Sentences with phrase «imagining the history of»

Whether she's imagining the history of an ancient manuscript, as in People of the Book, or an English town determined to survive the plague in A Year of Wonders, Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist Geraldine Brooks is a master at bringing history's little - known but fascinating stories to life.

Just imagine the history of this home!

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Not long ago, we would never have imagined enduring Hurricane Harvey, one of the most tragic national disasters in recorded history.

Imagine answering the same kinds of questions you'd see on a basic medical history form at a doctor's» office and you're there, minus the pen and paper.

«Even if volatility falls notably from here which history says is likely after such a spike, we find it difficult to imagine the market being prepared to drive it down to the record low levels of [the second half of] 2017 anytime soon given the shock seen this week,» they say.

It is wishful thinking to imagine that the most extreme economic, debt and investment bubble in history was corrected by a mild economic downturn, a market decline that leaves stocks at 21 times peak earnings (higher than at the 1929 and 1987 peaks), and just a few large - scale defaults from a corporate debt position which continues to claim a record share of operating earnings to finance.

It had not occurred to me that anyone would imagine that the only alternative to a boundless confidence in reason's competency to extract moral truths from nature's evident forms, no matter what the prevailing cultural regime, is the belief that moral knowledge is the exclusive preserve of «revelation,» narrowly conceived as a body of inscrutable legislations irrupting into history from on high.

If we have a million years of history on this planet I imagine there are vast libraries recording our way of life and accomplishments throughout that period.

Throughout history, across faith traditions, I imagine the fantasy of a more «convenient» religion is universal.

It is not hard to imagine the common sense reaction to the news that a distinguished historian had attempted to cover the history of human suffering in a little over two hundred pages.

Does he imagine God actually interposing himself in the events of history?

Imagine what the world would be like today if human history had been one of cooperation to improve the human condition instead of one of advancing self - interest.

Centuries of separation and polemics have led Protestantism in some quarters to imagine that the biblical witness could be disentangled from the Church's history, tradition, and teaching office.

Instead of imagining fantasies and terrors, may we not imagine ourselves alongside Mary, seeing history's hard cruelty give way to hope and gracious surprise?

It's an important read because a lot of Christians like to imagine that people of faith were on the «righteous side» of history on this, but the fact is, Christians were split.

Obviously it is much more difficult for us to imagine the first appearance of reflective thought at some point in the history of a phylum or race made up of different individuals than at some point in the series of states making up the life of one and the same embryo.

When God is omnipotent, one can read history as the will of God, and history is way too full of evil, suffering, and violence to imagine it as revelatory of God's will.

Inference and imagination can go astray, but the laws of nature and logic are reliable enough, in Hartshorne's view, to guide us in making inferences and imagining «the other» as it really is; otherwise the knowledge of nature, God, and the self could not increase through history, as Hartshorne is convinced it does.

Christians «have a vested interest in the creation of public memorials and public art that redemptively evokes our history and enables us to imagine what we might, with God's help, become.»

Such «stories» regarding the old - times within our histories of religious understandings are indeed plagued and remitted many controversial imaginings» garnishments that are hindrances yet for good reasons.

Only recently have we even had the tools to test our guesses (like the big bang), so I imagine our understanding of the world, it's history, our origins, and evolution will radically improve over the next century.

He certainly was delivered to become one of the most emancipated and triumphant characters in history, but one can not imagine him attributing his victory primarily to trying hard.

Thankfully, church history records mercifully few instances of this particular debate, but imagine that there was a great one.

Imagine that: an American with nuanced views, who grew up steeped in the rich history of sportsmanship and individual freedom that runs deep in our country but who also advocates for responsible gun policy reform.

If you have difficulty seeing just how loaded this knowledge - belief distinction is, try to imagine the reaction of Darwinists to the suggestion that their theory should be removed from the college biology curriculum and studied instead in a course devoted to nineteenth - century intellectual history.

