Sentences with phrase «such charismatic»

With just a few strokes, Haliti gives these non-human beings such charismatic features that they immediately become our friends.

This work has such an charismatic use of media, including acrylic, cyanotype, and dye, and has a beautiful fluidity to it.

After the slight miss - step that was the rather moody and downbeat Connor in Assassin's Creed III, it was a refreshing rejuvenation to see such a charismatic and fleshed out character back in the driving seat of the franchise in the form of Assassin's Creed IV's Edward Kenway.

«He has such a charismatic personality, so you can't help but to fall in love with him.

This makes life very difficult for the A6, particularly with the advent of rivals like the Jaguar XF, Lexus GS and Volvo S90 and with such charismatic competition as the Maserati Ghibli.

Clark Gable's Fletcher Christian is a good effort by an actor better recognized for his star quality (read: magnetic screen persona) than ability to assume vivid characters, and it's easy to see why such charismatic roles made women swoon in theatres; he smiles, he grins, and he takes his shirt off for his Tahitian babe.

With such charismatic actors as Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Pratt I wondered if Rudd could keep up.

And the actors playing the Avengers (as well as some of their non-super helpmates, including Gwyneth Paltrow as Iron Man's lady friend Pepper Potts and Clark Gregg as the loyal Agent Coulson) are such charismatic company that it comes as something of a disappointment each time the kibitzing gives way to crime - fighting, with long breaks for spectacular (and often spectacularly dull) CGI - enhanced action set pieces, including the climactic invasion of New York City by semi-organic robot reptiles.

Nick's and Billy's chances for success are slim, and that makes them easy to root for, particularly since Vaughn and Wilson are such charismatic performers.

Landshark may be without hope but the movie might have had a chance with a decent performance in the lead but Josh Hartnett lacks the magnetism and talent to play such a charismatic heel.

But such a charismatic carbon project is all too rare these days, both because the carbon market is dominated by less robust emission reductions from heavy industry in China and India as well as development efforts that proceed with little thought of the environmental cost or co-benefits.

It's rare to be in the presence of such charismatic teachers.

Only a few tens of thousands of years ago, such charismatic megafauna ruled the earth.

Dein is such a charismatic and charming guy that he would build relationships with ease, a coy and clever dude too.

We Catholics can only hope that such a charismatic Yes to the Catholic Church of the future may be given from above, and that the Spirit may then work also through the institution and not only in spite of it, simply because this is inevitable.

Why, with such a charismatic spokesperson, would Dos Equis choose to rebrand their «Most Interesting Man in the World» character with a new actor?

«I didn't know really know that much about coffee, but he's such a charismatic guy, so smart, so passionate,» Gorelick said.

Not exact matches

Analysts say the transition at Donki is a litmus test for other retailers in Japan with similarly charismatic founders such as Fast Retailing, the operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain, and Nitori, a discount furniture retailer.

«Nick is so charismatic, he has such a positive vibe,» says his old buddy Schmidt, «that it was hard to watch him sit for 30 seconds and try to compose himself to find the words to encourage people.»

Amid the harsh criticisms are notes such as «Why do people working for lululemon claim to be «authentic» when actually they end up robotically cloning their charismatic leader, Chip Wilson?»

Most patristic and medieval writers preferred to talk about miracles and miracle workers rather than charismatic gifts for a number of reasons such as the dominant gift list being Isaiah 11, not 1 Corinthians 12 and Jerome's translating charismata as «graces» (gratiae).

I think the crucial question for Pentecostals and third - wave charismatics in the next century is to wrestle with catholicity on many levels, and their letters suggest the tangible grounds for being hopeful about such a conversation.

They introduced us to the various new movements in the Church such as the Emmanuel community, the charismatic renewal, Opus Dei, and many other initiatives that have kept the Church alive.

what upsets people is what i DO N'T do: such as lead in a particular way, teach with authority, be more charismatic, not setting a higher moral standard, stuff like that... it's not about what i or we DO as a community.

