Sentences with phrase «formative events»

The prophets from Amos on are forced to reinterpret the meaning of the present in terms of an immediate future to be charged with tragedy — but a tragedy no less the result of divine action than the great formative event of redemption from Egypt.

Within the themes, primary documents are used to explore the «role played by France in the exploration and settlement of North America and in such formative events in the history of the United States as the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the Louisiana Purchase.»

In the analysis that he undertook for Bar Ilan University's Begin - Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Rubin describes the last round of fighting in Gaza as «an absolutely formative event in Israel's active defense system.

To interpret the Exodus by just «explaining away» God's miraculous intervention is to replace a grand example of God's caring for Israel with a plain old lucky escape, and to replace one of the central formative events of Judaism with an insignificant incident.

What were the most formative events during your time in New Haven?

In development since 2015, the opera, which runs for six performances, focuses on Jobs as he looks back on the formative events of his life as he faces his own mortality.

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.

For all intents and purposes, Freud envisioned that the formative events which shaped personality occurred between a child's birth and age five.

This will involve him in considering the role of Scripture in the community and in employing Scripture as a source for determining the formative events of the community.

If you want to understand why Osborne ring - fenced the international development budget, remember that for his generation, Live Aid was a formative event to rank with Mandela's release and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In the standard interpretation of the Big Bang, which took shape in the 1960s, the formative event was not an explosion that occurred at some point in space and time — it was an explosion of space and time.

The bright appearance of Comet Hale - Bopp in the winter of 1997, my junior year of high school, was a formative event for me at an opportune moment.

Struggling to recover from the death of his wife, 67 - year - old Trond Sander moves into a lonely cabin in southeastern Norway, still working to make sense of the formative events of his adolescence.

The culminating disaster, and one of the formative events in the modern environmental movement, was the blowout at Union Oil's Platform A on the Dos Cuadras Field, about eight miles (13 km) southeast of Santa Barbara in the Santa Barbara Channel, on January 28, 1969.