Sentences with phrase «historical events of the first»

Leger Battlefields Tours organise a wide range of expert led tours which recount the historical events of the First and Second World Wars.

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When it happens, this Council will be an event of considerable historical import, bringing together the leaders of all Orthodox Churches for the first time since 787.

Also, we know its a historical fact that no part of the New Testament was actually written by anyone who ever met Jesus or witnessed the events first hand; much of the New Testament was written 200 years after the death of Jesus.

We have first to examine an actual piece of historical writing (something that critics don't do very often) and then describe a typical event in its historical context.

For the historical event of the rise of the Easter faith means for us what it meant for the first disciples — namely, the self - attestation of the risen Lord, the act of God in which the redemptive event of the cross is completed.

For the first contemporary, the life of the Teacher was merely an historical event; for the second, the Teacher served as an occasion by which he came to an understanding of himself, and he will be able to forget the Teacher (Chapter I).

They claimed that the gospels do not describe Jesus» appearance or personality or his setting within the sociopolitical and historical events of the tumultuous first century.

The past which the Christian community or tradition inherits is first of all the event from which it took its origin — Jesus Christ as an historical reality, with all that this includes such as the preparation in Judaism for his coming, the way in which he was received and understood in his own time, his own sense of vocation for whatever he undertook, and the way in which he has come to have significance for later generations.

That is, historical events such as Jesus praying to the Father or the Father abandoning the crucified Jesus to death constitute the very relations of the first two persons of the Trinity; they do not merely mirror in time some other relations taking place in a separated eternity.

But if this appreciation of the man was not eventually caught up into the recognition that, in the total event of which his historical life was the first phase, God had acted for our salvation — if this did not happen, the reality we have been calling «the Lord Jesus Christ» was not known.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

The abundant data from the first century makes it highly possible — more than could be said of many other historical events — that the New Testament testimony is accurate.

The clue to the interpretation of whatever intimations of the divine are given us in our common life is provided by the first century event to which we find ourselves inevitably looking back and by the historical community through which the concrete meaning of that event has been conveyed to us and in which, therefore, the event itself is in a sense perpetuated.

Many first - century Jews certainly expected God to act, to visit and redeem them through a concrete individual figure and by means of actual historical events at a chronological moment in time.

Reading Monetary History and then reading the campaign speeches of Hoover and FDR (and also FDR's famous First Inaugural) gives a sense of how much of our public discussion of historical events is missing.

First of all, that Whitehead felt forced to deal with «conceptual» prehensive events that are unconscious is, from an historical perspective, not so out of the way as it might appear.

Genesis is then a myth story of a transcendental event, embracing all space - time with all matter and energy, and spirit, and not of an historical event due to the sin of our first parents within space - time on planet Earth, by Adam and Eve in Eden.

Railway Orientation Centre - Modeled after Calgary's first Canadian Pacific Railway station and situated just outside of the Historical Village gates, the Orientation Centre provides a sophisticated, bright space for your small to mid-sized meeting or catered event.

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At at 11 a.m., Rep. Nydia Velazquez, the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Brooklyn Heights Association, National Parks Service, Landmarks Preservation Commission and community members host event to celebrate fifty years of Brooklyn Heights» designation as a National Historic Landmark and as New York City's first Historic District, Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn.

As Chairman of Cooperation Ireland it has been my great pleasure to witness at first hand a chain of historical events which have put — so to speak — the official stamp of approval on the complex, interwoven relationships between our two countries.

b shows regions that have experienced changes in the frequency of long fire weather seasons (> 1σ above historical mean) during the second half of the study period (1996 — 2013) compared with the number of events observed during the first half (1979 — 1996).

Sharp told the panelists that they are involved in the historical event of becoming the first initiative review panel convened by the newly minted CIRC.

This year, a sizable chunk of the festival's biggest hits have a few key things in common — they're coming out in the first full year of the Trump administration, they're deeply topical despite many of them being period pieces covering unfortunate historical events, and they have all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

First Class integrated actual historical events and meshed them with the fantastical world of mutants creating a fun and highly intriguing alternate reality.

