Sentences with phrase «historical point about»

In Room 3 paintings by Chris Ofili, Sanya Kantarovsky and Apostolos Georgiou feature embracing figures, and on the back wall objects dominate with Philip Guston, Michael Simpson and Domenico Gnoli, punctuated with a tiny Giorgio Morandi, to make the art historical point about the metaphysical life of things.

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And the point is, regardless of what «historical averages» have to say about the matter, there may continue to be!

In early August, the margin of 10 - year bonds in Australia over 10 - year US Treasuries was about 20 basis points, still well below the historical norm.

Instead, as you rightly note, I was pointing toward a historical claim about Protestantism.

Martin might respond that my criticism is unfair because he is not asking for skepticism about those points on which historians agree; he is only asking that Christians suspend judgment about the resurrection taken as a physical, historical fact.

Newman pointed me toward the dynamic development of historical debates about dogma, and to the institutional Church as the context and primary agent in these debates.

In reply, one must acknowledge that historical thinking precludes infallible affirmations about the «center of history» or about the «point of convergence» toward which all of history moves.

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About Histabout historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About HistAbout History).

You might also say that here was a man whose simple teachings were embellished to compete with the gods of Rome, Greece, Ba - bylon, Pe - rsia and Eg - ypt to the point that only about 30 % of the NT is historical.

the figure of the garden important precisely because it points to women's historical experience, and so allows women to speak not only about faith but about what Katie Cannon calls our «blighted» history.

Modesty about any future projections is generated by the recognition that «almost any day has some chance of bringing up some new crisis or unexpected event that becomes a historical turning point, diverting current tendencies so that expectations for the distant future must shift.»

For me it isn't about historical context, I think Paul brings it up to actually make the point that the Jewish community is forcing the Jewish law on new converts.

There are pretty cool things about all the prophecies Jesus fulfilled, historical info pointing to Christ and the disciples, as well as psychological analyses of the changes seen in people in the bible that could only be logically explained by major shifts in belief.

Moreover, choosing ideas which we also affirm may actually obscure the real point under discussion — that everything the Bible says about God is historical understanding.

But now we point out that since the Bible talks about historical events, the scholar wants to study the events themselves and not simply the sources of information about them.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

But it would also, he suggests, give us some sense of what any reasonable person would say about the historical Jesus and thus might provide «a starting point for dialogue between Christians and Jews, between various Christian confessions, and between believers and nonbelievers.»

Every discussion about the «point of contact», about the historical and supra - historical elements in Christianity, about apotheosis and incarnation, has always revolved around this relation between Christianity and classical humanism.

The point of the list is to show we all are OK with the historical things we read about in other books (like Caesar, even though the earliest we have is 1000 years later) but most aren't content with the Bible when we have something only 25 years later.

Reynolds also highlights some of Akyol's oversimplified rhetoric, as when he calls the Paul / James divide «historical fact,» and questions some of Akyol's debatable assumptions about the prominence of Jewish Christianity in Muhammad's Arabia (a point that Reynolds is especially qualified to debate).

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

Lastly on this point we come to the reformation principle «by faith alone» as restated by Kähler, maintained by Bultmann, and generally acceptable in the Germany in which liberal theology was dead and reformation theology in revival: faith as such is necessarily independent of historical facts, even historical facts about Jesus.

Up to this point, the shipboard lectures about them felt incomplete, engendering a strong suspicion of historical spin - doctoring.

«So the fact that «No» is already ahead, and bearing in mind that historical trend, it suggests me that «No» is still the strong favourite and will probably win by about six or seven points.

while your arguments are well worth the read, you completely miss the point by failing to acknowledge that the article talks about a scientific recommendation partially inspired by historical facts and sustainable agriculture together with modern knowledge about what comprises a healthy diet.

Regular tours on the Channel include trips to the White Cliffs, the castles and then passing under the Deal Pier whilst learning more about the local historical points of interests.

With so much to explore, Gainsborough Old Hall even offers their award winning iGuides which brings to life how to hall was once used and also helps you learn more about this local historical point of interest.

At one point, Joe is the only surviving officer in his battalion, but Cavalcade is all about having historical events kill off the Marryot children, so his mother receives the devastating news during a meeting in which Ellen is advocating that Joe and Fanny marry.

