Sentences with phrase «time and history become»

In our hyper - connected and instantly gratified world today, has our cultural perception of time and history become hindered in any way?
The symbolic function of creation in valuing time and history becomes clearer when the Genesis accounts are compared with myths whose purpose is to legitimate cyclical time (as in the Babylonian myth of the primeval conquest of Tiamat by Marduk, alluded to in Genesis 1:2), or to those in which time itself is a negative aspect of a fallen order (as in Plato's myth of the fall of the soul, or similar myths favored by Hindu and Buddhist mysticism).

Not exact matches

The bold red and white livery features close to 5000 dots, and is only the second time in the airline's history that its iconic flying kangaroo (always on the aircraft tail) has been changed to become part of a special painted design.
In May he became the all - time top - scorer in the top five European leagues, and his 42 goals in competition helped to lead Real Madrid to their first La Liga title since 2012 and become the first team to win back - to - back titles in Champions League history.
In due time, through hard work, perseverance and luck, the «49ers would not only grasp those opportunities, they would master them, becoming the most successful MBA class in the history of business.
Instead, beginning with the rise of the Bell Co. and AT&T, he traces a history of «optimistic and open media» — the telephone, moving pictures, FM radio, and cable television among them — that over time became «closed and controlled» industries.
Yet the history of this quest for quietness, which I've explored by digging through archives, reveals something of a paradox: The more time and money people spend trying to keep unwanted sound out, the more sensitive to it they become.
Her last two books, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well - Being, Wisdom, and Wonder and The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night At A Time, on the science, history and mystery of sleep, both became instant international bestsellers.
By the time Bryant was caught a day later, 35 people were dead and 23 wounded in what became the worst mass shooting in Australian history — one whose impact is felt even today.
The exact timing of launching LN in the main bitcoin network is unknown, and before that beta releases of applications are required, however, as the developers are convinced, the full - scale activation of the protocol can become one of the most important events in the history of «digital gold».
Citigroup, however, the bank that spectacularly blew itself up with toxic derivatives and subprime debt in 2008, became a 99 - cent stock during the crisis, and received the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. financial history despite being insolvent at the time, today holds more derivatives than 4,701 other banks combined which are backstopped by the taxpayer.
Buy an index fund or two, continue with regular investing, and if history is any guide, over time you will become wealthy.
They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).
«The iat of Mary, the word of her heart, has changed the history of the world, because it brought the Saviour into the world — because, thanks to her Yes, God could become man in our world and remains so for all time.
It was said that «the best of defense is to attack»... --- Those allowed such to be signed knew all the time that this is what was going to happen because it happened repeatedly through out history from time of the crusaders but still they continued with signing it because it meant for them money pouring in for all involved with the trading on this issue which has spoiled the life of the Palestinians and all Arabs ever started war over those lands started with swords and horses that has developed into the present arms that we became to know and only God knows how future arms would look like in few de-ca-des or cen - tur - ies that are yet to come...?!
We conceive of history, and time, to have no end, so that God is always future, never present, thereby never becoming past.
It is scarcely questionable, however, that this symbol originally pointed to the final consummation of a dynamic process of the transcendent's becoming immanent: of a distant, a majestic, and a sovereign Lord breaking into time and space in such a way as to transfigure and renew all things whatsoever, thereby abolishing the old cosmos of the original creation, and likewise bringing to an end all that law and religion which had thus far been established in history.
• For the first time in history, politics have become global, being both multi-polar and multi-civilizational.
With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.
the purpose why God allowed multiple religions to evolve and exist in the distant and even today is because our minds intellectual capacity has increased tremendously after we became civilized about 10,000 years go.Earlier when we were hunter gatherers our priorities was just to find food to survive, Then we became more knowlegible and our concern includes the intelle tual need to understand the meaning and purpose of our existence, so God allowed the founding and establishment of many religions by humans to conform with their intellectual, social and educational development, Since this is not static, it contiually diversify and change to conform with their times of existince, History showed that this is continuesly improving, so the future expects changes towards Panthrotheism in accordance to His will.
The external covenant must become in internal covenant and many times in our history that has happened.
This is true when becoming is identified with temporality and change, while being is identified as in the case of Plato with the pure and immutable forms which are beyond time, or with essence, as in the case of Aristotle, which is secure from time and history.
It is only because God utterly transcends history that his free decision to become a human being in time is also a decision of grace: «Far from implying a distance between the Word and the world, the Word's distinct manner of transcending the world implies a distinct manner of intimacy with the world.»
Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.
In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.
