Sentences with phrase «facts of history»

If you don't know basic facts of our history, and can not put them in their proper context and are offended by those facts, leave.

It was simply stated as one of the unhappy facts of history.

In reality many of these accusations are greatly tempered by a simple objective look at the actual facts of history.

There are in the world today some 12 million people whose very existence is one of the most remarkable facts of history.

«One of the most astounding facts of the history of religions,» Max Müller points out, (Will Hayes, How the Buddha Became a Christian Saint [Dublin, 1931] p. 7) is the admission of Buddha to the Roman calendar of saints.

I read a great deal of primary sources — letters, journals, newspaper articles — and biographies, but eventually I have to step away from the foundational facts of history in order to find my fictional character.

In this the church is wrong, so far as the death and resurrection of Jesus are understood merely as given facts of history which may be determined and established by evidence.

«One of the most certain facts of history is that Jesus was crucified on orders of the Roman prefect of Judea, Pontius Pilate.»

IF the Christians are correct and God exists in the world and manifested Himself in the form of a man at a specific time in human history, for the purposes of expressing a message of love and forgiveness of sin — IF these are indeed facts of history and thus existential facts of what it means to live as a human on this planet today — then of course your belief, and my disbelief (I'm an atheist), in these facts are completely irrelevant.

He is, of course, quite correct that the biblical vision of redemption is one of cosmic restoration, not merely one of individual salvation, or of the rescue of souls; it is an unfortunate fact of history that by the Christian High Middle Ages this had been forgotten by almost every significant Western Christian theologian.

These unseen presences will press their claims through the enduring facts of history, which we can not alter for our convenience.

The Christian community exists to give witness to the central fact of history — the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

This contribution is unique in that God passes back to the world not only the stubborn facts of history, but a sense of what perfected actuality might have been.

In both cases the past has been absolutely superseded by a stark fact of history, and placed in an entirely new light.

The ruthless taking of human life is one of the perennial facts of history, but the twentieth century has experienced perhaps its worst example, the concentration camps.22 Irving Stone says:

These reports are so numerous and the surrounding circumstances so clear that even atheist and agnostic scholars say Jesus» crucifixion is among the surest facts of history.

is the most provable fact of history, and the foundation of Christian belief.

Rejecting tradition, religious doctrine and revelation, the intent of the drafters of our Constitution and laws, and the very facts of our history (all of which limit and lend authority to proper education), they seek to remold our characters according to their own left - liberal, secular ideology.

(«Idealism shrinks from attributing the absolute to an individual person, and accidental facts of history can not bear the whole weight of eternal truth.»)

This is precisely the role of theology, which is the exercise of reason on this particular fact of the history of salvation, the rightful content of the Christian faith.

We have noted their conviction that the supreme fact of history is God and his power and purposes.

This is the startlingly new fact of history which is as yet not recognized or being acted upon appropriately.

In that regard, essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote the following: «We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here.

A curious fact of history: at the same time that Lenin, living in exile in Zurich, was preparing plans for a revolutionary Russia, just down the street, Dadaists were leading a nightly art revolt at the Cabaret Voltaire.

One can allude to certain generally known facts of the history of art or the life of the church and can count on invoking certain associations.

Calvinism, like Roman Catholicism, stressed sanctification to the point that certain facts of history were beyond judgment and forgiveness.

Bootyfunk, as no one really knows all of the facts of history, I usually limit my arguments to what is going on TODAY.

I won't allow you to change the facts of history to fit your conscience.

So the presence and ministry of Christ as God on earth extends and continues as a fact of history in the life of Church.

This is not said to be in any way anti-ecumenical, it is simply a fact of history.

A propaganda pamphlet that I acquired at the bookstore at BJP headquarters in New Delhi declares that «the barbaric methods of destruction of [Hindu] temples and converting Hindus to Islam» are «facts of history....

No fact of history is more amazing than the spread of the influence of Jesus.

Judaism is Christianity's parent; that is a fact of history.

It arises directly out of the primitive Christian valuation of the facts of history and experience as eschatological facts, that is, as the ultimate manifestation in time of the eternal counsel of God.

«64 Although a Christian philosophy of history can not be rationally demonstrated, Niebuhr argued, an indirect defense is possible by showing that alternative views fail to account for all the facts of history.

The Christian faith that God works creatively and redemptively in human history does not contradict the facts of history.

Regardless of what you believe about Jesus, He is a fact of history.

In good will we might patiently wait for signs of moral leadership, but the facts of history do not offer us this choice.

Further, the «facts of history and these Scriptural injunctions must warn us that it is the business of the Christian church to bear witness... to the grace of Christ which saves all who truly repent of their sins.

The Christian church is a fact of history.

The general account provided by the book is convincing in many respects, not least in the manner in which it largely fits the facts of history.

These are of course broad theoretical visions not to be used, as Bellah reminds us, «as a procrustean bed into which the facts of history are to be forced but a theoretical construction against which historical facts may be illuminated.»

There is strong indication that these goals are also increasingly shared by most Arab leaders, many of whom have been sending signals to the Carter administration that Israel's right to exist is a foregone conclusion and that negotiations should be conducted with that fact of history in mind.