Sentences with phrase «marxistic views of history»

As we celebrate the day of the resurrection, we are reminded both of the tragic view of history and of time's being caught up into the more of the eighth day.

Your view of history is very revisionist as well.

Thank God for that view of history I used to complain about: charitable and patient toward man.

Very slim and limited view of history.

What the biblical view of history is, we shall have to enquire later.

You really have a twisted view of history.

A new quest for a historical Jesus must be built upon the fact that the sources do make possible a new kind of quest, working in terms of the modern view of history and the self.

Leslie Dewart8 criticizes both the Hegelian and Marxistic views of history in terms of his theory of the development of truth by saying that to reduce history to man or to reduce it to God would be nothing else but the self - actualization of an original potentiality: matter in the first case, Absolute Spirit in the second.

Morals, on such a view of history, can easily be drawn from historical narratives.

That's a narrow view of history, short term or long term.

The Church has always been redefining itself, if we take the long - view of history.

Secondly, unlike the classical Indian Christian Theology, or for that matter the Indian classical Philosophy of the high caste, which is based on the transcendental nature of the Ultimate Reality and a cyclical view of history.

Their view of history convinces them that the history of religion, especially the history of Christianity, has all too often been a history of intolerance.

In his view of history, as well as in his view of the sources, Stauffer shares the outlook of nineteenth - century liberalism, except that he replaces the critical approach with the conservative principle:

The first effect of the modern view of history and human existence upon New Testament study was, as we have seen, to focus attention upon the kerygma as the New Testament statement of Jesus» history and selfhood.

The positive relevance of the modern view of history and the self to the problem of Jesus has not gone completely undetected.

This implication of the modern view of history for biography is only strengthened when one turns to the modern concept of selfhood, and its more direct implications for biography.

As a matter of fact, Bultmann's Jesus and the Word of 1926 was prefaced with a classic statement of the modern view of history, and on this basis he states that his book reflects his own encounter with the historical Jesus, and may mediate an encounter with the historical Jesus on the part of the reader.

The way in which Dodd attempts to reconcile the kerygma and the quest is in the second place misleading, since it interprets the «historical section of the kerygma» (42) in terms of a positivistic view of history, rather than in terms of the theological approach to history which actually characterized primitive Christianity.

It is apparent that a new quest of the historical Jesus can not be built upon the effort to deny the impossibilities inherent in the original quest; rather a new quest must be built upon the fact that the sources do make possible a new kind of quest working in terms of the modern view of history and the self.

As a result it has become a completely open question, as to whether a kind of history or biography of Jesus, consistent with the contemporary view of history and human existence, is possible.

Similarly Bornkamm recognizes that the possibility of his Jesus of Nazareth resides in a new view of history.

(2) The final editor of Q took sayings of Jesus that were still circulating, including these small clusters, and edited them in two regards: On the one hand, he superimposed on the Q material the Deuteronomistic view of history found in the Old Testament, according to which God lets Jerusalem be destroyed not because God is unfaithful but because Israel is, having rejected God's prophets, indeed having killed them, rather than listening to them.

To be sure, neither the modern view of history nor the modern view of existence involves necessarily a dimension of transcendence.

When I learned that the Christian view of history is a linear progression, with a beginning and an end, I was deeply impressed.

To turn now to my suggestions about reconception, I must begin with a refutation of the sharp distinction, often proposed by those who call themselves biblical theologians, between what are said to be the Jewish and the Hellenistic views of history.

But, it may be asked, what has this discussion of views of history and of the relation of history and nature got to do with the subject of the present chapter?

We can then examine the views of history of those who reject entirely the concept of the progress of man toward the Kingdom of God.

All the paradoxes and difficulties of determinist views of history appear in Macmurray's treatment of freedom.

His view of history has a romantic overtone which goes beyond the facts.

We can use the conception of the embattled reign of Christ as a guide to a reformulation of the Christian view of history.

But once this simple removal of our own consciences from the sphere of judgment has been shaken, once we see the conflict between good and evil in its true depth in every human heart, a deeper view of history must be found if we are to have a hope based on solid foundations.

Those attacking Gutiérez assume that using any of Marx's comments on society automatically brands one a «Marxist,» in the sense of accepting the whole Marxist position — its materialistic view of history, its scorn of religion as an opiate, and all the rest.

This doctrine, his chief contribution to theology, is determinative for his ethics, his view of history, his Christology, his doctrine of the atonement, and his eschatology.

The sense in which the utopian element belongs in the Christian view of history now becomes clear.

This anthropology forms the basis of Niebuhr's ethics, view of history, Christology and eschatology, and is the foundation of his rejection of idealism, naturalism and romanticism as inadequate to deal with man's paradoxical nature.

We must bear in mind one important way in which neo-orthodoxy differs in its view of history from traditional orthodoxy.

We want no return to a view of history which deals superficially with the fact of evil.

The kingdom concept is rooted in the biblical view of history, with its forward - moving stream of events under the rulership of the sovereign, righteous God.

The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.

It pursues its inquiry by recalling the story of the Christian life and by analyzing what Christians see from their point of view of history and of faith.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Faith and History, «The Extravagant Estimates of Freedom in the Progressive View of History» (V. II.

Reinhold claims that a tragic view of history is necessary to help the Christian negotiate the gap between the ethical ideal and the possibilities attainable by human collective action.

According to Cobb's dialectical view of history, «economism» will bring about its own ideological and institutional demise because of its inherent inability to meet the needs of society.

Just as the kerygma provided a rapprochement to the current view of history and historiography, it also provided the unifying factor between the twentieth - century reconstruction of primitive Christianity and its own systematic theological reflection.

However it should be equally apparent that this veto upon the original quest does not apply to the modern view of history and historiography which would be presupposed in a new quest.

The English people who resisted being overrun by Spain would disagree with such a cheap and idiotic view of history.

But Wolfers» assumption that because the less educated have fewer resources they have no reason to get married betrays a thoroughgoing economistic view of the history of marriage» and more deeply of the human person.

An Anthology of Modern Christian Views of History» (New York: Oxford University Press.

He worked out a view of history in biblical terms in which the first period is that of the Father, characterized by the rigour of the law, and man's response of servile obedience and fear.