The Darwinian metaphor of evolution was used to express a faith in a Historical future, in either
the coming end of History (Marx) or a more indefinite perfectibility in which our alienating technological progress would finally be ennobled by a corresponding moral progress (say, John Stuart Mill or Walt Whitman) that would be the source of the elusive human happiness promised by modern liberation.
Not exact matches
His biggest victory this year may have
come at the
end of October, when Tesla announced that it had its second profitable quarter in the company's
history, shocking analysts who thought that the company would be reporting yet another loss.
During their private meeting, Kim told Moon he
came to the summit to
end the
history of conflict and joked he was sorry for keeping Moon up with his late night missile tests, a South Korean official said.
And now that the time for revisionist
history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are
coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year -
end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level
of 2140.»
We have, after all, been in one
of the longest bull markets in
history and bull markets always
come to an
end at some point.
The Harcourt General era
of Neiman Marcus's
history came to an
end in April 2002 with the former company's announcement that it had liquidated its entire remaining stake in Neiman Marcus Group.
We are
coming to the
end of San Diego Women's Week and National Women's
History Month, but the parade
of pioneers marches on.
This publication focuses on the
end of a cycle like no other; with
history's greatest monetary experiment
coming to a close, markets must deal with harsh late - cycle realities.
What if He takes His place in
history / With all the prophets and the kings / Who taught us love and
came in peace / But then the story
ends, what then... But what if you're wrong / What if there's more / What if there's hope / You never dreamed
of hoping for
As Karl Barth put it, we «must not blind ourselves to... [the fact] that the kingdom
of God has
come from heaven to earth, that it has taken solid shape amongst us, and that it has foreshadowed the
end of all human
history and therefore
of the child - parent relationship.»
Thus the forward movement
of history must be toward an
end in which that movement will
come to absolute rest, or at least to total moments in which all past and future are abolished.
Meanwhile, there have been people throughout
history making all kinds
of end -
of - the - world predictions, and none
of them ever
came true.
The anticipation
of the
end of the age, along with the hope for a new world to
come, has had a long
history in Judeo - Christian tradition.
He saw eschatology (the announcement that ordinary things were
ending) as the heart
of the gospel, but his eschatology was not a description
of the world's
history to
come, and its preaching was not a visible exhibition.
The problem for the doomsday folk is that
history is to
come to an
end at the
end of 6,000 years, not at the start
of 6,000 years.
The issues
of chief difficulty arise at the point
of questions as to whether Jesus expected the Kingdom to
come on earth or only in some realm beyond earthly
history, and in the latter event, whether he expected earthly
history to
end very soon by a catastrophic divine intervention when he himself would return in glory to reign over a transfigured world.
Adherents invariably saw themselves living on the cusp
of history, straddling the
end of the present age and the beginning
of the age to
come.
In the discourse itself (Luke 17:22 - 37), Jesus anticipates the early church's perplexity over the nonappearance
of the supernatural Son
of man, the divine being who will
come and usher in the final days at the
end of history.
After all,
history, and even recent
history, knows instances where a powerful personality, temporarily and for particular
ends, has
come to embody in himself the spirit and purpose
of a whole nation, and has been spontaneously recognized as its representative, in a more than formal sense.
It was an event in the
history of salvation, in the realm
of eternity..., in an analogous way,
history comes to an
end in the religious experience
of any Christian «who is in Christ»... For although the advent
of Christ is an historical event which happened «once» in the past, it is, at the same time, an eternal event which occurs again and again in the soul
of any Christian.»
This heavenly messenger, God's special agent to usher in the new regime at the
end of earthly
history,
came commonly to be spoken
of as the Son
of man.
It is doubtful that «realized eschatology» is a good name for this point
of view, for it suggests that the
end of history has already
come and minimizes the futuristic element in the thought
of Jesus.
The «Antichrist» will appear at the
end of history, and the final victory
of Christ will therefore
come not in
history but at the
end of history.
There is no reason to think that all
history is
ending irrevocably for men because the human race quails before powers which it dare not trust itself to use, and before unanswered riddles it has
come to despair
of solving.
The career
of Jesus was the beginning
of a mighty eschatological event with which
history was rapidly
coming to an
end.
The phrase «realized eschatology» suggests that the
end of history has now
come.
Some believe that Jesus preached its
coming on earth and taught us to labor and pray for it; while others place it either at the
end of earthly
history or totally beyond it in a transcendent realm.
