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My point here is this seasoned engineer should not have had a five - figure salary, even if it made sense in a historical context (she had joined as a very junior person, consistent with prior salary).

Seifert points out that the stock is still cheap — «shares are undervalued on both a relative and historical basis,» she says — and with a 2.57 % yield it's also a decent income play.

With the economy either at or beyond full employment and the consumer price index — a measure of the inflation in consumer prices — at 2.1 percent, the real 10 - year interest rate is 0.4 percent, Jones explained, roughly 300 basis points below the historical average.

Without historical experience and with an underdeveloped macroprudential framework, getting the calibration right is a difficult issue at this point.

In the presence of a broad range of reliable valuation metrics uniformly at more than twice their historical norms, coupled with the most severe overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yield syndrome we define, it is instructive how shorter - term action has evolved near those points.

However, when the market has suddenly (once again) dropped 200, 400, and yes, even a 1000 point drop which recalibrated the historical record for the most, repeat, the most e-va — single point drop in the history of the markets, the reaction, along with reasoning was?

Like with my prediction, a number of people have responded to the 3.9 % projection with incredulity, but Summers and Pritchett point out, like I have many times, that the same historical precedents that form the basis for expecting much slower growth during the adjustment period also predict that it will be nearly impossible for anyone to believe these lower projections.

With the exception of 1986, and the 1987, 1990 and 2009 lows, which were moderately but not severely below longer - term historical norms, every point in this chart is «above average» from the standpoint the longer historical record.

Fairly priced doesn't mean sell, it means you should expect returns consistent with historical returns, or something like 4 or 5 percentage points more than bonds.

Comparing some of the statistics suggests that Lee may have a point, with recent figures revealing that gold demand has underperformed historical averages.

Previous analysis illustrated how monthly increases of rates on purchases of newly built homes in excess of two basis points, considered large in historical terms, were associated with, on average, a decline in sales of new homes over the same month.

Forty - five years after Humanae Vitae, it now seems clear that the invention of the oral contraceptive pill (to adopt one reference point for the broader contraceptive revolution) was one of the three achievements of 20th - century science with truly world - historical impact, the other two being the creation of the self - sustaining nuclear chain reaction and the unraveling of the DNA double helix.

Let me illustrate the point I was trying to make with a historical example.

The point of those analyses and «historical genealogies» that have become an object of derision among the liberals — oddly, from those who advocate a return to Madisonian principles — is certainly not to retreat to the comfort of the library or the coffee shop; nor is it to deny the contingencies of history by suggesting that 1968 follows upon 1776 with some kind of mechanical necessity.

The editors clearly hope so, but they express that hope with a sober realism: «To the extent that the Constitution still matters — as a framework, as a statement of broad purposes, as a point of recurring reference, as a legitimation of further developments, as a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautious.

On this point, he placed himself in alliance with Arthur Holmes and quoted approvingly of Holmes» criticisms that Clark had not properly understood the purpose of philosophy to elaborate a vision of life through a number of sources, including the philosopher's own historical context.

With its concern for historical truth and invocation of the need to facilitate the cultivation of the human person and society, «Mapping» at this point comes tantalizingly close to this vision only to fall back into statements that «the fundamental sources of value in a culture are neither necessary nor universal.»

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.

We see at once that the historical in the more concrete sense is a matter of indifference; we may suppose a degree of ignorance with respect to it, and permit this ignorance as if to annihilate one detail after the other, historically annihilating the historical; if only the Moment remains, as point of departure for the Eternal, the Paradox will be there.

Here at the outset let us take care to make it clear that the question of an historical point of departure arises even for a contemporary disciple; for if we are not careful here, we shall meet with an insuperable difficulty later (in Chapter V), when we come to deal with the case of the disciple whom we call the disciple at second hand.

Historical critics typically gather all evidence from within a letter that might point to a specific rhetorical situation; then, with the help of other information — when available — reconstruct the situation Paul addresses; and, finally, read the details of the letter as they fit within that reconstruction.

So whether the Valley of Baca is an actual valley with pools of water in it or a dry valley that develops pools, or it is a historical «point of interest» along the road, the Valley of Baca was an area of refreshment and remembrance for all that God has done and all the ways He has blessed them.