«Throughout history we have seen the «pangs» (signs) become more frequent and intense, culminating in the day we live in now where the pangs are so frequent and intense that we must be right at the time of «delivery,» when Jesus is to return.»
What is new in the Christian name of Jesus is the epiphany of the totality of the sacred in the contingency of a particular moment of time: in this name the sacred appears and is real only to the extent that it becomes actual and realized in history.26
In religion, the misapplication of ideas of location leads to problems of God's relation to the world, to history, and to time that become insoluble.
«And for the first time in the history of Egypt's constitutions, building churches becomes a right.»
From time to time through Christian history it has become necessary to use fresh concepts and verbal forms that the Christian may confess his faith in a meaningful way.
Those who do believe, obey and enforce what is already predetermined become true agents of the ultimate power of history — God, Allah, karma or dialectic — and will lead in time to the visible realization of the ultimate truth.
The incarnation is only truly and actually real if it effects the death of the original sacred, the death of God himself... What is new in the Christian name of Jesus is the epiphany of the totality of the sacred in the contingency of a particular moment of time: in this name the sacred appears and is real only to the extent that it becomes actual and realized in history [The Gospel of Christian Atheism (Westminster, 1966), pp. 54, 57].
Thus while time and history as creaturely can become corrupted — an arena of sin as well as of «nature,» of injustice and conflict as well as of justice and peace, nevertheless through the divine power and grace, history contains a meaning for those within it.
As the Evangelist Luke always has an eye for the connection with secular history, one may credit him in this case with drawing upon an official computation, i.e., of reckoning from the time when Tiberius actually became emperor and not including the years (A.D. 12 — 14) when he reigned jointly with Augustus.
Also, bear in mind King Josiah's reforms to the hebrew bible not to mention the convenient «discovery» of one of the lost books of Moses during his reign, ie Deuteronomy (which most scholars agree was not written in the time of «Moses»... provided Moses even existed... no evidence he or any of the Patriachs ever existed... except David) when you start to look at the evidence and history of judaism and christianity it becomes quite clear that these religions are not what they claim to be.
The divine transcendent function as ground of the world posits the world as a world in movement, involved in becoming by rising above and beyond, and these ascents necessarily occur at points of time in the history of this developing world.
The names of atheists have become obscurred in history and forgotten, but the name of Jesus Christ still stands alone as the most influential historical figure of all time.
Within human history we may not see the kingdom of this world become the kingdom of God, but we may see among them many places and at many times communities, institutions, and corporate acts of justice which truly embody the grace and power of that kingdom.
The naturalistic portion of modern culture strips the self of transcendence and reduces it to a stream of consciousness.12 When man is identified with the natural order, when time becomes everything, when history is self - explanatory, individuality is lost.
Standard Western theology, according to Rahner and others, has been led by alien philosophical maxims to posit an ontological chasm between God's triune history in time and his eternal triune being — so that, for instance, it has been thought that the Father or the Spirit could have become incarnate instead of the Son.
I can not here investigate why language in our time has become flat, nonallusive, and impoverished, but simply to observe that it has and ask what this means for our churches as they seek to recover ways of worship which shall be more adequate to the object of worship, and more fully reflective of the long history of the people of God in their life of worship.
History, they thought, was on their side — a point which presumably explains why (at precisely the same time) so many of the brightest European minds of the 1920s and 1930s became Communists.
There are plenty of books about this out there and these true histories of our species is become more mainstream all the time.
The student of Hinduism who becomes familiar with those records by hearing them several times, who reads several Indian novels, and who becomes acquainted with some of the best examples of Indian art, will find that he understands Hinduism better and brings new insight to his study of the history of India.
Thus the Hegelian proposition turns into its opposite through Hegelian dialectics itself: All that is real in the sphere of human history becomes irrational in the process of time, is therefore irrational by its very destination, is tainted beforehand with irrationality; and everything which is rational in the minds of men is destined to become real, no matter how much it contradicts existing apparent reality.
At a time and place in history, Jesus became a man to reveal the fullness of God.
In modern times, however, numerous efforts to turn history completely into a science, according to which we might calculate, predict, and control the future, has become another way to conquer our anxiety in the face of the unknown.
Most damning of all, America has become the very embodiment of that alienation, anomie, and dehumanization which is the curse of existence in a highly technological and urban society (Heidegger has remarked that, metaphysically speaking, America and Russia are the same, for here «time as history» has vanished from human life).
History shows time and time again that when violence is used to stop evil, the ones committing the violence often become just as evil (or worse) than the evil they were trying to stop.
Thus, too, Christendom has known the most terrible guilt in history, and as a religious Christianity has progressively and ever more fully reversed the movement of the Incarnation, the Christian God has increasingly become alien and abstract, until in our own time he has only been present and real in actual experience in a totally alien form, and the whole body of Western humanity has been initiated into a radical and total state of guilt.
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