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orders Thursday and officials in two other counties issued voluntary
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history as additional evacuations are announced.
Thucydides, in one of the most brilliant passages of his
history of the war, described the breakdown of social
order as follows:
Start
as you would wish to go on, maintain your new card in good
order, and you'll build yourself an excellent credit
history that will mean that after six months or a year you should be able to open a credit card with a much lower interest rate and fewer fees.
In proposing the «Idea»
as the wellspring of both nature and
history, working itself out by converting the inconclusiveness of time into the universality of Spirit, the Hegelian project invited the final triumph of sheer eventuality over rational
order.
As Ronald A. Wells recounts in the Journal of Presbyterian
History, i n 1966 the United Farm Workers organized a march from Delano, California, to the state capitol of California in
order to demand recognition of the rights of farm workers.
This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in
history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform;
order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety
as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community
as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.
That may mean rejecting the medieval world» the «Dark Ages»» or embracing the medieval world
as if that were our most recent Eden, nominalism poisoned our intellectual life, whether one takes himself to be of the left or right, insofar
as one justifies
order merely in terms of
history or these mechanisms collectively referred to
as «nature.»
Missouri Executive
Order 44, also known as the «Mormon Extermination Order» in Latter Day Saint history, was an executive order issued on October 27, 1838, by Governor of Missouri Lilburn B
Order 44, also known
as the «Mormon Extermination
Order» in Latter Day Saint history, was an executive order issued on October 27, 1838, by Governor of Missouri Lilburn B
Order» in Latter Day Saint
history, was an executive
order issued on October 27, 1838, by Governor of Missouri Lilburn B
order issued on October 27, 1838, by Governor of Missouri Lilburn Boggs.
History is indeed a moral order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human a
History is indeed a moral
order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of
history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human a
history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human affairs.
The mystery of creation and the
history of salvation can then be shown anew to the world with great clarity and power
as the one unfolding plan of Gods Wisdom and Love in which all things are
ordered towards the incarnate Lordship of Jesus Christ in whom we are destined to be made co-sharers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).
If one is persuaded that Whitehead's account is indeed the most penetrating that now exists, that it does justice to the complexity of the phenomena of science and of
history alike, then the fact that it too leads, almost in spite of the author's apparent intention, to a doctrine of God
as the source and ground of
order is an important further confirmation of the inescapability for speculative reason of some kind of belief in God.
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).»
If the world is pictured not
as an eternal cosmos but
as an historical process, then the
orders will not be placed in a timeless realm above and beyond
history.
The Christian community began
as a small group expecting the end of
history, and enjoying a certain indifference to the secular
orders.
He sees the structure of being
as the eternal
order in the mind of God, but he wants to conceive reality including God himself
as exhibiting a real
history of concrete happenings.
Stoicism offers an obvious example: a vision of the universe
as a fated, eternally repeated divine and cosmic
history, a world in which finite forms must constantly perish simply in
order to make room for others, and which in its entirety is always consumed in a final ecpyrosis (which makes a sacrificial pyre, so to speak, of the whole universe).
For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the
history, such
as the denomination's response to the New
Order of the Latter Rain.
It is not
as if God were absent from it and then intervened in it now and again; in the more profound sense, the unexhausted divine self ever energizes in nature and
history, and above all in the lives of men and women, expressing that self in such a fashion that the whole created
order is in one sense God's body.
See the answer above — I see the Genesis narratives
as God graciously reaching down to an ancient culture in
order to communicate to them that he is their creator, that they are alienated from him, and that he desires that they be restored to fellowship through his offer of covenant with him (ultimately pointing to the need for God to step into
history himself
as the One who can keep the covenant on our behalf).
In
order to interpret this core - principle of revelation, we must understand its essential presupposition; namely, that events are present «in» other events - present not just abstractly (through «eternal objects»), i.e., mediated by the «general,» but
as singular events that effect their further
history by their unique concreteness (PR 338).12 Whitehead recognizes precisely this constellation when he says:» [T] he truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.
The symbolic function of creation in valuing time and
history becomes clearer when the Genesis accounts are compared with myths whose purpose is to legitimate cyclical time (
as in the Babylonian myth of the primeval conquest of Tiamat by Marduk, alluded to in Genesis 1:2), or to those in which time itself is a negative aspect of a fallen
order (
as in Plato's myth of the fall of the soul, or similar myths favored by Hindu and Buddhist mysticism).
As Barkun notes, Pat Robertson's 1991 bestseller The New World Order portrays history as a vast conspiracy originating with the Masons and the Bavarian Illuminati and continuing through the Rothchilds, the first Congress (which emblazoned that sinister motto Novus Ordo Seclorum on the Great Seal of the United States), the Federal Reserve Board, the UN, the Trilateral Commission and the Beatle
As Barkun notes, Pat Robertson's 1991 bestseller The New World
Order portrays
history as a vast conspiracy originating with the Masons and the Bavarian Illuminati and continuing through the Rothchilds, the first Congress (which emblazoned that sinister motto Novus Ordo Seclorum on the Great Seal of the United States), the Federal Reserve Board, the UN, the Trilateral Commission and the Beatle
as a vast conspiracy originating with the Masons and the Bavarian Illuminati and continuing through the Rothchilds, the first Congress (which emblazoned that sinister motto Novus Ordo Seclorum on the Great Seal of the United States), the Federal Reserve Board, the UN, the Trilateral Commission and the Beatles.