Johannes Aagaard has pointed out that under the missio Dei conception, «everything we do is [easily] identified with the historical missio of God, unqualifiedly and indiscriminately.»

Its leap toward a material gospel bypasses the defining convictions of the historical Christian community and the obvious ways that these represent a point of discontinuity with the blessings of the first promise.

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.

Jesus of the Gospel accounts was compatible with the classic confession of the true humanity o There my point was that the book's emphasis on the concrete historical - political humanity of the f Christ (i.e., the core meaning of «incarnation»), whereas those who deny that humanity (or its normative exemplarity) in favor of «some more spiritual» message are implicitly Docetic.

His point was not that scriptural narrative contains no historical elements, but rather that the Bible's historical elements are always mixed with myth, saga and related forms of expression as vehicles of the Word.

But this position seems to be in line with that of the now notorious nineteenth - century thinkers who sought the historical person of Jesus behind the records and criticized the records from that vantage point.

We have already seen earlier how the advent of Jesus Christ became the culminating point of Israel's concern with the historical human scene.

However, several experts at the Darwin Conference in Rome (2009) pointed out, in line with the thought of de Chardin, that in the history of evolution a historical Original Sin has no place.

This ties in with a point made near the beginning of this lecture — the extent to which the early church identified the risen Lord with the historical Jesus.

The role of Jesus in God's historical - eschatological dealings with the world remains a point of radical difference between the two faiths.

With a priori alienation (Verfremdung) from the text as the starting point, the intelligibility of mind, laboring in and through methodology, would transport the interpreter into the realm of another time and place and by the determination of meaning in relation to a specific historical context would illuminate the obscure text.

There are other scholars who defend the substantial historicity of the tomb pericope, and since we must reckon with this possibility, we now turn from the literary form of the story to its content to see in what way the latter may point to historical reliability rather than to legend.

The attractive figure of Jesus which each believer holds in his imagination must not be confused with the historical figure of Jesus, for it can not even be reconciled with the New Testament, where there is not just one picture of Jesus, but several, all of which conflict at certain points.

He expressed it this way: «My point is simply that when we deal with aspects of reality which exhibit a freedom above and beyond structures, we must resort to the Hebraic dramatic and historical way of apprehending reality.

Modern historical, philosophical and scientific thought has come into conflict at so many points with traditional Christian teaching that the latter has been losing its power to convince ordinary people (to say nothing of the intelligentsia).

Lausanne, and Rome with regard to the understanding of salvation comes at three points - the affirmation of its comprehensive nature, thc recognition of the eschatological basis for historical action, and the understanding of the church as a sign and bearer of salvation.55

The second thing to he said in general is that we must constantly remind ourselves that the early Church absolutely identified the risen Lord of her experience with the historical Jesus and vice versa, as we pointed out earlier in this chapter.

From Boff's presentation it becomes clear that the specific image of the Trinity is being moulded by the needs of society which, in turn, is being viewed from a socially understood Trinity.12 The former becomes clear from his starting point which lies with the needs in church, society and cosmos, and with the opposition to a hierarchical church, an undemocratic society and a disregarded natural environment.13 The latter results from his dogmatic and historical treatment of the doctrine of the Trinity, especially from his developing the notion of perichoresis.

The Civil Liberties Union's handling of the creationist case abets the historical drift these quotations point to with logic that runs roughly as follows:

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!

This relationship is of some importance, for Weiss developed a point of view that is steeped in New Testament textual and historical criticism but is more far out than that of his father and much at variance with the nineteenth - century liberalism of Ritschl.

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.

These led to the belief that complete historical accuracy can not be attributed to the words of Jesus, yet with the conclusion that the apocalyptic sayings ascribed to him give us, if not his exact words, a true picture of his point of view.

NOT someone with a political or historical view point that they feel obsessed with pushing on others.

Take away those unprovable points of magic and you are left with a mildly entertaining set of stories, where the older the stories, the less credible they are even as a historical record.

In this claim Wang was indeed asserting a diversity in the universe; he did not claim with Parmenides and Bradley that Being is one and diversity is somehow illusory; more to the historical point, he was not asserting a Buddhistic version of diversity as illusion.

In other words, it is to say that we believe that implicit in the pictorial language of the Scriptures and the historical events to which the Bible points and with which its language is concerned, there is a basic view of the world which is grounded in reality itself.