prophetic

• “His name has been synonymous with the phrase "prophetic imagination" for three decades of preachers and Christian teachers.”

  The Huffington Post: Krista Tippett: The Prophetic Imagination Of Walter Brueggemann

• “Note the use of the term prophetic by both, with its complex of connotations quite at odds with the grounding in science — religion and rapture, voices and visions, the conjuring otherwise known as fantasy defined, for the moment, not in terms of literature but in terms of psychology: the sustained fancy; the ludic or oneiric imagining; from the Greek phantasia; a making visible.”

  Notes from New Sodom: Down in the Ghetto at the SF Café

• “But what we shall be saying about it depends largely, I suppose, upon our definition of the term prophetic; also a little upon our feeling with regard to good taste and the permissible in fiction.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917

• “And I open it as a pastor and a professor who comes from a long tradition of what I call the prophetic theology of the black church.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2008

• “He speaks about God from what we call the prophetic posture.”

  CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2005

• “[8] In 2003, Tamaki, in what he described as a prophetic utterance, predicted that Destiny would be "ruling the nation" within five years.”

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• “But Mrs. Whishtablount knew a thing or two about religious people, especially the dangerous crowds that milled around in prophetic theme parks, and she alone realized the danger in which Santa now found himself.”

  Part the Eighth: The Meaning of Christmas « Unknowing

• “Last Day, the preterite for the future in prophetic style.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Mr. Davis, as if in prophetic vision, seemed to take in at a glance our growing and glorious Republic with its vine-clad hills, its mill-strewn vales, its sunlit homes, its wire-woven, iron-bound lands, and sail-wreathed oceans.”

  Darkest America and the Way Out

• “As an expression of what some call his prophetic mood, and others his ranting, one who has patience might try _Shooting Niagara_ or the _Latter Day”

  Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

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