The book you write and self - publish could be the most exciting work of fiction in a decade, a riveting looking into current events, a historical recounting of
past events every history professor should read, a guide to your own personal area of expertise, or any of countless other types of book; but in terms of how you sell the book, it is just a unit.
Not exact matches
The
past six months have been an extraordinary period for Chinese politics, with a steady series of high - level
events and major changes unprecedented in recent
history.
This
history of the associated ideas profoundly affects the experiences in which the
past event is really present.
The intricate world views and belief systems of congregations constitute the setting of their corporate narrative, while their traditional
histories, the sequences of
past events selected for retelling, correspond to plot.
But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the
past few decades in America — the great explanatory
event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political
history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»
The resurrection itself is not an
event of
past history.
The original form of Jesus has disappeared from view, transcendence has been swallowed up by immanence, the
events of our salvation
history have passed into the dead and lifeless moments of an irrevocable
past, no heaven can appear above the infinite stretches of a purely exterior spatiality, and no grace can appear within the isolated subjectivity of a momentary consciousness.
Our interest in the
events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the
history of the
past.
your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of
history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the
events of
history.In the
past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through
history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.
So, I don't agree, but do understand that this is just another
event in human
history that must come to
past.
There is no single
past, present, and future which is everchanging in content as universal
history is generated, but rather a distinct
past, present, and future relative to each
event.
Legend retains from the rubrics of
history only the concern for sequence; yet in legend it is always a sequence determined not by
past event but by present faith.
Both the Bible and the Qur» an are «sacral
history», that is to say they describe
past events as evidence of God's controlling activity.
The
history of his wrestle with God is not confined to a few thousand years of dramatic
events occurring in Asia Minor, though the crucial importance of those
events seems even greater as the story expands into remoter
pasts and futures.
History is customarily understood as an interrelation of
events none of which are significant in themselves but only in terms of their connection with the
past from which they spring and the future to which they give rise.
It is that this
event is the emergence into full operation of that very Word which in
past history struggled for utterance.
We recall again Israel's habitual identification of one and many, her sense of total participation as people in all the meaningful
events of her
history,
past and even future, involving one Israelite, a few, or many.15 In the faith of Israel the glorious survival and reconstitution of a remnant is Israel's glory and Israel's re-establishment.
They are indispensable symbolic ways of making ourselves in some sense contemporary with the
past events of salvation
history.
Often I feel like the cross was a great historic
event, but like all
history it is in the
past.
History in the sense of greatest concern to man is not
past events.
It was an
event in the
history of salvation, in the realm of eternity..., in an analogous way,
history comes to an end in the religious experience of any Christian «who is in Christ»... For although the advent of Christ is an historical
event which happened «once» in the
past, it is, at the same time, an eternal
event which occurs again and again in the soul of any Christian.»
Everything proves it: its style, its contents, the extraordinary
events by which it was revealed, taught, and written down; its constant conformity with
past, present, and future truth; its transcendent character which never shows a trace of a particular man, of any one society or epoch of
history or specific region of the globe.
What I am concerned with is the «historic» significance of the unique
event of
past history, in virtue of which it possesses eschatological significance although it is a unique
event of
past history.
If yes, then the
event must itself be more than just an
event of
past history: it must include within itself as an
event of the
past this meta - historical, existential significance, and it must be possible to extract that significance from the
event itself.
That manner of putting it helps us to see that like any other routing of
events in
history and the cosmos there is in the church a
past which is remembered and which is causally effectual, a present in which choices are made and action undertaken, and a future which beckons toward genuine fulfillment.
The cosmic significance of the cross can not therefore be demonstrated by the resurrection as an
event of
past history.
Of course, our opponents are bound to dismiss this claim that a unique
event in
past history is the eschatological
event as an absurdity.
But this takes place not by his reproducing the
events of the
past in memory, but by his encountering in those
events of the
past (as his own
history) human existence and its interpretation.
