Sentences with phrase «open another chapter of»

Then, abruptly abandoning the autobiographical narrative, Augustine embarks on a series of theological and philosophical speculations about time, memory, and the opening chapters of Genesis.

If one is thinking that Jesus is fulfilling Moses and following in the footsteps of Israel (as the opening chapters of the Gospel of Matthew indicate), we would expect that Jesus, once He enters into His prophetic power over the Roman Empire, does something similar as what was done in the tenth plague.

The imagery that is used in Genesis 1 — 2 and in Genesis 6 - 8 finds many parallels in Mesopotamian and Egyptian cosmology, and if we don't understand these cultural contexts, we will almost certainly not understand these opening chapters of Genesis either.

This could be an occasion for a new ecumenism or it could open another chapter of intra-Christian conflicts.

Surely the opening chapters of Romans don't give any hint of a diminished Paul.

The centrality of human rights to Catholic social teaching is made clear in the opening chapter of the National Conference of Bishops pastoral letter on the U.S. economy.

But in fact, intelligent design is mainly advocated in America by conservative Christians, who regard the account of creation in the opening chapters of Genesis as a scientific description of the origin of the world.

According to the opening chapters of Genesis, humanity and all the world are created good — but humans repeatedly choose, as they are free to do, a course which yields disruption, alienation and chaos.

In none of these cases was there any intellectual insanity or delusion about matters of fact; but were we disposed to open the chapter of really insane melancholia, with its hallucinations and delusions, it would be a worse story still — desperation absolute and complete, the whole universe coagulating about the sufferer into a material of overwhelming horror, surrounding him without opening or end.

A comprehensive view of human being is memorably expressed by Reinhold Niebuhr, in the opening chapter of The Nature and Destiny of Man:

He is a very important figure in the Bible, and you can read about him in the opening chapters of the book of Ezra.

Reading Job from this perspective, it seems that the opening chapters of Job are like a call for champions from two warring tribes.

Have you ever read the opening chapters of the Book of Job?

About a century ago it was becoming clear that the opening chapters of Genesis are not to be regarded as history.

These traditions, such as the resurrection narratives and the opening chapters of Acts, certainly give us some very valuable clues concerning the rise of the Easter faith, but each of these has to be examined and evaluated before it can be used in constructing even a skeleton history in the events immediately following the death of Jesus.

Many people have difficulties with how God treats Job in the opening chapters of the book of Job.

3 About the same time (according to most modern scholars) the opening chapter of Genesis was composed in its present form.

It is always a temptation for individuals, rulers, and governments to think that they can defeat evil with violence, but here, in three of the opening chapters of the Bible, we are told that violence and destruction does not and can not eradicated evil.

Another passage of Scripture often cited by Catholic philosophers and theologians down through the ages is from the opening chapter of St. Paul's Letter to the Romans:

What of the opening chapters of Genesis?

If Darwin was right, then the opening chapters of the Bible were false and misleading.

Let's say that I want to open a chapter of the NAACP on campus.

North of Jerusalem... yes, but also located in the opening chapter of Mark: «Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God.»

In the opening chapter of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, the Church is defined as the «sacrament... of the unity of the whole human race,» that is to say, the sign and instrument by which human beings are united in authentic communion with God and with one another.

As you may know from my One Verse Podcast in which I am currently working through Genesis 3, and my literal understanding of Genesis 1 - 3 ends up being quite different than the way Young Earth Creationists understanding these opening chapters of the Bible.

It was apparently available to the J work in the tenth century and was there appropriated to J's uses as the opening chapter of the corpus.

«The reason the opening chapters of Genesis look so much like the literature of ancient Mesopotamia is that the worldview categories of the ancient Near East were ubiquitous and normative at the time.

When it comes to judging the weak efforts of all who follow the great J, Wellhausen's diatribe can not compare with that of Bloom, who speaks of «the long, sad enterprise of revising, censoring, and mutilating J»; where Alter, talks of «composite artistry» in describing the juxtaposition of J and P in the opening chapters of Genesis, Bloom sees deliberate replacement, correction and supersession due to the «revisionary labors» of pious morons.

This simple outline in the opening chapters of Genesis was thought to contain all that man could ever know of the origin of the earth and of the human race.

This common view came from the opening chapters of the Bible.

Episcopalian Agnes Sanford, perhaps the most widely acknowledged authority on healing prayer, notes in the opening chapter of her 1947 classic The Healing Light:

Those calling themselves Christians, as well as others, have wrestled with the question of why this contradiction should exist, seemingly so strange, in a world in which the opening chapter of the Bible declares that after God had created it «everything» was «very good.»

The opening chapters of the Scriptures state that as the apex of life on the planet God created man in His own image.

If god created the universe, then he could have designed it to «break down» differently when humans «disobeyed» as they were bound to do in the silly situation put forth in the opening chapters of Genesis.

One of the first things we encounter in the opening chapters of Genesis is that God is the creator of all things.

David Atkinson's devotional interests come to the fore in the first sentence of, The Message of Genesis 1 - 11: The Dawn of Creation (The Bible Speaks Today Series, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1990, 190 pp., $ 12.99): «The poem of beauty and grandeur which forms the opening chapter of our Bibles is a hymn of praise ot the majesty of God the Creator.»

The opening chapters of the Book of Proverbs can be read as the biblical version of Plato's ladder of love, one that draws upon the vision of male and female reciprocity in Genesis.

You can read all about my journey and how I started cooking this way in the opening chapter of my book, really hope you love it!

So excited to open that chapter of my life.

Calls for van Gaal's head had been shushed after he steadied the ship for the opening chapters of 2016, having previously presiding over a torrid spell of eight games without a win in all competitions.

We continue to grow and always looking for like minded passionate individuals to open a chapter of The Rebecca Foundation in their communities.

But to function well, her developing mind needs a sense of close connection with you as surely as she needs food, shelter, cleanliness, and sleep,» Patty Wipfler says, in the opening chapters of her book, Listen, Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges.

In one sense, it never ends, it is only the opening chapter of an unfolding life and every new chapter will be as exciting as the very first one.

This discovery probably took place in scenes reminiscent of the opening chapters of an Enid Blyton thriller.

The question now is if the sustained electoral success we enjoyed over 13 years will go down as an aberration, an exceptional period in our history, or the opening chapter of a series of New Labour governments dedicated to economic competence and social justice, to the right balance between markets and the state, both reformed in the public interest.

The more collaborative, more precise direction research is heading promises at last to tell us the opening chapter of that long relationship.

In 2005 he and his colleagues told a group of undergraduates to read the opening chapters of War and Peace on a computer monitor and then to tap a key whenever they realized they were not thinking about what they were reading.

The point is a dating profile is not a dating resume it is the opening chapter of a good book.

It's a promising opening chapter of what could become a great saga from Ready at Dawn.

Throw in Joss Whedon tackling The Avengers, the first of two Hobbit movies, James Bond's next adventure, the opening chapter of The Hunger Games, new films from Wes Anderson, David O. Russell, Judd Apatow, P.T. Anderson, Alfonso Cuarón, Whit Stillman, the Coen brothers (maybe), and more of our favorite directors, and we can't imagine a better year for movies.