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
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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.