Sentences with phrase «historical perspective on things»

The second commentary features film historian Richard Schickel giving an expectedly historical perspective on things.

Not exact matches

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

In this episode of the First Things Podcast, Helen Andrews provides some historical perspective on the choice Americans must make this November — between two styles of dictator, the personalist (Trump) and the clientelist (Clinton).

It is instructive in gaining perspective, I believe, for us to realize that there was serious reflection on these matters by theologians before Whitehead's work came to prominence, and to recognize that «process thought,» when we appreciate its historical breadth and pluralism, is a many - splendored thing.

A little historical perspective on a committee or on the board of directors is a good thing.