Sentences with phrase «historical experience does»

In the first place, historical experience does not support the claim that evil is gradually being eliminated.

Historical experience does not suggest that bubbles are very sensitive to the level of short - term interest rates.

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Yet the fact that these 13 years have included three successive approaches (2000, 2007, and today) to valuation peaks - at the very extremes of historical experience - is evidence that investors don't appreciate the link between valuation and subsequent returns.

Companies that have high ratios of gold ownership per share will do much better than that, based on historical experience.

Finally, this is one piece of advice that is likely to do you well if you've chosen to build a long - term, conservative investment portfolio based upon dollar cost averaging, low - cost ownership methods such as a dividend reinvestment program (also known as a DRIP account), and do not expect to retire or need the funds for ten years or more, the best course of action based upon historical experience may be to go on autopilot.

It is as though those shaping the domestic agenda of the government do not see the explicitly racial character of this problem, as if they do not understand the historical experiences that link, symbolically and sociologically, the current urban underclass to our long, painful legacy of racial trauma.

In her effort to present this gap in belief and experience between the time of Jesus and our own time, she includes an unusual element: two passages, five and eight pages long, which don't just describe but re «imagine the historical context of ancient Palestine.

This has been a time, finally, when the literary analysis of ancient literature has become a very significant force within the field, insisting that documents do not exist only to provide historical information, but are to be appropriated as complex works of art as well as witnesses to and interpretations of religious experiences and convictions.

How did these students experience the historical - critical method, which talked not about the experience of the resurrection but about the chronology of Acts, and which never engaged the figure of Jesus in the Gospels but only dissected the sources of the Gospels?

«Special revelation» means that God does not make himself known primarily in the general experiences of mankind, but in particular critical historical happenings of unusually great significance.

But yet, the fact remains that in man's «common» experience, in those very human and historical — and sinful — limitations we know so well, we have the right to find in parabolic fashion creaturely representations of that which God is, and that which God has done, and that which God purposes to bring to pass in and for and through and with and to this his world and the men and women whom he has placed in it.

In too many Baptist churches, baptism is an afterthought to the real work of a prior conversion experience, an act justified on the purely historical grounds that «Jesus told us to do it» (though why and for what effect remain in doubt), a procedure mainly of value in entitling one to vote in future congregational squabbles.

This «uniqueness» does not just mean a unique «intuitive experience» of God, but the «historical event» by which the intuition appears within the world.

So for much, perhaps most, of the New Testament, the expectation of God's in - breaking is a present historical expectation; if in later writings New Testament authors appeared to alter that expectation from an outward, historical event to an inward, spiritual experience — in light of its lengthening delay — the church did not excise that earlier, more immediate expectation from the canon.

Nor does it seem to matter that the same charges have been massively refuted by historical experience since the 1830s, when, in response to the «common school» movement, explicitly Catholic and Protestant schools were established, to a similar chorus of warnings.

: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with particular, concrete historical or individual experience.1 Williams affirms that the specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a specific and observable difference in the behavior of things» (page 178) and goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's specific causality] must take the form of observable results in cosmic history, in human history, and in personal experience» (page 179).

It is therefore inappropriate to accentuate, as has been done in some past evangelical experience, the immutability of Christian truth once formulated, as if that authority were enjoyed by our articulations rather than being reserved to the canonical texts themselves and the historical events behind them.

In any event, what is said, like what is done, in the worship of the Church must be sufficiently in line with the inherited usage that it is recognizably Christian in its historical emphasis, while at the same time it is sufficiently intelligible to contemporary experience and understanding.

Thus many of the ideas and categories which they brought with them to their experience of the Buddha gave direction to the development of the existing tradition and above all assisted in its codification and systematization.5 When the dogmatics applied the predicate Mahapurusa to the Buddha — as we know, the Mahapurusa is characterized by a number of specific primary and secondary physical and spiritual attributes — or that of Cakravartin — this does not imply, as de la Vallee Poussin has already and very appropriately remarked, that they were «idealizing» or recalling attributes of the historical Sakyamuni.

From Enns: «As a biblical scholar who deals with the messy parts of the Bible (i.e., the Old Testament), I came away with one recurring impression, a confirmation of my experience in these matters: mainstream American evangelicalism, as codified in the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, doesn't really know what to do with the Bible as a historical text.»

Like Samartha I do not see the creeds as immutable, but as historical documents pointing to the central Christian experience of God's love in Jesus Christ.

We may perhaps want to explain and understand Isaiah's experience somewhat differently, but that Isaiah did experience God's glory can only be discovered from the historical record.

Therefore the hermeneutical task calls for the translation of Israel's experience into a contemporary systematic and conceptual framework, one that can do justice to its historical concerns.

For, if what is essential to a person is not the facts of when and where or the facts of what was said and done, but rather the meaning of those facts for those whose experience and memory of the person was also part of their historical reality, then there is no place else for us to look.»