Architects of Denial Details: 2017, Omnibus Entertainment Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A documentary that uses first - person accounts of genocide as told by survivors who link the connection between historical denial of such events with present - day mass exterminations in various conflict zones around the world.

It's a historical novel set in the medieval period (telling the story of the real King Richard III), so I'm booking stalls at every appropriate medieval festival; it's a book aimed primarily at children aged 10 and up, so I'm making overtures to local schools about author visits and to libraries; I'm attending events at my first literature festival next week to meet and network with local authors and hand out some leaflets (maybe even sell a copy or two).

Hopkinson's lively writing turns this historical event into a dramatic tale, beginning with a young boy's first experience with injustice when he is nearly expelled from a Virginia school for hanging a portrait of Abraham Lincoln in the classroom...

Harriet recounts these events forty - five years later, writing as an old woman in her London flat, a memoir very deliberately entered into the historical record of a minor painter («It would appear that I am to be the first to write a book on Gillespie») and quite self - conscious in its address to its audience («The astute reader will, of course, realize that I was employing irony»).

Michael's current project is The First Empire, a four - book epic fantasy which explores the difference between myths and legends and the true account of historical events.

These are the steps I would take in the event I sorely underestimate the expense of our retirement lifestyle, experience «sequence of return» risk (i.e. a significant drop in investments during my first 10 years of retirement), or the long term growth of my investments pales in comparison to historical returns for miscellaneous reasons or black swans.

«The markets have this historical tendency to shoot first and ask questions later, what we are seeing unfold now is a classic example, but these dramatic overreactions to events are what buying opportunities are made of,» he said.

The people of Belize speak English as their first language and because of recent historical events the people in this country have a slightly different feel to the rest of Central America.

These works represent examples of the first experiments in video art and include conceptual and feminist performances recorded on video, experiments with the video signal, and «guerilla» documentaries representing a counter-cultural view of the historical events of the 1960s.

Whether historical or mythological, this event is a cornerstone in the story of ancient Rome since it was said to have led to the establishment of the first Roman Republic and the overthrow of tyranny.

Whether historical or mythological, this event is a cornerstone in the story of ancient Rome since it was said to have led to the overthrow of tyranny and the establishment of the first Roman Republic.

A historical event for being the first edition ever led by an African artistic director, Okwui Enwezor, All of the World's Futures also promises a more inclusive representation of global art practices.

Women Art Revolution elaborates the relationship of the Feminist Art Movement of the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movement and explains how historical events, such as the all - male protest exhibition against the invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions against major cultural institutions.

From this exploration of a historical event, the first half of the exhibition presents film artists» interest in contemporary political and social issues.

A new exhibition displays Atlanta - based artist Hale Woodruff's series of six murals for Talladega College, Alabama, one of the first colleges established for African - American people in the United States, depicting noteworthy historical events including the Amistad slave rebellion and the opening of the college.

In considering the value of using historical material the sceptical question first needs to be asked as to whether there is likely to be documentation / records available that let us look in detail at events that happened many hundreds of years ago and combine them with scientific material in a structured fashion that can elevate them above the easily dismissed «anecdote» which — whilst often interesting in themselves - tend to be one off snapshots that are not corroborated from other sources.

This gives us a clear mandate, one that may be challenged by events in Washington, but which will not be pushed aside to fight for a framework within which all countries, but first of all the wealthy ones, make the commitments demanded by the science, and by their own historical responsibility and capacity to act.

The first paper entitled, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Aboriginal People in Canada: Review of Risk Factors, the Current State of Knowledge and Directions for Further Research, indicates that Aboriginal people in Canada are more likely than non-Aboriginal people to experience traumatic events in their lifetimes including historical, collective and individual trauma.

This will be expressed through mechanisms such as a national school curriculum that acknowledges the events of the past and the stories of non-Indigenous Australia's historical and contemporary relationship with its First Peoples.