Sentences with phrase «as subjects of history»

The first issue is communication and information in relation to the people as subject of history and in relation to the powers that dominate the people.

Such workings are the province of Earth - system science, which sees the planet not just as a set of places, or as the subject of a history, but also as a system of forces, flows and feedbacks that act upon each other.

Not exact matches

As histories of this subject go, few are deeper or more provocative.

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As his compatriots strain and huff to push Falstaff's oversized coffin, a God - like voiceover (Ralph Richardson) shares text from Holinshed's Chronicles, describing the reign of Henry V. Hal ascends to become legendary, or at least, to become the subject of History.

Of course, all that Paul VI did, as Anscombe among many other unapologetic Catholics then and since have pointed out, was reiterate what just about everyone in the history of Christendom had ever said on the subjecOf course, all that Paul VI did, as Anscombe among many other unapologetic Catholics then and since have pointed out, was reiterate what just about everyone in the history of Christendom had ever said on the subjecof Christendom had ever said on the subject.

And as Alexis de Tocqueville observed, some of this has to do with the profound intellectual changes characteristic of a democratizing world, changes that alter both the subject matter of history and the historian's manner of approach to it.

Smith's marital history had been the subject of frequent historical debate, but until recently Mormon leaders had taken pains to present its founding prophet as happily married to one woman.

As a history of its subject this book is likely to be the principal reference - point for students for a very long time.

Rubenstein can teach the Christian that the God who stands aloof from the history of nations is the God who stands aloof from Auschwitz, and that the price of accepting a dehistorized or subjective God (the God who is absolute Subject and only Subject) is the abandonment of the objective world or reality as such to the realm of «flesh.»

Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.

In hopes of a deeper understanding of God, we study such subjects as Jesus Christ and Israel, scripture in tradition, the history of practices of interpretation of scripture and practices of response to God in worship, moral responsibility and institution building.

«Salvation history,» not because every moment of this world is willed by God in a direct manner — the bloodletting of Herod is not intended by God as the flight of Jesus is — but because the voice crying out in Rama is as much the subject of sacred prophecy as Jesus's flight.

Steve... I think we're floggin» a dead horse here, but for what it's worth, understand that I'm not trying to convince you to think like I do, rather I wd hope that room wd be made for many theological differences.To think discuss and debate theology is well supported by the New Testament and history, and is perfectly within the bounds of what it means to engage our minds with the subject at hand.Theologians and biblical scholars have done this very thing for centuries, revealing a plethora of opinion on the evolving world of biblical studies.Many capable authors have written and debated the common themes as well as the differences between Paul, John, Jesus, the synoptics, etc..

Impelled by a need to find the roots of their form of Mormonism, leading historians of the Reorganization have embarked on an exercise in higher criticism, subjecting to close scrutiny Joseph Smith's story and Mormon scripture as well as the two official versions of church history.

We do not necessarily infer that legend is early and history late, for legend and history may develop simultaneously around the same subject, as they apparently do, for example, in the case of the prophet Elijah, in the ninth century.

The subject of his continuing studies was usually either a branch of theology or something that theology had given rise to, such as Oriental languages or history.

First, history is fundamental in the sense that realization of Dalits as the «subjects» of history is essential towards recovery and recapture of their lost dignity.

Zen begins with the ordinary individual who is separated from his own true Buddha nature by the false dichotomies of a «Buddha» far back in history, or now in Nirvana; or, more existentially, man as separated from the world around him by a subject - object dualism.

Subject - object history can not adequately understand events because the I of the historian is that of the disinterested spectator while the persons whom he describes are usually treated as Its rather than as Thous.

One can not understand the current conflicts apart from the history of the field's comparatively recent emergence as an academic subject.

Of course, I enjoy reading history as well as numerous other subjects.

I might have expected him to write well on subjects such as Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes, John Paul II, and the history of the Catholic Church in the United States — and he does so, and the reader will not be disappointed.

The church certainly has a long history of using legislation to gain its ends and now Sam Harris is saying that the church should not have special support, either socially or otherwise, but be subject to the same requirements for merit as other institutions.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

I had a fascinating conversation with Max Stackhouse of Andover - Newton Seminary who felt that one of our greatest needs in the subject area of this book was for an examination of the history of preaching on certain texts as the «Rich Young Ruler» to see how sermons related to different contexts.

Moreover, theologians need to subject to critical evaluation the presuppositions about man, history, and values that underlie the forecasts and findings of secular thinkers, as well as the strategies they propose to lead men toward desirable alternatives.