The works of the learned modern theologians since Schleiermacher contain ever changing presentations of the Christian religion which are dominated by the desire to do justice to historical and contemporaneous Christian experience as well as to all phases of modem knowledge.

Why wouldn't you (particularly you) take it as a series of historical documents (which they are), that have errors (as all historical documents do), and that relate the experience of a particular community or group?

It may be objected by some that the resurrection and the coming of the Spirit are not, properly speaking, historical since they did not occur publicly, but only within the experience of a limited group.

It may well be true that nothing purely private and individual can be called historical — the historical is essentially social — but it does not follow from this that nothing is historical which is not universally witnessed or experienced, even by those who are physically situated to witness or experience it.

Whatever may be the remoter intention of God in the awe - inspiring stretch of space and time, it is all of a piece with what He is doing in the historical experience of men — in a way, that is what the homo - ousion of the Nicene Creed affirms.

• Jesus After 2000 Years: What He Really Said and Did (Prometheus Books 2001) • The Great Deception: And What Jesus Really Said and Did (Prometheus Books 1999) • Vi - rgin Birth: The Real Story of Mary and Her Son Jesus (Trinity Pr Intl 1998) • What Really Happened to Jesus: A Historical Approach to the Resurrection (Westminster John Knox Pr 1996) • Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity (Westminster John Knox Pr 1996) • Resurrection of Jesus: History, Experience, Theology (Fortress Pr 1995) • Gerd Lüdemann on the Secular Web (online) • Gerd Lüdemann's Homepage (online)

For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with religious experience, worship, spirituality, counseling, and the like over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich in offerings in ethics, sociology of religion, liberation theology, and the like than in offerings in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical traditions may reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood in action than in contemplation.

What role, if any, could the historical, social, political, cultural and religious experiences of our fellow Asians play in our doing of Christian theology?

Then (3) in view of the further claim inherent in the nature of the synoptic gospel material (situation in earthly ministry of Jesus = situation in early Church's experience) we may apply historical knowledge of the teaching of Jesus directly to the situation of the believer in any age, always providing, of course, that we can solve the practical problems involved in crossing the barrier of two millennia and radically different Weltanschauungen necessary to do this.

The minimalists are those who do not think that these narratives point to any analogous historical event, who maintain that in fact there were no post-mortem appearances of Jesus at all, no experiences of Jesus after his death by the apostles.

That is, it not only does evil, does wrong, but in violating the pact of the covenant, it goes directly against what identifies it as a people and always has: the liberative act of the exodus, the historical experience of having come up from Egypt thanks to its alliance, its covenant, with God.

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All you need to do is from your own experiences, or if you prefer from hearsay or historical evidence, to come up with your team's best ever XI.

From Antiquity to the Renaissance, to the Holocaust and Soviet totalitarianism, how does the memory of these «mnemonic signifiers» impact on the decisions taken today, and how have historical experiences shared between European countries shaped their politics?

Not only do I have my own personal experience and those of the women I work with in my practice, but there are historical accounts of menstrual synchrony as well.

When depicting the type of daily brutality that black slaves experienced, some scenes based on historical record, some based more on hearsay, Tarantino does not deliver violence as spectacle.

How does the historical background of the patient and his family influence how they approach and experience the current healthcare event, setting, and healthcare providers?

Undoubtedly, most nations count large numbers of students whose immigrant or minority families do not share a common historical experience.

LE: Do you think that at some point the all - text story will be kind of an historical anomaly because the digital editions, the enhanced audio video and all that will just create a more compelling experience of a story than all text?

See, if you look at a list of stocks or mutual funds today, and analyze their historical performance, you'll tend to get a much rosier performance figure than an investor would actually have experienced, because any stock or fund that did not survive will not be part of the list.

There will be many historical sites to see, but you'll also have time to relax, do some shopping, and stop in a Konditorei (German pastry and coffee shop) for a delicious local favourite and experience a German afternoon tradition!Your river cruise will continue through the dramatic Rhine Gorge, considered the most enchanting stretch of the Rhine River.

The visuals, in combination with the excellent music (composed by Winifred Phillips, who has created soundtracks for games such as God of War or LittleBigPlanet 2) does a grand job of capturing that historical feel that has made the Assassin's Creed games such an interesting and vivid experience for those interested in history, such as me.

But also experiencing other historical works in dialogue with contemporary practice, which is something that the breadth of our programme at Turner Contemporary allows us to do.

«By preserving and making accessible thousands of life stories chronicling the African - American experience, alumna Julieanna Richardson is doing nothing less than transforming the historical record into a far more inclusive and rich tapestry,» said Interim President Lisa M. Lynch.

Through a historical accident I had arranged for students to do work experience at commercial galleries.

Usually the web of connections isn't so explicit, but they are always implicit, packed into the work itself; in Lisa Yuskavage's or Dana Schutz's or Carrie Moyer's paintings, you see all kinds of historical references (whether to Piero della Francesca or Ernst Kirchner or Jules Olitski), kinship with their contemporaries, and interest in a million other images and experiences that do not belong to painting.