Sentences with phrase «not subjects of their histories»

To us, people are objects, not subjects of their histories.

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«This subject matter, in the wake of the state's deadliest wildfires in history, is incredibly insensitive, dangerous, and most definitely not funny.

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I don't have time to educate you, Ironicus, but I'd suggest that if you're truly an engaged learner, you educate yourself on the subject of music history.

They may say that modern (or postmodern) thought has «moved beyond» what Aquinas, for instance, had to say about the interaction of nature and history, but in fact they typically have not the foggiest notion of what Aquinas said, or even whether he said anything at all on the subject.

In contrast to religious understanding of transcendence, Marx asserted that human beings shape the universe and their own destiny, and human being is not any more the object of history but its subject and agent.

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

They believe in a Church which knows of a natural law and which aims at subjecting not only the sentiments of men's hearts but also the concrete reality of life and history to the law of the Gospel.

«Salvation history,» not because every moment of this world is willed by God in a direct manner — the bloodletting of Herod is not intended by God as the flight of Jesus is — but because the voice crying out in Rama is as much the subject of sacred prophecy as Jesus's flight.

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..

We do not necessarily infer that legend is early and history late, for legend and history may develop simultaneously around the same subject, as they apparently do, for example, in the case of the prophet Elijah, in the ninth century.

After staining the margins of history for centuries, the blood of our brothers and sisters cried out for a place where Jews would not be subject to arbitrary expulsion.

They have been subjected to an unparalleled history of extreme coercion and violence which did not end with emancipation but has taken ever new forms to the present day.

Subject - object history can not adequately understand events because the I of the historian is that of the disinterested spectator while the persons whom he describes are usually treated as Its rather than as Thous.

One can not understand the current conflicts apart from the history of the field's comparatively recent emergence as an academic subject.

(3) A more imaginative approach has been taken by some theologians who have suggested that the resurrection was an act of God and therefore not a part of human history, and is therefore not subject to the judgment of historians.

I might have expected him to write well on subjects such as Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes, John Paul II, and the history of the Catholic Church in the United States — and he does so, and the reader will not be disappointed.

Feezell is correct that fully actual persons are the subjects of misfortune (45), but I am not convinced that potential persons, because they exist in space and have a history, are also (albeit in a «weaker sense») subjects of misfortune.

The church certainly has a long history of using legislation to gain its ends and now Sam Harris is saying that the church should not have special support, either socially or otherwise, but be subject to the same requirements for merit as other institutions.

In other words, a purported history that omits major, early historical elements of its subject matter, can only be called a review of some history, but not a history.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

He shapes the universe and his own destiny, and thus he is not any more the object of history but its subject and agent.

XVhile the resurrection traditions of the Gospels may be subject to critical analysis, the reality ofJesus» rising from the dead to which they bear witness is suspect because, like the other miracles, it can not be integrated into the causal nexus of either nature or history.

Not only are graduate theological schools producing more theses and dissertations on Wesleyan subjects, but Methodist periodicals (Quarterly Review, Methodist History, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society) are increasingly printing their articles, and new publishing enterprises are emerging to take up their longer monographic works (among these are Zondervan's Francis Asbury Press imprint, Abingdon's Kingswood Books imprint, and Asbury Theological Seminary's new series in Pietist and Wesleyan Studies) These scholars are quite likely to be found in the Wesley Studies Working Group of the American Academy of Religion.

The emergence, in the course of history, of the ability to think of the other as another subject and to appreciate the moral demand that this lays upon one — to treat the other as an end and not only as a means — is an achievement of civilization that most of us are not willing to abandon.

I don't believe in God just because of what I may or may not have studied in history (you are wrong about your as.sumption that I haven't studied the subject).

Colin Hart, chief executive of the institute, accused the government overreacting, on Premier's «News Hour», he said: «You may or may not agree with it, but one thing you can't do is sue the school over the way in which history is taught or maths is taught or whatever subject there is, because the law excludes discrimination from the content of the curriculum, but that's to change for independent schools, free schools and academies»

And whereas, it is the duty of nations as as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord: And, in so much as we know that, by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People?

