Sentences with phrase «world against an evil»

Industrial Light and Magic special - effects wizard Stefen Fangmeier makes the leap into the director's chair with this coming - of - age fantasy concerning a young boy whose discovery of a mysterious dragon egg leads him on a predestined journey to become a Dragon Rider and defend his peaceful world against an evil king.

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) stars as the eponymous Doctor Strange, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon whose career is derailed but gets a new lease of life when a sorcerer (Tilda Swinton) takes him under his wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.

Official Synopsis: After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant and conceited surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under his wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.

Synopsis (From IMDB): After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant and conceited surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under his wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant and conceited surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under his wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.

Slowly Doctor Strange discovers that he has magic powers of his own — and finds himself co-opted by The Ancient One into the protection of the entire world against an evil cabal led by The Ancient One's rebellious former pupil Kaecilius (poo name but great part, completely owned by Mads Mikkelsen, with lizard scales around his eyes and mascara running everywhere).

With a story that revolves around actors and models teaming up to save the world against evil that takes over the bodies of directors and photographers, you can be forgiven for second guessing this one.

Not exact matches

It's the tech bro equivalent of a 1950s B - movie: Evil data scientists betray the simple trust of an unwitting, socially benevolent company to snatch private customer data and turn it against them and the world!

He, too, wants to unite the Christian world against the mainly Muslim «Axis of Evil».

«For we are not fighting against flesh - and - blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.»

against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

The superhero is usually fighting against an evil genius bent on world domination who must be stopped.

The magnitude of evil in the world seems like excellent evidence against God's existence.

Paul reminds us that «our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm» (Ephesians 6:12).

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

You say your god has turned against this world due to the evil within it... so then your god is not so caring after all or it simply does not exist (the more likely explanation).

One of the constant accusations brought against the Christian faith by atheists, is that the presence of so much evil is allowed in the world by this «Almighty God» of the Christians.

But this view entails the attribution of all evil in the entire world to the effort of Satan against the Church.

(By the way, Kierkegaard is clear that ensconcing oneself in a monastery or Christian ghetto is no protection against the world; for the world's spiritual evil is no less virulent there.)

Buber's philosophy of dialogue has made possible a new understanding of the problem of evil because it has reaffirmed the basic significance of the personal relation between the Absolute, the world, and man as against the tendency to submerge man in a mechanistic universe or to reduce God to an impersonal and indirect first cause, an abstract monistic absolute, or an immanent vital force.

It hopes to escape evil not by fleeing the world, but by stepping away in distrust, securing the independent power of the mind through the scientific method, and then turning against the world with a vengeance and transforming it to suit the human will.

We are always telling moderate Muslims to speak out against Islamic extremists, to tell the world that they are as much against the evil tactics of the extremists as everyone else is.

In the parable of the sower Jesus warns against the false values: «but worldly cares and the false glamour of wealth and all kinds of evil desire come in and choke the world and it proves barren» Mark 4:19.

I think Iran needs to take a good look at itself as a nation and realize that the world is watching — and Iran is part of a larger world, despite it's posturing — it is subject to just as much temptation to war and Evil that it claims to be against.

You've probably heard this at some point: The world is evil, and the Church has to stand up against that evil.

The Church believes it's the teacher nothing more and if it had not been for the Church's authority against dangerous heresies like Albigensianism which taught people that all the physical world is evil and caused people to starve themselves.

«Maybe we are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world - that let God in,» he told Peter Seewald in an interview for the book, «Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millenium.»

God is against the evil and suffering in this world.

Therefore, our Christian attitude toward whatever is evil is a firm rejection of it and an earnest effort against it, to the end that it shall be overcome, negated, removed from the world or transformed into an occasion for good to emerge.

Religiously it was jihad against evil society and the infidels in America, an interpretation that was not accepted by the majority of Islamic leaders, theologians, and communities the world over.

11 Cone acknowledged that, in fact, his position is «in company with all the classic theologies of the Christian tradition,» though, of course, with a different point of departure: the plight of the oppressed.12 Biblically, he focused on the redemptive suffering of Jesus (coupled with his resurrection as a defeat of suffering) and expressed the eschatological point that God has in fact defeated the powers of evil even though we still encounter them and are called to fight against them, «becoming God's suffering servants in the world.»

Or should we start the battle against evil in an all out world war?

(5) In the fifth criticism there is a protest against any attempt to affirm the existence of God which ignores the fact of massive excess evil in the world.

As against all Manichean or dualistic philosophies, as also against all those religions which offer escape from the world into an ethereal realm of pure spirit, Christianity has denied that the world of things is evil.

Like Mehta, Lewis objected to God on the basis of the evil he saw in the world, but his conversion mirrored that of Leah's as he realised that his objection only made sense if a moral realm existed: «My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust.

If they do not deny the reality of God altogether, or revolt against God, they are often led to engage in complex and convoluted dialectics to avoid declaring God, the sovereign of this world, to be evil.

Witness, for example, what becomes of the Golden Rule when Matthew Hale, leader of the World Church of the Creator, says that whatever is for the white race is good and whatever is against the white race is evil, is sin.

«God is love»; «God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son» — against that background you are right in feeling that the problem of evil reaches its most difficult form.

But for a human to become intemperate on The Walking Dead is deadly, for intemperance «more than any other thing renders man unable and unwilling to «take heart» against the wounding power of evil in the world.»

Rather than divide the world into camps — Muslim versus Christian, East versus West, good versus evil — Kathleen studied Islam in college, andafter 9/11 she read about the oil trade, the Afghan fight against Sovietoccupation in the 1980s, the roots of Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization.After Don died, his children talked about the Crusades and colonialism, and, Kathleen says, «very early on it became clear that — you know what?

You also see BF, in our and in many traditional cultures, used as a statement against the evil Western, androgynizing feminism and in favor of restoring women's natural place in the world.

«In the telephone conversation with King Salman, President Buhari reiterated the need to strengthen international support and coalition in the fight against terrorism and violent extremism, noting that when the world stands together, there is no way good would not prevail over evil,» the statement added.

You still need a deep foundation in J.K. Rowling's fertile Potter history to make sense of the mystery Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) must at last solve in th e spectacular battle to save Hogwarts, continue fighting against evil, discover the missing horcrux and save the world from Lord Voldemort.

She was signed up and immediately put into a small role in the pilot episode of a series called Men Against Evil, which evolved into the police show Felony Squad, with Howard Duff and her future Bracken's World co-star Dennis Cole.

It turns out Emmet's (and everyone else's) highly regimented life is the creation of the evil President Business (née Lord Business, played by Will Ferrel), who is striving for a world of placid perfection against the more freeform Master Builders, including Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) and Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman in full sage mode).

Tonally in the vein of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature — half - witch, half - mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.

Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the Autobots must fight against the darkness to defend our world from the Decepticons all - consuming evil in the smash hit from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg.»

Revelling in its biting discourse against the evils of our socially surveilled world, the film sees everyone hit rock bottom — and all because of one man's desire to prove himself to a bunch of strangers in cyberspace.

In The LEGO Movie, construction worker Emmet (Chris Pratt) is living a normal life when he is told that he must lead the fight against the evil Lord Business (Will Ferrell), who plans to use a terrible weapon against the denizens of the LEGO world.

Three warriors unite against an evil that threatens to enslave the once peaceful world of Ancaria.