Sentences with phrase «matter of historical fact»

How many churchgoers really believe, as matter of historical fact, that Jesus instituted the mass?

But there is another, more uncomfortable assertion we should also be willing to make: that humanity could not have passed from the devotions of antiquity to those of modernity but for the force of Christianity in history, and so — as a matter of historical fact — Christianity, with its cry of «no other god,» is in part responsible for the nihilism of our culture.

However, my interest lies in the actual and effective emergence of a new structure of existence, and as a matter of historical fact, this occurred only by the total impact of Jesus» transformation of Jewish teaching combined with his resurrection appearances.

The Crusades are a matter of historical fact.

But Bultmann seems to assume that if this is so we can not believe in the virginal conception as a matter of historical fact (sense 2) on grounds of faith: faith can not, in his view, extend the area of historical belief, but only add an invisible divine lining to such an area of historical belief as historical reasoning (sense 1) adequately supports.

As a matter of historical fact, I suspect that Glasman is probably right, though I am not sure by what method we could accurately test or weigh Glasman's claim for Jesus against possible counter-bids on behalf of Keir Hardie, Robert Owen, Robert Tressell, Beatrice Webb, RH Tawney, GDH Cole, George Orwell, Clement Attlee, Nye Bevan, Tony Crosland, Barbara Castle, Neil Kinnock, Nelson Mandela or even Tony Blair as sources of inspiration for various generations of Labour political activism.

Even though Petit's walk is a matter of historical fact — and the subject of an amazing documentary — Zemeckis makes his audience feel the weight of what Petit did so well that our hearts flutter with terror and we lean forward in our seats (maybe some of us even watch from between our barely parted fingers)-- the tension heightened even more by the knowledge that the building would soon be completed and any such attempt would become impossible.

As a matter of historical fact, would not your first models have «assimilated» the observational data?

«As a matter of historical fact, the climate changes.