Sentences with phrase «as historical records of»

Learn the important role that narrative paintings serve, not only as historical records of a society, but for capturing the shared values, social conventions and practices of an age.

Prior sedimentary samples — commonly used as historical records of environmental change — were incomplete, with gaps and inconsistencies in the timeline.

Much of the Bible is written as a historical record of God's interaction with his creation.

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Researcher Evan Hill makes the case in BuzzFeed that as photo hosting sites go out of business, link shortening services disappear and tweets or YouTube videos get deleted, the historical record is destroyed.

There were also bank statements, reserve estimates by an independent American geologist and historical records of dividends paid out to shareholders — which would have been improbable if, as the letter writer claimed, the company's mine in China was losing money.

«The conclusion about a company's value will be based on an analysis of all kinds of information, such as the historical profit - and - loss picture, other financial records, the customer base, internal controls, key employees, competitive details, and much more,» says Catherine Bienert, CEO of Bottom Line Management, an Atlanta business - brokerage and business - appraisal firm.

However, following this offering, the salary and bonus payments to our senior Carlyle professionals, including our named executive officers, will be reflected as compensation expense in our financial statements and we have reflected these amounts in the applicable columns of the Summary Compensation Table below even though they are not recorded as compensation expense in our historical financial statements.

It's important to emphasize that I don't view any of these groups as «undervalued» - even the largest stocks are above historical norms of valuation (with various individual exceptions), and even apparently «low» P / E multiples should be evaluated critically since they're on record earnings.

Markit has begun publishing its own purchasing managers survey, which was modestly encouraging last week, but we have no historical baseline to evaluate its reliability, and find it difficult to abandon cautionary indices that have a strong record in favor of more optimistic ones with no record at all as yet.

The historical record indicates that the gold - mining sector performs very well during the first 18 - 24 months of a general equity bear market as long as the average gold - mining stock is not «overbought» and over-valued at the beginning of the bear market.

While there are a number of factors for investors to stay mindful of — including relatively lofty US valuations (the S&P 500 price - to - earnings ratio suggests stocks may be expensive relative to historical values), geopolitical tensions around the globe (including the Korean peninsula), and legislative uncertainty (such as the final details and implementation of tax reform legislation)-- healthy corporate earnings have underpinned the market's rally to record highs.

[That claim itself, of course, is wildly at odds with the statistical record, as confirmed by Unifor's recent report. We compiled historical data on 16 conventional economic indicators going back to 1946, and found that Canada's economy performed worse under Harper's leadership than any other postwar Prime Minister — and lagged most OECD countries during Harper's tenure, as well.

As a supplement to our 16 - page stock reports, our dividend reports assess the safety of a stock's dividend through our Valuentum Dividend Cushion ™ ratio, the potential growth of a firm's dividend by evaluating its capacity and willingness to increase the dividend, the historical track record of the company's dividend performance, and the overall strength of the dividend by putting all of this analysis together.

The historical record supports the gradual evolution of man and all living things as having a common ancestor.

The bible is a historical record of many things... but quoting passages that represent a great variety of differing views as if each one is some sort of proof of absolute self evident and unquestionable truth not going to convince.

all things were created by nothing with nothing and for nothing... that takes more faith than i have... i prefer to believe in Jesus Christ — the one and only who rose from the dead — the most astounding historical fact ever recorded; Christians don't have all the answers but as the author Don Miller noted: «I can no more understand the complexity of God than the pancakes I made for breakfast can understand the complexity of me»

Obviously jesus didn't have the same historical recording devices as I do, however the only thing that we have to go off of that jesus existed was a book of eye - witness accounts designed by a council that specifically was formed to prove the validity of this specific individual.

But then, of course, the seminary's opponents would use similar reasoning to suggest that the church's public teaching must regard the Jonah story as a straightforward historical account, and soon no distinction at all would be possible between what the Bible records and what it teaches, what is central to the faith and what is not.

It may sometimes appear from the historical records that an institution or concept is the final aspect to be settled, as in the Reform Bill proceedings, when the legislation emerged swiftly from the king's concession on creation of additional peers.

Hence there arises what I think is one of the major reasons why the miraculous birth recorded in Matthew and Luke should not be regarded as a historical fact but as a midrashic or mythical way of expressing the truth that the person of Christ can not be understood exclusively within the dimension of humanity, but belongs also to the divine dimension.

He added that Cameron's public avowal of faith as prime minister was «not that exceptional» in historical terms and was consistent with his previous record.

It is probably best to think of John's gospel as a meditation on the meaning of the life of Jesus rather than primarily a historical record, although at times he seems to preserve an early historical tradition.

Having examined evidence such as Big Bang cosmology (yup, I'm what you'd call an «old earth» creationist), the Cambrian explosion in the fossil record, the problems of abiogenesis, and textual criticism of the Bible, I've found that the Bible describes historical events and other aspects of reality much more plausibly than any other faith system.

This edition of Gerard's autobiography comes with a very useful introduction by Michael Hodgetts, known to many readers of Faith Magazine for his work as an educator at the Maryvale Institute, as historical director at Harvington Hall and as editor of both Recusant History and of the Volumes of the Catholic Record Society.

The real issue here is the reliability of the bible as a historical record, the gaps in time should leave the door wide open for additional information about Jesus» personal life, not included in the original scriptures.

