Sentences with phrase «person narratives of lives»

«A Fracking Miracle» provides first - person narratives of lives transformed, record employment, and economies -LSB-...]

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Bertrand Russell, in his book, «Why I Am Not A Christian», He discredits the inspiration of the New Testament: «I am concerned with Christ as He appears in the Gospel narrative... He certainly thought that his second coming would occur in clouds of glory before the death of all the people who were living at the time.

The narrative an individual chooses to embrace is largely dependent on the culture and society in which he was born and in which he lives, and the beliefs of people in his life he's respected.

A short description of all religions: A fictional narrative intended to help people avoid dealing with some of the harsh realities of life and encourage them to be better citizens and members of the society in which they live.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

Christianity isn't a religion as much it's a religious smorgasbord, ideal for the church - shopping crowd, people who want all the benefits of the core narrative but want to be able to pick and choose how and to what extent they have to incorporate it into their daily lives.

Christianity isn't a religion, it's a religious smorgasbord, ideal for the church - shopping crowd, people who want all the benefits of the core narrative but want to be able to pick and choose how and to what extent they have to incorporate it into their daily lives.

Scholars, on the other hand, as we have seen earlier, mean by it «a traditional narrative involving supernatural persons», of which the truth is not literal but to be understood as illuminating the meaning of human life.

The narrative of another person's life experience, especially when it is told as dramatically as Augustine's, holds perennial and intrinsic interest and pleasure for readers or hearers.

To counteract that perspective, Hahn teaches that the gospel is a narrative that connects all of history together, and that people's lives have a place in that story.

Unlike the authors of Habits, who give the impression that individualism simply leaves people without communities of memory, MacIntyre correctly perceives that everyone lives within these communities, if only because our personal narratives always depend on a sense of history and tradition.

Those ubiquitous network news stories about the «common people» whose lives are destroyed by out - of - touch policy wonks inside the Beltway do not meet any reasonable criteria for the appropriate political use of emotion and narrative particularity.

Modern moral philosophy becomes part of the problem, for its stress on autonomy, like its corresponding attempt to free ethics from history, produces people incapable of living lives that have narrative coherence.

Technical details pursued through books could not be similarly pursued in an oral presentation, but the minister may be surprised at the mental ability of his people to chase an idea through paradoxes, dilemmas, myths, history, and dramatic narratives if the movement of the chase corresponds to the way they think through the issues of daily life.

Nonetheless, the mindset that led the original ICEL «translators» to interpret «Mysterium Fidei» ■ in terms of a theological narrative to be recited, rather than as an acclamation addressed to a living person, does touch on some deeper theological and philosophical issues which have wider relevance and more far reaching implications.

But the biblical narrative, the great critic Erich Auerbach wrote, depicted «something which neither the poets nor the historians of antiquity ever set out to portray: the birth of a spiritual movement in the depths of the common people, from within the everyday occurrences of contemporary life.»

Passion narratives are not later attempts by Jesus» followers to place a christological mantle on a nonchristological Jesus, but are the reflection of what the first followers came to understand as a result of the last events of Jesus» earthly life about Jesus» relationship to God and to God's people, God's word and God's dominion.

This could be poetic reference to an artist (creator God) simply washing off the canvas and starting over with Noah, a symbolic picture of how those who believe in the Hebrew God of that day are carried away above the storms of life in the protective hands of God, symbolic of judgment for those not created in the image of God, a narrative of why the Hebrew race is the chosen race, prophecy of end time judgment or literal in that the babies and people resulting from $ ex with the nephlium produced evil beyond that imaginable and God was showing mercy.

It is the first - person narrative of a man who discovers late in a very successful life that he has been chosen by the devil to play the role of the Great Beast.

The real myth, in other words, may be that there can be religious freedom at all in the modern state without a strong religious tradition acting both as a curb to the state's power on behalf of believers and nonbelievers alike and also as an alternative narrative within which people can work out their individual visions of the good life.

For this reason, Evans counsels Christians to avoid the «embryonic life» narrative, which holds innocent human life to be inviolable from conception to natural death, because invoking the value of unborn life pushes people into pugilistic abortion - rights corners.

While much of the narrative about Burma is that it is improving, the people living there still see a need for teams that can respond to crises.

It should be about how to turn all these narratives into action, and figure out how the emerging new systems of governance could be used to improve people's lives.

Its lofty ideology, cosmopolitan values, creative aesthetic, and social media infrastructure has appealed to a generation of young people looking for a framework to help orient their transnational lives, and a narrative that is inclusive of their multiple and shifting identities.

He introduces us to people facing radically altered senses of identity: an Alzheimer's patient whose life narrative erodes relentlessly; a woman whose schizophrenic world is filled with voices; a man who feels he must amputate his leg to feel whole.

