"The government's green initiatives," said David Dabydeen, Guyana's delegate to Unesco, "redeem us from a crime which was overwhelmingly committed by Americans on Americans".
All our major media have come at us as if from God himself to redeem us from the restrictions of time and space".
The fruit basket is sin, it is sickness, it is death – everything the ethereal Christ has come back to redeem us from.
Partly it's a consequence of the idea – a questionable one – that great art, by redeeming us from "the noise of time", trumps everything, and therefore excuses shabby behaviour.
Early on in the evolution of cinema sound a number of theorists recognised this power and said the ability to manipulate sound creatively will redeem us from the chaos of shapeless noise.
The healthy are complicit in the medicalising of wellness, particularly those in middle life, for it promises to turn back time, to redeem us from poor lifestyles and indulgence, with a one-a-day wonder worker.
And though I'm an agnostic with regard to the question of God and a supernatural Jesus, I employed a religious image to reinforce the statement, thinking that it might move a man like Francisco Funes, imbued as he was with the impoverished piety of his class: "He could redeem mankind — redeem us from all the pain of the ages.
It's a good story, Jamison says—"that thirst might rise from an abiding longing for the one who would not come, that hunger becomes constitutional in the shadow of absence or departure"—and it may be comforting to those who believe that this kind of story will redeem us from our own history.
The attributes of God that especially come into play in the emotion of gratitude are his creation and providence for our present life and his work of redeeming us from sin in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
From the evangelical point of view, our words must be well pleasing to the Lord Jesus Christ who purchased us with His own blood "that He might redeem us from all iniquity [lawlessness] and purify unto Himself a peculiar people [a people of His own], zealous of good works" (Titus 2 14).
