Not exact matches
(CNN)-- Billy Graham, the dean of American
evangelists, has once again broken his usual silence on hot - button issues, defending the president of the Chick - fil - A restaurant chain for his opposition to
same - sex marriage days after issuing a letter decrying what he sees
as the nation's moral decay.
At the
same time, each miracle is an occasion for profound theological observation on the part of the fourth
evangelist, who recalls the words of Jesus himself
as he testified to his relationship to God and also instructed his hearers
as to their proper relationship to him
as the son of God.
’17 The
same teaching is expressed by the Fourth
Evangelist as, «The man who loves himself is lost, but he who hates himself in this world will be kept safe for eternal life.
Consequently Simpson deplored the crudely materialistic view of resurrection that has often dominated the Western Christian tradition, and went so far
as to say that «If the Body of Christ had been cremated, His Resurrection - Appearances must have assumed much the
same characteristics of physical identity
as those which the
Evangelists report.
These texts propose that the reader think of Paul, precisely in his capacity
as the Christian
evangelist to gentiles par excellence,
as at the
same time the exemplary Pharisaic Jew.
The
evangelist implements this purpose by drawing attention to the ambiguity, the offence, the hiddenness, which characterized the revelation even in Jesus» life,
as if to say: Today it is the
same.
3:5, 7, 9) and
as a circumlocution for «I», the
evangelist, but the most natural interpretation is to take it
as referring to the
same person who has seen.
The discourses of Jesus, for example, upon Baptism (3) and upon the Eucharist (6) reflect the
same fundamental conception of the significance and necessity of these two rites; that this conception was that of the
evangelist is plain, e.g. from 3:16 - 21, where Jesus» words have passed insensibly into the
evangelist's reflection upon them; if the
evangelist was the son of Zebedee, it would be natural to accept his accounts
as substantially correct records of incidents and discourses from Jesus» ministry, but, if he was not, a comparison with the synoptic gospels and with the teaching of Paul and others on the sacraments would suggest doubts
as to the historical value of both discourses.
The miracles recorded in the gospel follow the
same general pattern
as in the synoptic gospels, although the tendency of the
evangelist to use them
as a peg for a controversy or discourse introduces a further artificial element into his gospel.
Instead, they relied upon oral traditions of the
same sort
as those recorded by the
evangelists.
Not only do we get the always enjoyably oily Malcolm McDowell
as a vaguely Trump - ish autocrat who runs the race; Manu Bennett
as a stoic yet dryly funny bad - ass hero; Marci Miller
as his plucky sidekick (of sorts); Folake Olowofoyeku
as a maniacal rock star who mows down on her owns fans; Anessa Ramsey
as an insane
evangelist who does the
same to her own flock; Burt Grinstead (wonderfully manic)
as a genetically enhanced, sexually confused, super-muscular man - child; and veteran character actor Yancy Butler
as the furious leader of several ill - fated race protesters.
Mark Craddock, one of the legal technology market's leading sales management
evangelists, has joined Prosperoware
as sales manager for EMEA, just over a year after joining NetDocuments in the
same role.