Sentences with phrase «optimistic view of history»

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St. Augustine's view of history was ultimately optimistic since its end term is the Kingdom of God; but we have seen how this was adjusted to a patient and complex view of history in which the two cities of church and world are mingled in cultural creativity and conflict.

Between them the Christian understanding of human being and society as created, fallen and redeemed by God was made irrelevant so that these forces of modernity were left to be interpreted solely within the framework of the humanism of the Enlightenment which at best had a Deistic faith coupled with a mechanical view of the world and a self - redemptive idea of history making for an optimistic doctrine of inevitable progress.

This is a city with a tumultuous history but an optimistic view of the future.