Porray looks to recorded
events in history which have challenged and often created paradigm shifts about our place in the natural world, or what we call reality.
The Eucharist, Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper, is a memorial, a representation of
the events in the history which brought the faith of the church into existence.
The event in history which is indicated when we say «Jesus Christ» has about it an importance that for Christians is supreme and decisive.
The Holocaust was
an event in history which killed millions of people.
The LIA was
an event in history which killed millions of people.
Not exact matches
This year's 29th installment,
which kicks off March 11, could be the biggest yet with some of the most prominent speakers
in the
event's
history.
«This was indeed an historic
event, I mean the agreement
which was signed between OPEC and non-OPEC countries, it's the first time
in history...
in compliance with the agreement that was reached, we are going to achieve the 300,000 result at a fast pace,» he said.
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Hurricane Maria,
which made landfall on Puerto Rico on September 21 as a Category 4 storm, will go down as one of the most devastating
events in the island's
history.
Fixed income and cash have been influenced by similar
events throughout
history, as have the markets
in which they trade.
This
history of the associated ideas profoundly affects the experiences
in which the past
event is really present.
It was because these
events were so understood, that the little kingdoms of Israel and Judah,
which grew out of the invasion of Palestine, made a fertile ground for the later prophetic teaching about God's revelation
in history.
Human beings have a long
history filled with situations
in which they simply decide, for no rational reason whatsoever, to attribute ordinary natural
events to supernatural forces.
The Incarnation is not merely an
event — not even The Event in salvation history — it is the final chapter in the unfolding history of creation and salvation through which God raises up his material creation to the heights of perfect union with Him
event — not even The
Event in salvation history — it is the final chapter in the unfolding history of creation and salvation through which God raises up his material creation to the heights of perfect union with Him
Event in salvation
history — it is the final chapter
in the unfolding
history of creation and salvation through
which God raises up his material creation to the heights of perfect union with Himself.
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.
But this does not imply and must not suggest that the gospel is not grounded
in history and established upon
events which actually occurred
in the world of human experience.
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.
For «providence» is a word
which tells us of the conviction that God exercises a never - failing and personal control over, even as he unfailingly works within, the
events and circumstances of life, molding them and molding us
in such a way that his grace and power are manifested
in human
history and
in personal experience.
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.»
Those
events in which God gives us this glimpse form the core of salvation
history from its origins down to the present day.
Here, we apply the «ontological principle»
which,
in this context, means that
history must not only be interpreted either by reason or by communication, but
in the light of the «diachron transcendence» of passed and future
events.
Instead, it is the coming
history in which the revealing
event «repeats» itself.
It is the decisive
event in which God's judgment on the whole of
history is rendered with the corresponding outcome, customarily described as reward and punishment.
The prophets, on the other hand, looked for the activity of God
in specific
events, tending to regard
history as an arena
in which God «acted».
«Relation» is understood on the model of an
event in time and space; that is, it has a reality
which transcends man as well as involving him, and it occurs
in the flux of
history.
Again, theologians who are persuaded of their usefulness
in conveying theological meaning to the contemporary mind may have gone so far as to claim emergent evolution to be a theological symbol by
which biblical
events of
history as well as subsequent doctrinal formulations may be explicated.
the proof of Gods presence
in us is not limited to the material or biological evolutionary development only, but most important scientific proof is the effect of His will
in historical development of the world.A computer program now used and tested a powerful machine by inputing all recorded
events in history during the last hundreds years and found out that it has a purpose and not random.Meaning that an intelligent being could have influence it.It is now presumed by the religious observers that it could be His will.The process now is under improvement, because the computers is not powerl enough the deluge of information and data since the beginning of
history, some analyst believes that
in them near future if the Quantum computers
which is much powerful than the present coventional will be used, then dramatic results and confirmation will be at hand.
Only someone who overlooks the fact that this answer itself has a real
history which is a
history of the reality reflected on as well as of the reflection itself, can think that the Church with its principles, because they too can be given concrete form, is always able to follow directly on the heels of what is new
in the changing course of
history and that only by its own fault and failure could the Church lag behind
events in its theological reflection on morals.
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.
For
in creation,
in the call of Israel,
in the life and work of Christ, and
in the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on the church we find the great defining
events of all
histories and the story around
which we must
in our turn orient our lives.
