Sentences with phrase «such as historical events»

Timelines are great for explaining anything that changes over time, such as historical events, biographies, processes, and project development.

Not exact matches

The timeline also catalogues historical events such as prohibition and American wars that have shaped the spirits industry as we know it.

The worst historical periods for investment returns have tended to cluster around major economic events such as the Great Depression, the highly inflationary environment of the 1970s and more recently the Great Recession.

The effort to distinguish a historical event from later interpretation is a standard historical procedure, just as it is to question the historicity of such details in the tradition as dearly betray that later interpretation.

Having examined evidence such as Big Bang cosmology (yup, I'm what you'd call an «old earth» creationist), the Cambrian explosion in the fossil record, the problems of abiogenesis, and textual criticism of the Bible, I've found that the Bible describes historical events and other aspects of reality much more plausibly than any other faith system.

Attempting to be loyal to the Bible by turning the creation accounts into a kind of science or history is like trying to be loyal to the teachings of Jesus by arguing that the parables are actual historical events, and only reliable and trustworthy when taken literally as such.

Such a problem would lead us to suggest that the only consistent alternatives would be either a radical, a historical translation as mentioned above, or — if the historical framework of biblical thought were to be retained — a systematic theology where the bridge between the centuries of biblical events and our own time was found in the actual history of the church as still ongoing history of God's people.

Such conformation is witnessed just as clearly by accurate descriptions of natural and historical events as by abstraction, generalization, and inference.

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.

God's eternity and immutability have been contrasted with the ephemeral character of historical events in such a way as to depreciate efforts at social transformation.

because it sounds like a response, when of course there is no such thing as a peer reviewed scientific research of ANY historical event.

In such inquiries the past is no longer dead; it comes alive as the historical investigator attempts to reenact the events studied.

That is, historical events such as Jesus praying to the Father or the Father abandoning the crucified Jesus to death constitute the very relations of the first two persons of the Trinity; they do not merely mirror in time some other relations taking place in a separated eternity.

The next important line of defense consists in the claim that the New Testament has preserved records of such historical value that their testimony to the «bodily resurrection» establishes it beyond all reasonable doubt as an historical event.

For those who have defended the traditional interpretation of the resurrection of Jesus as an historical event involving the raising and removal of a physical body, that which has carried most weight is simply the fact that, on a plain reading of the New Testament, the Bible itself seems to give unqualified support to such a view, in some places if not in all.

The historical problem can be stated in some such way as this: «We know that the Gospels were written more than a generation after the events they relate occurred and that they bring us the preaching and teaching of the churches — or of some of them — after the Christian movement had emerged into a Gentile environment.

34 Chapter 4 is entitled «The Self - Annihilation of God,» where Altizer states that «to confess the death of God is to speak of an actual and real event... a historical and a cosmic event, and, as such, it is a final and irrevocable event.»

People writing historical accounts tend not to give credit of events to the divine, as such things are unprovable.

Whereas Wellhausen had challenged the historical reliability of the biblical account on the grounds that it was compiled from multiple sources that originated long after the events reported, his intellectual successors a century later were employing methodologies (such as rhetorical criticism and narrative criticism) that seemed to assume that the biblical writers were not particularly concerned with historical accuracy anyhow.

The purely literal reading deprives the paradigmatic events of our faith of their enduring redemptive significance today and reduces an historical religion, such as ours is, to a mere memory.

He then points to archeological finds such as the Tel Dan inscription and the Siloam Tunnel Inscription to highlight the likely historicity of King David and Israel's monarchs as well as similarities in how ancient people reported historical events.

It must be recognized, indeed, that there are comparatively few narratives which correspond in any way to events in the ministry of Jesus, and that where such correspondence is to be found, as for example in the baptism or crucifixion narratives, the gospel account has been so influenced by the theological conceptions and understanding of the Church that we can derive little, if any, historical knowledge of that event from those narratives.

But he returned to the discussion later, in a quite different context, and then it became obvious that he regarded himself as committed by the New Testament itself to a necessary link with the historical Jesus, for he could only reiterate his major point, that Christian faith as such is committed to the paradoxical assertion that a historical event within time, Jesus and his cross, is the eschatological event, and support it by exegesis of New Testament texts, especially Paul and John.

There is much historical evidence for events that happened in the Bible as well — such as the Flood — er, no there isnt, not even close.

