Sentences with phrase «significance of history»

Staring at two rusted milk cans at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, I feel overwhelmed by the weight and significance of the history they carry.

BL: I think the first thing to draw attention to is the lack of awareness that teachers had of the significance of history upon Indigenous students» success in schools.

Developed in conjunction with Arlington Heights School District 25 to enhance the 5th - grade curriculum, the program teaches students the significance of history.

Questions have been raised again and again as to the real significance of the history of religions.

One of the great aspects of the ancient East was its consciousness of the flow of time and the significance of history.

First, the period of philosophic romanticism «endeavoured to comprehend the significance of the history of religion by regarding specific religious manifestations as symbols of a primordial revelation.»

The same could be said for the ethical significance of history.

What is overpowering in the historical particularity of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity is the sense of the significance of history and the conviction that history is an arena of positive social change and liberation.

More than one historian has commented on how in this respect the Christian movement was responsible for producing for the first time a truly global, ecumenical version of world history, with the meaning and significance of history to be found where the spirit moves and blows, typically among those considered outcasts, the lowly, the oppressed or socially insignificant.

Not exact matches

In his new book A World of Three Cultures: Honor, Achievement and Joy, Basáñez defines and explains the history and significance of each of the three major world cultures in the areas of economics, politics, and society.

In this case, the somnambulism was based on misplaced optimism that trade negotiators would be able to solve the NAFTA problems, blithely ignoring the significance of President Donald Trump's repeated declarations that the agreement was the worst deal in history and constantly threatening to walk out unless the U.S. got what it wanted in the renegotiating process.

The historic properties managed by the Public Buildings Service represent the work of historic and prominent architects that are valued for significance in art, architecture, archeology, culture, engineering, and American history.

But how, without history, can we understand these events, discriminate their significance, sift out the large from the small, see the basic currents underlying surface movements and changes, and foresee the result sufficiently to guard against fatal error or the souring of unreasonable hopes?

There is in fact a side of Harry that can inspire and be inspired, that runs on a sense of history and human significance on the civilizational and cosmic scales.

Missing are troublesome discussions of primary documents and their significance, of contested interpretations of events (or of interpretive theories themselves), or of the book's predecessors in the long and illustrious genre of ecclesiastical history.

The study of history is arid and incomplete unless it is understood as a work about (and by) individual human beings — and, moreover, a story whose substance and manner of telling are matters of moral significance.

At this one point history was felt to disclose once again something of the compelling spiritual significance which it had possessed for the prophets, though at a lower level of intensity.

For the first time in history, at the invitation of the United Nations, we gather as Heads of State and Government to recognize the significance of social development and human well - being for all to give to these goals the highest priority both now and into the twenty - first century.

As a result, he made one of the supreme contributions in man's spiritual history to the significance of the individual as the religious unit.

Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.

It is not without significance that the modern artist has given himself so fully to envisioning evil and nothingness, or has been so deeply bound to visions of Satan, of chaos, and of emptiness; for the artist can not escape the reality of his time by fleeing to an earlier moment of history.

Such issues as slavery, the status of women, and political freedom, the virtues of scientific honesty and integrity, the freedom of the spirit in worship, all such ethical concerns which have grown in significance throughout Christian history are in part at least implicit in the new life, but they are not explicit, and the reason for that must be sought in the historical situation into which the Gospel came.

Accordingly, Garaudy asks: «Is it to impoverish man, to tell him that he lives as an incomplete being, that everything depends upon him, that the whole of our history and its significance is played out within man's intelligence, heart and will, and nowhere else, that we bear full responsibility for this; that we must assume the risk, every step of the way, since, for us atheists, nothing is promised and no one is waiting?

In an earlier book, Anno Domini, the author has attempted to sketch the course of this influence and has sought to set forth what seems to him to be its significance for history and what it appears to him to disclose of the meaning of the universe in which man finds himself and of the fashion in which the universe deals with man.

One would hardly expect a discussion either of the life or of the significance of Jesus of Nazareth in such philosophically oriented studies of nature and history, or even in what little about human nature they have written.

One of the contributions of Eliade, which will have great significance for study of NT history is that Eliade sees cultural contacts and reciprocal influences between Indo - Iranian, Mesopotamian, Mediterranean worlds.

