Sentences with phrase «coming end of history»

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.

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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.
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