Modern non-religious man assumes a new existential situation; he regards himself solely as the subject and agent of history, and he refuses all appeal to transcendence.

Thus when one of his disciples, the future Cardinal, Baronius, proved incapable of preaching on any subject other than the pains of hell, Philip refused to allow him to preach on spiritual subjects at all, and made him teach Church History instead (Baronius went on to become one of the greatest Catholic historians ever, as well as a candidate for Beatification).

Instead it moved towards an over-evaluation of the individual as the unique subject of current history at a time when capitalism had provided for itself the material and technical basis of a real world system.

Despite its many merits, A People Apart represents a vision of modern Jewish history that serves as an obstacle to our understanding of the subject.

The emergence, in the course of history, of the ability to think of the other as another subject and to appreciate the moral demand that this lays upon one — to treat the other as an end and not only as a means — is an achievement of civilization that most of us are not willing to abandon.

A few histories of local churches have examined the identifying cultural traits of their subjects, exploring the symbolic patterns that give a particular congregation its unique character, instead of the far more common topics of local church history, such as campaigns, catastrophes, and clergy.

Prior to the professionalization of history as a distinct academic discipline, the professors of ecclesiastical (church) history at the major Scottish universities taught a subject slightly different than that which likely comes to mind when we think of Church history today.

Since this is territory that has been well covered in recent years — in biographies of the principal players, as well as in numerous volumes of history and political analysis — the question naturally arises: what does Kramer have to say that sheds new light on the subject?

Wach always asserted that the method of the history of religions must be commensurate with its subject matter, that is, the nature and expressions of the religious experience of humankind as that experience has been unfolded in history.

What would you think of working on subject matter such as the history of evangelicalism, the Roman Catholic experience in America, the ministry of historic mainline Protestant churches, or the Mormons?

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

That allowed me to show why various subject matters that ought to be studied by a theological school (e.g., Bible, Christian history, theology, psychology and sociology of religion, etc.) are best studied in their theological significance (i.e., as means to understanding God) by studying them in their relation to the common life of actual congregations.

Metz, on his side, denies that any one party or class should see itself as the subject of universal history; 28 and Whitehead's vision allows, even requires, an argument that supports the Christian concern for «the least».

As a rule, totalitarianism endeavors to do away with the individual subject: his thought is replaced by ideology, his speech is replaced by some dialectical variety of Newspeak, his actions are replaced by the automatic development of Progress, History, or class struggle, supervised by the State or the Party» which, thanks to its «hundreds of eyes» (Brecht, Die Massnahme), is supposed to be wiser and more farsighted than any one of us.

Even such a subject as church history, often labeled esoteric and arcane by nonspecialists, can be applied to the pastoral ministry of the church.

In the Marxist transformation the proletariat, in so far as it is conscious of its mission, constitutes the true subject of history.

Religious phenomenology and history are not two sciences but are two complementary aspects of the integral science of religion, and the science of religion as such has a well - defined character given to it by its unique and proper subject matter.

The crucial problem is how to develop coordination and co-operation among (a) theoreticians of the systematic aspects of the general history of religions, (b) historians of religions who deal with regional cultures and specific religions, (c) historians of religions who are competent in auxiliary disciplines, as well as scholars in the related subjects.

The social sciences also offer an interesting variety of subjects, such as «Natural Man and Ideal Man in Western Thought» and «Freedom and Authority in the Modern World» in the elementary courses, and «History of Far Eastern Civilization,» «Introduction to the Civilization of India,» and «Introduction to the Civilization of the Middle East» in the secondary group.

I've also been reading a lot, as usual — currently historical fiction (Hundred Years Wars / Wars of the Roses period) and the real period of history that is the subject of my historical fiction reads as well as Tom Standage's books about the Turk, a chess - playing automaton, (reviewed here) and the history of the telegraph.

Since our country has such a short history of eating GMOs, it amounts to a large public health experiment with you as the subject.

Before then, accounts of culinary subjects were «regarded as relevant only to a kind of anthropology of ceremony,» in the words of Paul Freedman, editor of Food: The History of Taste.

If BFS stays which is looking more likely Zarate, Nene, Alfitano are history because they are not wanted under his it's my way or the highway, What a way to watch the collapse of a great club and DS and DG have the nerve to call there selves fans, this is all about business they have millions and not a lot of time to spend it but they intend to walk out of our club with as much money as possible, I just hope we don't end up like Birmingham, Sorry Hugh gone off subject but aren't you getting that bad feeling in your guts.