Sentences with phrase «significance of that event of»

This interpretation of the cross as a permanent fact rather than a mythological event does far more justice to the redemptive significance of the event of the past than any of the traditional interpretations.

The significance of the event of Christ, understood in this context, is that it defines in a vivid and classical instance what God is always and everywhere «up to» in his creation.

Not exact matches

The significance of the events today in Washington, D.C. will be lost on nobody here in the French capital, in China, or in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is wrapping up.

Ms. Hebert referred to those «who get a sense of engagement from the very instant gratification of Twitter or Facebook», to which Mr. Coyne followed with how «the immediacy of social media... greatly enlarges the significance of incredibly trivial moment to moment events».

Heading into an earnings event, the toughest and most time - consuming part is researching historical price action and volatility surrounding previous events, understanding how the earnings were estimated in the eyes of Wall Street, then gauging the significance of any beat or miss.

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?

In the event of a go - ahead for QE, its announcement might be of greater political than economic significance, potentially marking the first step on the road to closer fiscal integration of the eurozone.

It was my own small attempt to capture the significance of the event.

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.

Having witnessed many services, Alonso says he recognizes the significance of hosting an event focused on remembrance, even while the cathedral itself is in the midst of repairs.

Perhaps John Paul's greatest significance lies in the fact that he provided a way to interpret the watershed event of the Second Vatican Council.

The contrast between real possibilities and actuality in the final decision of the event is the source of its historical significance, in terms of its relations with its antecedents and with its relevant future.

The actual event thus displays not only the logic of its own decision, but also the scope of undetermined possibility from which, by comparison, it derives its complex significance.

But how can you deny the significance of a 4 inch veil being torn at the time of Jesus» death?!?! Surely, you will respond trying to refute this or nitpick at the details (as if that takes away from the miracle that it was), but in doing so please note that there is significantly more evidence to support this event than there is to refute it.

Although one must be careful not to magnify the significance of any one event, that chapel service focused, for many of the seminary community, some basic questions about the relationship between feminism and Christianity.

The significance of the post-exilic period, however, resides less in external events than in the process by which the life of the Jewish community was built up internally.

During the same period, two events of major historical significance also took place in the West.

If the characteristic mark of hermeneutical theology is its interpretive stance, especially in regard to texts — both the classic text of the Judeo - Christian tradition (the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament) and the exemplary theologies that build on the classic text — then heuristic theology is also interpretive, for it claims that its successful unconventional metaphors are not only in continuity with the paradigmatic events and their significance expressed in this classic text but are also appropriate expressions of these matters for the present time.

On another note, how can one measure the significance of a community - wide event where churches and pastors come together in unity to proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord?

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.

The preaching of the cross as the event of redemption challenges all who hear it to appropriate this significance for themselves, to be willing to be crucified with Christ.

And by speaking of the Cross as a cosmic happening its significance as a historical happening is made clear in accordance with the remarkable way of thinking in which historical events and connections are presented in cosmic terms, and so its full significance is brought into sharper relief.

The real significance of «the Kingdom of God» for the message of Jesus does not in any sense depend on the dramatic events attending its coming, nor on any circumstances which the imagination can conceive.

The historical (historisch) event of the cross has, in the significance peculiar to it, created a new historic (geschichtlich) situation.

In praying the Rosary we engage with the people and events of the Gospels and discover their significance for our lives now.

In other words, the cross is not just an event of the past which can be contemplated, but is the eschatological event in and beyond time, in so far as it (understood in its significance, that is, for faith) is an ever - present reality.

Brazilian Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga underscores the broader significance of events unfolding in Nicaragua when he writes that «the United States should understand that the cause of Nicaragua is the cause of all Latin America....

The replacement of Thurgood Marshall by Clarence Thomas may well prove to be an event of enormous significance for race relations in our nation - only time will tell.

The significance of the event, however, as Jesus intended it to be understood, depends on the authenticity and meaning of the words attributed to him.

Thus, the common faith of early Christianity involved a considerable measure of agreement not only as to the significance of the event and the meaning of the community, but also as to the nature and role of the person: Jesus was Lord and Christ.

The position was not that the earliest Christians believed that the event and the community were divine because they also believed that Jesus was divine; but rather He was seen to be divine, because of the way in which He was related to an event and a community whose divine significance was a matter of intimate and indubitable conviction.

But again this belief in the divinity of Jesus rested on the experience of the divine in the life of the community and on the recognition of the divine significance of the event.

To raise this question is to assume that the secret of the significance of the event can be found within the event itself; whereas this secret lies in Him who acted in and through it.

The first part of the book is about transforming the practice of baptism and the Lord's supper to something that more accurately reflects the symbolism and significance of these events when they were first done by Jesus.

It is simply that, given our different views of human nature, human freedom, ecclesiastical authority, and the significance of historical events, we simply differ on what makes religious sense.

The true significance of the prophets of Israel was that they were able to discern the deeper meaning of historical events.

The thought of all its writers, with all their diversity, is concentrated intensely upon the events related in the Gospels, and their significance.

No one portion of the universe would then have importance beyond another; and the whole collection of its things and series of its events would be without significance, character, expression, or perspective.

On the one hand all that the Church hoped for in the second coming of Christ is already given in its present experience of Christ through the Spirit; and on the other hand this present experience penetrates the record of the events that brought it into being, and reveals their deepest significance.»

Of further significance, however, are the changes in the overarching symbolic environment within which these activities are taking place and the meanings which this environment imposes on life's events.

No churches or other houses of worship were involved so how is a cross of historical significance to the event?

The past which the Christian community or tradition inherits is first of all the event from which it took its origin — Jesus Christ as an historical reality, with all that this includes such as the preparation in Judaism for his coming, the way in which he was received and understood in his own time, his own sense of vocation for whatever he undertook, and the way in which he has come to have significance for later generations.

Or to put it otherwise, the essential point is the event of Jesus Christ; all interpretations of its importance and all efforts to state its meaning will be the attempt to bring out both the essential elements in that event and also its significance for others.

«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).

They aren't building a place of worship it is just being included in a museum and the cross does have significance to the event.

The three differ in some matters of factual detail, and to some extent in the way in which they express the significance they attach to the events; but the differences are not of substance.

While all occurrences disclose God in creative activity and doubtless also to some degree in redemptive activity in providing some guarantee of life's significance and value, this event is especially important.

All its activity, of whatever kind, is intended to be an expression of that event and its significance.

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

, but in terms of being a museum, I can not deny that this piece does have some historical and cultural significance to this event.