Sentences with phrase «retelling of the story of»

Davis» latest production is a simple retelling of the story of Jesus of Nazareth through the eyes of Mary, who leaves behind the security of her family in order to follow a man she believes to be the Messiah.

A retelling of the story of creation along with the disobedience of Adam and Eve is crucial.

Then, their retelling of the story of Jesus does not conclude with the end of the Gospels, but carries on into the birth of the church as the Body of Christ (chapter 15) before concluding with a study of the return of Jesus (chapter 16).

If his stories might be considered simply a retelling of the story of salvation, as some have suggested, might he be attempting to lead the reader along the path to some sort of «spiritual» experience?

The short - lived, big - budget NBC show was an ambitious retelling of the story of David that lasted just 13 episodes.

Through an emancipatory retelling of the story of Ellaiyamman their particular version of history is inscribed and validated.

Our Women of the Gospels Series continues today with a creative and beautiful retelling of the story of the Widow of Nain from the talented Julie Clawson.

, a retelling of the story of Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who was imprisoned in Communist Romania for 14 years because of his faith in Christ.

The News's piece comes with a retelling of the story of Client 9, several photos of former prostitute Ashley Dupré, and a transcript of part of the paper's «endorsement interview» with Spitzer.

The film earned its Academy awards through its deft retelling of the story of the investigative reporting team that uncovered the systematic cover - up of

Legendary director Ridley Scott («Alien,» «Gladiator») goes Old Testament in this epic, effects - filled retelling of the story of Moses.

Exodus: Gods and Kings Rated PG - 13 for violence including battle sequences and intense images Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D Ridley Scott's epic retelling of the story of Moses was killed by critics and lost money at the box office, but did it deserve this plague?

This year sees a battle of the Biblical epics, starting with Darren Aronofsky's Noah starring Russell Crowe and finishing with Ridley Scott's Exodus, a retelling of the story of Moses, with Christian Bale as the prophet and exodus - leader.

The Persian king Xerxes is depicted very differently in One Night With The King — the biblical retelling of the story of Ester.

The film, a retelling of the story of Job centered around the conflict between a mechanic and the corrupt local mayor, is apparently more ambitious than its predecessor, and producers confirmed last month that they're targeting a Cannes premiere, so this looks like a good bet.

The drama, which is a retelling of the story of a group of close friends in a small parish in modern - day Louisiana, owned the Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special category, with Alfre Woodard, Jill Scott, Phylicia Rashad, and Queen Latifah all getting nods.

Not many filmmakers would imagine a story that includes a teenage girl who has poisoned her mother, three suicide attempts by two different characters, the downfall of a substance abuser, and the almost happy retelling of the story of a mercy killing.

Jesse Bernstein brings out the humor and irreverence in this retelling of the stories of the Greek gods.

I really like Rosenbaum's retelling of the story of the Munich Post though.

The Book of Joan is a retelling of the story of Joan of Arc set in a post-apocalyptic future in which humanity has left the Earth to live on a floating platform far above the surface.

Cognitive - behavioral therapy techniques include repeated retelling of the story of the death and work on confronting avoided situations.

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For example, if he tried to get a shy person to retell a story he enjoyed in front of a large crowd, he ended up putting that person into an incredibly uncomfortable situation.

Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, retells the story of when he learned he could no longer be a jerk.

Ben Chestnut, co-founder of MailChimp, retells the story of when he realized he had to grow up as a leader.

Kabeer Chopra, co-founder of sofa startup Burrow, shifts uncomfortably as he retells the story.

But he learned his lessons from the retelling of stories.

In retelling the story of Kierkegaard's short career, Garff set himself two goals: «to reinstall Kierkegaard in his own time,» and to separate the facts about the man from the myths created by his several self - depictions.

It is a retelling of the flood story from the Epic of Gilgamesh with Noah and his family replacing Utnapishtim and his family.

A traditional Passover Seder includes a retelling of the Exodus story when Moses led the Jews out of Egypt.

I don't understand how as a chaplain the author will just listen to stories of love and family being told and retold by these people so near to death.

You mean that plagiarized retelling of Joseph from the Old Testament, which along with the story of Moses and creation and just about everything else in both books were lifted directly from Egyptian and Sumerian mythology, that New Testament?

Make no mistake, Norman Mailer's latest is neither a great retelling of the gospel nor Mailer anywhere near the peaks that he reached with his political writing that culminated in the compulsively readable account of the 1967 march on the Pentagon, The Armies of the Night, or even Executioner's Song, his story of the ending of the Supreme Court's ban on the death penalty with the 1977 execution of Gary Gilmore.

After all, fish tend to get larger each time the story of the catch is retold from one person to the other.

The first is a device of modern retellings, found in stories like Twilight, where the vampires are vegetarians and the werewolves can transform at will.

And authors writing in Old French, Middle Irish, and Medieval Icelandic translated and retold the story of Aeneas in light of the literature of the period.

While orthodoxy gains it no points» there are pious retellings of Bible stories that no one cares to reread» might apostasy cost it?

Two thousand years later, we can still give evidence of how the risen Jesus has come into our lives and retold the story of our lives in a way that opened our minds to the truth.

Some of the humor is «imported» into the text by Roncace, so that he provides a modern - day humorous retelling of the story (e.g., saying that Noah didn't have power tools to build the ark, p. 24), but it is still a creative way of telling the stories of Genesis.

As Christians told and retold this story, it dawned on them that this was more than an attack on the leaders of the synagogue.

Last month, Premier Christianity's major project retold the story of Christ's journey to the cross through... More

The stories about Jesus which are recorded in the gospels, had first been told and retold in the teaching and preaching ministry of the church.

In the darkness of the ark, Noah retells the creation story to his family.

Noah, the film, may be inspired by the biblical character and events — but it is not a straightforward retelling of that story.

Most of all, the experience has been gratifying, as God has taken the story he first caused to be lived out in my experiences, and now is blessing others by its retelling in this first - class feature film.

We retell this story each year during the Passover seder, of course, but there's more than that.

Translated, rewritten, retold, the stories have often changed their character, and while some — Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, for example — have become classics of children's literature and Hollywood films, many of the stories originally collected have fallen into obscurity.

The third approach retells «biblical stories of terror in memoriam, offering sympathetic readings of abused women.

It takes an integrative act of the imagination to grasp the central story which is retold from many perspectives in the canon.

A Christian theology that respects the meaning of the biblical narratives must begin simply by retelling those stories, without any systematic effort at apologetics, without any determined effort to begin with questions arising from our experience.

Retelling her story, we emphasize the daughters of Israel to whom she reaches out in the last days of her life (Judg.