Sentences with phrase «history of the past»

Speaking in the situation of an impending catastrophe to his people, he called them out of their life in an old history of the past and pointed the way to the final moment of the Eschaton.

Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the past.

A Kierkegaardian movement of repetition is impossible for a form of faith that is bound to a sacred history of the past, and so likewise the backward movement of recollection must reverse the forward movement of the Incarnation.

Glover, director of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King's College in London, undertakes the momentous task of offering a moral history of the past century.

Jonathan Glover undertakes the momentous task of offering a moral history of the past century — a history of the failure of our humanity and the concurrent rise of barbarism.

The treatment of the history of the past must not start with generalized statements, but with concrete examples exhibiting the slow succession of period to period, and of mode of life to mode of life, and of race to race.

The evidences of what this emphasis upon the minister as theologian has done are very widespread in the history of the past four centuries.

Given the history of the past two decades, the future appears likely to be one of fractures.

From this point of view, all priestly or cultic religion, including its Biblical and Christian expressions, is a recollection or re-presentation (anamnesis) of a sacred history of the past.

It might be said that the history of the past half - century is the story of human attempts to secure world - community, the triumph of righteousness and justice, the establishment of understanding among the peoples of the earth, but always through the exercise of some variety of coercion.

The history of the past three decades will tell us that both Christianity and Marxism have come to a new awareness of their positions.

Of the kernel of history which transcends the myth, Bultmann can speak only in negative terms: «Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the past.

We must consider the history of our past relation to it, its strengths and weaknesses, and the practical effects of taking particular actions.

Present states or movements in the inorganic arena appear to us to be determined totally by the history of past commotion in the macroscopic order as described by classical physics.

For those who have the patience, the chief reward of Participant Observer is a first - hand account of the wars of ideas about human nature that have dominated much of the intellectual history of the past half century.

The constitutional history of the past six decades, writ short, is essentially the tale of how the Founders» Constitution was transmogrified by the Supreme Court into a document of almost infinite plasticity.

But does this fact alone give us sufficient license to trust in human ability to reconstruct from fragmentary evidence the history of a past extending over many millions of years?

Indeed, as the history of the past three decades has shown, it is today's devotees of «negative liberty» as reinterpreted by postmodern radical skeptics and relativists who are the primary exponents of coercion in the name of «tolerance» and «diversity» — even if that coercion is mediated through split decisions of the United States Supreme Court.

That involves both knowledge of the history of past efforts at the same task and knowledge of scholarly study (i.e., «external history») of the church's internal history.

We can learn much from the history of past efforts to describe what grace does, but we have much yet to learn.

Tottenham Hotspur's former medical team chief Charlotte Koe said that the first step of the player is to see the history of past health checks.

This book will certainly illuminate the political history of the past 40 years.

This sort of history is in effect being written backwards; it is a history of the present and how we got to it, not a history of the past, and what we might have fought for.

The high profile history of past government shutdowns is the second major reason why shutting it down — Public Enemy reference!

The broad history of the past 30 years in the UK is that the Thatcher government took us out of an economic death - spiral of Seventies complacency.

While NOM insists Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin's «yes» vote on gay marriage could cost him the race, HRC stresses that no matter who wins tonight (assuming it's not too close to immediately call, which is a distinct possibility, given the history of past NY House specials) marriage equality «did not play an influential, even modest, role in the outcome.»

Just by entering a postcode or location, the Dashboard will instantly tell voters which of the Devolved Assembly, Mayoral, Police and Crime Commissioner, Local or Parliamentary by - elections they have in their area, who is running, how the electoral system works, and a history of past results and local info.

The layers visible on the walls of the pits reveal the history of the past few months» snowfalls.

Doing so would give doctors a good sense of your current health, including a history of your past infections, diseases and vaccinations.

«This method allows us to track the history of these past divisions and measure age - related changes to the genetic code that may contribute to both normal aging and dysfunction.»

«Each of us carries with us this history of past exposures,» said Barbara Cohn, director of the Oakland - based study group.

Charles Rubin, Kerry Sieh, Jessica Pilarczyk, and their colleagues had been reading the millennia - long histories of past tsunamis in three kinds of geologic records and determining the age of each tsunami recorded there using radioactive carbon - 14 dating.

Using hand - driven cores, augers, and shovels to reveal the sediments blanketing a lowland facing the Pacific Ocean, and using radiocarbon dating to estimate the times of sand sheet deposition, scientists established a geologic history of past large tsunamis.

Some days when I begin my yoga practice I can feel the entire physical history of my body: here is that neck tension from staring at the computer all day yesterday, and here is that old hamstring injury from an unfortunate split, and here is that wonky sacrum... Every body carries the history of past injuries and hurts, but most of the time your brain chooses not to get alarmed about it and those experiences of past pain do not rise to the level of a full - blown pain episode.

Vintage Levi's denim carries, within its stitching, stories of years of wear - a history of a past life.

Within its stitching, there are stories of years of wear — a history of a past life.

Filling up your profile with histories of past relationships is a quick way to turn potential dates away, as is listing your flaws.

It only connects you when a match is mutually agreed upon, and it doesn't show you a history of your past «likes.»

Isaacs is currently filming the movie Abduction, which stars Twilight hottie Taylor Lautner as a young man who looks into the history of his past after he discovers his photo on a missing children's website.

So with the local cops unable to solve the case, Jami teams up with the local library archive clerk Nick (Travis Tope) to get the whole history of these past events.

It's one of the most coveted prizes at TIFF considering the prominent history of past winners.

The history of past actions weighs heavily, while the uncertainty of what comes next has never been more palpable.

This Halloween, don't miss out, as The London Bridge Experience & London Tombs celebrate the gory history of the past 2000 years.

Sundee Frazier won the 2007 Coretta Scott King Award for her middle grade novel Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything In It, about a 10 - year - old biracial child who uses detective - like skills to uncover the history of his past.

Take a look at the history of past Scotiabank Giller Prize winners, shortlisted and longlisted authors, as well as the esteemed juries.

Looking at the history of the past 200 years, and the jobs that existed then and exist now, you would conclude that less than 10 % of people working in the US today occupy jobs remotely similar to what was done 200 years ago.

Since credit card issuers consider you a risk, given they have no history of your past financial decisions or habits, they charge a high interest rate for the first 6 months to a year of your having your new credit card.

This three digit number is generated based on a number of elements such as credit to debt ratio, history of past debt accounts and others.

He or she also had no history of past insurance claims.

If we go by the history of the past stock market crashes, one thing they have in common is the report of sudden rally in stock prices.