Sentences with phrase «historical position in»

We can assume that appreciation of his work will increase as his historical position in the art of our time becomes more firmly established, and his work can be seen in proper perspective and in relationship to both his contemporaries and to his spiritual forebears.

It is thus crucial to the communicative enterprise to take an egocentrism - avoiding stance that rejects all claims to a privileged status for our own conception of things as bound to our own particular historical position in the world's processual scheme.

Not exact matches

TREB's position is that offering additional information online, even historical sales data, constitutes a violation of privacy and could put homeowners» safety at risk, a message it plays up in its campaign.

Web management interfaces are easy to use, high - resolution image mapping is standard, and built - in features include live & real - time position updates, instant alert notifications, historical playback, customizable reporting and more.

What each of the blockchain startups catering to enterprises have in common, according to Hu Liang, founder of another leader in the space, venture - backed blockchain operating system, Omniex, is some rather unusual positioning, from a historical perspective.

The notion that positioning extremes harbor potential once they reach certain levels rings true in the historical context, but one has to keep in mind that this context may no longer be as relevant as it once was — at least in terms of the specific boundaries that were established in the past.

More recent dividend increases have been a bit muted, but the new structure would seemingly put the company in a position to resume to more historical dividend growth.

In considering the qualitative merits of a compensation program, we review industry, company size, maturity, financial position, historical pay practices and any other relevant internal and external factors.

Future profit expectations embedded in the stock price look overly conservative in light of historical performance and the firm's solid competitive position in a growing market.

Magnum Options also offers the «Buy Me Out» feature, which allows a trader to close their position prior to the official expiry time, where the system makes an automatic payout calculation based on historical data to determine the likelihood of the option expiring in or out of the money had it not been closed early; Redwood Options offers no such feature.

All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this release, including, without limitation, those regarding our business strategy, financial position, results of operations, plans, prospects and objectives of management for future operations (including expected charitable donations), are forward - looking statements.

It is about as clear as any historical chain can get that this implosion is a direct consequence of the famous Lambeth Conference in 1930, at which the Anglicans abandoned the longstanding Christian position on contraception.

This view claims that since there can be no one true interpretation of anything, including an historical interpretation of Jesus, and since laypeople are in no position to argue with the experts, «they should suspend belief among all kinds of expert interpretations, including religiously inspired ones.»

Personally, I think that the context includes not only where in Scripture the passages are from (including rhetorical function, narrative position, etc.) and the historical - cultural background, but also the context of the person using the quote.

If one holds that during the course of human history a process of development and refinement in the Church's understanding of Christ has taken place, this does not mean that one is rushing headlong into a position of historical relativism that is ultimately corrosive of the objectivity of our faith.

In a famous passage from Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead gives this counsel to scholars in the various historical disciplines: «Do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which [controversialists] feel it necessary explicitly to defend.&raquIn a famous passage from Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead gives this counsel to scholars in the various historical disciplines: «Do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which [controversialists] feel it necessary explicitly to defend.&raquin the various historical disciplines: «Do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which [controversialists] feel it necessary explicitly to defend.»

Explicitly identifying himself with the position of historical idealism, Polak maintains that it is precisely the spiritual nature of the values widely held in a society that gives them their power.

This is not to say that Bornkamm has moved to the position of «realized eschatology» (91); rather he sees (with Bultmann) the tension between future and present as inherent in the involvement of the imperative in the indicative, i.e. inherent in the historical understanding of the self.

Van A. Harvey further developed a criticism of the «new quest» and a position to the left of Bultmann, «The Historical Jesus, the Kerygma, and Christian Faith», Religion in Life, 33 (1964), 430 - 50.

Andrew Nash's edition of Newman's Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England is published by Gracewing, and his edition of Newman's Essays Critical and Historical, Vol.I, will appear later this year.

But to return to Whitehead's explicit position, we should observe that he believed that the great virtue of Christianity has been that it is not so much a metaphysic seeking some historical grounding as it is an historical fact and focus (found in Jesus) seeking for metaphysical explanation.

These exist even if one does not believe that we ought to accelerate this slow transition to an almost suicidal surrender of legitimate historical positions which are profitable for salvation and which the Church still occupies in present - day society.

Such an historical survey sets the stage adequately for Whitehead's own stance on the same matters, especially in view of the contrast between his position and the ones surveyed.

It discusses the problem of the position of «historical man» in relation to «archaic man».

The Christian theologian therefore properly takes this belief as one of the «facts» to which a theological position should be adequate, even if it is not a fact in as strong a sense as hard - core commonsense ideas and very well - grounded scientific and historical ideas.

Whereas Childs is a Presbyterian committed to reformulating the classical Calvinist doctrine of sola scriptura in response to the challenge of historical criticism, Barr's more modernistic position, as we have seen, awards a much smaller role to the Bible in the ascertainment of truth and a large role to post-biblical tradition, which he often sees as a corrective and an improvement over the Bible.