This would be the return
of Christ from Heaven to serve as God's agent in the final judgment and redemption, with which
history would
end and the life
of the «world to
come» would be fully inaugurated.
For the eschatological hope was not a hope only; the return
of Jesus as Inaugurator
of the age to
come would be but the culmination
of an event which had already begun and was now far advanced, the eschatological event with which
history was
ending.
Johnson offers a thoughtful critique
of Meier's project but one has to wonder whether he does not
end up
coming perilously close to following Meier in divorcing fact from meaning,
history from faith.
It is my view that all human beings
come to the realm
of human civility with ultimate assumptions about the purposes and
ends that run through human
history.
The story line is that God's good creation fell away, that God entered into creation to restore and renew it, and that this restoration will be accomplished in the
end of history when Christ
comes again.
Our task as Christians in the world is to discern the signs
of the Lord's
coming, to preach the resurrection from the dead as the radical impingement on
history of the
end of history, the emergence in this age
of the new age.
The Vatican statement is very significant, not only because it is immediately beneficial to Jews, but even more importantly because it is part
of a larger process
of the Church's
coming to grips with her Jewish origins and her coexistence with the Jewish people until the
end of history.
Unless we engage in what Beardslee astutely calls a «refusal
of distance,» we will not be able to break away from the contingent particularity
of our Christian
history, a
history that in any case is rapidly
coming to an
end.
As Francis Fukuyama famously pronounced, we had
come to the «
end of history.»
But this task
of drawing all men to Himself the divine purpose to «sum up all things in Christ», will not be effected till the
end of history; and the fellowship
of love which it is the divine plan to establish can not
come into being in its completeness within
history at all, for it must be more than a fellowship
of contemporaries.
As we reflect on the future
of Protestantism it will not do to say that
history is change, that the world is always
coming to an
end in the straightforward sense that today will become tomorrow.
In him the
history of Israel has
come, rather, to its
end.
Unlike Western
history, which is continuous from the Middle Ages to the present, Byzantine
history came to a decisive and definitive
end at the fall
of Constantinople.
Most Protestant millenarians are adherents
of dispensationalism, and they assert that believers need not fear the violence and conflict (the «tribulation») at the
end of history, for the saved will be rescued in the «rapture» - lifted off the earth to dwell with Christ in heaven until the Second
Coming.
The student who
came to Fosdick seemed to be recapitulating this bit
of history, starting out as a theist and
ending up an atheist.
One
of the important truths which this very useful book underlines is the simple fact that as neither the Church nor the doctrine
of the Church
came to an abrupt
end with the death
of the last apostle and the conclusion
of the New Testament, Greek itself well outlived the apostolic period and continued to enrich the Church through
history, philosophy, theology, hymns and sermons for a long time after 100AD.
We see the possibility that human
history will
come to its
end neither in a brotherhood
of man nor in universal death under the blows
of natural or man - made catastrophe, but in the gangrenous corruption
of a social life in which every promise, contract, treaty and «word
of honor» is given and accepted in deception and distrust.
His work on offense was so brilliant, that if you take a deep dive into his season, you'll
come to the realization that no one in the
history of the NBA has ever had a season on that
end of the floor quite like The Beard.
It's perfectly fine if this is the
end: A-Rod is one
of the greatest players in baseball
history, a lightning rod in the industry well before PEDs ever
came up, and he did his time when he was caught with them, anyway — well, when MLB obstructed a federal investigation to make sure he was caught with them so Bud Selig could use his last year as commissioner as a victory lap, but who remembers such unimportant details?
We are a fantastic club with
history other clubs can only dream
of (including spuds) we will
come again and currently we are only above average but we will
end up top four.
Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass
of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both
ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best
of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note
of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many
of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out
of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss
of Cazorla, who took a lot
of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it
came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk
of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type
of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent
history than Ozil, brief moments
of greatness undercut by long periods
of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste
Even though his Denver Broncos accomplished something that's only happened five times in NFL
history,
coming back from 24 - 0 deficit at halftime, Peyton Manning was not happy about a call during the
end of the game.
Rookie Kareem Hunt led the NFL with 1,327 rushing yards and
came in third with 1,782 yards combined, both franchise records.The Chiefs became the second team in the
history of the NFL (along with the Chargers in 1981) with a quarterback
of 4,000 yards, and a runner, a receiver and a tight
end with a thousand yards each: Alex Smith (4,042), Hunt (1,327), Tyreek Hill (1,183) and Travis Kelce (1,038), respectively.