Sentences with phrase «upon the story as»

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Just as there's a wide spectrum for a medal loaded with history versus one earned in an overlooked skeet shooting competition, the prestige a medal bestows upon the winner depends on the sport and the back story of the event and its participants.

In 2017, Whande was voted as Valedictorian by her Leadership WA Signature Program Cohort, which comes as no surprise upon hearing her story and knowing the principles that drive her as a Western Australian leader.

He sees it as a quintessential Gawker story — entirely true, about a celebrity who peddled a false narrative but brought public attention upon himself, and involving sex.

Whether you're putting a fresh take and analysis upon data collected from sources such as the ONS for the UK or Data.gov for the US, or are drilling down into anything from social media following statistics to the earnings of celebrities as published in the Forbes Rich List, there are many ways which you can pull stories through data analysis.

The biblical story says that Noah planned for it, that the flood covered all land, that a number of each animal (2 or 7 depending upon which chapter you believe) were saved, as were a few members of Noah's family.

I am not saying that academics shouldn't have this discussion, or that it shouldn't be reported upon, but to run this as your too story when it is clearly not a consensus view is little more than internet trolling.

I argued that religion, as a compendium of stories, a system of ethics, and a model of behavior could be drawn upon as a popular alternative to norms and ideals of competitive consumer capitalism.

If once upon a time certain church hierarchies were populated with ignorant but faithful clerics, as Burtchaell declares, the story today is too often of sophisticated infidelity in the top echelons of church power.

The modern individual has too often subjugated the spontaneous to the orderly, the possible to the necessary, the enthusiastic to the reasonable, the wonderful to the regular.9 In yet another description, Keen identifies our current «dis - ease» as our inability to view life as a «story,» to integrate past, present, and future into a meaningful whole.10 The metaphysical myths of our tradition no longer confer identity upon us today.

The reasons Melville should have hated New York have led many readers to imagine that he did in fact undertake an assault upon urban life in his land - based novels, Pierre (1852) and Israel Potter (1855), and such stories as «Bartleby, the Scrivener» (1853).

As the story is told in Exodus both the manner of delivery and the effect upon the hearers makes that point quite clear.

I thought the same thing, and upon reading the whole thing, i learned that this was a book about the OT law, and also priests, as well as the account of the festival calenders and the main heritage story of prophetic foreshadowing of the New Covenant, a better covenant.

Now if we are talking to animals it is a different story as they do not have the power to make these choices.As humans you have all the power bestowed upon you to think before co.pulation.

The story moves toward its climax, Abraham acting with the same simplicity, austerity, and dignity as before: He built (the altar), laid (the wood), bound (Isaac his son), laid (him on the altar, upon the wood), stretched - forth (his hand), took (the knife) to slaughter his son (22:9 — 10).

Again like the parables of Jesus, Thoreau's tale is built upon a new and radical metaphor which serves well as the basic metaphor for all stories that teach the ethic of eco-justice.

Frei calls upon the Christian community to regain «its autonomous vocation as a religion» by telling its distinctive stories about how God worked in the life of Israel, and God's self - revelation in the life of Jesus Christ.

The first step in grasping Christian Science is to recognize that it not only accepts but builds upon these events, as well as upon the healing stories.

This dilemma, it seems to me, calls for reflection upon all those old fairy tales in which the bolder of three unrestricted wishes manages nevertheless to screw things up: reading those stories as children, with considerable incredulity, we thought that in the same situation we would surely do better.

A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by virtue of that power of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.

This scripture does nt conflict in these verses we see the truth exposed as God allows satan to have limited power over his people to test them as in the story of Job.So was it God who tested job by allowing satan to bring trails upon him.Or was it satan who was the one testing him.Both are involved but the motivations are completely different Gods purposes are to build up his people.Satan on the other hand wants to destroy there is this conflict at work all the time.brentnz

There is no answer as to what actually happened, but we do know that starting from there the church embarked on the far - reaching intellectual enterprise which is the building of a Christian theology, and philosophy of life, upon the foundation thus laid, and that is an unfinished story.

The question, how far this or that story may be taken as an accurate account of what happened on this or that occasion is one upon which judgments will vary.

His edition contains the complete Hebrew text of the story, as well as English translation, and the words are interwoven with rich and riotous images of Persia once upon a time.

As Person explains, Kirk's stories tend to focus upon either «the reality of evil... and the nature of justice through violent retribution» or «the essential mystery of time and eternity.»