John V. Taylor from Great Britain spoke on the subject in the plenary session.45 He said that the Kingdom of God did not lie within the span of world history; it belonged to another dimension.

Two hundred and fifty years before Christ, King Asoka, one of the noblest figures in world history and the great promulgator of Buddhism, proclaimed to his subjects not only tolerance but also love for other religions.

Religious phenomenology and history are not two sciences but are two complementary aspects of the integral science of religion, and the science of religion as such has a well - defined character given to it by its unique and proper subject matter.

For most of us, Hemp history is not our best subject.

I don't think there is much in there at all on the subject of bad - mouthing City, rather a couple of points about the FFP rules and how / if they will be applied and correcting your lack of knowledge on the history The Arsenal.

If BFS stays which is looking more likely Zarate, Nene, Alfitano are history because they are not wanted under his it's my way or the highway, What a way to watch the collapse of a great club and DS and DG have the nerve to call there selves fans, this is all about business they have millions and not a lot of time to spend it but they intend to walk out of our club with as much money as possible, I just hope we don't end up like Birmingham, Sorry Hugh gone off subject but aren't you getting that bad feeling in your guts.

It can not be remembered in recent history when the life of a 20 - year old «girl» ever became a subject of national interest.

Through a quirk of regulatory history, many such tests are not subject to the same medical standards as other tools used to identify risk for disease or to definitively diagnose a condition.

The researchers determined that subjects with a family history of alcoholism found salty solutions less pleasurable than did those individuals not related to alcoholics.

Notes Snowdon, «The benefit of the nonhuman primate model is that we can control and know the developmental and social histories of our study subjects, to carry out studies not possible in humans.»

The lake is anoxic below a depth of 200 m, thus the silty diatomaceous clay that accumulates in the deep basins has not been subject to bioturbation throughout much of the lake's history.

«Beast,» however, is not a typical, superficial treatment of the subject of serial killers but a story with enough depth that even European history becomes a player.But blink, and you'll miss a key point, when Pascal (Johnny Flynn) informs snobbish family members at a family dinner on the British island of Jersey that they, despite their wealth and haute manners, are sitting on land that belonged to his ancestors.

These sequences almost seem ridiculous; not only does Angelina Jolie completely overact as the boy's mother, but Stone's style is reminiscent of countless History Channel documentaries on the same subject.

by Walter Chaw Completely uncompromising in a way that films, especially sports films, just aren't, Ron Shelton's Cobb is one of the most effective hagiographies in film history not for the way that it elevates its subject to sainthood, but for the way that it allows its subject to be one of history's most notorious, relentless miscreants.

CHICAGO — I am not opposed to dramatic retellings of true events from history, but I think the drama should at least be as entertaining as a PBS documentary on the same subject.

The film has had a tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after the violent response of the premiere audience in 1939, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II; it wasn't reconstructed until 1959.

Components are plugged into place throughout such that the final outcomes for these characters should be completely predictable, thus robbing the climax of its power Rating: Hoopla Factor: As we learn of his rather bleak romantic history, it's hard not to feel we're being subjected to a biased retelling — he seems particularly hard done by.

And she's the type who, over a lengthy FaceTime interview, expounds not on her latest juice cleanse but on subjects like the importance of textiles to a culture and «emblems of female vanity» throughout art history.

The majority of their conversations occurred by phone call or text exchange (Manville said Day - Lewis does not use emojis — we asked) and encompassed every subject, from their characters» family history, which they fleshed out, to everyday observations.

After a hilarious sequence showing renowned dodgeball champion Patches O'Houlihan (Rip Torn) whipping the Average Joe's crew into shape (with the help of wrenches and traffic), we're subjected to the most perverse masturbation scene in the history of film, a bit that's not just unfunny but seriously disturbing.

In the core subjects of English, math, science, and history (including geography and civics, never say «social studies»), there is absolutely no reason why we ought not ask all young Americans to learn most of the same things while in the elementary and secondary grades.

This is not to say textbook companies are in the business of writing skewed versions of history, science or math, but rather that students are provided with one viewpoint on the subject.