Sentences with phrase «own place in this history»

In time the banner as we know it will most likely fade away, but its place in history is certain.

But its place in history is cemented.

Does it give you a place in history?

That move alone would seal Buffett's place in history among value investors, even if he had retired.

What if He takes His place in history / With all the prophets and the kings / Who taught us love and came in peace / But then the story ends, what then... But what if you're wrong / What if there's more / What if there's hope / You never dreamed of hoping for

I plan to visit Old North Church, Boston Harbor, and Faneuil Hall — all important places in the history of the American Revolution.

... i know your book says don't believe anything else before or after to protect its place in history, but just as you would read greek mythology and have incredulous thoughts about multigods ruling the earth water and the undergrounds, those who are not stuck on your wavelength, read your mythology and think how anyone in their right minds could ever fall for those idolatric stories... your belief in your creationist god is as unfathomable as an adult looking up the chimney and feeling the power of Santa Clause in them... does the power of Santa Clause compel you?

Deconstructing his own religion, his own Christ, and its place in history seems to happen to all of us sooner or later.

So If Obama's defeated, and has to settle for a nice, comfortable life, and a place in history, then what?

In the regular meetings of a circle of friends at Heidelberg, after almost ten years of discussions, we finally arrived at the conclusion that even God's revelation takes place in history and that precisely the biblical writings suggest this solution of the key problem of fundamental theology.

Amos had other standards of judgment, and the clarity and firmness with which he set the existing situation into the context of a loftier conception of religion gives him an outstanding place in the history of revelation.

There is therefore something too self - conscious, too mannered, too artificial in a work undertaken with one eye on its likely place in history.

Now if you will excuse me, I think I'll just forget about you and put you in the same place in history with Zeus, Mithra, Isis, and all the other «gods,» in the MYTHOLOGY DEPARTMENT.

Perhaps the most famous King scholar, Taylor Branch, has uncovered how aware King was of both his special place in history and the reality of his inordinate and plentiful failures.

It is not impossible that in the not too distant future gay activism as we have known it will have taken its place in the history of popular culture along with wife - swapping and «open marriages.»

In response, Lincoln delivered a speech in Peoria, Illinois, on October 16, 1854 that may fairly be said to have put him on the course to his place in history.

While McGrath's treatment is more detailed, his understanding more intuitive, and his prose more mellifluous, Ryken writes as a representative of the community that ultimately guaranteed Packer's place in the history of twentieth - and twenty - first - century Protestantism.

But it is not only by its artistry that Hamilton that has won a place in history.

It is our generations turn to carve out a place in history.

Rorty's notion of «solidarity» requires him to be forever trying to place himself in the history of thought, writes Gottlieb.

Obviously we are influenced by our place in history in a thousand respects.

The following article is excerpted from the concluding chapter of historian Jaroslav Pelikan's book titled Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, scheduled for October publication by Yale University Press.

• Christian laypeople in North America today are better educated than at any time and place in history.

Perhaps this is simply because the court of Charlemagne, even in fable, occupies too specific a place in history.

- This point becomes particularly clear when we consider prophecy believers» attitudes toward America and their yearning for a place in history.

And to that end, given that I am a baptist and that our place in that history is sort of the red - headed step - child of all camps, I say, «as long as you aren't killing me, I'll let you have your own reasons for that.»

The incarnate Lord lived at a particular time and place in history, and in his apocalypticism Jesus was apparently a man of his time.

Thus Solzhenitsyn believes that to remain intellectually honest, humanity must find some way of understanding its place in history without basing that understanding upon any world - historical absolutes.

He was a giant of our time and his unique place in the history of the Christian Church is secured.»

Injustice has been done to him b y not acknowledging his due place in history.

I am asking for his due place in history.

All I am asking is that Salman be given his due place in history.

Further belief in Jesus, the Prince of Peace, or recognition of the Bibles place in our history and as our social fabric's moral compass, does not necessarily require belief in a super natural being whispering truths to be recounted in the writings of our fellowmen.

While most intellectual historians agree in ranking Russell among the giants of this century, and even accord him a place of honor in the entire 2500 - year history of the Western philosophical tradition, the judgment is still not in on Whitehead's role and place in that history.

Until sixty years ago, the Church had earned a lasting place in history for inspiring Christian culture through the literary, visual, and musical arts, understood as beautiful.

Again, it would be impossible, because no man can adopt a view of the world by his own volition — it is already determined for him by his place in history.

The mix is the oldest one — Scripture and what it means to be a Christian in one's own time and place in history.

The bible was written by a group of men in a particular culture in a particular time and place in history.

For such a man to occupy a foremost place in history, and to continue to occupy it after nineteen centuries and more, is unexplainable on any ordinary grounds.

In this sense, «the historicity of Moses» means that Moses was conditioned by his place in history.

Redemption is not just «God's way of tidying up messy places in history or covering up ugly moments of our life together or our lives as individuals redemption is not about saving situations or justifying oppression or abuse.»

It is an event that took place in history, that, like all historical events, took time: the time of Jesus» earthly life, and the three days of His burial.

First, the simple fact that this structure of divine - human unity emerged at a time and place in history where the cultural, linguistic, political, and religious maturity and unity of a significant portion of humankind bode well for its apprehension is a major factor in its importance.

Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History or Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), p. 2.

Justice Antonin Scalia declares in Stenberg v. Carhart that he is «optimistic enough to believe» that the decision constitutionally protecting partial «birth abortion will «one day... be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court's jurisprudence beside Korematsu [validating internment of Japanese «Americans during World War II] and Dred Scott [holding white supremacy and racial slavery as fundamental tenets of American constitutionalism].»

This teaching is the basic rationale for war - tax resistance, which, as Karl Meyer points out (Catholic Worker, November - December, 1969), has had its place in history:

With an average temperature of 77.6 degrees, 3.3 degrees above the 20th century average, the drought that has plagued the Midwest all summer has now landed its place in history.

His significant contributions to economics however should place him in the history of economic thought as a major forerunner, if not the «father,» of economics, a title which has been given to Adam Smith, whose great works were published some three hundred and seventy years after Ibn - Khaldun's death.

(ii) you, JW, have a startling new piece of evidence that was right before our eyes that will turn accepted biological science and about 10 other sciences on their heads if ONLY people would listen to you, no doubt earning you a Nobel Prize and a place in history beside the likes of Darwin, Newton and Einstein; or

At a time and place in history, Jesus became a man to reveal the fullness of God.