but do
nt call it history.
Now, I certainly wouldn't call myself a history major (I'll leave that to my brother), so the possibility of that ruining my...
Not exact matches
Chernobyl is still considered the worst nuclear accident in
history — but it could have been much, much worse, if
not for a so -
called «suicide squad» of three brave volunteers.
Jokes aside, the Falcon Heavy launch with the Roadster payload has been
called the most stunning PR stunt in human
history, and while it certainly might be, it also shows that Tesla and SpaceX aren't such separate entities anymore.
According to the Computer
History Museum, Engelbart couldn't remember who was responsible for
calling it a mouse.
Though the plot tells a heartwarming tale of father / son bonding, the sentimentality wasn't enough to combat what Roger Ebert
called the «most repulsive single creature in the
history of special effects!»
Had he
not reworked it just before delivery, we'd quote it now as
calling December 7, «a date that will go down in world
history.»
But if the founder of the CFPB and one of the most powerful FDIC chairs in American
history can't make debt collection
calls stop, what chance does anybody else have?
While Open MIC does
not hold any Facebook shares, it has a
history of coordinating Facebook investors to
call for more responsible behavior from the company.
It wasn't just a lucky
call; it was based on my study of the economic
history of America.
With feathers on her eyelashes and glitter everywhere else, it was clear that Takia Ross» true
calling was
not as a
history teacher.
King David was considered one of the great kings Jewish & #Christian
history,
called a man after God's heart, yet he had his loyal military man killed to cover up an affair with his wife Christians aren't perfect they're just #forgiven #StormyDaniels https://t.co/vCO4RNzkMv
Tesla's latest earnings
call will likely go down in
history as... Continue reading Gold Goats «
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Let's
not forget what and how America was suposedly started as a place of relgious freedom by the pilgrams (according to so
called american
history books) these religious people proceeded to rob & kill the Indians who saved their lives, take & kill Mexicans for land & gold & oil enslave a whole group of people as property for financial gain all under the guise of being good «Christians» (WHITE) and now perceive all «Muslims» (NON-WHITE) are evil unless proven otherwise.
As Bellah and his coauthors write near the end of their book, «We will need to remember that we did
not create ourselves, that we owe what we are to the communities that formed us, and to what Paul Tillich
called «the structure of grace in
history» that made such communities possible.»
no matter what is said... we can
not change
history... no matter how many times we try to re-write it in our contemporary times... no matter how many times we try and soothe our consciences... that blood
calls from the ground... and it will be vindicated in the end... then i saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of GOD and the testimony they had maintained..
Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana and now president of Purdue University, has been so accused — but
not at all credibly — because of some remarks he made a few years ago in an e-mail, while he was governor, about the tired old ideology pedlar Howard Zinn, whose widely used book, A People's
History of the United States, Daniels
called «disinformation.»
The so -
called «Ten Commandments» are
NOT a part of American
history.
In a book
called «On the Road to Civilisation, A World
History» (Philadelphia 1937) it said, «Early Christianity was little understood and was regarded with little favour by those who ruled the pagan world... Christians refused to share certain duties of Roman Citizens... they would
not hold political office.»
It is far more likely, given the
history of the people and cultures of the time, that the people who followed the old testament, whatever it was
called at the time, realized that many new philosophies were edging out their beliefs, so they came up with the
NT to try to bring believers back.
It is
not called Eusebius» Ecclesiastical
History, but rather Eusebius: The Church
History.
When finding war and death in
history you do
not have to look very hard to find a so
called atheist in the woodpile.True Christians are free from causing wars but so
called atheists stealing the t itle of christian are quite common.
In sum, McDermott's probing analysis of
history, tradition, and orthodoxy never
calls the issue what it is: Evangelicals can't define or describe the church beyond personal piety.
The problem is that through out
history folks have
called groups or elements of society that they do or did
not like or agree with such names to de-humanize them.
I actually do find evidence supporting Christianity and God in general throughout
history, mathematics, and science, but you will
call me blind nonetheless because you adore grouping people together to discriminate against them for actually comprehending something you can
not fathom.
Emboldened by this move, Neuhaus likewise feels free to declare that «the great majority of Christians in the world belong to bodies that, in continuity with two millennia of
history, believe women can
not be ordained to what is traditionally
called the presbyterate,» as if the mere pronouncement of such a statement thereby settles the matter for any contemporary or future discussion.
The reconstruction of the biblical
history which they produced is now commonly
called the «liberal» view — though the term «liberal» is here used in a sense originally German rather than English, and should
not be made a stick to beat those who are «liberal» in a different sense.
