Sentences with phrase «memories of those events as»

Contemporary, or almost contemporary, records confirm the memory both of the event as a whole and of the central decisive position of Jesus within it.

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Then there's the use of Facebook as a kind of digital scrapbook, to preserve life events, shared moments, and memories.

If you're hitting up a networking event with likeminded colleagues who are just as concerned about their memory as you, consider initiating a friendly competition to see how many names each of you can remember.

Americans typically have short memories in regards to both trivial and political issues, but we have much longer memories in matters regarding things that threaten our country and / or American citizens — as in the events of 9 - 11 and thereafter.

And as any psycologist can tell you our memories of events get clearer and more accurate and concise the longer it is between the event and the re-telling of the event, right?

As we shall soon see, Augustine in his Confessions repeatedly wonders at the faculty of memory precisely because it allows us to revisit the events of our lives and discern the trajectory that they describe.

Faith as underlying rationality: In this view, all human knowledge and reason is seen as dependent on faith: faith in our senses, faith in our reason, faith in our memories, and faith in the accounts of events we receive from others.

Although the press kit does not mention it, an excellent book on the events that served as the basis for Moore's novel was published in 1996: Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs, edited by Richard J. Golsan (University Press of New England).

Whitehead does not discuss memory in these terms as Bergson does, but his theory of prehensions of noncontiguous events illuminates memory as well.

Or was it only an event in the lives of the disciples — a change in their outlook as they came to realize through further reflection upon their dead and buried Teacher, that his influence still lived on, that his teaching had been true, that his life must be their example and his character a pattern for themselves to follow, that although he was dead he must still be revered in their memory as their Lord whose spirit could still be recreated in themselves in so far as they dedicated themselves to the aim of following in his footsteps?

As Johann Baptist Metz and John Cobb have seen in correspondence, it is the memoria of the Christ - event that plays a crucial role in the theological notion of revelation.10 In this view a certain historical tradition of narration and reflection recalls the experience of a unique revealing event by memory.

Thus, the traumatic event (s) become «stuck» in a person's body instead of being stored as a normal memory.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

For in such an analysis, what is disclosed is that we are in truth a certain direction or routing of events which, because of a persisting memory of what has occurred along it, and because there has emerged (at some point in the evolutionary development so far as our own species is concerned) an awareness which includes both consciousness and self - consciousness, may meaningfully be given a specific identity.

We must adopt the critical approach and seek reality, here as well, by asking ourselves what human relation to real events this could have been which led gradually, along many by - paths and by way of many metamorphoses, from mouth to ear, from one memory to another, and from dream to dream, until it grew into the written account we have read.

Not remembered as the greatest 200m final in Olympic memory (that accolade probably goes to Michael Johnson and his world record time of 19.32 at the Atlanta Games or Usain Bolt at 2016 Rio Olympics), this moment would be remembered for the events after the race: three athletes» protest against the violence, subjugation and oppression of racial injustice.

(I Corinthians 11:26) And so the Church does still, reviving continually the living memory of the event — a memory that runs back to the time before there were any written records of it, when men spoke of it as they had seen it.

«In making and selling oils,» Becca writes, «we are each reminded that healing is not an event, but rather a journey we walk as we make our way back to the memory of God.»

By means of his theological understanding he is able to reject doctrines of the Eucharist which are guilty of «psychologizing» it as merely a memory of a past event on the one hand, and «magical tendencies of some traditional doctrines» on the other (PPE 229).

In his 1959 essay entitled «My Present View of the World,» he argued that the fundamental entities are discrete but overlapping «events,» that the fundamental entities of mathematical physics are «constructions composed of events,» and that entities like conscious minds and «selves» are best understood as collections of events «connected with each other by memory - chains backward and forwards.

This is true not only because, as we have seen, the memory of Jesus himself is embedded in the life of the church and is carried in its heart — a memory which no historical criticism can possibly discredit — but also because the real medium of the revelation is the event as a whole, and not any particular part of the event, however important.

He had consulted with the older counselors, who apparently retained some sense of political realities, if not actual memory of events in the reign of David; but he accepted the view of the young fellows of the court, his boon companions reared, like himself, in the diseased artificiality of the harem - infested court and doubtless for long anticipating the day when with his enthronement they should do as they pleased.

I can not regard the reproduction of the events of the years 1 - 30 in memory as the equivalent of the eschatological encounter.

But this takes place not by his reproducing the events of the past in memory, but by his encountering in those events of the past (as his own history) human existence and its interpretation.

I saw something on the History Channel (I think) recently that presented scientific evidence that this event potentially coincided with a big meteor shower (or something similar - I admit my memory of this show is not as detailed as I would like, but is essentially accurate).

