Sentences with phrase «particular history»

I did my recent paintings specifically in response to a very particular history of painting.

The discussions will highlight in particular the history of successful water cooperation initiatives as well as identify emerging and burning issues on water education, water diplomacy, cooperation across transboundary waters, financing cooperation, and linkages with the Millennium Development Goals and the post-2015 development agenda, among others.

Districts are not blank slates; rather, they are places with particular histories and arrays of competing forces, which will shape the implementation of any new policy.

Responses vary by community and are dictated by particular histories, perceptions of change and the viability of options available to groups (Ford and Smit, 2004; Helander and Mustonen, 2004).

I think of our group as representative of a fairly large community of Christian thinkers who are a product of a very particular history.

When drilling down to the specifics, school districts will take different actions depending upon particular histories, cultures, and contexts.

Scott said he wanted the flag to help situate those killings in the context of history, and in particular the history of violence against black people in the U.S.

The piece takes an interesting look at the ideas that drive Colburn's work, in particular history's decisions to monumentalize or to forget.

Districts are not blank slates, but rather places with particular histories and competing forces that shape the implementation of any new policy.

Hank Willis Thomas: The museum at SCAD has a very particular history.

Both are artefacts of a particular system, one with a particular history and its own set of biases.

Once one acknowledges that one is shaped by a particular history and that those shaped by other histories may have seen aspects of reality that one has missed, then dialogue becomes the context of sharing and learning.

This particular history of injustice implicates many white Christians (and some black Christians too).

It has only been in the course of a long movement of a particular history, the history of Christendom, that Eternity has been swallowed up by time itself, that a radical finitude has appeared which has dissolved the very meaning of transcendence.

We don't use humor in this article because we think that particular history is funny, but because sometimes comedy helps us broach uncomfortable truths that we would otherwise avoid.

When God chose to incarnate himself in human form and Jesus accepted his God - given mission, this incarnation occurred within the stream of a particular history, the history of the Jewish people.

In some ways, they are very different from one another — different in size, in denominational tradition, and in their particular histories, opportunities and burdens.

In salvation history, existence is given its center of meaning by the intervention of God in a particular history.

So I judge that what seems a weakness in Mahayana Buddhism is rooted more in its particular history than in fundamental Buddhist teachings.

As much as American religion is «American,» it is also local, shaped by the particular history of immigration and economic forces of each place, as well as the particular landscape that often fires religious imaginations.

And because being in Christ is bound up with one and only one particular history — that of Jewish faith and of the man from Nazareth — it is simply not clear what it would mean to say that this perspective could in principle be gained by a7ny person anywhere with any sort of commitments.

However, although theirs and other more recent empiricist writings remain vital and needed, they have not offered any sustained description of any particular history, let alone its common culture and its common good, as historical process thought would.

Further and with regard to emotion rather than theory, there is reason to wonder whether the empirical approach, even when it gives sustained attention to particular histories, has provided a definition of a common culture that is socially persuasive.

For some of them, this version of process thought may be a hedge against the wildness of a particular history To object to this extension of process thought is not to object to the speculative or rationalistic process from which it arises, but it does make the less ambitious historical process theology all the more timely.

To complicate matters, there are fans of rationalistic and speculative forms of process thought who dwell on how process metaphysics, including God, transcend any particular history, reading Whitehead and Hartshorne as though they were old historicists, like Paul Tillich.

Rather, Dewey's point was that any sense of the whole is a view of all natural and social history from a particular historical location at a particular time, and is admittedly relative to particular observers in a particular history.

In our preaching our aim must be to particularize this all - embracing view as the text or the special needs of the hearer demand Our sermon may concentrate on the whole of mankind and its historical development, or on the particular history of the individual, or even each specific instance of sin — peccatum actuale.

Now one has to look at them within the context of their particular history.

In terms of the concerns emphasized in Section I, they are affected by gender, race, social location, and a particular history of ideas.

A brief historical overview may assist us here (these reflections are rooted in the particular history and context that I know best — the Methodist tradition).

«Clearly such a history has not been widely recognized — and our understanding of Christian presence and identity within the particular histories and cultures of the region has been massively distorted — often for doctrinal or ideological reasons.»

Closely related is the conceit that America is an «idea» rather than an ongoing national project with a particular history.

All parents need individual counselling based on their particular history.

«That particular history is still playing itself out.

It reveals the specific strengths and weaknesses arising from each country's particular history, culture, economy, geography, and natural resources.

For example, if you know that a celebrity has a certain medical condition, or was in an accident and received treatment on a particular day, it should be possible to identify their complete medical record as not many others are likely to share that particular history.

You are an individual with a particular history, body, and lifestyle.You also have goals and dreams that are unique to you.

... The particular histories of slavery, Jim Crow, urban segregation, racism, and patriarchy that are woven into the fabric of American politics have created a specific citizenship imperative for African - American women — a role and image to which they are expected to conform.

I don't mean tinkering around the edges — making a particular history lesson better or getting an individual teacher to alter his or her instructional strategies — but a lasting, substantive change, one that reshapes the profession.

«I come with a broad range of experience and don't have a particular history or loyalty to any constituency in the state.

I've come to believe that «local control,» embodied by a sense of deference to families, neighborhoods, and educators, respects the intricacies of public schooling, the particular histories of communities, and the wisdom of time - tested practices.

Older readers may want to check out the BBC History Magazine app to explore passages on a particular history topic.

These dogs are frightened by the unusual nature of the experience rather than any particular history of abuse.