And, of course, the story of Jesus's sacrifice and resurrection is the ultimate version of the redemption idea: God suffers with us on the cross, dies, and is born to new life in heaven, a place where God wipes away all tears from our faces, and where there is no more death or sorrow.
It's a story of guilt, fear and redemption; there are ideas in this film that might have interested Graham Greene.
The story, while thick with grief, emphasizes redemption, and the idea of an inscrutable but ultimately benevolent destiny comes up frequently in the characters' conversations.
"There's plenty of liquidity in case there's a need for it in terms of redemptions or stock ideas, but we don't have any stock ideas at the moment".
Through violence, Chase explores significant ideas about redemption.
And this is a great solace to many — for instance, Christian ideas of redemption and reconciliation.
Her works also contain subtle ideas of redemption, though of cultural artifacts, not spirits.
Nor do we balk at the childish ideas of redemption, or the upbeat endings that, like cheap gas and cold beer, Americans insist on.
The first wave of enthusiasts were bewitched by the book's pyrotechnics — "It was DFW's lexical genius; no one had really seen it since Pynchon, Matt Bucherr, who runs the Wallace-l Listserv, remembers — more than Wallace's ideas about redemption.
Both were fascinated by the idea of redemption.
