Sentences with phrase «place in history by»

The cathedral (the city's first) was built in 829 and, ever since, it has been rebuilt, expanded and augmented by successive monarchs and dukes wishing to cement their place in history by some new and magnificent contribution to Santiago's already overcrowded architectural heritage.
Writing with Chris Morrow, Simmons relates his part biblical, part yogic principles, world - class business acumen and street - tough attitude that developed as he built his fortune and cemented his place in history by believing that hip - hop artists had as much to say to society as any Julliard graduate.
Fidel Castro could earn an important place in history by arresting and trying the Pope for complicity in the abuse scandals.

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Florence is a city not only rich in culture and history but food as well, and the «Pizza and Gelato Cooking Class in Tuscan Farmhouse from Florence,» operated by Walkabout Florence Tours, places second on TripAdvisor's list.
The event, a first in the history of Mexico, where 82 % of the population is Catholic, was only announced by the church after it took place as officials feared people might misinterpret the ritual.
By next week, closing arguments will take place to see if one of the biggest media mergers in history will go through.
Human freedom is possible, but we are always, in quite palpable ways, determined by our histories and that of our own time and place.
The importance of encounter of person with immediate existence, the accommodation to this place and this time, which is so heavy a theme in recent literature of the American South, is exactly the issue, though reduced in its implications whenever frozen in our accounting for it by a reduction to mere history or geography.
Those words were «placed in his mouth» The gospels are statements of faith BY BELIEVERS, not history.
Let us say that the search, which is common to us all by our very given natures as created intellect, is for a valid self - forgetting in which place and time are real beyond geography and history.
Perhaps we can get at this sense of motherhood as both nature and history by suggesting that a mother, though not «in her place,» should seek to «be place» for her children.
that the monads will pour into that place whither they are irrevocably destined by the total maturing of all things and the implacable irreversibility of the whole history of the World — some of them spiritualized matter in the limitless fulfillment of an eternal communion, and others materialized spirit in the conscious agonies of an interminable decomposition.
Still in the tenth century, it is king and Word brought into radically effective concord through the prophetic function of Ahijah the Shilonite (I Kings 11:29 ff.; 12:15) Another particularly decisive and consequential event in Israel's history, the secession of the northern tribes and the establishment of two political states in the place of one, is instigated by the word through the prophet Ahijah to the king - to - be Jeroboam I.
But it is not only by its artistry that Hamilton that has won a place in history.
Hence, only by revealing his own views of his place in the cosmos - which are religious as even such nontraditionalists as Spinoza and Einstein understood - can Schlesinger argue for the authority of «History,» or «our folkways, traditions, standards.»
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.
It seems twisted to me that in refusing to recite the pledge in public places, I can be judged by people who clearly have much less knowledge than I regarding the history of the pledge.
During the period of the Kings, the magnification of God into the Cosmic King made a symbolical allegiance to God seem satisfactory in the place of the allegiance in every sphere of life which is demanded by the Lord of history.
All represent «links,» as Coleman calls them, by which persons may connect their «society's place in space, time, and history to the conditions of ultimate existence and meaning.
The long history of man's seeking to offer himself to God, as is his bounden duty, is here fulfilled as the worshiper is brought into union with Christ and by Christ is offered to the Father, that through such self - commitment and dedication to God, the will of the Father may more perfectly be done and our own lives enriched by His Grace, so that «we may do all such good works as he has prepared for us to walk in»; and, in the end, dwell with Him in heavenly places.
Actually the two have been brought together in the history of Christian thought which Professor Nygren traces so superbly in his study, but all attempts at synthesis, including that of St. Augustine with his doctrine of love as caritas, and that of the medieval theologians and mystics who saw the problem and tried to make a place for unselfish love within the Christian doctrine, really obscured and corrupted the fundamental Christian truth which was recovered by Luther in the Protestant Reformation.
This is not the place to show that this concept of freedom either exists explicitly in the creed of the Church or is implied by the teaching of Christianity, that free faith justifies, that salvation must be received from God in freedom and that the eternity of salvation is not an indefinite continuation of time but must be understood as the final result of history itself which is produced by freedom.
At Singh's institution, faculty offices are labeled not by professor names but by significant places in international church history: Ephesus, Chalcedon, Wittenberg, Edinburgh.
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.
I'm shaped by this place, as Luci Shaw wrote about poets, the slender antennae of awareness is always combing the world, and I am shaped by the people here, by their stories, by our becoming - shared histories, what I pick up here matters for my work, my voice, my faith, my family, perhaps it's not so prideful in this context, to say that it matters for the world.
The bible was written by a group of men in a particular culture in a particular time and place in history.
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.
The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.
In the pulpit, however, preachers tell the story because God got involved with a particular people in a specific time and place, and that involvement generated a history in which we are privileged to participate by faith, baptism and the common lifIn the pulpit, however, preachers tell the story because God got involved with a particular people in a specific time and place, and that involvement generated a history in which we are privileged to participate by faith, baptism and the common lifin a specific time and place, and that involvement generated a history in which we are privileged to participate by faith, baptism and the common lifin which we are privileged to participate by faith, baptism and the common life.
