Sentences with phrase «life presents history»

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When Emily first told Marge of her intuition, which she'd realized had been present at so many points in her life, including meeting her husband, she said that Marge told her of the house's history of being handed down from fortune tellers to psychics, beginning in the early 1900s.

And as was pointed out, God can review all history of everyone, past or future, their entire lives at any time... yours included... you're an open book, everyone is... past, present and future.

Let us read history, our history, as a living account of what we once were, with the double - edged consciousness that all of this has gone forever and that, in spite of everything, that period of youth and every moment of our lives remain mysteriously present at the wellsprings of our soul in a kind of delectable eternity.»

One could see continuity between the way God worked in gradually bringing life into being in all its complex forms, including the human, and God's continuing work in human history and in our lives at present.

• The history of European civilizations is at present living through one of its epochal shifts.

It was said that «the best of defense is to attack»... --- Those allowed such to be signed knew all the time that this is what was going to happen because it happened repeatedly through out history from time of the crusaders but still they continued with signing it because it meant for them money pouring in for all involved with the trading on this issue which has spoiled the life of the Palestinians and all Arabs ever started war over those lands started with swords and horses that has developed into the present arms that we became to know and only God knows how future arms would look like in few de-ca-des or cen - tur - ies that are yet to come...?!

Contemporary man lives in a perpetual present that experiences little or no fascination for or energizing pull from great positive expectations for the future — an unprecedented state of affairs in our history that constitutes a breach from our past.

Helmut Thielicke has taken this criticism seriously in his Theological Ethics, speaking of the various structures of our common life, such as the state, law, economics, etc., as «orders of history» rather than as «orders of creation,» and presenting them in an infralapsarian way as «orders of the divine patience, given because of our «hardness of heart» (Matthew 19:8).»

For it began with history itself and is still present in our own life today.

When a contemporary Christian confesses the death of God he is giving witness to the fact that the Christian tradition is no longer meaningful to him, that the Word is not present in its traditional form, and that God has died in the history in which he lives.

The Church is always in the flux of history, not on the motionless bank, but in this movement God's eternity is present with it, his life, his truth and his fidelity.

Despite the assertion that God has favored Christians living in this present moment of history with the key to decode the prophetic ciphers, millennialists are unable to agree on how to read the message.

By this I simply mean that we live during the period of modernity — that period of Western cultural history that began with the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continues into the present.

The disputed elements center mainly in the bearing of the Kingdom on the ethical demands of the present life in relation to what lies beyond it in a realm that transcends human history — that is, in the relations of ethics to eschatology.

Adherents invariably saw themselves living on the cusp of history, straddling the end of the present age and the beginning of the age to come.

For hermeneutics lives or dies by its ability to take history and language seriously, to give the other (whether person, event or text) our attention as other, not as a projection of our present fears, hopes and desires.

Fourth, God intends the fullness of life for the human community to be a present goal, not the endpoint of history.

The eschatological elements of the salvation history theme have implied that the fullness of life lies only in the future; consequently, American churches have often responded to human suffering in the present by pointing the sufferer to God's future.

A new life reconciled to God has been made present with power in history.

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

In the narrative, just as in the kerygma, we are confronted with paradox: exaltation in humiliation, life in death, the kingdom of God in the present evil aeon, the eschatological in history.

These writings have their being, as they had their origin, within the life of a community which traces its descent from Abraham and Moses, from prophets and apostles, and plays its part in the history of our own time; and the Scriptures not only recall its past, but serve the needs of its day - to - day existence in the present.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

But it is so presented that it is seen to be full of meaning, as our lives are not, as contemporary history is not, so far as we can see.

In contrast, the neo-Freudian Erich Fromm becomes quite unrealistically utopian in his hope for the «sane society» of reasonable men, and he never asks where the individual can find in present history the community which can sustain the spirit which must live in this threatening and imperfect world.2

I am convinced that these principles, faithfully maintained, above all when dealing with human life, from conception to natural death, with marriage - rooted in the exclusive and indissoluble gift of self between one man and one woman - and freedom of religion and education, are necessary conditions if we are to respond adequately to the decisive and urgent challenges that history presents to each one of you,»

As if to redress singlehandedly the real and perceived neglect of women's contributions to the Catholic Church, McNamara gives us an exhaustively researched, comprehensively presented, and splendidly written history, from clandestine Roman days to the present, of the women who were consecrated to the lay apostolate or the contemplative life.

