Sentences with phrase «historical introduction»

The covenant at Sinai also begins with a brief historical introduction («I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt») whose explicit purpose is to document God's gracious intentions toward Israel and to engender Israel's desire to be a faithful servant who would love her lord above all other competitors.

They frequently began with a short historical introduction in which the king would document the kind deeds he had done for the vassal so as to engender a sense of gratitude.

Many historical introductions for agricultural and fishery purposes have been beneficial, but the scientific record shows that the consequences of introductions are unpredictable and come with potentially enormous consequences.

The reconstructed space surely provides a nice historical introduction at first glance, however, in actuality, the effect seems to distance one's relationship to the object due to the reconstruction's opening up of a multitude of additional, and quite frankly unnecessary, references: What exactly is on view?

After a brief historical introduction to the context of the Opinion, we follow the sequence of analysis of the Court and thus examine in turn:

An historical introduction of this kind would have to ask first whether Kierkegaard is still relevant.

Even so, what is needed for a present - day reading of Kierkegaard is something more important than the crutches professors typically offer to the reader of the works of a genius: an historical introduction that would focus not so much on the circumstances of the inception, but rather on the conditions of the appropriation, of his works.

Each volume has an historical introduction and contains selections from Kierkegaard's journals and papers bearing upon the themes — or being alternative formulations of the themes — in the published versions of S.K.'s works.

A Historical Introduction To The New Testament, chap.

The historical introduction and summary by John Stott is especially illuminating, setting the Lausanne Movement in historic context with other world missionary conferences of the twentieth century.

Selman does not provide us with a historical overview of the development of the sacraments; for that, see Joseph Martos» Doors to the Sacred: A Historical Introduction to Sacraments in the Catholic Church (2001), or, indeed, chapter 4 of Herbert Vorgrimler's Sacramental Theology (1992).

He begins with a historical introduction and some chatty descriptions of experiments that lead him to ask the inevitable question: «why does the controversy continue?»

Alternating hemiplegia of childhood: A historical introduction and an account of the earliest observations.

These sites provide a good cultural and historical introduction to Antigua.

Beauty isn't merely superficiality or compensation for lack of morality, but is a necessary part of «what things are when they are most real,» as Robert Williams wrote in Art Theory: An Historical Introduction.

The final exhibition in this student - led format was staged in 1986 with a catalogue which contained a historical introduction (and post-script), to the exhibition by Andrew Lambirth, New Contemporaries Past and Present.

In Robert Williams» expertly crafted text, Art Theory: An Historical Introduction, he postulates, «Perhaps Plato's condemnation of art should be understood as a challenge, a call for higher, truly philosophical art...» Whether or not that was Plato's intent, his theorizing gave way to a vocabulary with which to talk about art.

After a historical introduction, the author addresses the original and appellate jurisdiction of the CCJ.

Starting from an historical introduction of Member States» practice of concluding BITs, the chapter delves into the legal framework that governs most aspects of the interaction — and conflict — between EU law and BITs, with specific attention to the «grandfathering» or «sunset» Regulation (EU) 1219/2012, which governs how Member States must deal with their BITs in force.