Sentences with phrase «events of history»

One of the greatest events of history has not yet taken place.

The prophets looked back to the Exodus as the initiating event of a history of expectation.

to create their own timelines: timelines of family history or your town's history; a timeline showing when important inventions were first introduced; timelines that document students» personal journal entries; timelines that serve as a record of important events in history from the past (the Civil War) or that record events of history in the making.

For five hundred years the Sinai tradition and the Ten Commandments circulated in oral form, being changed and conditioned by the living events of the history of the Hebrew people.

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.

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.

This was true, because the church was not content to say simply that the event of Christ was in the mysterious providence of God, the supremely significant event of history, since through it God had brought into being the new community of His love in which sin and death are overcome and life and peace can be found — the community of the Spirit, of which the church is the anticipatory embodiment.

Likewise, the specific focus of faith will highlight certain events of history and read them as interesting, whereas an inquiry devoid of this focus may scarcely notice them at all.

Socrates» identification of himself with his reason was one of the fateful events of history.

The prophet knew that God was acting here and now, in the present events of history, and he occasionally spoke of God's action in the immediate future.

As Reformed theologian Christopher Morse notes, at the «most important event of all history the mighty male is excluded!»

Because Jesus» life is the ground on which the consummating events of history occur, he is the bearer of two generations.

It first proposes the dialectic of its object, which is an event as well as a meaning at the same time, similar to what we spoke of in part one with regard to the narration of the founding events of the history of Israel.

He prefers to call Jesus» resurrection a unique historical event which, investigated by the usual historical methods, must be accepted like any other event of history: reason sees the fact.

This never occurs in apocalypticism, however, for in that vision God only controls the major events of history.

If we can derive no meaning for our lives from our involvement in the immediate events of history, perhaps we can endow them with significance as a part of an overarching movement toward a distant consummation.

Instead, there is just the relentless ticking of time as the inevitable and unalterable events of history unfold.

The Stranger's Child is, in some sense, a historical novel, but the big events of History with a capital H take place off stage.

Adam Hochschild has the rare ability to take seemingly dull, dry or depressing events of history and turn them into a riveting narrative that both deepens a reader's understanding of the past and directly connects that past to the present.

Fusing art and literature, painting and sculpture, Kiefer engages the complex events of history and the ancestral epics of life, death, and the cosmos.

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

Rupert on the other hand, with a Christocentric vision of the history of salvation, enlarged the perspective, and in a work of his entitled «The Glorification of the Trinity» held the position that the Incarnation, the central event of all history, was foreseen from all eternity, even independently of the sin of man, so that all creation could give praise to God the Father and love Him as a unique family gathered around Christ, the Son of God.

God has and continues to speak through the undeniable presence and existence of his creation; he speaks through our consciences; he speaks through the various events of our lives (birth, growth, health / illness, prosperity / want, relationships and death); he speaks through the events of history; and to those who would listen, he has spoken through his servants (Hebrews 1).

These are not systematic judgments and, from the point of view of the Buddhist for whom the events of history are meaningless, they are without importance.

One who will not allow any occurrence whatever to deprive him of responsibility for the course of history — because he knows that it has been laid on him by God — will thereafter achieve a more fruitful relation to the events of history than that of barren criticism and equally barren opportunism.

Looking back they could see God's hand at work in the events of history.

Just as it can not be determined that any events of history — including the cross of Jesus — manifest «objectively» the divine forgiveness, so it is impossible to prove on objective grounds that they may not do so.

I do not say that there is a kind of foreordained correspondence between the events of individual lives and the events of history; though it is certainly true that the hidden creative forces that mould individual lives are essentially the same as those which have moulded the lives of peoples and of the human race.

Yet we must admit that through their work we have learned to take very seriously the total biblical story, reading with deeper insight the truths which are there stated not in propositions but in the events of history and in the response made to those events in the experience of men and women immersed in the ordinary affairs of daily life.

Made of foam and white plaster, they were conceived as 1:1 scale models of some future disaster - broken planes, masses of geological rock forms and subterranean tunnels are conjoined together in a manner that recalls the aftermath of an explosion or a natural cataclysm, whose colour can only be added by the events of a history yet to unfold.