«We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world... till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going.»

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

You will be surprised when you type the word «terrorist» on google as you will discover pages upon pages of news stories from all over the world describing numerous terrorists» attacks that occurred over decades.

parents or priest taught you some comforting stories from Greco - Roman Palestine as a child, you might like to reflect upon the overwhelming enormity of the claims you are

Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several features which divide it so sharply from the Passion narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation of that in the stage of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first of which can exist as an independent story, but the second of which can not, for it depends upon the first.

When the two despondent disciples on the road to Emmaus expressed to the stranger their bewilderment that such a powerful prophet as Jesus should have been condemned to death and be crucified, we are told that the risen Christ «began with Moses and all the prophets, and explained to them the passages which referred to himself in every part of the scriptures».6 The story implies that the Scriptures, when properly interpreted, made it clear that the Messiah was «bound to suffer thus before entering upon his glory» 7 When finally they recognized the identity of this stranger as they shared the evening meal before he vanished from their sight, they said to each other, «Did we not feel our hearts on fire as he talked with us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?»

As Peter's confession prepared the way for the story of the Passion, so the confession of the pagan soldier provides the final comment upon it.

But the sacrament and story are as true as the faith, and the faith rests firmly upon what men had actually found in Jesus, and find there still.

If we accept this as the correct rendering, then the whole weight of the story falls not upon the importuner, but upon the importuned, for it is his conduct that is singled out for explanation and comment.

The fantasy story must be significant in its own right and not, as in allegory, always subservient to the interpretation — a situation that casts reins and boundaries upon the imagination.

A pope can only help develop and expand upon truths contained in the Jewish - Christian story of salvation as recorded in the Bible and preserved in what is believed to be the divinely guided tradition of the Church.

But it does throw some light upon the dark side of the human story if we see human cruelties and destructiveness as corruptions of the power to love, and thus as belonging not to the norm of human nature but to its pathology.

Would they find here, as they already thought they had found in the creation story and that of the flood, evidence of dependence of Hebrew culture upon Babylonia?

In creating their stories, Strauss wrote, the early Christians drew largely upon Old Testament motifs and themes; they used them as models with which to describe how they saw the role of Jesus.

Upon such criteria as literary form, the nature of the tradition, the social and theological concepts underlying and the apparent motivation of the story, Gunkel classified the myths and legends of Genesis.

When Christians relay their stories as if their original «conversion» moments didn't actually count, just because there was a more powerful turning point that happened later along the road that makes for a better story, the truth is being infringed upon.

This faith, which sees Jesus as revelation of God in action in history, rests upon the commitment of men to the life which the story unfolds, or rather, to the person of Jesus himself — grasped in the depths of each man s existence as being what Whitehead said it was: «the revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world».

Once upon a time, as one story goes, men and women rose up in defiance against religious superstition and oppression to split the thousand - year tyranny of Catholic Christendom.

In trying to develop upon the emphasis of Our Faith Story the most that OTWTL can affirm of the Church's role is this: «conversion is essentially a response to an encounter with Christ as truth mediated in the community of witness, that is the Church... (such that) we are «re-narrated» as we take on an identity which is conferred by grace.

My contention that the propositional element in religious assertions consists of stories interpreted as straightforwardly empirical propositions which are not, generally speaking, believed to be true has the great advantage of imposing no restriction whatever upon the empirical interpretation which can be put upon the stories.

We do not, like Bunyan's Pilgrim, see ourselves as reflecting, imitating, taking upon ourselves the biblical or other traditional symbols and stories and making them our own through transference.

There is a sub-genre, that in the US qualifies as porn, because of sexual explicitness, that is based upon stories from the Bible.

Indeed (to turn to the second question) it has been proposed that the story of Ruth came into existence chiefly as a genealogical narrative — to preserve or comment upon the ancestry of King David: Ruth is David's great - grandmother (4:17; it is the fuller genealogical table of 4:18 - 22 that appears alien and secondary to the original story).

The New Testament is in itself all that is necessary as a basis for Christian faith, but much light is thrown upon God's dealings with man in the story of Israel's halting and gradual discovery of the true nature of God as universal, not national; as law - abiding, not capricious; as a God of peace, not war; as a God of justice, love and mercy rather than of wrath, and vengeance.

Is it, as popular piety would have us believe, the story of an innocent man set upon by a gang of corrupt officials and a mindless mob?

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