Sentences with phrase «historic means of»

This chapter and the two that follow, on gratitude, trust, and justification, are attempts to make real for our situation aspects of the historic meaning of grace.

To ask the questions the 1976 and 1980 campaigns did not ask is to ask whether under the social conditions of late twentieth - century America it is possible for us to survive as a republic in any sense continuous with the historic meaning of that term.

When compared to the historic mean of 15.6, stocks are definitely not cheap.

She often combines ceramic elements, beautifully handcrafted, with utilitarian items, such as toilet plungers or buckets, to create pieces that call into question the cultural and historic meaning of particular objects or images.

Not exact matches

Its historic journey took it across Canada, the Netherlands and Germany, and finally to the hard, mean streets of the U.S. of A.

Cities constantly compete for firms, but the potential impact of Amazon means that the scale of this competition will be historic.

Variable rates will fluctuate with the life of the loan and variable rates are currently at historic lows (2 percent range)-- meaning right now they are below federal rates (for more on this topic, see «What every borrower should know about variable - rate student loans «-RRB-.

An index of 100 means the share of average wages required to buy a median - priced home across the country this quarter is on par with historic averages.

If yields ever return to their historic means, I could see an allocation of up to 20 %, eventually.

Grainger's 10 - year average P / E ratio has been 19.0 (see the dark blue box in the right panel), meaning that the market has tended to value it about 27 % higher than the historic valuation of all the companies at 15.0.

Examples of historic price moves or extreme market conditions are not meant to imply that such moves or conditions are common occurrences or are likely to occur.

Future growth rates may fall short of historic growth, meaning the growth shares don't deserve to sell where they did in the past.

In effect, it transforms a communal creed whose meaning is built upon the historic confession of Christians for centuries into a personal one whose meaning is built upon how an individual feels about that confession at any given moment.

Quite possibly Barth realized that a dialectical method must negate all human expressions of the meaning of faith — including the creedal and dogmatic statements of the historic Church — while paradoxically affirming the deepest expressions of «subjectivity» or Existenz.

Sometimes this has meant that various historic Christian traditions have affirmed the legitimacy of each other's differences in articulating the faith.

Unlike others before and after him who assimilate church history to secular history, Williams defined his own vocation as that of one standing committedly within the historic community of faith, charged with telling and interpreting the story of that community against the background of ultimate meanings.

For Christians, the divine revelation, the historic redefinition of meaning, the cosmopolitan insight — all those things that are deeper and wider than the self and.

It requires a difficult thrust of historic imagination to understand at all what they meant to their original users.

What does it mean to say that the church functions as a community of memory, especially at a time when so many of its actual historic links are being weakened?

«Of course, Holyrood means Holy Cross, so in that sense; parliament is a most fitting place for this historic celebration.»

In essence this means that the church would abandon its historic confession that in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus the future of the Kingdom of God has broken into the present in a decisive way.

This, from people who pronounced Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall «great» precisely because they repeatedly departed from any conceivable meaning of the historic Constitution, was a bit hard to take.

VII, pp. 155) When in the New Testament the old historic name «Israel» is applied to this continuous community, it means now not any racial or national group, but simply «the People of God»; that is to say, a community defined solely by its relation to the eternal King of the Universe.

Thérèse Souga from Cameroon says that «Christ is the true human, the one who makes it possible for all persons to reach fulfillment and to overcome the historic alienations weighing them down... The realism of the cross every day tells me, as a woman of the Third World, that the laws of history can be overcome by means of crucified love.»

It directs the way human beings normally think and feel, as one might say; but one really means it is the way human beings normally think and feel within that historic orbit of existence.

And he will think of the Church in its true nature as the historic audibility of God's comprehensive Yes to the world, in which God (and that means him outside of whom there is nothing) triumphantly promises himself to the world.

There is therefore no witness of the absolute who is not a witness of historic signs, no confessor of absolute meaning who is not a narrator of the acts of deliverance.

To the extent that one feels that something has been achieved in a process - theoretic characterization of mass that seems to answer to the first, historic gropings for the meaning of this idea, one is tempted to ask to what extent our thesis answers to the later, more sophisticated, formal, and patently postprojective notions.

«Personalized» in 2010 meant instead focusing on Obama's policies and his continued boasts of having made «historic changes.»

Yet we can hope, by means of this study, to recognize the historical phenomenon «Jesus» only on the basis of one's own historic (geschichtlich) encounter.

Even though American people are very religious, that does not mean the culture is devoted to serving the God of the historic Hebrew and Christian traditions.

Belonging to the historic Church also means participating in and witnessing to God's continuing activity and revelation rather than locating the time of God in the distant past or future.

At least in many parts of Christendom the quest for meaning, the revival of historic religious convictions about man's nature and destiny, about his lostness and his salvation, and the need to realize the significance of these convictions in relation to contemporary world and life views, have led to a renewal of the theological endeavor.

About God there is considerable doubt and uncertainty, not only in the secular world but in Christian circles as well, with various attempts to preserve the meaning and value of God for human experience without the personal God of historic Christian faith.

Similarly, accepting the serial interdependency and inter-relativity of all material being - what some call «evolution» in the material order - does not have to mean accepting historic relativism or a random account of Nature.

A word that once stood for faithfulness to historic orthodox Christian faith and a commitment to personal holiness, to the proclamation of the good news, and to ministries of compassion and justice has been hijacked by those on the right and the left who have narrowed the meaning to «white Republican.»

«This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean that Jesus is like God.

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

But for many churches in the «90s the return to the tradition of the church catholic will mean an increasing reliance on the historic experience of the church at worship.

It by no means follows that unilaterally abandoning historic Christian claims would lead others to do like-wise, and even if they did, it would be no less damaging to the prospects of pluralism.

They have jettisoned the authority of Scripture and core doctrines of the historic church — fundamental aspects of what it means to be Lutheran.

Historic in this context would seem to mean that it is a thing of the past, and symbols are, well, just symbols.

Or, expressed in another way, to be Christian conversations on the meaning of «mission» must give attention to historic and orthodox theology, and to the established creeds and doctrines of the church.

This too is a nature - rite — it is the Christian spring festival — transfused with historic meaning in its reminiscences of the passion and resurrection of Jesus, but most of all permeated with religious immediacy and exalted hope.

But although Roncalli, unlike the present Pope John Paul II, had little interest in the nuances of philosophy and theology, during his time in France in the «40s he learned to appreciate what the new progressive theologians were saying about the meaning of historic Christian faith for men and women in the present epoch of culture and civilization.

Les Nomades means the nomads in French — a somewhat ironic name for a restaurant that is a mainstay of the Chicago dining scene, having operated since 1978 out of a historic 1891 brownstone.

The historic nature of the site means we use mostly 18th - century methods, hand bucketing water from the boiler to the wooden 120 gallons mash tubs, rowing mash with wood mash rakes.

A historic part of Denmark's culinary tradition is preserving food for the long winters by means of salting, pickling, and smoking.

Liverpool City council have approved Liverpool FC's application to rebuild two sides of Anfield, meaning the historic stadium will eventually have a capacity of 58,500 making it one of the biggest stadiums in the Premier League, the Guardian reports.

His final lap average speed of less than 180 miles per hour saved enough gas to fend off a thirsty and refueled field en route to a historic victory — even though it meant sputtering to a stop before he could finish his victory lap.