Moreover, it must be remembered that the Gospels are the records of early Christian preaching and teaching rather than attempts at objective historical narrative and are thus more immediately valuable as sources for the faith of the primitive church than for the biography of Jesus.

It has also been tested on items for which the age is known through historical records, such as parts of the Dead Sea scrolls and some wood from an Egyptian tomb (MNSU n.d.; Watson 2001).

It is believed by scholars that the historical authenticity of the record increases as it approaches the close of the period.

The 100 % fulfillment of those prophetic statements as outlined in the New Testament and the corroboration of those statements in independent historical and geological records.

As has been said many times to you on here there may be a few people and places that are accurate but the majority of the bible is proven to be incorrect or without evidence, and as it is the foundational parts that are proven to be incorrect, there's very little value in the bible as a historical recorAs has been said many times to you on here there may be a few people and places that are accurate but the majority of the bible is proven to be incorrect or without evidence, and as it is the foundational parts that are proven to be incorrect, there's very little value in the bible as a historical recoras it is the foundational parts that are proven to be incorrect, there's very little value in the bible as a historical recoras a historical record.

The Gospels are not biographies, such as we possess for many other historical personages; neither do they give us a consistent and completely accurate record of what occurred.

I think you would really have to stretch things a lot to argue that there wasn't an actual person who was the root of the Jesus legend, but to say that everything outlined in the Gospels is a historical record of that person is something that very few scholars would claim, and I can't think of any who would try to argue that claims to godhood can be seen as historical evidence of actual godhood.

Whatever happened, whatever a camera would or would not have recorded (and both a total acceptance as historical and a confident rejection as legendary are unwise), a significant moment in the disciples» understanding of Christ is portrayed.

So much seemed worth saying, to meet the objection that the mere presence of miracle stories in the gospels discredits them as historical records.

«Where the «historical context» and the «specific sequence of events leading up» to the adoption of the challenged Executive Order are as full of religious animus, invective, and obvious pretext as is the record here, it is no wonder that the Government urges the Court to altogether ignore that history and context,» Watson wrote.

The next important line of defense consists in the claim that the New Testament has preserved records of such historical value that their testimony to the «bodily resurrection» establishes it beyond all reasonable doubt as an historical event.

However, we must continue to insist that Christian ethics stem from Jesus and his revelation of God as the source transcending all others, and even with some uncertainty as to the detailed accuracy of the historical record, the picture is clear.

But as both texts make clear, all writers currently adopting the brand name «Holocaust revisionism» defy or corrupt the recognized canons of historiographic investigation and truth; they distort and manipulate the historical record to create usable falsehoods that can advance the agenda of «an extreme right - wing that sees itself as heir to Nazism and dreams of its rehabilitation» (Vidal - Naquet).

Ever since the end of the first century the traditional view of the resurrection appeared to embody reasonably clear and final answers to these questions and it was supported by the New Testament records, which quickly came to be regarded as historical evidence written by eye - witnesses.

In the course of many centuries the biblical record has left us with an impressive compendium of historical testimony to God's dealings with Israel, expressed in terms of a wide variety of diverse and often conflicting perspectives, which so perplexed the Greek mind as it tried to come to terms with the foundations of Christian theology.

I have not here considered the question of the historical value of the Gospels as a record of facts.

Quite obviously, we do not know all that he meant by it — we can not hope to, separated as we are by twenty centuries from his time and dependent as we are upon a few meager records — but we are by no means altogether in ignorance of his meaning, and as historical research enables us to recover more fully the mental climate of Jesus» environment, our understanding becomes deeper and more adequate.

There is a difference between the «historical» Jesus, who quite frankly there is also zero evidence actually existed... no records, nothing, while there are records of other prominent people of that time period... you'd think if Jesus had really done such miraculous things there'd be a record other than the bible somewhere, but there's not... and the mythological Jesus which was created using the possible historical Jesus as a template.

Far more than simply a historical issue, the unique events leading to the Flood are a prerequisite to understanding the prophetic implications of our Lord's predictions regarding His Second Coming.1 (italics are mine) The strange events recorded in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women - known as the «Nephilim.»

I suppose if we could revisit ourselves in a thousand years, look at the historical recordings of ourselves, we will see there are factual basis, but sprinkled with human interpretation of our present time now by those who have appointed themselves as the keepers of what we do, just as the recordings of the Bible were done by those appointees trying to capture there presnt now... yet sprinkled with their best interpretation of what they new then.

Second, one might view this as a post-socialist era for theoretical reasons: Given the historical record of socialism in this century, one can say with some assurance that all the claims made for it have been decisively falsified» be it in terms of economic performance, of political liberation, of social equality, or of the quality of life.

The ideas on which the formula was based came out of ancient ancestral traditions; the logic of the doctrine was unassailable once the premises were granted; great prophets, such as Amos, Micah, and Jeremiah, held stoutly to it; and the formula was confirmed and solidified by the final rewriting of the Hebrew historical narratives to illustrate the thesis that every calamity in Israel's record had been a definite punishment for Israel's transgression.

When he goes on to claim this as «a matter of historical record» and to contend that» [Leonardo] Da Vinci was certainly aware of that fact,» one can only wonder what «record» he is referring to.

Take away those unprovable points of magic and you are left with a mildly entertaining set of stories, where the older the stories, the less credible they are even as a historical record.

It is difficult to present the early history of St. Thomas Christians in India as a connected story due to lack of sufficient historical records.