It is the community of loyalty, devoted memory, and faith, which answer to the life, death, and resurrection of Christ; and therefore it is the community in which alone the life, death, and resurrection of Christ as a revelatory event took place.

I suggest that we discern the pastness of an event, and classify our apprehension of it as a memory, only when we apprehend a successor to it at the same location.

At diocesan level, the knock on effect of the World Youth Day in Cologne seems to have revived enthusiasm, with new groups and events springing up as a result of people's long - lasting memories.

Rather, it is a unity derived from principles of community and canon; from the memory of the community of Israel; and from Israel's understanding of its past and its present (and its future) as time and event given ultimate meaning only in terms of critical divine activity for critical divine purposes.

He defined legend as a story which has expanded and embellished the memory of an original historical event.

As Hartshorne points out, the event - sequences leading to mentally dominant events are generally of two basic types, memory and perception.

Some of the events that impinge upon our minds are internal to ourselves — pain, memory, etc — while others are external, as when we perceive other series of events going on about us.

The third way in which Creel develops his criticism of the implications of Hartshorne's view for God's omniscience has to do with the nonrepeatability of qualities and the purported consequence that God's memory of an event must inevitably grow more and more erroneous as time passes (PS 12:225 - 28).

The purely literal reading deprives the paradigmatic events of our faith of their enduring redemptive significance today and reduces an historical religion, such as ours is, to a mere memory.

Suffice it to say that when we think of God as the contemporary cosmic event — stressing his relative pole — the system seems rather pantheistic; but when we stress the abstract pole, and conceive of God in his function as the cosmic memory and container of the past, the distinction comes into greater relief.

The reality of past events is partially preserved as newly synthesized elements in later events but fully and infallibly in the never - failing memory of God.51 Hartshorne explains further that a denial of the full reality of the past would entail the conclusion that no true statements could be made about the determinate character of past events («Lincoln was assassinated»), whereas acceptance of his doctrine of the nonactuality of the future entails the falsity of all statements that ascribe completely determinate character to future events.52 «Maybe» is the only correct mode of reference to the future.

Sometimes we have clear memories of distant experiences — memories which are so fresh and vivid as to suggest no influence by intervening events.

But they remind us of the fact that the death of Christ was not only the vivid and poignant focus of the church's memory of Jesus (as death is always likely to be in our memory of another), but also that it became almost at once the symbol of what was realized to be the crucial meaning of the event.

(Job 31:3) Like a coagulated clot in the vessel of memory They articulated their dread of an event taken as a pretext.

As we saw in Chapter 3, H. Richard Niebuhr has emphasized that the Christian's primary knowledge of revelation is given not through objective reporting but through participation in a community's internal memory of saving events that to outsiders may have little narrative significance.

For the Bergsonian, since every physical event, as durationally successive, is possessed of elementary memory, albeit «feeble and short - lived,» there is no absolute domination of the material past — if by such domination is meant the absolute exclusion of all qualitative novelty from the present.

I've obviously made countless banana breads, pizzas, and other recipes since then, but that ordinary day that I made that simple banana bread and pizza will forever be in my memory as the event that truly sparked my love of cooking / baking.

I could be mistaken, but as memory serves the summer time is really when a decent volume of guys begin pulling the trigger on their college decisions, especially in the heat of camp season around events like Friday Night Lights.

As I've been out at events recently, people have stopped by with their original copy and each time I hold one, it brings back a flood of memories of that time in my life.

The MUSIGA President said they will cherish the fond memories they shared with both President Mahama and Mrs Ofosu - Adjare at the various events of the Union such as the MUSIGA Grand Ball and Ghana Music Week.

In a 2013 PLOS One study, Laureys and his Liège colleagues compared NDEs with other memories of intense real - life events, such as marriages and births, as well as with memories of dreams and imaginary thoughts.

A 2014 EEG study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience found that NDE memories are stored as episodic memories — recollections of events that you yourself participated in, like recalling where you were when the 9/11 attacks happened, rather than simply remembering the fact that the attacks happened.

The potential for mind - boosting drugs and technologies has increased stunningly over the past decade as neuroscientists have unlocked the secrets of neuronal circuits, neurotransmitters, and specific molecular events triggering brain functions in three interconnected cognitive domains — attention, memory, and creativity.

When I showed up in London at the end of August that year, I brought along earmuffs (because in the heat of a memory competition, there is no such thing as deaf enough), which I'd painted with Captain America stars and stripes; 14 decks of playing cards I would try to memorize in the hour cards event; and a Team USA T - shirt.

The Maddox Prize organizers said of this year's winner: «Professor Loftus is best known for her ground - breaking work on the «misinformation effect» which demonstrates that the memories of eyewitnesses are altered after being exposed to incorrect information about an event, as well as her work on the creation and nature of false memories.