Nor are the untoward results of this dilemma of having to distinguish between what is typical and perennial and what is unique and ephemeral in
history limited to the interpretation of
past events.
Of the kernel of
history which transcends the myth, Bultmann can speak only in negative terms: «Our interest in the
events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the
history of the
past.
In the same way, if we continue to speak of revelation as historical, it is not only in the sense that the trace of God may be read in the founding
events of the
past or in a coming conclusion to
history, but in the sense that it orients the
history of our practical actions and engenders the dynamics of our institutions.
32 The specific task of physics for Whitehead is the analysis of the relationships of
events with the goal»... to contrast the sphere of contingency by discovering adjectives of
events such that the
history of the apparent world in the future shall be the outcome of the apparent world in the
past» (B 29, cf. PR 150).
The paradox of the Christian Gospel is just this — those
events are present realities although they belong to
past history.»
In fact, Bultmann is at pains to divorce what he calls the historicity of the cross from the crucifixion of Jesus as an
event in the
past: «The real meaning of the cross is that it has created a new and permanent situation in
history.
There was a time when
history was regarded as a cold and detached recording of
events in the
past; the job of the historian was to discover, so far as possible, «what had happened» and then to set this down in an appropriate series of entries in what really amounted to a kind of account - book.
These
events have been referred to as «Salvation's
history», as if the hand of God is to be seen only in a selected number of
events of the distant
past.
The same question is then applied to other matters: to U.S. support of Israel; to U.S. opposition to the election of Hamas in Palestine; to the
history of U.S. involvement in Iran over the
past century; to the invasion and reconstitution of Afghanistan; to the depiction of
events in the Middle East by U.S. media; and to the military expenditures of the U.S. government.
And like Genesis, it is a story told not out of academic interest in recovering the distant
past and retelling that
past for its own sake alone, but because the subsequent scenes of that
history, including every «present» scene, are given sense and meaning only when viewed against this formative, exciting, and in every way remarkable first scene of the Exodus
events.
But this concern for freedom in the scene of
history did not remain limited to one particular
event, which receded even further into the
past.
This is especially true of
history that is predominantly maintained cultically, when
past event is the occasion for present praise of God and the celebration of his role in the life of a people.
In the prayer of praise, the Berakah, he does not simply thank the Father for the great
events of
past history, but also for his own «exaltation.»
During the
past year in particular, two
events, epoch - making in their importance, and of great significance to Christians of all confessions, have strengthened the unity of Orthodox Churches to a degree unprecedented in modern
history.
This is certainly true if the examination of
history is no neutral orientation about objectively determined
past events, but is motivated by the question how we ourselves, standing in the current of
history, can succeed in comprehending our own existence, can gain clear insight into the contingencies and necessities of our own life purpose.
Over the
past several months, I was invited to two separate
events which featured the
history of Kosher food — one of which was a book talk and tasting discussing the journey of kosher food through the modern food system, and yet, ironically, the food served was not actually kosher.
That will be the opening day to the two - day Sacramento Kick - Off Tournament «'' an
event with a modest 30 - year
history that has taken a big leap forward over the
past decade.
I do know nothing else on the show had that kind of
history (it was the same main
event as the one foreseen four years ago for the edition of Wrestlemania that aired three years ago, and, well, we know what happened during those
past four years in terms of crowd response...)
A record crowd of 75,245 fans from all 50 states and 62 countries attended WWE's pop - culture extravaganza this
past April, making it the highest - grossing and most - attended
event in Citrus Bowl
history.
This FA cup is the Last straw that broke a Wenger's back Trophyless
History is repeating again based on
past 6 years experience I'm been disappointed for may years, so this more of a no
event to me
In millions and millions of schools all across the world, there are untold numbers of students studying
history, learning about the
events of our
past.
Speaking at an
event celebrating new laws to protect nail salon workers, the Democratic governor asserted the state has a bright
history of drawing immigrants and a darker
past of mistreating them.