Sentences with phrase «tragic view of history»

Reinhold claims that a tragic view of history is necessary to help the Christian negotiate the gap between the ethical ideal and the possibilities attainable by human collective action.

As we celebrate the day of the resurrection, we are reminded both of the tragic view of history and of time's being caught up into the more of the eighth day.

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At the core of this view of progress is a failure to reckon with the tragic in history — the body will decay, strength will fail, life will disappoint, nations will fall.

It is understandable why the New York Times's Editorial Board would conclude that Christians view sinners as inferior — the tragic history of Christianity, even within our own country, offers many examples of Christians who have used sin as an excuse to dehumanize, discriminate, and hate others.

This is a tragic view of human history set over against a progressive view.

If this can be done we shall have passed beyond the crisis of liberal Christianity; for the liberal view of the relation of Christian love to moral problems is in difficulty today precisely because the philosophy of history on which it is based does not sufficiently recognize the tragic obstacles which are set in the way of the life of love.

Both appeal to the tragic character of human history to support their views, yet each draws a radically different conclusion.

We fail in our responsibility to history when we do not permit ourselves to see Civil War memorials from a Romantic point of view, and when we fail to recognize the phrase «lost cause» as a shorthand for a morally complex, tragic understanding of the South's defeat.