Sentences with phrase «about human events»

If the Bible were such a book, it would make specific, falsifiable predictions about human events.

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Protesters from the non-governmental Youth Initiative for Human Rights interrupted the event with a banner that read: «War criminals must shut up so we can talk about victims».

Investing is about glimpsing, however dimly, the ebb and flow of human events.

They are a murky regulatory environment, where states seem to be taking individual initiatives while the industry awaits rulings from the new administration's Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao; concerns about both reliability and cybersecurity in hackable robot cars; and the as yet unknown liability guidelines in the inevitable event of autonomous vehicle crashes and human injuries.

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God can not unilaterally bring it about that events in nature be perfectly correlated with the needs of specific humans.

Historical events — a bloody Civil War — forced us to look more closely at how exactly the Bible talks not only about slavery but the biblical meaning and value of a human being.

Only complete arrogance could convince someone that God would even CARE about a human sporting event.

What I have enjoyed about TLS is that TLS continues to allow questioning (in a hundred directions), the sharing of life's events among equal human beings, and respectful dialog.

About as far from «arbitrary» as an event could be since they were noticed and measured by ordinary, untaught humans for dozens of centuries and led us to further scientific discoveries.

Biblical prophets all across the land are indeed making «minute predictions about events in world history,» that God's climactic and decisive intervention in human affairs is about to occur.

They welcome emergent events, whether predicted or not, as confirmation that God's climactic and decisive intervention in human affairs is about to occur.

Given the stunning turn of events last November, however, we need to suspend our economic faiths for a time to reorient our thinking about the economy around deeper truths regarding the human person and the role of work.

As the word suggests, with this «event» we have been set free to talk in a new way about our human situation.

Beneath the various attempts to articulate the content of Christian faith lies a «vision of reality» with implications for beliefs about God, the world in general, human existence in particular, and even some historical events, especially about Jesus.

It has been necessary to see what may be made of the «resurrection» about which the New Testament speaks, both in respect to Jesus Christ as the decisive event in the story of that divine - human relationship and also in respect to the human side of the matter, where you and I may fit in and have our part and place.

It requires a God who is petty and arrogant and who has no qualms about interfering in, controlling, or playfully dabbling in the course of human events.

Prophecy is about sin and repentance, action and decision, here and now in the human situation; apocalyptic is about wars in heaven, divine actions and purposes, and events of a future beyond time.

The French dramatic theorist Antonin Artaud, in speaking about the French classical theater, which had become formal and aloof from the issues of human hope, wrote, «In the anguished, catastrophic period in which we live, we feel an urgent need for a theater in which events do not exceed, where resonance is deep within us, dominating the instability of the times.»

We are so used to thinking about the human quest for God that we can not easily grasp the idea of God's taking the initiative in making himself known, especially when it is affirmed that he has done so in specific historical events and developments.

Such would seem to be the fundamentally negative implication in Bultmann's thought about the event which underlies the New Testament kerygma and the understanding of human life of which it is the expression.

The differences in citizens» beliefs about the origin and destiny of human life may keep them from coming to politics with the kind of shared enthusiasm and exuberant rivalry that they bring to sporting events.

The six theologians who led the event — Carter Heyward, Barbara Gerlach, Rita Nakashima Brock, Gail Paterson Corrington, Jacquelyn Grant and Delores Williams — challenged age - old assumptions about human life, divine power and Jesus Christ as the only true redeemer.

In biblical times to know about history was to interpret human events in relation to our purpose: to see the building of the Tower as idolatry was to understand an historical event.

These events then become, and naturally, a self - appointed model which enables us to be articulate about what has been disclosed... So a qualifier like «infinite» will work on a model of human love until there dawns on us that particular kind of family resemblance between the various derivative models which reveals God — God as «infinitely loving».

In any event, I wonder about the relation between Jesus» apparent silence concerning homosexuality and Jesus as the image of authentic human liberation.

The theological entailment of this is that the locus of revelation is not just the event of Jesus Christ or the word about him or, on the other hand, human experience, but is rather the intersection of the New Testament kerygma with the universal archetype of death and resurrection which underlies that fundamental human life rhythm of upset and recovery (Susanne Langer) and which generates comic narratives.

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

Profoundly moved by the wisdom of nonviolent resistance, editors reported on, analyzed and theologized about all the events of these years, from Montgomery to Little Rock to the sit - ins to the freedom riders, with considerable interest and always accompanied by profound expressions of respect and human sympathy.

Therefore when He becomes man, it will need a real co-operation from one parent - the woman - since there must be a vehicle of enfleshment to make the Incarnation possible while excluding the determining factor of the male by which the Incarnation would have been an event subject to human will, thus bringing about a human person.

The «Christology» emergent here is of a piece, I believe, with parabolic indirection: there is no kerygma about Jesus, no Superstar Christology, only a hidden, mysterious, indirect pointing through the familiar events of this very human life to the unfamiliar: «he's just a man» but «he scares me so.»

Syed Aamir Raza and Mike Brady talk about the true events at a Q&A at the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights.

The glossy guide includes about two dozen destinations highlighting events and sites dedicated to abolition and African - American history, suffrage and women's rights, and LGBTQ and human rights.

The event will feature medical, public health and human rights experts looking to offer an open and honest conversation about the effects of the virus in Africa and the current climate in our own communities, while providing facts about Ebola that can save lives.

Lerner accused the members of «cherry - picking» and skipping events about issues they act on in the Council — like a human services forum that was scuttled, and whose organizers had hoped to asked questions at Common Cause's event.

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But that may be about to change, thanks to a new type of climate study that can connect individual weather events with the impact of human - made greenhouse gas emissions.

Navigenics I initially heard about Navigenics at a charity event when I spoke to William A. Haseltine, founder and former chairman and CEO of Human Genome Sciences, about genetic testing.

They then estimated the yearly mutation rate on the Y chromosome by calibrating it with a known event: the human settlement of the Americas that occurred about 15,000 years ago.

Their findings suggest humans are releasing carbon about 10 times faster than during any event in the past 66 million years.

Carolyn Gramling writes about studies that, for the first time, blame specific extreme weather events on human - caused climate change — certain to be a hot topic in 2018.

«Thus, analyzing the features of modern - day languages might give us new information about events in human history that left few other traces,» Creanza said.

To find out more about its history, the researchers collected samples from around the globe — yeast in different parts of the world has changed over time partially due to natural events and partially due to human intervention.

This is because referential signals hint at the ability of animals to communicate about material forms and events, and thus invite comparison with words in human language.

Study researcher Michael Petraglia, from Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, said that the early migrants were possibly a small group of foragers and that the later, major «out of Africa» event most likely happened about 60,000 years ago.

Washington University in St. Louis scientists Fiona Marshall and Ken Olsen, who participated in the conference and contributed to the special issue, discuss some of the key questions that have been raised about this pivotal event in human history.

But such events have raised scientific questions about why humans can't control behaviors such as laughing, yawning, coughing and shivering — and why they spread among groups of people.

Through many of those years, Taylor was a frequent spokesperson for those scientists who regularly challenged whether climate change is real, human - caused, or, in either event, worth worrying about or doing anything to address.

Launching the event in 2014, astrophysicist Brian May said, «The more we learn about asteroid impacts, the clearer it becomes that the human race has been living on borrowed time.»