Museum.

Not only does the rhetoric of Crisis on Campus combine the sensibilities of a management consultant report with the urgency of a liberal - progressive manifesto tinged with futurist incantations, it is also an apocalyptic prediction of the consequences of ignoring his suggestions.

The theological obtuseness of the Roman court theologians (Cajetan partly excepted), the inability or unwillingness of the Roman authorities to appropriate their own best ecclesiological traditions, and the unlovely influence of financial politics on the handling of the doctrinal issues all played a considerable role, as did Luther's impatience and anger, his inability to take stupid and inappropriate papal teaching at all calmly (perhaps because his own early view of the papal office was unrealistically high), as well as his tendency to dramatize his own situation in apocalyptic terms.

Antichrist is important insofar as he is a window on to the apocalyptic worldview.

These theological visions come from many sources, including: apocalyptic books of the Bible from Daniel to Revelation; a nineteenth - century viewpoint on the end of times known as dispensational premillennialism; and images of the so - called «rapture» popularized in novels such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and the more recent Left Behind series.

In doing this, Hartman opts for the more «nomic» messianism of Moses Maimonides (eleventh century), with its emphasis on the creation of a just society, rather than for the messianism of Judah Halevi (tenth century), with its greater apocalyptic emphasis.

On the reading I propose, the Reformation schism was brought about instead by contingent human choices in a confused historical context defined less by clear and principled theological argument (though that of course was present) than by a peculiar and distinctively sixteenth - century combination of overheated and ever - escalating polemics, cold - blooded Realpolitik, and fervid apocalyptic dreaming.

She contrasts the unbridled, «passionate» French approach to change, with its apocalyptic reliance on violence and political assassination, with the «compassionate» approach of the American Revolution, with its uses of persuasion and legal mechanisms to achieve radical ends.

The Obama administration's policy requiring most employers to provide free birth control coverage in their health insurance policies takes effect on Wednesday (Aug. 1)- a deadline that has sparked apocalyptic warnings from conservative activists and some faith groups.

John Paul is apocalyptic, obsessed with martyrdom and with the Virgin Mary, and, worst of all, self - important: «The pope himself seems to think the whole church depends on him — on his being saved by the Virgin of Fatima, on his living into the new millennium, on his visiting every Marian shrine, on his Stakhanovite canonizing, on his re-definitions of every truth, on his creating a like - minded episcopate....

Whenever the text turns apocalyptic, as it does this week, there would seem to be only two choices: either take it literally and join the lucrative doomsday machine of late - night, splendidly coifed Christian psychics, or begin your best apologetic backpedaling — cheered on by Bishop John Spong.

According to the authors, both of whom are advisers to Pope Francis, American Evangelicals and Catholics are warmongers and apocalyptic cultists bent on establishing a theocratic state.