Sentences with phrase «end of history which»

Each is regarded as a creation of the divine which is fulfilled, and not annulled by the source and end of history which is rightly revered as divine.

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Enron, which ended in perhaps the most spectacular disaster in U.S. corporate history, had a great set of core values.

«It's the end of a very painful and sad chapter in the history of a young nation, in which a dictator, as he became old, surrendered his court to a gang of thieves around his wife,» he said.

Hostess, which has filed for bankruptcy twice in its nearly century - old history, generated sales of about $ 650 million in the 12 months ended May 31.

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.»

Kersi Antia, a marketing professor at Ivey School of Business, says the American chains, which have an entrenched history of success at the high end, will likely be the winners.

Gergely Szalka of MSCI's Valuation Research Group and I studied all U.S. convertible bonds outstanding over the two - year period ending December 31, 2016 for which the MSCI database had a rating from Standard & Poor's ¹ and a continuous price history.

But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

It betrays legislative history, which reveals that Congress passed antitrust laws to promote a host of political economic ends — including our interests as workers, producers, entrepreneurs, and citizens.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

i am happy that you had help in your time of need,, but at the end of the day these were not Mormons, or Catholics, or Jews or atheists... they were human beings helping human beings, which has been part of our evolutionary history..

A prolepsis, as he uses the notion, is simply a claim staked out in history, which, when and if history is fulfilled, will be verified or falsified, and which is of such a nature that those who in the meantime have accepted it will all along have been living appropriately to the truth that will at the end be discovered.

The real question is will we continue to at least strive for separation of Church and State or go down the slippery slope that leads ever closer to a Theocracy - which never had ended well in the entire history of mankind.

I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.

This is the story of the Battle of Lepanto, which marked the end of the Crusades and was a turning point in the history of Christianity.

The Holy Spirit is with millions (just ask) at this moment and Christ rose from the dead about 2,000 years ago which is close to the end of what is typically considered ancient history (476AD).

Generations of Catholics, including priests, learned [scholasticism] almost by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.

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.

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardener.

Jaded by experience and suspicious of narrative, we can not credit the secular prophecies of the past two centuries, which divined the end of history in a worker's state or the global triumph of democratic capitalism.

Contemporary methodology has not discontinued these methods in its new understanding of history, but has merely shifted them more decidedly from ends to means It is true that the «explanation» of an event or viewpoint does not consist merely in showing its external causes or identifying the source from which an idea was borrowed.

A decade after having proclaimed the «end of history» and the arrival of a new world order of prosperity based on «democracy and the market», globalised financial capital has subjected the majority of the planet's working populations to the burden of international recession, which has spread out in leaps and bounds, from Asia: recession and deflation in the world's second economy, Japan; recession and even depression m various east Asian countries, since the first quarter of 1997; the collapse of the Russian economy six years ago and financial bankruptcy in July 1998; brutal recession in the leading economy of Latin America, Brazil; the beginning of the downturn in the economies of the OECD countries.

There will be no end at which all meaning is gathered together, and certainly this is impossible during the course of history.

It is scarcely questionable, however, that this symbol originally pointed to the final consummation of a dynamic process of the transcendent's becoming immanent: of a distant, a majestic, and a sovereign Lord breaking into time and space in such a way as to transfigure and renew all things whatsoever, thereby abolishing the old cosmos of the original creation, and likewise bringing to an end all that law and religion which had thus far been established in history.

But from God's own perspective, the end of history is simply the point at which we encounter the reality that was true all along — that God is indeed eternally and self - consistently God but manifests Godself to history only as its forward flow is terminated.

Millennialism began in the very first generation of the church, and there has scarcely been a period of history since which has not witnessed predictions of its own imminent end.

But in the end we shall be left with the incomprehensibility of history which has been discussed at the beginning.

This, he claims, is in accordance with the Scriptures, which declare that only at the end of history is the deity of God unquestionably open to all - an event.

Well known is his emphasis on Jesus as the prolepsis of God's self - disclosure, which ultimately lies at the end of history., Equally familiar is the centrality of the resurrection for Pannenberg's Christology and his emphasis on the historicity of this event.

Jerusalem and Benares represent what are probably the two sharpest alternatives in the religious history of mankind» the city in which the Ark of the Covenant was set down, in which Jesus ended his earthly ministry, and from which Muhammad ascended to heaven» and that other city, where a thousand gods descend into the river at dawn and near which the Buddha preached his first sermon announcing liberation to all sentient beings.

That the Lord is nigh, that the believer is standing at the end of time and history — is only a way of expressing the ultimacy and the certainty of the truth and reality which the Christian confesses in faith.

They have been subjected to an unparalleled history of extreme coercion and violence which did not end with emancipation but has taken ever new forms to the present day.

Those who have faith in the divine forgiveness are participants in the history of salvation which reaches to the creation of heaven and earth in the beginning, and to the new heavens and the new earth at the end.

Christ, true God and true man, the Lord of the cosmos, is also the Lord of history, of which he is the «the alpha and the omega», «the beginning and the end» (Rev 1:8; 21:16).

But as a result of its willingness to comply with any secular authority which would protect its own religious practice, Christianity ended by accommodating itself through history to everything wicked and degrading in the social existence of human beings.

The Penguin History of Economics defines economics as «a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means with alternative uses».

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.»

Because ancient man did not draw such a clear line of distinction between myth and history, it was possible for the myth of the end - time to hold a particular kind of reality for him which it can not hold for us, and there is no point in attempting to disguise this difference.

Toward that end, I propose the following six categories for the major activities of God in history, which are also the major ways of living like Jesus in the world:

His life ends on the cross which stands at the edge of history showing man what his spirit ought to be, at the same time that it discloses what man as man can not be.

The judgment which the myth portrays within the context of the end - time is really taking place already in the stream of human 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.

From the creation of the world before time to the consummation of all things at the end of time, the Bible describes the life of man with God as a series of events which taken together constitute the history of the work of redemption.

Christ has demonstrated the full meaning of what it means to be a man; therefore, he is fully the second Adam, the standard by which God will finally judge man at the end of history.

In the same way the myth of the end - time is not a literal prophecy of something which is going to happen chronologically at the end of history.

The fall of man is no longer taken as an event at the beginning of human history, nor is the «end of history» a literal conception of a point of time at which the world ceases to be.

A note which permeates biblical thinking, in contrast with the cyclical or static views often found in other faiths, is that all history moves toward the fulfillment of a divine purpose — toward an end in the double sense of both finish and fulfillment.

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.

In the end, then, «Juan as such» is an abstraction, derived from a positively oceanic literary history, of which any distillate is necessarily only very partial.