Sentences with phrase «own apotheosis»

The biggest event in college hoops is here: March Madness reaches its apotheosis this weekend when the Final Four face off in Phoenix.

Trump is the absolute, sort of, final arch of celebrity culture that we saw beginning in 1984 when he rose to now, when the reality show ethos has just reached its apotheosis, if you like, and he is that person.

The story of our company's growth is, for many, the apotheosis of the American Dream.

And mythological stories may be based on actual individuals whose life stories are greatly embellished over time so that they gain miraculous powers and even may become deities in time through apotheosis.

It is perhaps well to remember that this Lincoln, who Nuechterlein reminds us mused over the implications of the awful arithmetic of Fredericksburg, was, before his apotheosis, hated by many in the North precisely for it and was known by many there as «the widow - maker.»

Given the similarities between some of the major themes of the Philippians hymn and the chief characteristics of the emperor cult (the divine origin or pre-existence of the subject, his apotheosis by acclamation at death, his ubiquitous rule and receipt of universal homage) which have long been noted, and have received thorough attention, it is likely that the original composer of these lines, whoever they were, intended to assert the superiority of Christ over Caesar.

Hagiography is not history, and Bonhoeffer's story is so compelling that apotheosis is hard to resist.

The doll is the alchemical apotheosis of the starving street man and woman, adorned with gilded trivia and the rag - tag litter that a consumer society throws up.

Altizer, on the other hand, has a Dionysian, fully dialectic theology that, by radical affirmation of the profane, goes beyond mere secularism and its Godlessness and discovers the sacred via a nonhubristic apotheosis.

The Rotunda entrances were draped with black fabric, and Mr Graham's casket rested on a black - draped catafalque beneath the soaring ceiling and its painting, the «Apotheosis of Washington».

The canonic story traces a self that declines tragically from a state misunderstood as apotheosis to total subordination, while the gnostic story elevates the self from a state misunderstood as bondage to union with God.

Creation achieves the reconciliation of permanence and flux when it has reached its final term which is everlastingness — the Apotheosis of the World.

And it was in Italian that Orlando ultimately achieved his apotheosis as the supreme hero of chivalric fiction, in the three greatest Italian romances of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: the Morgante of Luigi Pulci, the Orlando Innamorato of Matteo Boiardo, and the Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto.

And when the so - called «divinity of Christ» becomes an article of faith independent of that divine world - orientation, then the gospel of the incarnation of the Word has been replaced by yet another declaration of the divinization or apotheosis of a seemingly human being.

It is this latter dimension that has continuously been thwarted in Christian religious history in favor of yet another apotheosis of the particular; and it is this same dimension that is most in need of being recovered in our present context.

Since World War II, when War Departments all over the globe became Defense Departments, this militarism has reached its apotheosis in the nuclear arms race.

This will make clear one reason why Israel abhorred apotheosis, whether of the king or of any other; for the Hebrew thinkers, God was in heaven, and man below.

If Mankind were destined to achieve its apotheosis, if Evolution were to reach its highest point, in our small, separate lives, then indeed the enormous travail of terrestrial organization into which we are born would be no more than a tragic irrelevance.

Two titles, however, point to the central concern underlying the volume - «The Pursuit of the Ideal» and «The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will: The Revolt against the Myth of an Ideal World.»

Every discussion about the «point of contact», about the historical and supra - historical elements in Christianity, about apotheosis and incarnation, has always revolved around this relation between Christianity and classical humanism.

1:15 - 20), as preserved in the consequent nature of God, and from thence re-presented to the world as principle of its possible apotheosis, then individual «survival» is radically relativized.

2:9 - 11) in which evil and discord reach the vanishing point, or there will be a «final ramification,» an «ultimate paroxysm, involving the final discarding or rejection of some and the apotheosis of those who affirm God / Christ / Omega (PM 288).

We should add at this point that even as the earth shares in the ruin attendance upon the sin of humanity (cf. Gen. 3.17 - 18), so the world «waits» for the apotheosis of humanity in which it too shall be renewed and glorified (cf., Rom.