In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new
order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in
history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new
order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority
as its first clear manifestation.
Rather, Pannenberg understands the logos
as representing the
order of the world
as history.
His story, and that of other Chinese Indonesian Christians, has much to teach us
as we consider whether or not to embrace Rod Dreher's Benedict Option (retreat in
order to rebuild), or instead seek positive solutions to social problems in an America that judges us on the wrong side of
history.
The student is helped to acquire the aptitudes needed in
order to do
history or philosophy or a social science
as aptitudes needed to inquire critically into the validity of Christian witness.
The founding generation eschewed any hypostatizing derailments, particularly the abandonment of the divine communion, and sought to transfer the responsibility
as «carrier of the
order of
history» from the empire to the republican citizen who understood that «revelation» acted
as «God's appeal to man to place himself under his
order...»
Just
as our peoples, at a certain moment of their
history, were mature enough to say «no» to all forms of political colonization, so too in our families we need to be very wise, very shrewd, very strong, in
order to say «no» to all attempts at an ideological colonization of our families.
«
As a plain matter of fact, he has done more to start the nation toward a socialist
order than all the agitation carried on by all the avowedly socialist agents in our national
history» (March 22, 1933).
And while our religious tradition is often not
as easy to comprehend
as our individual
histories, we must make the attempt in
order to identify what we have in common.
The conception of peace
as an
ordered tranquillity which must continually be worked for through
history contrasts markedly with the utopian ideal of peace found in some religious and nonreligious thinking about the possibilities of international
order, not to mention with the empirical reality of conflict within states and conflicts between states and nonstate actors in the contemporary world.
All consideration in terms of process is merely an
ordering of pure «having become,» of the separated world - event, of objectivity
as though it were
history; the presence of the Thou, the becoming out of solid connexion, is inaccessible to it.
History is being repeated, mankind does not want to learn from stories of nations of old in
order not fall again and again with out hold his steps for moments to think for his self
as «why» when ever some one brings by the truth has to be killed??? Peace to all,
In our
history, in our society, in our churches, the heterosexual box is that into which girls are pressed into ladies who should marry and who must be held within the social
order as subordinate to husbands, fathers, or father - surrogates — regardless of the unique and individual capacities, needs, and desires of either women or men.
The ultimate reality, instead of being,
as in Jewish apocalyptic, figured
as the last term in the historical series, is conceived
as an eternal
order of being, of which the phenomenal
order in
history is the shadow or symbol.
Any society in
history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of
order and mutual responsibility,
as well
as creation of new structures of public morality.
The spiritual vision of modernity
as we know it in ideology and practice has emphasized three aspects of realty, namely progress through differentiation and autonomy of individuality; the concept of the world
as history moving towards the Future through the creativity of human rationality; and the ethos of secularism
as the basis of social
ordering.
God is still that supreme reality who on the one hand maintains
order and provides novelty and on the other hand through the process of nature and
history secures ends that are incorporated into the divine self (in the divine «consequent nature,»
as process thinkers would say), and thus validates and vindicates what is done in the world.
As we have seen, that
history tries to demonstrate that for the modern self there is no longer any publicly established moral
order to which all can refer; rather, every view «comes indexed to a personal vision.»
Or arguing in the other direction, if we take Jesus
as significant for human life and
history, He must also be seen
as having some relationship to the setting of that life and
history — the natural
order — and hence be
as much a «disclosure» of that
as He is of man's existence.
If Iran doesn't want to go down in
history as the weakest political and spiritual PAWN of EVIL, it will get itself in
order.
The secret is that God is love; and it carries with it the corollary that God who is love «works in all respects for a good end to those who love him», in the natural
order as well
as in
history.
They have been stirred together in a mortar, and the two elements have completely neutralized each other in a compound which is neither
history nor interpretation, but mystical rhapsody and poetry of devotion, not so much a theology
as a half - Gnostic Christian theosophy —
history turned inside out in
order to reveal its inner meaning, but ceasing to be
history in the process.
And just
as families select artifacts that suggest past happiness in
order to soften the blows inflicted by actions of family members in less happy times, congregational
histories can create illusions: authors might relate in two sentences the experience of an unhappy pastorate that led to two decades of misery — and distort the whole story by dwelling on the beauty of the old sanctuary, hence suggesting general happiness.
The Church,
as much
as the State, is constitutional to the very
order of man's life and being; and Jesus Christ is the Lord of
History because Christ is Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end (Revelation 21:6) in time and in eternity.
The Church,
as Christ the Saviour working upon all men in word, in life and in sacrament, is not accidental or incidental to the
order of human
history, but part of that
order and the sign of the deepest meaning of human culture in time and for eternity.