The goal of the online narrative is to spread awareness and educate people about the realities of life with Alzheimer's.

What I have found is this: People may not be reaching their health goals, their weight goals, their life goals, because of fear, limiting beliefs, and the same old negative narrative going on inside of their head.

There is a numbness of loss that resonates throughout the film's subsequent revenge narrative that deepens and heightens the material to depict a portrait of a person who literally has nothing to live for.

«Heaven Knows What» has a looser structure than even «Kids,» but directors Josh Safdie and Benn Safdie must have been intent on showing us not a classic narrative with loose connections tied up but a laid - back look at the several days or weeks in the lives of a group of young people addicted to heroin.

It's important to keep pushing for the types of characters people want to see on screen, and Black Panther has done great work in giving the world a cast of crucial black women whose lives are full and whose actions define the narrative.

The script contains less of a narrative than a platform for being able to observe chunks of a particular person's life, with many scenes that were surely improvised.

«What I wanted to do with «Strong Island» and the portrayal of my brother was to add back the dimensionality to him and his life that had been compressed into almost nothing during the investigation,» he said, noting the historical narrative about black people being dangerous.

Unless you make a living in front of a camera, many people would balk or tighten up in front of a million flashing lights, microphones and screaming people wanting to get a 15 - second sound bite of you saying something to take it out of context for the sake of a story»» to control the narrative.

That's a shame, because the final forty - five minutes of the movie should have been poignantly heart - wrenching, but with every character an archetype (or, often, a stereotype), it's hard to truly relate to them as real people, and consequently, the emotional impact never allows the narrative to soar to the heights that a live performance with living, breathing people in front of you might offer.

It is the magnification of the flaws of ordinary people that provides his films with a dramatic narrative line through even the smallest slice of life stories.

Over the course of the film, she is scrutinized and stereotyped by a detective, who informs her that she's worked with «people — sorry, women like you» for decades, and excised from the narrative of Orlando's life by his ex-wife, who bars her from the funeral, omits her from his obituary, and deems their relationship a «perversion.»

In a similar style to his previous feature Beginners (which earned Christopher Plummer an Oscar in 2012), the director foregoes a straight narrative in favour of creating a movie which feels almost like someone warmly re-living the vital moments of their life, a visual poem or essay about the influences — the era, the people you know, the music and literature you consume — that shape one's identity.

Seymour: an introduction Rated PG for some mild thematic elements Available on DVD In his first attempt at a feature narrative, famed actor Ethan Hawke shows us the life of virtuoso pianist Seymour Bernstein and his impact on the people in his life.

Somewhere in there are a feast, a wedding, and a funeral, and while there are occasional nice touches here and there that will no doubt please fans of the stars or the song, there's really no vested interest from a narrative stand - point to really give a damn about any of these people or their lives.

Select and use appropriate reference materials, such as Cobblestone magazine, the book Black Inventors and Their Inventions by Jim Haskins, and historical narratives, in order to answer the research questions: In what ways did the Industrial Revolution affect the lives of crafts people in the 19th century?

You might show a graph to students as a writing prompt or ask them to use a data set to create a narrative about a day in the life of a person.

Veteran journalist Dale Russakoff's narrative is rich with details and anecdotes that showcase the quality of her writing and bring Newark to life for people who have never lived or visited there....

A group of people, on the other hand, began attacking to these schools by making up a fiction narrative that Concept managed schools, e.g. Horizon Science Academy, Noble Academy, Math and Science Academies, are linked to Fetfullah Gulen, a Turkish schoolar who lives in Pensylvennia, and the Gulen Movement named after him.

And most of that narrative is told from people who don't work here or live here who...

This handsome, large - format volume combines archival photographs, original acrylic paintings, and a powerful first - person narrative to present the devastating story of the painful changes in life forced upon the Lakota people.

A community of freed slaves living in Ontario in 1849 forms a richly imagined backdrop for 11 - year - old Elijah's first - person narrative.

Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill.

In a compelling personal narrative that follows his farm animals from birth to death, journalist Lovenheim brings home the story of the milk and the beef we eat, and he does it by honoring the cattle and the people whose labor and lives feed a nation and a world.

Combining first - person narratives and lists of facts, this is a lively look back at children living in Great Britain and in America at the beginning of each century from A.D. 1000 through the year 2000.

Screencraft.org has a fabulous video interview with this writer extraordinaire and master of dialogue in which he talks about creating memorable characters («what a character wants, and how they go about getting it defines a character»), and how characters do not resemble real people («people don't speak in dialogue» and «their lives don't unfold in narrative arcs.»)