There are just enough historical and political details; the movie touches quickly on the fine points of British - French - Indian - settler conflicts, so that they can get on to the story we're really interested in, about the hero who wins the heart of the girl.

Talking points from Rep. Joe Courtney about historical voting records and Glenn Greenwald's vendetta against the depiction of torture in Zero Dark Thirty drastically altered the word surrounding both films and film journalists picked up on it.

The forecast: A historical epic about African Americans and racism made by a black filmmaker sells for a lot of money at Sundance — the obvious comparison point is to 2016's «The Birth of a Nation.»

Use these images as a starting point for learning about some of the literary and historical materials that inspired Shakespeare and helped to shape his work.

The resources, drawn from archive material about each event, provide starting points to help young people gain insights into historical campaigns and to be inspired to create a campaign of their own.

Or provide more information about a point on the historical timeline.

UNESCO is the entity that can, and must be about this, yet for the very historical, economic, political and pragmatic reasons I have already pointed out, most countries, do not see it in this way, and do not apply it to the educational programs.

Counted thread embroidery is a fertile starting point for discussions about the historical need for children to learn to stitch in order to make their own clothing.

A change in the historical Catholic population share that produces a 10 - percentage - point increase in the extent of contemporary private school competition generates an improvement of about 5.5 percent of a standard deviation in both science and reading — or more than one - fifth of a grade - level equivalent in these subjects.

A power point that introduces students to William Shakespeare by providing historical context and information about life in Elizabethan England.

But I think it was a writing book by James Scott Bell that said something about historical to the point of the historical details can enhance the story, but it's still fiction, so make stuff up!

First of all, as Susanne Alleyn points out in her clever and very readable book, Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myth, an author of historical fiction needs to recognize that the city of today can be vastly different from the city of whatever time period you are writing about, and this is true even when you are talking about a relatively young city like San Francisco and a time period that is only 132 years inHistorical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myth, an author of historical fiction needs to recognize that the city of today can be vastly different from the city of whatever time period you are writing about, and this is true even when you are talking about a relatively young city like San Francisco and a time period that is only 132 years inhistorical fiction needs to recognize that the city of today can be vastly different from the city of whatever time period you are writing about, and this is true even when you are talking about a relatively young city like San Francisco and a time period that is only 132 years in the past.

Reading this historical account definitely makes one aware of that dangerous journey and those courageous men whose vision and guts brought us to this point... Author John Ross offers a thoroughly researched (from primary sources), engaging, well written biography about this memorable 20th century WWI ace pilot and aviation pioneer.

With exquisite prose, Sepetys plumbs the depths of her quartet of characters, bringing each to the breaking point and back, shaping a narrative that is as much about the intricacies of human nature as it is about a historical catastrophe.

Student may disclose your paper topic in different ways: either in historical way (from the past to the present), or in a logical way (beginning with the main, essential, «key» points), or in the following way - from the present, through its prism, to past and about the past).

After years of writing glowingly about the long - term investment results that were available in the tobacco sector, I pointed out the trouble that lurked ahead for Altria shareholders that paid $ 75 per share for Altria last year as the valuation crossed over into a territory that had no historical support, and now the stock is at $ 55.

Hulbert makes a very significant observation about this historical pattern of low - quality issues outperforming high - quality issues: It occurs at two points in the market cycle: at the very beginning of a bull market — and at its tail end.

If one wants info about a stock from one point in time to another point in time without assuming the stock is still held, are these historical quotes «valid» at all?

As the galavanting guru Arthur Frommer points out in a recent blog post, the exchange rate of the Indian Rupee is at a historical low as compared to the U.S. dollar, with each greenback returning about 53 rupees.

It covers just about everything to see and do, including sightseeing, parks, country drives, day trips, golf courses, lodging, events and attractions, historical points of interest and more, plus dozens of scenic photos.

The show, which is based on the idea of «an apocalypse announced long ago that can not come about», is presented in three chapters and explores this thematic field from the point of view of critical Anthropology, highlighting the economic, social and historical aspects of narratives on the end of the world.

Curator Francesca Herndon - Consagra mentions this explicitly in the conceptual statement about the exhibition, referring to Tadao Ando's architecture and Rock Settee by Scott Burton as principle points of curatorial investigation, and conflating them with the visual language and art historical touchstone of dreams.