Sentences with phrase «mean by history»

On page 153 of this book he quotes Erich Frank as stating what Bultmann himself wants to say» «to the Christians the advent of Christ was not an event, in that temporal process which we mean by history today.

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The claim by many that Kim can not be deterred by military means is not merely hollow, but also ignores the history of more than 60 years of Kim family rule.

If history is your passion, by all means follow it — but if you're undecided, use the rankings to help you weigh different degree and career options.

This all means that history will be forgotten by investors.

This can be accomplished with most regular web browsers by going into «private» mode, where cookies and history are not recorded, but the difference with SurfEasy is that such information is tracked and stored on the USB key, which means you can take it with you and use it on different computers.

Right now, for the first time in human history, world currencies are free - floating, meaning they're not backed by anything tangible.

That also means that the interest rates for these loans are set by the lenders, based on the borrower's credit history and / or other underwriting criteria determined by the lender.

• History has shown that the most creative people leave repressive regimes and create elsewhere By which you mean our version of History has shown this.

Our focus was on arithmetic mean (average) household incomes by quintile (and the top 5 %) over the 50 - year history of this data series.

«History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.»

In early April 2011, the Rafael team wrote a chapter in military history and won international glory when a first operational battery deployed by Air Defense Command near Ashkelon intercepted in flight a Grad rocket meant to hit a residential area in the southern coastal city.

After being welcomed by the Aboriginal staff, you are invited to explore their indigenous history, art, dance and culture, including the use of their tools and weapons, and meaning behind their body paint.

Never - the-less, I am fascinated by biblical scholarship, the history of the early church, and at any rate think people should have the correct facts about what was written and what the original authors meant it to mean.

When a pious ruler emerges that means a very great intervention by God in history, infinite grace.

I have to confess that I'm not a big fan of watery accounts of religion in American history, by which I mean those that attempt either to baptize it or to scrub it....

Some readers, though, may be encouraged by the Illustrated History to look once more at, listen harder to, and ponder the meaning of the men, women, and events that have made our own religious world.

Christianity, like a lot of other religions that have been co-opted by governments as a means of manipulating the people, has a very long and very bloody history spanning about 1700 years.

By saying God avenges his Prophet means he was / is beloved of God, he will not tolarate and our Islamic history is Proof.

Thereby hangs a tale vigorously, and often humorously, told by Jonah Goldberg in Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, published by Doubleday this month.

This means that the reader can be assured that the book is pure of sectarian or theological contamination as it follows the by - now quaint - sounding criteria of a history objective and scientific.

By all means enjoy the fruits of a christian society, oh right never happened... If you rewrite history

Throughout most of church history, the term «mission» meant what believers were «sent out» to do — to propagate Christianity by making converts and establishing churches.

That meant that there is no direct conceptual approach to God, nor from God to human reality, by analogical reasoning, but God's presence is hidden in the particulars of history.

Here and there in the history of Israel, groups such as the Essenes preached asceticism and the virtues of poverty, but this was by no means the general rule.

Steve... I'm almost willing to agree, but our history has made me cautious; ^)... maybe you cd clarify what you mean by «trusted»... trusted for what?

Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs HarperOne, 304 pages, $ 24.95 Chesterton said of original sin that it «is the only part of Christian theology that can really be proved»» by which he meant empirically demonstrated in every era, in every culture, and in every human....

Yet «God's history with the world» is not only the interpretation put upon the history of Jesus by the kerygma, but is already the meaning residing in it for Jesus himself.

Since they were ignored, they existed as an unexamined emotional part of their domestic life and took revenge for being ignored in their being revived in the same unexamined emotional form when the people were awakened by nationalism to their self - identity which meant looking at their past history.

It means that up to now in his history, man was somehow kept in the bondage of childhood by the powers that be, the state, etc., and by the idea of a «father - God,» so that he did not dare to affirm himself fully.

It, to me, is similar to claiming the name of Christ — no matter what it means to you as an individual, by claiming that name, you are connecting yourself to a massive, rich history of people who all have the name of Christ in common.

To judge the two realities by a supposed knowledge of what is «really» real, gained by some means alien to both, is to abandon the perspective of the history of religions.

Simply by noting the overwhelming power and the comprehensive expression of the modern Christian experience of the death of God, we can sense the effect of the ever fuller movement of the Word or Spirit into history, a movement whose full meaning only dawns with the collapse of Christendom, and in the wake of the historical realization of the death of God.

The meaning of the cross is not disclosed from the life of Jesus as a figure of past history, a life which needs to be reproduced by historical research.

He argues that this theory allows one to make all the points that can be made about theological changes through history by using Robinson s notion of «trajectories,» but without its postulation of some «essence» of meaning that perdures through the change.

Here, we apply the «ontological principle» which, in this context, means that history must not only be interpreted either by reason or by communication, but in the light of the «diachron transcendence» of passed and future events.

the purpose why God allowed multiple religions to evolve and exist in the distant and even today is because our minds intellectual capacity has increased tremendously after we became civilized about 10,000 years go.Earlier when we were hunter gatherers our priorities was just to find food to survive, Then we became more knowlegible and our concern includes the intelle tual need to understand the meaning and purpose of our existence, so God allowed the founding and establishment of many religions by humans to conform with their intellectual, social and educational development, Since this is not static, it contiually diversify and change to conform with their times of existince, History showed that this is continuesly improving, so the future expects changes towards Panthrotheism in accordance to His will.

In the New Testament the meaning of ethical love is given by the divine action in the history of Jesus.

In order to interpret this core - principle of revelation, we must understand its essential presupposition; namely, that events are present «in» other events - present not just abstractly (through «eternal objects»), i.e., mediated by the «general,» but as singular events that effect their further history by their unique concreteness (PR 338).12 Whitehead recognizes precisely this constellation when he says:» [T] he truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

Again, theologians who are persuaded of their usefulness in conveying theological meaning to the contemporary mind may have gone so far as to claim emergent evolution to be a theological symbol by which biblical events of history as well as subsequent doctrinal formulations may be explicated.

Your god and «sin» and the «spirit» and the «soul» are ALL invisible and undetectable by any and all means considered up to this date in history.

Insofar as such a Christian is undergoing a full encounter with history he can by no means be judged to be non-Christian, for it is precisely the meditation between faith and history that lies at the center of the Christian faith.

By means of ecclesiastical history it is possible to prove that there was always a Christian Church with a certain clearly defined doctrine.

By this I mean we live on the frontier - land of a new age, a new period of cultural history that is dawning.

Steve... I think we're floggin» a dead horse here, but for what it's worth, understand that I'm not trying to convince you to think like I do, rather I wd hope that room wd be made for many theological differences.To think discuss and debate theology is well supported by the New Testament and history, and is perfectly within the bounds of what it means to engage our minds with the subject at hand.Theologians and biblical scholars have done this very thing for centuries, revealing a plethora of opinion on the evolving world of biblical studies.Many capable authors have written and debated the common themes as well as the differences between Paul, John, Jesus, the synoptics, etc..

The ecclesiastical magisterium is now replaced by a scholarly magisterium, for only they have the knowledge to uncover this history and it is only in this history that the meaning of faith can be found!

By history remembered, I mean simply, some of the things recorded in the Bible really happened.

By this I simply mean that we live during the period of modernity — that period of Western cultural history that began with the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continues into the present.

By contrast, soft determinism can allow for many real agents acting in history, even though «God finally decides what those emergent realities ultimately mean, what their essence is» (TWP 162).

The Bible thus fit into the world of our experience either as a set of general lessons applicable to that world or as an extension of that world developed by means of critical history.