It is significant that the
history of the first - century church is
called the book of Acts,
not the books of Truths (p. 72).
Sexuality is
not love, and much sexual experience may be independent of that mutual affection, commitment, and union of two personal
histories which we
call human love.
They did
not, however, see a need to absolutize anything in the Bible as a final standard of judgement, even what Sölle
calls the gospel's «nonderivable promise and the demand for peace, freedom, and justice for all people».5 The test of our present judgements is
not their conformation to any Christian absolute but rather whether they have developed responsibly through Christian
history.
Bultmann
called into question
not only what could be said about the Trinity, but developed an entire system in which
history's effects on doctrine must be overcome so that the Christian message might be meaningful for the concrete individual of the historical present.
Well, it was a turbulent time in
history, but Calvin's off - with - their - heads approach to theological orthodoxy doesn't do much for so -
called Calvanism.
These charisms may well be
called the democratic aspects of the Church, especially as it is evident from dogmatic ecclesiology as well as from church
history that this freely working Spirit can be active
not only in the official ministry of the Church but also in every individual of the demos, that is to say of the people of God.
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity and in the birth of modernity,
not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it alone, in the
history of the West, was a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting façade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently,
called it forth into the open.
To preach justice, to
call down judgment: For the Christian, this universal vocation does
not have its origins in
history but in the one who broke into
history.
The cry of the poor in
history continues to reveal God's
call, even though the strategies of merciful response must correspond to the way of Jesus witnessed in the
NT.
Certainly, in so far as he confesses his faith in God he is committed to a belief in the One who may properly be
called supernatural and superhistorical — for God is
not to be located in the spheres of what, by the use of certain limited and limiting frames of reference, we
call nature and
history — but such a belief does
not relegate God to some alien sphere of splendid isolation and inaccessibility.
Christian
history shows that the kind of Christian philosophizing Hanby
calls for generally follows,
not precedes, a society's conversion.
Don't be confused about what so -
called «conservatives» are: American domestic
history is the unbroken story of people having to fight against the right - wing for their most basic rights, usually in the face of violence.
The English law is inseparably bound up with the
history and structure of the Inns of Court, those ancient collegiate societies to which, until recently, every barrister had to belong, and which, in my days as a student, insisted that you could
not be
called to the Bar without first dining for a requisite number of nights in the Hall of your Inn.
Can't we put Rush Limbaugh in a box and put him on a shelf somewhere and
call him
history.
Names were
not pre-written in it, but as time went on — throughout the OT
history God continuously sent prophets to
call the stiffnecked nation to repentance and turning from their wicked ways.
A monument to the importance of that achievement for the
history of the Slavs is the very alphabet in which most Slavs write, which is
called Cyrillic, in honor of Saint Cyril, the ninth - century «apostle to the Slavs,» who, with his brother Methodius, is traditionally given credit for having invented it...
Not only among the Slavs in the ninth century, but also among the other so -
called heathen in the 19th century, the two fundamental elements of missionary culture for more than a millennium have therefore been the translation of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, and education in the missionary schools.
We are
not called upon to discard completely the important salvation
history themes of the Old Testament, but the church in America may find some other viewpoints more helpful in the challenges of world poverty.
The Holocaust was
not the abstraction we
call a period of
history but a succession of mornings and afternoons and evenings, much like this day.
the figure of the garden important precisely because it points to women's historical experience, and so allows women to speak
not only about faith but about what Katie Cannon
calls our «blighted»
history.
I say to you candidly, as I have said before, I have never found a man, be he Methodist or be he non-Methodist, willing to contribute to our work here who has
not endorsed a liberal Christian policy in the administration of affairs... I have never denied our Methodist allegiance, I have never denied our Methodist
history, but I have maintained that, greater than Methodism was the cause of Christ and that the
call for service in His name was greater than the
call to the service of the Church.
We don't yet know what to
call the era we are in now, and we certainly aren't back to «modernism» but whatever era we are in, I'm sure
history will label it for us.
This new secularism plants its flag on the so -
called right side of
history — exactly as if historicism itself hadn't been discredited from philosopher Karl Popper onward.
@NAH, can rebut each of Colin's points in a reasonable manner, specifically let me
call out two (both sort of related)-- the Christianity refers to only 600 years of
history, and only refers to a small geography (
not even the entire earth)-- why «leap of faith» argument is valid for Christianity and
not for other independent faiths, which have many contradictory beliefs compared to Christianity, and if they are equally valid, how can they all be equally valid