Nietzsche's imagined overman quits the history of the spirit of revenge for the more cheerful play of a protean natural organism.

I shall attempt to express the consensus of much recent theology (Jewish, Protestant and Catholic) that the idea of revelation in history does not imply a magical intrusion of foreign information, as is often imagined in popular piety.

Had history turned out somewhat differently, one could imagine the presence of Wilhelm Himmler, chancellor of Germany and grandson of the other Himmler who, as Time might put it, was the mastermind of Germany's «controversial population policy in the 1940s.»

The author attempts to express the consensus of much recent theology (Jewish, Protestant and Catholic) that the idea of revelation in history does not imply a magical intrusion of foreign information, as is often imagined in popular piety.

Yes, I think it is... exactly how accurate, can not, will not, hazard a guess, but the recordings of our human history annotated in the Bible have to have some factual basis... I can not imagine it is all fiction.

I mean, at the end of the day, could you ever imagine that the non-functionality of a website for a few weeks could ever approach having the status of an inflexion point in American history.

Some intellectuals in every age would like to imagine that theirs is the unique moment of history's ultimate reckoning.

But the idea that every human law is imperfect, and therefore unjust to some extent, does indeed make sense, because we can imagine a perfectly just judge who administers perfect justice» who assesses a person's talents, motives, opportunities, weaknesses, ideals, history, and everything else about him, and then judges all his actions against the standard of what he is able to do.

Imperceptibly, but far more rapidly than we might imagine, we are entering a period in American history when the issues of work and organized labor may again become paramount.

This promissory and storied character of reality allows it to unfold in such a way that novelty and surprise can continually come into view and thus render the universe and history both more complex and more intelligible than we could ourselves imagine on the basis of previous patterns of occurrence.

For the rest of us, imagine what might've happened if someone along the way decided that poverty, race, mental illness or criminal history disqualifies someone from having biological children.

Kierkegaard conceived of faith as the product of a dialectical negation of time and history, of the «universal,» and of «objectivity»; however, his twentieth - century successors have imagined that faith is isolated from history, that faith is independent of an historical ground, and thus is totally autonomous.

Imagine in a few hundred years, children will study history of the 21st century in disbelief that so many people were victim of mass delusion.

While the writer may have been doing history, it is «an imagining of history that is analogous to what Shakespeare did with his historical figures and events in his historical plays.»

Try to imagine that some or all of the Bible narrative is not necessarily true history, but is myth of one sort or another.

Some fell more deeply into the trap of imagining that pluralism could be written out of the script of history than others; some remained mired in that trap longer than others.

Imagine, he suggests, that the two - billion - year history of life on earth is represented by the height of the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago — a distance of 200 feet.

Our understandable human impatience for meaningful fulfillment has led us time and again to imagine that a particular conception of social order is the ultimate stage in history's movement.

Yes, it is a natural experience encountered by millions and millions of women throughout history - but it is worth remembering that many have also died for want of the basic medical care that some in the West fondly imagine we can do without.

In «The Tale of the Anti-Christ,» Vladimir Soloviev imagines his own version of globalization and the end of history.

Nonetheless, the gesture of bread making allows me to imagine the invisible women of my distant, yet meaningful history.

The most important piano to be offered from Elvis Presley's history will join Hard Rock's priceless collection of invaluable memorabilia pieces including handwritten lyrics, clothing and instruments from new and legendary music stars like Taylor Swift, Imagine Dragons, Motley Crue, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, The Beatles, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Jimi Hendrix and many more.

Imagine how different the history of the Giants and the NFL might have been if Landry had been the new coach instead of Ray Perkins.

TCU can play the sort of man coverage that can disrupt Baylor's offense a bit, and I can't imagine Baylor, which just lost one of the biggest games in program history, will be up for this one like it was for last week.

Can you imagine a team of Arsenal's calibre only reaching the finals of UCL once in out history.