Sentences with phrase «historical point in the future»

Not exact matches

To pick up a few points: the historical evidence for small and value factors is robust but there's no guarantee they'll work in the future.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

This points, not to some transhistorical future hope, but to the immediate future in the life of the concrete historical Jesus.

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.

Or must we conclude that he was as literalistic in this matter as the early Church, and expected a world historical act of God at a chronological point of time in the near future, as the Church expected her Lord's return?

At this halfway point in the historical case study, many teachers have found that the K - W - L Teaching Strategy helps students review what they have learned and anticipate what they might learn in future lessons.

I need to point out that the compound annual growth rate of 10.34 % in the historical data is not a number you should use for expected future returns.

You can find all sorts of predictions of expected future returns based on various factors, calculations, and models, but unfortunately, most of them point to a rate of return for both stocks and bonds in the next few years that is below historical averages.

Alfred the Great's victory at the Battle of Edington, in which he stood fast against the Viking invaders and changed the future of the British Isles, marks the player's historical starting point of 878 AD in the forthcoming game A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia.

Ergo, not withstanding all the points raised above, the IPCC FAR projections have not in fact been falsified - even without adjustments to use historical forcing data, and even ignoring the fact that it was not intended as a projection of future temperatures (but only of the GHG impact on future temperatures).

Therefore, locating potential future tipping points requires some use of predictive models, in combination with paleodata and / or historical data.