Sentences with phrase «various story forms»

Not exact matches

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

The history of great art is mostly the story of artists toiling under various forms of censorship.

In the following two chapters, I shall examine more precisely the various forms that parish stories assume and show how by observation and inquiry one can explore the setting of a congregation's narrative.

Such a view presupposes the ancient two - or three - story concept of the universe — with the flat earth in the center, the «heavens» above and usually various forms of nether regions either in the depths of the earth or below the earth.

The Old Testament is the story of how violating God's commands consistently resulted in punishment from God, in its various forms (e.g., drought, famine, plague, warfare, etc., and death).

Even when I taught a course at Vanderbilt University divinity school in 1971 called «Forms of Religious Reflection,» in which we looked at the limitations and possibilities for religious reflection of various literary genres (parables, autobiographies, novels, poems, etc.), I did not know that a movement was aborning concerned with story and autobiography in theological reflection — a movement of which I was soon to feel very much a part.

We may say that a motif which can be detected in a multiplicity of strands of tradition and in various forms (pronouncement stories, parables, sayings, etc.) will have a high claim to authenticity, always provided that it is not characteristic of an activity, interest or emphasis of the earliest Church.

The story had its dim beginnings and it betrays its distant involvement in an ancient myth of creation out of the Near and Middle East which survived in various forms but best and most fully in the Babylonian Enuma Elish (a title derived from its opening words, «When on high»).4 Here chaos is represented in the goddess Tiamat, a name perhaps echoed in the Hebrew word for «deep» tehom (1:2).

Essentially, the church was formed by Rome thanks to the salesmanship and editorial skills of Paul, who by his writings and interpretations of the various fables and stories surrounding the Jewish rabbi known as Jesus, was able to «de-Jew» those earliest Christian beliefs, thereby making them into something more palatable to the masses, and ultimately to the Roman Emperor Constantine, whose mother converted to the new religion before her death.

The team were encouraged to use a breadth of reporting techniques, utilising multimedia skills to present the stories in various forms, such as longer and shorter form writing, as well as video, audio and pictorially.

Besson then throws various ticking clocks at us: Lucy has to capture the drugs from the other three mules, with the help of a French narcotics officer named, seriously, Pierre Del Rio (Amr Waked); Lucy has to hook up with legendary brain - guy scientist Professor Norman (Freeman) before her physical form shuts down entirely; and of course, Mr. Jang is in hot pursuit, although he and his thugs become less and less interesting as the story goes along.

In the film world, it's been done in various forms over the years, with perhaps the most popular being Disney's 1976 version of Freaky Friday, which is the same story told with female protagonists.

It's an extremely edgy black comedy that chronicles the way Harding endured various forms of abuse and exploitation — from her mother (Allison Janney), her husband (Sebastian Stan), and tabloid media that covered and actively amplified the lurid story, set at the dawn of the Age of Truthiness.

RC Sherriff's 1928 play Journey's End, which depicts a group of soldiers in the trenches in the First World War, has been adapted in various forms over the years, although my first experience of the story was this latest version, directed by Saul Dibb, who most recently made Suite Française.

Credit goes to co writer / director Walt Becker for giving the film the right look and energy for which to build a farce upon, and even if we've seen this story in various forms before, the hip music and cast chemistry give the film a feeling of freshness that is crucial.

Summary: As it stands, A Quiet Place is muted in form but also in its depth compared to progressive and subversive horror stories from various mediums.

The dramatic device of a story unfolding over a single night — with revelations of character and various crises coming to the fore in the wee hours — carries its own highly familiar baggage, with Long Day's Journey Into Night the pinnacle of the form and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

Atavist juxtaposes various digital forms that lies in the space between long narrative magazine articles and traditional books and e-books — a bit like music singles in iTunes — Atavist presents stories longer and in more depth than typical magazines, less expensive and more dynamic than traditional books.

Throughout the story the magical power of language is explored and the idea that various forms of magical languages exist proved fascinating.

By third grade, we support students in responding to poetry in various forms, exploring narrative poems that tell stories, lyrical poems that explore questions and emotions, and humorous poems that make us groan or laugh.

Various family members and guests form the backbone of the story as Cliff House draws near to its final days as the family residence.

Again and again in various forms and shapes I write her story, colored by my own feelings of love and guilt.»

The story has appeared in many places and in various forms, usually with no credit given to Mr. Eiseley.

3/21/2018 - Stories that Move is a digital toolbox which helps teachers discuss various forms of discrimination and... More

While we will likely never see the actual game, at least we'll get to experience parts of the story in various forms, which is more than we can say for a few Games that Weren't.

The game's introductory trailer showed off the methodical world of the Santa Blanca smuggling operations with narration by the story's central villain, before revealing the Ghosts presence and the fact of this being a Ghost Recon game, while a subsequent trailer focused on cinematic action and the various forms of weaponry, vehicles and tactics available to complete your missions.

Over 30 lavishly illustrated pages, Crimp weaves together a sequence of stories and analysis that includes memories of his work as a junior curator at the institution, a close reading of Daniel Buren's work and particularly the controversial removal of his enormous Painting - Sculpture from the Guggenheim in 1971, and a history of how green and magenta have been juxtaposed in various cultural forms.

Resilience: Form, Narrative, and Installation Inspired by personal stories, life experiences, and current political climate, this workshop will explore various methods for designing, engineering, and building a multi-piece sculpture that can be assembled as one.

Embedded in the surface of Untitled [black painting with portal form] is a sheet of newspaper printed with the foreign exchange rates for Monday, October 8, 1951, various news stories, and advertisements, one of which is clearly dated October 9, 1951.

Her artistic research moves from the basics of photographic technique, and develops through various media taking different forms according to the places or the stories in which it develops; from b / w photographic printing to site - specific installation, from video to drawing.

This exhibition will feature new drawings and 12 paintings, where colors and forms interlace and create various stories.

The layers of images, text, sound and things perform and activate various forms of returns, flash - forwards and déja - vus unfolding in this gesture a dense story of erasures and reappearances, dispossession and resistance, the archaic resonating in the contemporary.

The artists employ story - based and poetic narratives, engage with popular culture, juxtapose text and image, distill and abstract various forms, and pay homage to God or denizens of the spirit world.

Serena Perrone employs various techniques ranging from printmaking and drawing to photography and writing to reflect on personal mythologies, examine differing forms of nostalgia, recount stories of destruction, regeneration, transition, enchantment and disenchantment, and capture images of the synchronistic and uncanny ways that magic and wonder are encountered in liminal spaces.

To chart the enduring lack of certainty, read the various leaks from the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and you'll see roughly the same «maybe» forecast that scientists provided for my 1988 Discover Magazine cover story on global warming (the climate panel was just being formed at that time).

Indeed, US culture has been telling these important stories about scientists as servants of the power elite since the Manhattan Project, and for good reason; science has been beholden various forms of power for centuries.

I'm a fan of myths... those big and little stories that persist in various forms within a culture, and often across cultures.

Various forms of writing will be studied, such as short stories, novels, poems, plays and non-fiction.