Sentences with phrase «who transcends»

Like his Oscar - winning turn in No Country for Old Men, Bardem restores brutality to James Bond's violence, making this another psycho who transcends silly appearances.

She's a textbook case of an actor who's strength depends on the director and script, not one who transcends less - than - great material.

A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story, a soulful documentary, follows an extraordinary woman who transcends tortuous bullying to become a well known motivational speaker.

Little Women» is a moving film about the making of a sensitive writer and the maturation of a small - town girl who transcends her milieu and at the same time retains its heritage.

According to this idea, all people fall into various types, including the Trickster, who manipulates others through duplicity; the Martyr, who transcends service to oneself or a cause; the Fool, who helps people laugh at absurdity and hypocrisy; the Artist, who inspires others to see life symbolically; and the Gambler, who follows intuition even when others don't.

We are presented with a warrior God and a peacemaker, a God of territorial allegiance and a God who transcends all territorial divides, an unchanging God and a God who can be redirected...

Even more, it means allowing the fundamental concern of the Bible to question the reader, to compel him to decide whether or not he will understand himself as a creature whose existence is totally dependent on One who transcends everything.

God who transcends time and the physical initiated life, the «first cause».

What it affirms — specifically, the creation of nature by a Supreme Being who transcends it — can not represent itself as science.

And then, even more foundationally: Is it possible to speak of a covenant polity without acknowledging a covenant Lord who transcends the polity?

The God who transcends distinctions of gender was nevertheless burdened with characteristics that were predominantly male.1

The Book of Job, in contrast, rests on faith in one God who transcends the nature which He created.

Only for him who lets things happen and can not decide is God an unknown being who transcends the world.

The biblical idea of covenant embraced by earlier Americans is something deeper and more profound and more binding than a contract; it also engages another party, a party who transcends the agreements that we strike among ourselves.

This attitude, implicit in the religion of the American Indian, is the affirmation of a God who transcends all dogma, laws and codes.

For our own age, overly captivated by abstraction, the task of philosophical reflection is often to reverse the process and recover living experience» living experience of God, who transcends our human conceptions and confronts us as a philosophy - defying Other even as He addresses us and makes Himself available to us.

Rather, men or women join religious life because they have perceived the call from One who transcends all earthly things to serve him, and through him, his people.

There is one man out there who transcends simple terms such as «boss,» «manager» and «chief whip - cracker.»

In both cases there was a close correlation between this transcending human spirit and the God who transcended the world.

Either we are autonomous individuals who transcend the accidents of birth or we are members of whatever identity groups we happened to be born into.

Science dealt with the secular realm while religion had to do with a God who transcended that realm.

Page after page recounts interrogations, torture, brainwashing, deception, and killing sprees — all aimed at wiping out faith in anything other than the State, and especially faith in a God who transcended the State.

«He's the only one who transcended the sport.»

Leading us into the new year, this exhibit features paintings from 17 artists who transcend the restrictions of the present through style, content and medium.

23 Modern and Contemporary artists from the Middle East who transcend borders while tackling such themes as identity and exile.

On view through December 31, 2012, the exhibition features some 150 works by 20 photographers who transcend the limits of the single image by photographing the same subjects - «primarily friends, family, and themselves» - over the course of days, months, years, and even decades.

This richly illustrated volume gathers together the major works of an ambitious group of designers who transcend...

We work with both emerging and established artists who transcend their medium and subjects by exploring the world around them as well as the one within themselves.

Developed in consultation with Okwui Enwezor, this exhibition explores the production and intellectual potential of a new «generation of African designers, architects and artists who transcend the boundaries between design, art, photography, architecture and urbanism.»

Because this book specifically foresees the growth of professionals who transcend traditional professional boundaries, it is still a good read for a lawyer concerned about the future.

His book utilizes a psychoanalytic framework to portray and examine the subjective experiences of five professional African American men who transcended their origins in urban poverty, thus shedding light on a grossly overlooked demographic.]

Ali was an anti-establishment showman who transcended borders and barriers, race and religion.

Not exact matches

We won't achieve much if we scant the far deeper issue of how our teams can build lasting strengths that transcend who's onboard.

What is more unfortunate is that contemporary bishops, who have been exposed to and educated in the modern world and its global challenges — at least by comparison with their predecessors, who were restricted by the «iron curtain» or oppressive xenophobia — appear less interested in transcending any prejudice and parochialism.

The messiah is the one with the new story, who illuminates and transcends these three stories, along with the Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, and even secularist and feminist stories.

Yet, your devout faith transcends the arbitrary commands of the «leaders» of the Catholic Church, who believe they are the only «chosen» ones with a direct line to God.

I see Orthodox Christians living in dirt poor conditions who to their deaths from ISIS with an attitude that transcends the worst of human behaviour.

I tried to «transcend» blogging with these people who «through hours of prayer and discernment» decided I was crazy while their crony was having an affair.

Those who are frustrated by inefficient government regulation, subsidies, and pork barrel politics may regard free trade as a way of transcending parochial interests.

The Hebrew Scriptures are rich and full of life in all of its and their complexities; the God revealed in its pages transcends the limited and limiting portrayal in the text, pointing to a God beyond the text who is shadowed by God in the text.

If theology is to transcend itself it must negate itself, for theology can be reborn only through the death of Christendom, which finally means the death of the Christian God, the God who is the transcendence of Being.

Sometimes I think we need reminders that God is not who we expect Him / Her to be, that He / She is wholly other, both transcending and inhabiting our pronouns.

«The answer is: defective beings who are not what they might be and expectant, hoping, yearning beings who are continually excelling themselves... what is the explanation of this strange pressure constantly to transcend ourselves?»

There are, for Christians, two steps here: God speaks the law through the ordinary things of daily life; but his extraordinary Word is spoken in the Endtime through Jesus Christ, who fulfills and transcends the law of creation.

It is then forced in freedom to choose either to postulate a fundamental nothingness or absurdity in existence, thus denying intelligibility and destroying itself, or to transcend itself toward the infinite God of love who has made Himself known through the finite, visible structures of this world.

Who knew eclipses could transcend religions.

A second basic pastoral - care ministry — that of «sustaining» or helping persons who have suffered traumatic experiences to endure and transcend those experiences, and indeed to grow in and through them, and often because of them — is likewise closely related through black theology.

Only a God who in some way transcends the world, who has special care for the downtrodden, who calls humans (if among the oppressors) to practice justice, and who calls humans (if among the oppressed) to demand their rights — only this God can or will say no to oppression and invite others to do as well.

The problem under consideration has been clarified considerably by Hendrikus Boers, who identifies several points in the New Testament at which christological exclusivism is clearly transcended: (1) the authentic teachings of Jesus, which «did not bring the love and forgiveness of God, but affirmed its presence... by articulating it» (6:23); (2) Paul's treatment of the «faith of Abraham» in Rom.

Integral to Christian vision is the idea of creatures who have such dual membership — who belong to a world of space, time, and bodies, and who are made for the God who creates but transcends this finite world.