As must now be evident, the charismatic orientation may be cloaked in the style of those groups which call themselves charismatic or Pentecostal, but it is important to note that the charismatic negotiation is primarily a structure and as such may give form to the world views of persons and groups that do not adopt any of the features or practices of what is conventionally called charismatic religion.

Independent charismatic groups such as the newer Maranatha Fellowships, Word - Faith Churches and Vineyard Ministries promise fewer institutional restrictions.

Seldom making a serious impact on the life and policy of the church body, it consumes its energy in planning conferences on evangelism or on prayer and encourages the new packaging of old revival techniques in such activities as the charismatic movement or the Faith Alive movement.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

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Although the journalistic patter accompanying such footage is often akin in tone to that found in documentaries about Amazonian tribal rituals, the images highlight an ever - growing reality of the past three decades: the spread of Pentecostal and charismatic worship styles and music into ecclesiastical settings that were once resistant — if not downright hostile — to the up - tempo, emotional music of the Pentecostal ethos.

Say you've met someone who is Pentecostal or charismatic, a group whose members believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as healing and speaking in tongues.

«Once distinctly non-charismatic, the Fellowship evolved in such a way that many of its key people would consider themselves charismatic,» said Runnion - Bareford, who lives in Candia, New Hampshire.

In many instances throughout the Global South, this included embracing the charismatic renewal, including some of its features, such as lay evangelists.

I have many friends who came to Christ in such churches and, though I am not a charismatic, I am thankful for many who are.

The battle of the bumper stickers between conservatives and liberals in the late «60s and early «70s predictably was fought from such Sunday school formations; evangelicals, fundamentalists and charismatics fired volleys of «Christ is the Answer!

Thus, Third Wave continualists did not doctrinally (in regard to subsequence) line up with Pentecostals and charismatics, though they often looked similar (such as in many Vineyard Churches).

Today, most charismatics are not in mainline denominations, though that is where it started and where such practices were mainstreamed.

Without using such in proportion to character then damage can occur and charismatic environments can lend themselves unhealthily to a celebration of «gifts» rather than wisdom in using them and maturing in character.

Perverting gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as prophecy and discernment, for personal gain has cheapened charismatic and Pentecostal ministries, and in some cases repulsed Christians and non-Christians alike.

Wouldn't that interpretation of Barth's thesis give credibility to such fundamentalists / charismatic phenomena like the toronto blessing, speaking in tongues, etc..

The regional survey's similar «literalist / charismatic» scale also showed a strong correlation between holding such beliefs and viewing religious programs.

Charismatics were defined as part of the late 20th - century movement who attend Catholic, mainstream Protestant and independent churches or worship in fellowships such as Calvary Chapels and Vineyard churches.

As a group, charismatics affirm such beliefs less often, but still more often than other Christians.

We see it in the flourishing of fundamentalism; in the controversy raging in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; in the phenomenon of the Jesus freaks, the spreading charismatic movement, the popularity of Transcendental Meditation; in attacks on the National and World councils of churches and the cooling of ardor for such social issues as racial justice, world peace, and the abolition of hunger and malnutrition.

Even at the other charismatic church I go to they don't have such attitudes and t he majority of the Church of England certainly doesn't — there are a lot of gay vicars.

I have taken such care to define what this one striking manifestation of Spirit was in Luke's church in order to show that Luke's portrayal of transition to Spirit does not support the interpretation imposed upon him by Pentecostalism and by some charismatics.

All of the major paid - time religious programs have a central charismatic figure or host such as Robert Schuller, Oral Roberts, Rex Humbard, Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, and so on.

It would be going too far to say that every converted alcoholic (or converted charismatic; for that matter) has such a dazzling spiritual experience.

So far as any published «systematic theology» is concerned, a self - conscious effort to frame religious truth for the Pentecostal tradition within its own time and space something even remotely comparable to Donald Gelpi's work for Roman Catholic charismatics, not to mention Karl Barth's magisterial Church Dogmatics for the Reformed tradition - there simply is no such Pentecostal theology.

From a revival meeting in 1906 in the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles, in which such a second Pentecost occurred, this particular stream has had powerful and broad impact on many Christian traditions in North America through the charismatic movement.