Sentences with phrase «particular historical event»

They also hear an understanding of faith as involving particular beliefs or as involving claims for the exclusivity of particular historical events that they can not accept.

Every community celebrates and re-enacts particular historical events which are crucial to its corporate identity and its vision of reality.

In my opinion Barth was straightforward: it was clear that he was claiming the universal significance of a unique particular historical event because God chose to be revealed in it.

I also think there are some narratives that are purely metaphorical narratives, with no particular historical event behind them, such as walking on the water, the virgin birth, and so forth.

To say that the Christian revelation is «necessary» in this sense is not necessarily to say that the particular historical event in which the Christian understanding had its genesis is the only event in all history — past, present, or future — which could mediate such an understanding.

It is thus nontemporal in that it is truly universal, not defined by reference to any particular historical event.

Process theology can, however, produce a doctrine of hope that avoids both romantic and Marxist utopianism and the problem produced by founding hope in one particular historical event.

Rather, the confrontation is between the general cosmic process and one particular historical event.

«There was a time when we didn't talk, as many people have talked for nearly two hundred years now, about Jesus Christ being «a particular historical event,»» he observed.

By contrast, rather than setting the sayings in a narrative context of historical events, the Jesus Seminar sees them as fragmentary materials mediated by oral tradition that - by its account - retains only short, memorable aphorisms and parables, floating free from association with any particular historical event.

I am not claiming that moral and religious experience or particular historical events can constitute a proof for the existence of a personal God.

Effective teachers assign writing and oral language tasks that require close reading of texts: for example, a letter or diary entry by a historical figure, a skit that takes place during a particular historical event, a travel brochure, or a matching game.

Pay special importance to the dates in question and analyze the effect of that particular historical event against social and cultural background of the times.