Barfield's conception of the incarnation as a freeing of man, in the course of time, to say the Divine Name («I am...») here coalesces with Altizer's idea that the death of God frees us to see the contemporary reality of a continuing incarnational kenosis leading to a nonhubristic apotheosis of man.15 Barfield has achieved with his metaphorical sensitivity a pre-view of a «final participation» which is the coincidentia oppositorum Altizer was insufficiently able to apprehend with his dialectical method.

What else could prepare us to apprehend the Apotheosis of the World, the manifestation of brute fact as final salvation?

Creation achieves the reconciliation of permanence and flux when it has reached its final terms which is everlastingness — the Apotheosis of the World.

How does one learn to esteem the commonplace without resorting to apotheosis?

of this program he enunciated several years later in his book on Christology, translated as Jesus — God and Man (Westminster, 1968): The resurrection of Jesus not only provides a preview of mankind's apotheosis and, as such, a mini-model of world history; it is also verifiable according to the usual canons of historical research.

The reigning tendency of current Protestantism, the so - called dialectical theology, denies every revelation of God outside the Christian Bible and looks upon the non-Christian religions as mere attempts at self - apotheosis which are under the judgment of God.

It represents the apotheosis of Philip Rieff's Psychological Man.

One encounters a stunning array of images of angelic metamorphosis, astral immortality, even apotheosis.

And as a cultural festival, it commands vast allegiance while dramatizing and reinforcing the religious myths of national innocence and apotheosis.

The humanist movement in its turn gave him a confidence in human culture, a love of the classics and a connatural feeling for language, for beauty in the form of words, and for words in their natural setting of everyday language that eventually flowered in the German Bible, a whole language coming both to birth and to a first apotheosis — a miracle of the sixteenth century to set beside the achievement of Shakespeare in England at the end of the century.

The fact remains that at the present time a fundamental inner impulse, newly born in our hearts, is tending to find a dual, and divergent, expression in two apparently incompatible spiritual forms; on the one hand, the spirit (let us call it «Christian») of sacrifice and of union centered in the expectation of an Apotheosis in the future; and on the other hand the Promethean or Faustian spirit of self - worship based on the material organization of the earth.

The ultimate apotheosis of this approach is molecular biology.

Today was quite possibly the apotheosis of all things blah, with a downpour of such epic proportions that the tree outside our house finally had enough and keeled over.

These old - fashioned cookies are the apotheosis of these two qualities of my mother.

It starts with Malossol caviar and iced vodka, progresses to fresh turtle soup and reaches its apotheosis with a superb steak, served with mushrooms and foie gras.

Sure, the Spurs may go on to lose this game — after a James Harden three - pointer and Kevin Durant's apotheosis in the fourth quarter, the Thunder lead by seven points with 0:57 to play — but Kawhi Leonard has been outstanding.

It is the apotheosis, as it were, of all that is best in the best of schools» rugby.

The model survived COMECON and reached its apotheosis in the creation of the WTO as a first fruit of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Ms. Feerick, aspiring to the Council seat being vacated by Eric Gioia, is the apotheosis of the machine hack.

It would detract from the Apotheosis of Cameron.

Last week's budget was the apotheosis of a modernising strategy that many in the Tory movement thought unnecessary in the first place, or obsolete after the financial crash.

The space station is a thing of beauty in its way, the apotheosis of Apollo - style technology.

What defined Einstein, what made his apotheosis possible, was the grand ambition that enabled him to turn his extraordinary talents to the largest mysteries available.

Ley's role was complex, and his life took an intriguing and meandering path through many of the 20th century's key events: the rise of airborne technology after the first world war; rocketry's beginnings; the Nazis» ascent; the cold war; the popularisation of the idea of space travel; and, finally, as apotheosis, the first moon landing, which occurred mere weeks after his death.

Nevertheless, QWERTY's apotheosis came slowly.

Philbin's work and activity, and he's a initiate 2015 was a lack of apotheosis vigour on court for visitors the NFL.

Before that, presumably due to the strong influence of the Roman Catholic Church, there was no provision for divorce in Italian law, and the difficulty of ridding oneself of an unwanted spouse in the absence of any legal way to do so was a frequent topic of drama and humor, reaching its apotheosis in the 1961 film Divorce, Italian Style.