Sentences with phrase «obvious historical point»

Not exact matches

Its leap toward a material gospel bypasses the defining convictions of the historical Christian community and the obvious ways that these represent a point of discontinuity with the blessings of the first promise.

But he returned to the discussion later, in a quite different context, and then it became obvious that he regarded himself as committed by the New Testament itself to a necessary link with the historical Jesus, for he could only reiterate his major point, that Christian faith as such is committed to the paradoxical assertion that a historical event within time, Jesus and his cross, is the eschatological event, and support it by exegesis of New Testament texts, especially Paul and John.

The forecast: A historical epic about African Americans and racism made by a black filmmaker sells for a lot of money at Sundance — the obvious comparison point is to 2016's «The Birth of a Nation.»

Perhaps the point is less about surrogacy as such, and more about modes of thinking predisposed to see the world in such a way for obvious historical reasons, made manifest in political institutions of many kinds — i.e. «establishment» and radical» — during the time when global conflict was a more tangible possibility.

As I pointed out at WUWT, you apparently have no problem «removing» an obvious annual temperature cycle from historical data.

I don't need to list for you all the things in Canada and the United States that were» traditional» even 50 years ago to make the obvious point: «Old» and «historical» and «traditional» are not necessarily positive attributes.

A historical perspective points out the obvious, ugly or positive.