Sentences with word «redemptive»

For Bulworth, in the throes of his suicidal lost weekend, hip - hop takes on a kind of redemptive power, something that, coupled with a relationship with Nina, could give him a new lease on life, if only that damned hitman wasn't out there.

«I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories,» says Walker.

It is an astonishing tale of redemptive love.

Jean Marie Perdrix, Hiroshi Sugimoto and David Wojnarowicz consider the exploitation of natural resources to the point of extinction, and Marco Esparza and Joachim Koester turn their attentions to the idea of self - empowerment as a potential precursor for redemptive violence in the name of civilization.

It is doubtful if separate catechetical instructions with their heavy emphasis on redemptive processes can ever supply what is missing.

One reason American history is no longer told in terms of redemptive purpose is that we no longer think of history itself as having a purpose.

It must be the acceptance in the divine of the tragic element in the creation, a patience and bearing with the loss and failure, and ever renewed acceptance of the need for redemptive action.

In 2014, after receiving my STL from Dominican House magna cum laude, I moved to Mundelein, where I am writing my STD dissertation on «Recent Magisterial Teaching on Redemptive Suffering» under the direction of Dr. Matthew Levering.

While all occurrences disclose God in creative activity and doubtless also to some degree in redemptive activity in providing some guarantee of life's significance and value, this event is especially important.

The power of the resurrection was the establishment of the faith that in Jesus God's Messiah has appeared with redemptive power, and God's Holy Spirit is present to bring men into the new life for which Jesus has opened the way.

I don't believe that silencing and shaming and other tactics of the world will really bring about God's redemptive movement for women.

It is not that God changed; rather, those rituals were used by God in that time period to point to his ultimate redemptive plan — Jesus — and now that Jesus he has come, we don't need those rituals to point to him — we have him.

While the judge cited some of Dean Skelos's accomplishments and service to his constituents, it was clear that she found few redemptive qualities in his son.

Is God's love for humanity more adequately represented as the provision of life, daily care and nourishment, or as redemptive suffering?

Some will undoubtedly argue that organ donation by euthanasia will give one's suffering and death redemptive value.

His seeking of authenticity and creative fulfillment, from latching on to early influences like Hunter Thompson to his disappointment in the debauched literary culture of 1980s New York, make for a melancholy but ultimately redemptive journey.

But this is no simple tale of an A.I. who finds a soul mate and then latches on — Jonze has a much more redemptive tale to tell here, one that leads Theodore back on a path to connecting with humanity.

To top it all off, Cruise plays a flawed man who's supposed to go through some kind of redemptive arc.

(Incidentally, although Nichols does uphold the Franciscan primacy of Christ, his perspective appears to embrace a predestination of Christ's redemptive sacrifice more akin to the interpretation of Hans Urs von Balthasar (cf pp68, 74 - 75).

He is working always, even in the darkest of human situations, through redemptive love, and in this he summons us to be his co-workers.

Through our products we strive to express God's redemptive message of love and inspiration to the world.

So I went to see 12 Years with a slightly heavy heart, knowing I would have to do my duty by McQueen without enjoying the experience very much or emerging with any sense of redemptive possibilities.

Smith's shelf of ceramic objects follows a similar strategy: appearing as the ceramic doodles from an elementary art center, they are instantly dismissible as serious objects, which in the gallery context means we begin looking closely for redemptive moments.

New Yorkers tired of art that faithfully reproduces Coney Island's colorful, boisterous character may find something redemptive in Mr. Brown's muted landscape.

I now longer go to church, but I am consumed by redemptive radical scandalous imagination of Jesus.

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It seems like they robbed God of being the forgiving and redemptive God God wants to be for us.

Michael Piazza's death in 2006 robbed Chicago of one of its most persistent cultural and social activists, an artist and teacher who believed that creativity could be a corrective and redemptive force with the potential to ameliorate the conditions...

Furthermore, the Jesus whose redemptive difference is imagined in this tradition is reported to have explicitly rejected its basic image.

In fact, understood in «open Christian» terms, the university is broadly soteriological in its definition, and is viewed as a part — though by no means the whole — of a humanly redemptive event.

The kerygma instead gives them radical, critical, and finally redemptive meaning.

In the later 1950s, as I matured within the loving bonds of that society, Africa became for me not one side of a bridge but a whole sphere of redemptive life, sustaining within itself those features which earlier I had felt must come from outside.

Thus in biblical thought, there are two divine covenants with humanity operating in the face of evil created by human self - alienation from God — one, the covenant of redemptive grace with Abraham which ends in the Messianic Kingdom of Love and the other, the covenant with Noah of protective law of reverence for life and later with Moses of the Ten Commandments for the preservation of rough justice in society.

That Man on Fire is manipulative goes without saying — manipulation is a staple of the genre — but its efforts to delve into redemptive spirituality can't compete with the sheer glee it takes at making the bad guys suffer.

Christianity is most redemptive as a force in the world when Christian churches focus their energies on building formative Christian communities that are rooted in the idioms and practices of biblical faith.

Her life committed to art and beauty would continue to reap redemptive benefits.

The purely literal reading deprives the paradigmatic events of our faith of their enduring redemptive significance today and reduces an historical religion, such as ours is, to a mere memory.

As a result of this passion for bringing light to a difficult subject, Coyne's empathic and ultimately redemptive first novel has struck a chord with early readers in ways that have completely amazed her.

For example, such things as life adjustment counseling; community social action; marriage and family life education and counseling; social, religious, and therapeutic group experiences; and the after - care of patients by means of a supporting, redemptive fellowship contribute to positive mental health.

It's a shame that some of the more redemptive character moments in The Tawny Man trilogy seem not to have stuck here.