Sentences with phrase «history as an authoritative»

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Since early in the Church's history the Old and New Testament have been recognized as its «Canon», as authoritative over all other writings, beliefs and opinions.

So it seems all the more difficult to accept the Bible as authoritative just because somebody — tradition or the early Church — says so, when in fact these somebodies did not know as much about the Bible's history and background and diverse elements as we do today.

The history of the growth of the modern world shows an interplay between the rejection of the authoritative impact of Incarnation, traceable at least as far as the 16th century Reformation, and the post-Enlightenment development of the philosophy of relativism, which the Pope highlighted to the British ambassador on 9 September last.

And as a matter of fact, the history of the Church's use of Scriptures in her preaching and teaching has tended to move in an either / or pattern, there being periods of strong emphasis upon the Scripture as the body of authoritative tradition, provoking a reaction in favor of an understanding of Scripture as address to the hearers.

The history of salvation as it consummates in Christ, must be presented as an organic whole, in which «all things do hold together» in Christ» (Col. 1:17) and in which the personal, authoritative revelation of a personal and transcendent God comes to its fulness in the Incarnation of God, personally in the Eternal Word, made esh for us men, and for our salvation.

In his magisterial account of the history of Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch balks at the concept of magisterium which he says «had since the nineteenth century stealthily acquired a technical theological meaning as «authoritative teaching», peculiarly thanks to Pius Xll's propensity to deploy it.»

Evan Davis, BBC Economics Editor Free Trade Nation is history at its best: far - reaching and authoritative, its story of the rise and fall of free trade as a widely - held belief marked by justice, fairness and peace provocatively refashions the history of early - twentieth - century Britain, reminds us of an age when popular politics exerted real power, and forces us to rethink our contemporary views of consumers, markets and morality.

I predict it will go down in history as one of the region's most authoritative reference books.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of History, beliefs, practices, deeds, etc of the Roman Catholic Church

They resemble «legislative history» documents, though they are perhaps even more authoritative, because they are issued at the time of, and as part of, the final rule signed by the head of the agency or another senior official with delegated authority from the agency head.

History's the same: As students, textbooks present us with authoritative & linear narratives.

The less than reliable curatorial voice from Powhida's future proposes an authoritative account of our present and near future through institutional forms — wall texts, videos, an exhibition catalogue, as well as fictional works of art, speculative drawings, and research - based diagrams, that point to the ways exhibitions shape and reflect histories.

With a detailed production and exhibition history of the video and performance works, as well as the first comprehensive bibliography and biography of the artist, this intensively researched and authoritative book documents the range, breadth and depth of one of the most prolifically original artists of the twentieth and twenty - first centuries.

This phrase implies the self - consciously provisional nature of the narrative: the absence here of many of the permanent collection's most iconic works from this era makes clear that this is intended as an array of interesting things that happened during that decade — in other words, not an authoritative history of»60s art.

And even better: the chapter includes original research content (see ¶ ¶ 8.19 — 8.32, discussing the history of and difference between «reasonable efforts» and «best efforts»), which litigators might want to cite as authoritative, when making arguments about how a court should interpret these provisions — the same way we sometimes cite Scalia and Garner's book on canons of textual interpretation.

«This is obviously incompatible with a protocol based on anonymous transaction validators; the law will not treat a ledger record as authoritative if everyone knows that the current longest chain contains blocks generated by an anonymous attacker who replaced a bit of history that was chronologically prior.