In this sense, «deciding» is not to be understood as it ordinarily, if obscurely, is understood: it is to be understood as the cumulative result of a myriad of subdecisions undertaken by the psychically - infused spatiotemporal
events constituting the
event -
history which is «me.»
Thus if «I» do something like «deciding upon a course of action,» that «deciding» is not» to be attributed to an «I»
which is to be regarded as
in some way distinct relatively to the actual spatiotemporal
events comprising the occurrences of my life -
history: it is to be attributed to those occurrences themselves.
His salvation -
history leaves no doubt that Jesus is the culmination of a series of
events in which God has been uniquely active.
In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatio
In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ»)
in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatio
in the ultimate nature of things»
which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now
in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatio
in the new order of relationships just coming into view»
in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatio
in the Christian community To be sure, «any community
which becomes a vehicle
in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatio
in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the
events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.
If the Abraham stories are shaped by the first phase of Israel's
history, that phase
in which Israel became Israel, and if they are read and interpreted
in Israel as a personalized account of her formative faith
in her formative
event, we may well wonder whether there is not a corresponding relationship between the Jacob stories and the middle phase of her
history, the era of her autonomous existence
in her own land, on her own soil.
The necessity,
in other words, might well lie with the understanding itself and not with the particularity of the
event in which it did
in fact emerge
in human
history.
There is no single past, present, and future
which is everchanging
in content as universal
history is generated, but rather a distinct past, present, and future relative to each
event.
Death is then, another instance of the more general way
in which all
history and all
events move backward
in time «from the Sasa period to the Zamani, from the moment of intense experience to the period beyond
which nothing can go» (ARP 29).
Because of the limited perspective from
which every historical interpretation is carried out, no single
event can be seen to embody or express the ultimate meaning or direction of
history in a way that the historical interpreter can know with finality.
the
events that happened
in history is His will.
In panthrotheism the whole universe is God, we are only the conscious part of Him, it is more than belief
in Him but we have to implement His will
which is for the future good of humanity.We are the center of His creation because we are the special part of Him, and ultimately the ultimate reality of His manifestation.
This historical evolutionism is a distortion of reality whether it leans toward the idealist side and emphasizes the suprahistorical meaning
which is revealed
in history or toward the empirical side and emphasizes the never - ceasing flow and relativity of all
events.
, That Rylaarsdam's criticism is
in part, at least, based on a misunderstanding of Buber's position and a difference
in Rylaarsdam's own a priori assumptions is shown by his further statements that «Because of his individual and personal emphasis the notion of an objective revelation of God
in nature and
history involving the whole community of Israel
in the real
event of the Exodus does not fit well for him,» that Buber's view of revelation is «essentially mystical and nonhistorical,» and that «the realistic disclosure of Yahweh as the Lord of nature and of
history recedes into the background because of an overconcern with the experience of personal relation» — criticisms
which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present chapter.)
History is customarily understood as an interrelation of
events none of
which are significant
in themselves but only
in terms of their connection with the past from
which they spring and the future to
which they give rise.
So it was with mixed feelings that I read Robert J. Morgan has recently published On This Day
in Christian
History, a devotional book which contains events from Christian history for every day of th
History, a devotional book
which contains
events from Christian
history for every day of th
history for every day of the year.
Today
history is increasingly understood as essentially the unique and creative, whose reality would not be apart from the
event in which it becomes, and whose truth could not be known by Platonic recollection or inference from a rational principle, but only through historical encounter.
Now Christianity has produced its own false form of apocalyptic
in which the apocalyptic goal (eschaton) is thought of
in a chronological sense as some far - off divine
event toward
which all creation and all
history move.
Each evolutionary
event is conditioned by the whole preceding
history of the species, by the environment
in which it occurs, and possibly,
in higher organisms with developed nervous systems, by the behavioral reactions of these organisms.
There are
in the
history of religion
events, situations, figures, expressions, deeds, the uniqueness of
which can not be regarded as the fruit of thought or song, or as a mere fabrication, but simply and solely as a matter of fact... (The Prophetic Faith, p. 6)
It is that this
event is the emergence into full operation of that very Word
which in past
history struggled for utterance.
The interpretation of these accounts of proto -
history as historical aetiology makes it possible to explain why these accounts appear
in a garb
which does not derive from the outward visible historical features of the
events themselves, and also why
in that
history of origins, man recognizes himself as he is now and always.