Sentences with phrase «other historical points»

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Not least because the Shiller p / e is, at 25, well above the historical average and other market indicators (like the Q ratio) are pointing the same way.

Forty - five years after Humanae Vitae, it now seems clear that the invention of the oral contraceptive pill (to adopt one reference point for the broader contraceptive revolution) was one of the three achievements of 20th - century science with truly world - historical impact, the other two being the creation of the self - sustaining nuclear chain reaction and the unraveling of the DNA double helix.

Fundamentalists, of course, reject the critical historical approach to the Bible altogether, pointing out that it is based on the assumption that the Bible is a human document like others to which the same methods of scholarship can be applied.

We see at once that the historical in the more concrete sense is a matter of indifference; we may suppose a degree of ignorance with respect to it, and permit this ignorance as if to annihilate one detail after the other, historically annihilating the historical; if only the Moment remains, as point of departure for the Eternal, the Paradox will be there.

Historical critics typically gather all evidence from within a letter that might point to a specific rhetorical situation; then, with the help of other information — when available — reconstruct the situation Paul addresses; and, finally, read the details of the letter as they fit within that reconstruction.

We could point to examples of semantic structure, grammatical style, references to culture, and a whole host of other historical critical standards to prove by scholarly consensus that the author whose name is on the book did not actually write it.

What doc - uments and historical facts, not fables, can you point to for your proof other than a few hundred year old writings by heretics?

At this point, we need to make distinctions between language that can be supported by historical data and language which operates on other levels.

While you may not believe in God, the man named Jesus, or any other deity, there is in fact, historical evidence pointing at least to the possibility of the existence of the man named Jesus and that many, many people were willing to change their lives, risk their lives and even be persecuted and executed in the name of this man named Jesus.

Conversely, I will not point my finger at any house church, emergent movement, or any other gathering that seems to look more like a New Testament church and declare: «You have the biblical and historical right to exist!»

There are other scholars who defend the substantial historicity of the tomb pericope, and since we must reckon with this possibility, we now turn from the literary form of the story to its content to see in what way the latter may point to historical reliability rather than to legend.

Our historical transcendence depends on God's offer to communicate himself; for our spiritual transcendence is never merely natural but always surrounded and carried by a dynamic of grace that points towards God's nearness; in other words God is not only present as the horizon of our transcendence that ever refuses itself, but also offers himself as our direct possession in what we call deifying grace.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

The point of the list is to show we all are OK with the historical things we read about in other books (like Caesar, even though the earliest we have is 1000 years later) but most aren't content with the Bible when we have something only 25 years later.

NOT someone with a political or historical view point that they feel obsessed with pushing on others.

[39] Regarding chronology, Timothy Barnes, in Tertullian, op cit., points out that this treatise, which comes from the period before Tertullian became a Montanist, does not yield more precise information when the criteria regarding historical allusions, references to other works, doctrinal progression and style, are applied.

Yet, as the evangelists point out, the other aspect of the identification is equally important: the Christ of faith can not be separated from the historical Jesus, if we do not wish to find «a myth in the place of history, a heavenly being in the place of the Nazarene».

And to add to the confusion, Wills claims to admire two Catholics above all others: St. Augustine and Cardinal Newman, even though Wills» own pontifications on sex differ entirely from Augustine's views, and his lucubrations on development bear no resemblance to Newman's own painstaking historical analysis, which would point out to Wills that false doctrines can not be said to «develop.»

As Pastor Klein rightly points out, Mr. Nuechterlein inexplicably chooses women's ordination and other modern issues as tests of catholicity, despite their negative effects on church unity and their radical departure from historical Christianity.

Even many of today's Christians, who in other respects may be regarded as being very liberal in their outlook, have been inclined to rest their faith on the historical reliability of the resurrection narratives, as pointing to at least one incontestable miracle of a supernatural character, and they have been alarmed when the «Empty Tomb» stories came to be regarded as legendary.

In other words, it is to say that we believe that implicit in the pictorial language of the Scriptures and the historical events to which the Bible points and with which its language is concerned, there is a basic view of the world which is grounded in reality itself.

It is interesting to note that at this moment in history, when people everywhere are called upon to understand the heritage of others, a perspective dominates in the history of religions that demands investigation from a point of view that takes seriously the uniqueness and particularity of each historical religion.

This point is particularly important when we are placing our own religion's sense of life's meaning, allegedly given to us by a special historical revelation, into an encounter with other traditions» sense of life's meaning, given to them by their own symbolic traditions.

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

Of all the possible names here we will mention only that of our own teacher, the moderately conservative Joachim Jeremias, who deserves to be heard on this point, if only because he has done more than any other single scholar to add to our knowledge of the historical Jesus.

The difficulty was that the liberal critical scholar was engaged at one and the same time in constructing a faith - image and reconstructing the historical image, the one as a believer and the other as a scholar, and this led to the confusion between these two tasks to which Schweitzer, in effect, pointed, and which was, indeed, unavoidable.

Nominated for awards at both the Pan African Film Festival, Bronzelens Film Festivals, and others, it's no wonder TV One, the network dedicated to delivering real life and entertainment programming from the African American point of view, has decided to acquire and air this historical film on Saturday, January 9, 2016.

But there are historical examples that used weighted voting at points in time - that is, countries where some voters» votes were more equal than others».

Nonetheless, they hardly point to anything other than a difficult general election for the party in its strongest historical bastion.

