Sentences with phrase «central fact of history»

The Christian community exists to give witness to the central fact of history — the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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While the Prize itself is awarded only to living people (a fact that spares any blame to the Nobel committee for slighting Franklin), the history of science, say many, has glossed over her central role in the discovery.

His idea of the creative Word, in fact, holds a commanding position in the history of thought,» and, in its developed form, it has become central to the philosophy of the Christian religion.

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

The only thing that can explain how the church clung to this strange alliance for so long is the history of bitterness of the first seventy years of the Kingdom of Italy and the fact that the church was at last coming into its own, legally recognized as a central institution of society instead of existing in some limbo of marginal toleration and occasional minor persecution, that and the fact that the church was, for many people and in many areas, embedded in and serving the interests of the particularistic groups and their essentially pre-Christian group loyalties that regarded Mussolini as their savior.

Despite some excessive enthusiasm over this point by well - meaning Teilhardians of the «60s, no one can deny the central fact of Christianity: God enters into history and into matter in Christ, rendering relative all distinctions between matter and spirit, sacred and secular, before the primal fact of God's redemptive grace in all things.

Yes, seeing as Peyton tries to hammer home the fact that this disaster is really a microcosm for the central characters» crumbling family unit, there is a sense that the whole «death of the other daughter» history could have been added to more, making it feel more like an obligatory excuse for the hero to have both a dark past and a sensitive side.

The idea that Detroit matters — as a vital place, landmark, center of automotive history (old and new)-- is in fact a central tenet of patriotic American thought and our national pride.

Dennis Bock imagines the life of the historical Norman Bethune, keeping the essence of history intact but playing fast and lose with some of the peripheral details, which some readers might consider rather central - such as the fact that the entire novel is addressed to Bethune's daughter who he never met (but historically never had).

In fact, natural resources in the ground are maybe one of the few things in our history that politicians and central banks have not been able to debase.

A central fact of Pit Bulls» history is that their lineage actually makes them less inclined to be aggressive toward humans.

A central fact of pit bulls» history is that their lineage actually makes them less inclined to be aggressive toward humans.

The American Planning Association (which is part of the UN-related Global Planners Network and the World Planners Congress) gives every evidence of supporting the worldwide move toward global central planning, ignoring the fact that individuals have a God - given right to plan their own lives and that the history of government central planning has shown it to be invariably disastrous and always the enemy of prosperity and liberty.

While this fact on its own is likely of little interest to Slaw readers, the technophile lawyers who follow this blog on a regular basis may be intrigued to hear how twitter — for the first time in our firm's history — became unwittingly a very central part of our interview process.

On appeal, the Third District affirmed by relying on the general rule that «a no - accident history of the location of a premises liability case may be admitted into evidence for a variety of purposes including the central one of showing that the area was not in fact dangerous or defective.»

In that year of 2010, in fact, the NUS helped organise one of the largest student protests in history, with up to 50,000 people marching through central London.

Some dramas take key events of history where the accuracy of the facts and their contextual presentation are central to the story.