Jesus was indeed the Man Who Belongs to the World, but he was this because he made it possible to appreciate more profoundly the full scope of the revelation of God wherever it had appeared in the history of the world, in the light of which, in turn, his own meaning and message acquired more profound significance.

They are: i) revelatory experiences are common to all religions, ii) revelation is received under finite human condition, iii) the three types of criticisms, mystical, prophetic and secular help to address the distortions that crept into revealed religions, iv) History of Religions makes «a concrete theology that has universal significance» possible and v) an acknowledgement that «the sacred is the creative ground and at the same time a critical judgement of the secular».

These concepts certainly underwent development and elaboration in the course of Israel's literary history, and beyond any doubt the meaning and significance of these given qualities of faith and hope came to full realization in Israel only as her history moved from high promise to frustration and finally to the rebirth of hope.

When the believer confesses his faith in God and affirms that he belongs to God, he affirms that this mysterious God is also the one who gives final significance to nature and to history, the one who gives meaning to the human search for meanings, the one who is the explanation of the fact that there are explanations.

In the near future computationa methods of analysing history and religion will reveal the depths of its scientific significance and therefore all faith will converge towards Panthrotheism.

Hammarskjold quotes at length from Buber's statement on unmasking in Pointing the Way, «Hope for This Hour,» p. 223 f., referring to Buber as «one of the influential thinkers of our time whose personal history and national experience have given him a vantage point of significance.»

The doctrine of a single, unconditioned, transcendent God... postulated a metaphysical significance for history and for man's actions....

Religions which consider the mystic experience as the ultimate point of spiritual self - realization, consider history with its plurality as of no ultimate significance, and consider the many religions in history with their emphasis on nama and rupa as ultimately so relative and insignificant, that they are tolerated as equally true or untrue.

Here Aulen finds special significance in Irenaeus» doctrine of the divine action as a reconstituting (recapitulating) of humanity's history of creation and fall and the restoration of man's rightful maturity and direction.

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And here too, just as in the case of the sermons in Acts (2.22; 10.38), the use of various Jewish and Hellenistic styles of narrating the divine in history» should not mislead us as to the normative kerygmatic significance which is to be maintained throughout this transition from «kerygma» to «narrative».

Karl Barth draws a similar conclusion, linking the meaning of the holy day to «salvation history and its eschatological significance.»

But the gradual unfolding of the plot — the fruitless dispatch of messenger after messenger and their sinister reception — has also its own significance, That God had sent «his servants the prophets» to Israel, generation after generation, to remind them of their obligations to him, was an established part of the interpretation of their history which all Jews were taught.

The course of history gave to these words outstanding significance.

«67 This Christian interpretation rejects the criterion of rational intelligibility as the final court of appeal in both its Greek (historical events have no significance) and modern forms (history itself is redemptive).

but its significance reaches beyond history; and this ultra-historical significance is expressed in the dramatic picture of all nations gathered before the throne of the heavenly Judge.

Consider the significance of the current comic - book adaptation Kick - Ass, which is so up - to - date it emulates 3 - D in a sequence that uses the style of comic - book panels when flashing back to two characters» histories.

The biblical focus on history as the locus of redemption, as we shall see in the next chapter, seems at first sight to lessen the significance of the natural world.

Some events in the history of the cosmos, including human history, have more significance than others.

In the cyclical view the historical process can have no significance, and human beings may properly seek to extricate themselves from it; in the Jewish view history is getting somewhere and the happiness of humankind is in their aligning themselves with the purpose that runs through it and hence sharing in the accomplishment of that purpose in the «end.»

The precise significance of his death and its effect on the history of humankind has not been addressed extensively.

In other words, one of the primary purposes of John is to impregnate the terms «Christ» and «Son of God» with new meaning and significance that can not be used of any other human throughout history.

The order of the world has been profoundly disturbed by the wrongdoing of human beings, starting with the first human beings and going down throughout history (although the significance of the Fall could be more developed in an account of God and suffering.)

As Bultmann uses them, the former refers to an event so far as it is significant for human existence (e.g., the cross as the salvation - occurrence through which I understand myself as judged and forgiven by God), while the latter refers to an event considered in abstraction from such significance (e.g., the cross as an incident in the annals of ancient history).»