«The main factor here is whether or not we use personal force,» says Greene, who points to historical and observational data suggesting people have a reluctance to hurt each other, even in times of war.

«The Gangland Files» collects many of the disc's extras (including Focus Point mini-featurettes, historical trivia and other bits) into a picture - in - picture track that plays alongside the film, while the audio commentary with director Ruben Fleischer is informative but not terribly engaging.

First of all, as Susanne Alleyn points out in her clever and very readable book, Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myth, an author of historical fiction needs to recognize that the city of today can be vastly different from the city of whatever time period you are writing about, and this is true even when you are talking about a relatively young city like San Francisco and a time period that is only 132 years inHistorical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myth, an author of historical fiction needs to recognize that the city of today can be vastly different from the city of whatever time period you are writing about, and this is true even when you are talking about a relatively young city like San Francisco and a time period that is only 132 years inhistorical fiction needs to recognize that the city of today can be vastly different from the city of whatever time period you are writing about, and this is true even when you are talking about a relatively young city like San Francisco and a time period that is only 132 years in the past.

Believers in fundamental indices point out that repeated research by Kenneth French from Dartmouth's Tuck School and the University of Chicago's Eugene Fama has shown that small cap and value stocks have outperformed other securities over most significant historical periods, and haven't yet displayed a reversion to the mean.

We spent the next couple days playing tourist, working our way through Philadelphia's various historical points of interest and finding other fun things to do in the city.

Other nearby attractions and points of interest include the Morton Arboretum, Lynfred Winery, Lombard Historical Society, Fashion Outlet Malls, Cantigny Park and much more.

«Our historical performance at other hotels under management is one of our strongest selling points as third - party owners seek to learn what sets HHM apart: the inherent value in our operating model,» said Mike Murray, HHM chief operating officer.

There are a number of places to visit, including the Batterly Chamberlin museum, an artillery battery built in 1904, Fort Point, a 1861 fortification under the Bridge and Crissy Field Center, a former airfield that is now a recreational area, The Walt Disney Family Museum as well as 800 other historical buildings.

In it, Guilbaut points out the historical parallels between van Velde's work and the emerging Abstract Expressionist esthetic and the missed opportunities for a dialog between two esthetics so fundamentally close to each other, but separated by their ideological contexts.

Other shows have attempted art - historical blockbusters without the art or the history, whether of Africa, Spain, or (exclamation point duly noted) «Russia!»

Yet if Other Primary Structures reveals Minimalism's contingency as an art historical category, it does so by fetishistically reinscribing Primary Structures as the point of lost origin.

This exhibition takes Nevelson as a point of inspiration and further explores the visual and historical connections between her wooden sculpture Untitled (ca. 1976 — 78) and other works from the Kemper Museum Permanent Collection.

Taking selected works from the Collection as its point of departure, including seminal pieces by some of the most prominent artists from Central, Eastern and South - East Europe since the 1960s, including historical works by Mladen Stilinović, Július Koller, Valie Export, Geta Brătescu, Edward Krasiński and Sanja Iveković, the exhibition stages an interplay between these and other historical, contemporary and newly produced works that interpret and critically examine the collection by artists such as Nika Dubrovsky, Tim Etchells, Marcus Geiger, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Vlatka Horvat, David Maljković, Oscar Murillo, Manuel Pelmus and Stephen Willats.

Other paintings, sculptures, and photographs displayed in MATRIX 261 point to her interest in historical sculpture, in particular a Roman marble mask of Marcus Aurelius that she encountered in the Malmö Konstmuseum.

Other than her Untitled Film Stills, Cindy Sherman got her hands in fashion photography, soft - core sex imagery and historical portraiture, all causing a fair amount of controversy for their hands - on points of view.

He pointed out that exhibitions are not collected nor have they been documented with the consistency and depth that historical research requires, leaving in obscurity the work and imagination of curators who absorbed the lore of their elders and informally passed on their accumulated expertise to the succeeding generation: Only by comprehending those genealogies can we understand how some objects rather than others entered into conventional art history.

Using photographs, statistical data, personal experience, historical research, nature and other concrete facts as a starting point — the artists depart from reality, allowing for ruptures, dissolutions or divergences from veracity.

They added little rainbows and other such motifs to alter the historical documents to the point where they became theirs rather than history's: The idea of Hitler turning in his grave because we painted rainbows on his pictures is fantastically pleasurable.

Perhaps, as a growing number of museums focus their acquisitions and exhibition programming on contemporary art, the competing issues of curators seeking to examine the work of living artists from an historical vantage point and the career and market concerns of those very artists will result in other stand - offs.

While the other regional exhibitions (The Point Is... 2.0: Black Panther Party 50th Exhibit at Joyce Gordon Gallery, 50 Years Later: The Art Show at SoleSpace, and ICONIC: Black Panther at American Steel Studios) pay homage to the Party's rich visual legacy through specific aspects of the Party's history — including women's participation and influence throughout the Party or the Ten - Point Plan — All Power to the People provides both a thorough historical overview and contemporary meditations by artists Carrie Mae Weems, David Huffman, Hank Willis Thomas, Sadie Barnette, Trevor Paglen, and William Cordova.

Thus From Minimalism into Algorithm, while adumbrating a compelling expansion of Minimalism as a historical launch point for much contemporary work, falters with its second key term, at times illuminating and at other times mystifying the relevance of the algorithm to contemporary artistic practice and discourse.