We were expecting a new swell to be showing this morning, but it wasn't looking too
promising at dawn.
Nearly everything in Romain Gary's «memoir»
PROMISE AT DAWN is a tall tale, an exaggeration, or a outright lie.
Not exact matches
If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are
at least seven points from within this perspective
at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is
promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already
dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.
The content of revelation is a
promise which, because it has never yet been completely fulfilled, can never be fixed or finished, but remains incalculable and to some extent mysteriously incomprehensible And the reception of this revelation means that we experience a gracious, extravagant, and surprising future
dawning at the frontiers of our own lives here and now.
I woke
at the crack o»
dawn this morning to work on all the recipes I
promised to share and wouldn't you know it... the dropbox «thingy» (don't roll your eyes
at me) didn't work right and my one hundred and something holiday baking photos didn't upload to my computer.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED»S Bakersfield correspondent, Duane Spilsbury, reported from California: «Opening day
at dawn on Saturday (Aug. 4) gave
promise of a roaring season to come.
After a day of collecting some very
promising data, Mather and colleagues and were so excited that they set off the following day
at dawn to the national park — the official access point to Masaya — only to be robbed
at gun - point in the car park.
Posters for the film
promise a wild, drug - and - alcohol - fueled ride à la the recent Rough Night, but while there is plenty of drinking and a fair amount of drugs (just pot though, let's not go crazy), the overall effect is more akin to passing out on the couch
at 9 p.m. than partying until
dawn.
Fine folk, it is once again Christmas, meaning we're almost
at the end of another year and the
dawn of a whole new beginning, one in which we shall
promise to do many great things, and then p...
Fine folk, it is once again Christmas, meaning we're almost
at the end of another year and the
dawn of a whole new beginning, one in which we shall
promise to do many great things, and then prompty forget about them all in about a week.
2013 is
at it's end and as a new year
dawns there is
promise of more great video games on the horizon.
On a gloomy day in the markets, the
promise of a long cold winter, and a
dawn of increased global uncertainty,
at very least legal research innovation continues.