The Arlington Heights Historical Museum offered different types of programs to Park District residents including period and holiday craft classes, programs for school and scout groups, and special events such as Civil War Days, German Fest, Holiday and Mother's Day Teas, the annual House Walk, and Irish Fest.

But, in contrast to past historical events, such as the military coup that inaugurated the 1964 - 1985 dictatorship, mass media have been, in general, less partisan, less violent and more ambiguous.

The French Missippi Company historical event show bubble will eventually burst even with the support of huge institutional body such as government.

Anniversaries of historical events and actions such as the claim brought by the Mau Mau survivors offer opportunities to publicly re-assess the history of empire.

It was never intended to be a detailed historical study of great political events so I find it a bit silly that people are treating it as such.

«The historical long - term perspective reveals that we are at a watershed moment in human history right now: adaptation — to climate change or increasing / stronger extreme events such as hurricanes — has turned from a contingent and drawn out historical process into an imperative, a prescriptive policy, almost,» said Prof. Rohland.

The researchers found that regional ancestry differences reflect historical events such as waves of immigration.

The team's thousand - year historical record included noticeable changes in lead pollution from Rome following major events such as the Gothic Wars in 535 C.E., Byzantine repairs to abandoned Roman aqueducts in 554 C.E., and the mid-9th century Arab sack of Rome.

As experts they not only take historical data into account but also short - term events such as injuries,» explains the statisticiaAs experts they not only take historical data into account but also short - term events such as injuries,» explains the statisticiaas injuries,» explains the statistician.

«Our findings,» write the authors, «suggest that anthropogenic aerosol emissions influenced a range of societally important historical climate events such as peaks in hurricane activity and Sahel drought.»

Grace declares this can not be, that the plantation must be informed of such historical events as the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.

Another installment to the recent onslaught of alien invasion films, Battle: Los Angeles is based on famous historical UFO sightings and events such as the 1942 LA incident where an unidentified aircraft entered military airspace and was subject to artillery fire.

I raise this issue because movies, especially Hollywood major motion picture films, have the power to affect, on a mass scale, the audience perception on reality — especially a movie that bases its entire plot on a real historical event such as we can see in Argo.

Interestingly, for such a popular historical figure, there is a dearth of biographical films about her life (the only notable film is the Norma Shearer / Tyrone Power classic from way back in 1938), except through incidental events depicting her as a supporting figure, such as tales of the French Revolution or other stories taking place in the late 18th Century.

Architects of Denial Details: 2017, Omnibus Entertainment Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A documentary that uses first - person accounts of genocide as told by survivors who link the connection between historical denial of such events with present - day mass exterminations in various conflict zones around the world.

Social action can be encouraged with regard to current events such as gun violence in schools or issues such as cheating, gang presence, or bullying, but it can also be encouraged in thinking about historical events.

If such historical events as the Canadian Missile Crisis and the Pershing Gulf War or such historical figures as Joan of Ark (Noah's wife) and Martin Luther Junior (famous for his «If I Had a Hammer» speech) don't sound familiar to you, don't worry.

I've seen them grasp the meaning behind terms such as bystander and upstander, and employ their understanding in their analysis of historical events and in their own worlds.

Throughout this unit, students will be talking about how sensitive topics, such as prejudice and discrimination, have impacted historical events and students» own lives.

By contrast, weather forecasting that leverages «data science» collects a vast amount of historical information on air, temperature, and humidity, and assesses the relationship between those measurements and actual past events, such as whether or not a storm occurred.

I liked the way the author integrated historical events such as the Till case.

The references to historical events, such as the industrial explosion that sent cascades of molasses through the streets of Boston, the bombing of the United States Attorney General's home, and the climactic strike by the Boston police and the chaos that ensued, sent me on an Internet search for more information.

His signature fictional creation, Forrest Gump, routinely found himself in the maelstrom of historical events and much to the delight of readers — and movie audiences — even interacted with icons such as President Kennedy and MLK Jr..

Your website is an excellent place to post reviews, information about upcoming author events, and free content for visitors (such as interesting historical facts about the period of your novel or sample chapters of upcoming releases).

The classic historical bubbles we think of such as South Sea, Tulip, and Sector Specific; Gold / Technical / REITs / US property are recognized post-event but in all the above events there was a mania often aided and abetted by institutional and or government assistance / interference.

The castle presided over many years of important Scottish historical events, such as the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century and the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and was a royal residence right up until 1603.