Every new tool conceived in the course of history, although it may have been invented in the first place by an individual, has rapidly become the instrument of all men; and not merely by being passed from hand to hand, spreading from one man to his neighbor, but by being adopted corporatively by all men together.
In the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign PoweIn the first place such education, now as always, is concerned with the nurture of men and women whose business in life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Powein life it will be to help men to see their immediate perplexities, joys and sufferings in the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Powein the light of an ultimate meaning, to live as citizens of the inclusive society of being, and to relate their present choices to first and last decisions made about them in the totality of human history by Sovereign Powein the totality of human history by Sovereign Power.
In literary history the hero has often been a figure who acts for us, who stands in our place in the face of danger and by superhuman powers overcomes on our behalIn literary history the hero has often been a figure who acts for us, who stands in our place in the face of danger and by superhuman powers overcomes on our behalin our place in the face of danger and by superhuman powers overcomes on our behalin the face of danger and by superhuman powers overcomes on our behalf.
Sister Mary Corita chose to answer these questions with the words of William Sloane Coffin: «Because we love the world, we pray now, O [God], for grace to quarrel with it, O Thou whose lover's quarrel with the world is the history of the world... Lord, grant us grace to quarrel with the worship of success and power... to quarrel with all that profanes and trivializes [people] and separates them... number us, we beseech Thee, in the ranks of those who went forth from this place longing only for those things for which Thou dost make us long, [those] for whom the complexity of the issues only served to renew their zeal to deal with them, [those] who alleviated pain by sharing it; and [those] who were always willing to risk something big for something good... O God, take our minds and think through them, take our lips and speak through them.
In this sense, «the historicity of Moses» means that Moses was conditioned by his place in historIn this sense, «the historicity of Moses» means that Moses was conditioned by his place in historin history.
From passive to active membership growth: Mainline Protestants no longer have a «guaranteed market share» by virtue of their history, tradition, location and place in the social network.
Most importantly, history is not like a Greek tragedy, but much more like the world revealed by chaos theory, in which a small change in one place effects a huge change overall.
And yet it is the sum of all those existences placed side by side, starting with that ancestor in the caves, that has made the history of humanity.
The Bible is a book which includes * some * history of primitive Hebrew culture, and * some * good, practical, advice for beneficial human behavior (advice which can be gleaned in other places and by other means, btw); but mostly it is a compilation of ancient Middle Eastern historical fiction, myth, legend, superst.ition and fantasy.
And we can see that nation (i.e., «people») ultimately trumps place, even if place usually helps to make the nation (such as ours), and even if the one nation in history that was capable of surviving dispersion was the one that always looked back to the one holy city not consecrated by human invention or delusion.
The nineteenth century saw the reality of the «historical facts» as consisting largely in names, places, dates, occurrences, sequences, causes, effects — things which fall far short of being the actuality of history, if one understands by history the distinctively human, creative, unique, purposeful, which distinguishes man from nature.
to madtown, Why Jesus was sent in Israel, because that place was part of the Roman Empire, the center of the worlds civilizatoon at that time, in the third century after Him, the Roman emperor, Constantine decreed that christianity was the official religion of the empire, and soo the teachings of Jesus inspired the whole empire, now the present Europe and the Middle East has prospered more than anywhere else in the world, The Americas was not even discovered yet by Columbus, With the prosperity of the empire was the growth of scientific knowledge that leads to what we are now, it happened because its part of Gods Will, History is its Reflectiom.
Because the human need for this vivifying message is never satisfied, the church must in all times and places continue the proclamation by word and sacrament, as long as human history endures — «until he comes.»
History, in that view, leaves no place for the unique, the exceptional, and especially not for events brought about by God's direct activity.
In his chosen field of intellectual activity [Ibn - Khaldun] appears to have been inspired by no predecessors... and yet, in the Prolegomena... to his Universal History he has conceived and formulated a philosophy of history which is undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has yet been created by any mind in any time or placIn his chosen field of intellectual activity [Ibn - Khaldun] appears to have been inspired by no predecessors... and yet, in the Prolegomena... to his Universal History he has conceived and formulated a philosophy of history which is undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has yet been created by any mind in any time or placin the Prolegomena... to his Universal History he has conceived and formulated a philosophy of history which is undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has yet been created by any mind in any time orHistory he has conceived and formulated a philosophy of history which is undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has yet been created by any mind in any time orhistory which is undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has yet been created by any mind in any time or placin any time or place.
It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.
In a general way, then, and «on the whole,» our abandonment of theological criteria, and our testing of religion by practical common sense and the empirical method, leave it in possession of its towering place in historIn a general way, then, and «on the whole,» our abandonment of theological criteria, and our testing of religion by practical common sense and the empirical method, leave it in possession of its towering place in historin possession of its towering place in historin history.
But the problem posed by the much longer history of the earth was small compared with the furore which took place soon after the publication in 1859 of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1809 - 82).
This consists of an effort to discern the meanings of the data furnished by the history of religions, to locate these different meanings in their proper relationships, and finally also to place various religions in their reciprocal positions with regard to each other.
The real «hidden history» of the Communist collapse took place in the minds, hearts, and souls of those millions who were moved to take the risk of resistance by John Paul II's challenge to «call good and evil by name» (as the Pope put it on his second pilgrimage to Poland in 1983).
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