That is, «When and as you do this, my life and death and resurrection are brought out of the realm of «dead» history into the living present, and I am with you as the One who lived and died and rose again from the dead.»

History is the accumulation of the resources for human living gathered through a long sequence of generations and delivered to the present to make us what we are.

In the conception of the meaning of history at which we have arrived, we interpret our present life as having its course within and under the reign of Christ.

If in spite of all evil the grace of God is present with power in history, why can we not believe that the long trend of history is toward the achievement of that perfected life which is the earthly counterpart of the Kingdom of God for whose coming we pray?

The account of origins presented in Genesis is a simple but factual presentation of actual events and therefore provides a reliable framework for scientific research into the question of the origin and history of life.

In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.

For the present it is enough to say that the first and primary point of Paul's preaching, the point on which all else depends, is not the Messiahship of Jesus, or his resurrection, or his coming again, but the reality of the living God, the Lord of creation, the governor of history, the saviour of men.

But man in fact does not live in an eternal present; his existence is bound by time and history.

Borges's poetics of reading does not obviously examine literary history from a chronological point of view, a linear mode according to which precursors invariably connect themselves from one life to another — and on toward the present.

Still, in the final analysis, our history makes us what we are now, and the conventions of our present social, political, economic and moral world constitute a realm of external determination on our lives.

Dr. Cobb presents the process theology view that the exclusion of God in our universal experience is contrary to that very experience, that God plays a role in human life and in the whole of history and nature.

I would be more tolerent, but my understanding of history and society demonstrates that people who live their lives by stone age fairytales are screwing up the present as well.

As Dodd finely puts it, (See his History and the Gospel (1938), pp. 26 ff,) fact and interpretation were present from the beginning: the facts about the life of Christ were remembered and handed down solely because of the meaning they possessed for those who cherished and handed down the record.

The evolutionary history of life suggested to Whitehead that there is an ever present urge which can be interpreted as purposive.

This is especially true of history that is predominantly maintained cultically, when past event is the occasion for present praise of God and the celebration of his role in the life of a people.

It is one of the ironies of Christian history that followers of Jesus should present the message not as a wonderful, fulfilling way of life, but as an escape hatch through which people flee from fears created by the misinterpreted message.

Festival producer Danny Wimmer of Danny Wimmer Presents comments, «Chicago has a deep history with rock «n» roll, from the pioneers of Chicago blues, to the icons of modern rock that call this place home, to the incredible live experiences that have happened here.

That is what Kennedy suddenly understood he was responding to: «The recollection and power of another era was a reminder that our sports, as a part of and a companion to history, are a way to give context to our lives and to our collective past, present and future.»

The following elements of scenario design were standardized across all scenarios: layout of the physical environment, details of the maternal and fetal histories, questions and responses of the standardized pregnant patient, and the time allowed for consultation.American subjects typically presented several treatment options without bias, whereas Dutch subjects were more likely to explicitly advise a specific course of treatment (emphasis on partial life support).

It is Canada's largest living history museum featuring over 200 exhibits and attractions presented beautifully over 127 acres of natural parklands.

A number of the proposals the governor presented echoed mayor's ideas, including his $ 650 million life sciences initiative, voting reforms such as early voting and same - day registration, adopting salary history blind hiring practices and requiring state contracts to disclose data on gender, race and ethnicity of employees.

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Now ancient DNA from the fossilized skeleton of a short, dark - skinned, dark - eyed man who lived at least 36,000 years ago along the Middle Don River in Russia presents a different view: This young man had DNA from all three of those migratory groups and so was already «pure European,» says evolutionary biologist Eske Willerslev of the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen, who led the analysis.