In the first conclusion, in which he explicitly addresses Whitehead, Collingwood largely identifies natural processes with historical processes.13 The second conclusion moves away from this positioIn the first conclusion, in which he explicitly addresses Whitehead, Collingwood largely identifies natural processes with historical processes.13 The second conclusion moves away from this positioin which he explicitly addresses Whitehead, Collingwood largely identifies natural processes with historical processes.13 The second conclusion moves away from this position:

Consequently it is not the report of someone who is describing and is in a position to describe a visible event of an historical kind because he was present and saw how it happened.

I should add that such a historical approach is not wrong provided it is clearly understood that self - determination and responsibility whether in the early or later historical stages, has a tendency to get perverted by the false position of self - centredness in relation to God and others.

I am in no position to enter into the historical debate as to the relative importance of the several sources of Gnosticism, but I must attempt to place it in reference to the schematism of this book.

The heavy reliance on its own internal historical memory may seem to imply that Christianity is just another esoteric religion, accessible only to a group of insiders There is, of course, a certain insider's perspective in any faith tradition, but it would be contrary to the inclusive character of Christianity to interpret our belonging to a Church community as though it were a position of privilege that separates us from those not so gifted.

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.

First, the quarrels over the historical - critical reading of the Bible, faced by every church sooner or later, were firmly settled in my church in 1870, when one seminary teacher was forced out of teaching but quickly restored to a pastoral position of esteem.

Perhaps it points to one of the unfinished aspects of Whitehead's systematic position, but I mention it to indicate the sense in which Whitehead was aware that the discussion of human and historical problems required the introduction of new concepts only loosely related to the categoreal scheme.

A certain historical movement once tended to visualize the biblical revelation, in order to restore sight to its former position, and searched on the intellectual level for proofs of the existence of God.

Further, historical experience shows the value of an executive having some prerogative to act beyond his strict authorization, in times of immediate opportunity (the Louisiana Purchase) or immediate danger (the perilous position of Washington, D.C. during the Civil War).

I have met here the church not only in its geographical outreach but also in its historical roots — seeing, for example, the rich traditions of the Orthodox Church, the universality of the Roman Catholic Church (even though it is based in the Vatican), the reconciling positioning of the Anglican Communion, the dynamic vitality of African independent churches, and so on.

Whitehead reacted with moderation, care, and historical sensitivity to each, deriving something of importance from all five in constructing for himself a truly original philosophical position.

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so oIn the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so oin historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

Consequently, any «effective historical consciousness» that might have emerged from their primordial condition of «belonging to» to make them aware of their distinctive vantage point and to open their horizon to the otherness of the story may have been suppressed by the perspective of their hierarchical position in the Tiv polity.

This position has much in common with historical orthodoxy, but one major difference is that it welcomes a historical investigation of the text.

We are in no position to assert as an historical fact that Jesus did «this» or said «that» just because we read it in the Gospels.

«He [Joseph of Aramathea] is certainly historical; we know his position and his birthplace; he makes himself felt, in the gospel narratives, as a man of flesh and blood.»

By the beginning of this century a great change had taken place and James Orr prefaced his defense of the traditional position by sketching the widespread questioning and rejection of «bodily resurrection» by Christian scholars.10 In 1907 Kirsopp Lake published the first study of the resurrection, in English, which rested upon a thorough application of historical criticism to the New Testament records and he concluded that «The empty tomb is for us doctrinally indefensible and is historically insufficiently accrediteIn 1907 Kirsopp Lake published the first study of the resurrection, in English, which rested upon a thorough application of historical criticism to the New Testament records and he concluded that «The empty tomb is for us doctrinally indefensible and is historically insufficiently accreditein English, which rested upon a thorough application of historical criticism to the New Testament records and he concluded that «The empty tomb is for us doctrinally indefensible and is historically insufficiently accredited.

You adamantly refuse to recognise the historical fact that «scientific atheism» was both a foundational philosophical position and an actual policy of the Soviet Union and other atheist states from the time of Lenin on, and responsible for massive persecution, torture, suffering, humiliation and death far in excess of the numbers of the «victims» of Christianity - So now the history that isn't in your book is factual?

Critics have sometimes said that the third book discloses a different position on the importance of what is known as the historical Jesus than is revealed in the first.

Ford, by contrast, has focused on a genetic analysis, similar in impact to the introduction of German «higher criticism,» in which we are to recognize early or preliminary formulations, superseded by later revisions and insertions in the text; forcing choices among alternative and incompatible doctrines, and producing a theory of Whitehead's own historical development of his «final» ideas or positions (in which, for example, concrescence gradually supersedes transition, and the power of causal efficacy is reduced to the status of the past as material cause, with the future or «final» cause dominating the process of concrescence).

When he embarks upon the difficult problem of life after death in the fifteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, he expressly groups what he has to say upon certain historical facts about Jesus Christ which he says «were communicated to him by persons who were in a position to know.»

First, the quickening trend towards the abandonment of historical Christian moral positions in matters of sexual morality.

It is for this reason that the kerygma has become a whole unified theological position which has just as nearly swept the field in twentieth - century theology as did the theology of the historical Jesus in the nineteenth century.