Sentences with phrase «turning point in the history of»

This is the story of the Battle of Lepanto, which marked the end of the Crusades and was a turning point in the history of Christianity.

Bishop Stephen Neill did not exaggerate when in 1962 he referred to Strauss's Life of Jesus (1835) as a «turning point in the history of the Christian faith».

The confidence has many roots: the steady decline of models of theology in which «critical appraisal» is the dominant task; receptiveness toward and fresh engagement with classical thinkers, patristic, medieval and Reformation; a sense that the Enlightenment is only one episode in the history of one (Western) culture and not a turning point in the history of humankind; the work of a number of gifted and independent - minded theologians now at the height of their powers who have shown the potency of constructive doctrinal work.

The week of July 6, 2016, marked an unexpected turning point in the history of technology and humankind.

Strauss overstated his thesis, but he opened up such a problem for Christianity thereafter that Bishop Stephen Neill, a moderate scholar, wrote in 1964 that «this book marked, as few others have done, a turning point in the history of the Christian faith».4

What is remarkable is the fact that this definite option of contextual theology represents a crucial turning point in the history of theology.

This paper will attempt an assessment of Leclerc's radical position, using as a foil the thought of the baroque scholastic, Francis Suarez.5 The latter was picked to fulfill such a function both because he represents the most complete summation of the older Aristotelian theory of substance Leclerc attempts to appropriate and reinterpret, and because he was the most important scholastic figure for the age that Leclerc sees as both the turning point in the history of the philosophy of nature, and as the golden age of such a philosophy, namely, the modern age (PN 194 - 95).

Meanwhile a series of forces converged to bring about the greatest turning point in the history of American Christianity.

Reynier takes on Irish whiskey with credit in the bank Does this picture, taken today, show a turning point in the history of Irish whiskey?

Mayor Michael Bloomberg called President Barack Obama's newly announced support for same - sex marriage «a major turning point in the history of American civil rights.»

Mostow: Yeah, I mean, I believe that 1,000 years from now, historians will look back at the time we are living in right now, and in distance like this, this decade or maybe even these couple of years as a turning point in the history of mankind; not [unlike the way] we look back on primitive man, when they discovered fire and how that world is changing society.

Perhaps the most realistic and gritty film on this list, Guy Ritchie's Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was considered to be a huge turning point in the history of British cinema.

«We are at a turning point in the history of education, and our goal is to bend that history toward greater opportunities and outcomes for all,» Ryan said.

He also makes a startling discovery: that the Civil War and the abolition of slavery — the fulfillment of the ideals of the Declaration — were the decisive turning point in the history of American foreign policy as well.

If a lot of people started to watch Internet videos on their TVs, I think it could become a tremendous turning point in the history of the Internet.

This game was the major turning point in the history of the Elder Scrolls series.

This was a turning point in the history of the series, going from 2D to 3D, and adding a more cinematic experience to the genre.

This year marks the 101st anniversary of a turning point in the history of visual art, when Russian artist Kazimir Malevich created his momentous 1915 paintings of black squares on white backgrounds.

Eggleston has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, including a landmark 1976 solo show at the Museum of Modern Art that is widely seen as a turning point in the history of contemporary photography, marking the acceptance of what had been previously considered a purely commercial form of photography.

Her development of a grid in the late 1950s wherein she gently inscribed penciled lines over subtle fields of color marked a turning point in the history of abstract painting and established the geometric and spatial language that she continued to refine over the ensuing decades.

They became a hugely influential turning point in the history of contemporary art in Iceland.

Exhibition «Keys to a Passion» held from 1st April to 6 July 2015 at Fondation Louis Vuitton gathered many an iconic piece, lent by the greatest museums and private collections in the world, so bold and daring at the time they were created they marked a turning point in the history of art in the early 20th century: from Monet, Mondrian and Hodler to Malevitch and Rothko, from Bonnard to Picasso, from Munch to Giacometti and Bacon, from Delaunay and Léger to Picabia, from Matisse and Kupka to Kandinsky...

However, critics agree that Minimalism formed a «crux» or turning point in the history of modernism, and the movement remains hugely influential today (source).

One of the key turning points in the history of abstract photography occurred around the turn of the century, when two groups of photographers — known as Photo Succession and the Linked Ring — began making the case for the acceptance of photography as a fine art.

Her development of a grid in the late 1950s wherein she gently inscribed penciled lines over subtle fields of color marked a turning point in the history of abstract painting and established the geometric and spati

The Fourth Assessment Report, which was published in 2007, marked a turning point in the history of climate change.

Not exact matches

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Yet April 30th 2008 was no less critical a turning point in the recession's history than these other dates, for it was then that the FOMC, having cut the Fed's target interest rate to 2 percent, resolved to cut it no further — drawing a line in the sand by which it unwittingly helped seal the fate of the US, and world, economy.

Page had a longtime history of connections with the Russian government — so much so that in 2013, Russian agents approached him with the intent of turning him into an asset (a point the Nunes memo never notes).

In his death, the entire history of the universe has reached a turning point.

The moment when the founders of the Hebrew race separated themselves from it, and began their migrations was, in view of all that followed from it, a turning - point in history, though at the time there was nothing in it to attract attention.

Thus, for reasons quite different from those associated with the origin and meaning of the western calendar, the year 2000 appears to mark a significant turning point in human history.

We are living at the turning point of turning points in our human history.

And in exploring the wide implications of it all, he noted «the risk of an alliance between democracy and ethical relativism, which would remove any sure moral reference point from political and social life, and on a deeper level make the acknowledgement of truth impossible» (VS 101) and warned us, as he had done in an earlier encyclical, that «As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism».

It symbolizes a turning point in the road of spiritual journey, which began so many thousands of yeas ago but which has led us to this present time in history.

This point might lead, in turn, to frank assessment of the historical use of force by Jews, Christians and Muslims in various periods of our sad histories, and — dare I hope?

Or they just plain don't want to read the Bible, or our history, or perhaps not even the Big Book and its earlier manuscripts (Compare the facts in: Turning Point: A History of Eahistory, or perhaps not even the Big Book and its earlier manuscripts (Compare the facts in: Turning Point: A History of EaHistory of Early AA.

As he observed: «We now stand at a turning - point in the history of the biosphere and in the shorter history of one of its products, mankind... Man is the first species of living being in our biosphere that has acquired the power to wreck the biosphere and, in wrecking it, to liquidate himself.»

Since a history of Faith Church had just been finished a few months before he arrived, Landry invited the committee to begin its work with a study of this history; the story of the church's founding, its significant experiences in the past, critical turning points, its line of important personages.

It was recognised in Edinburgh in 1910 that «the following ten years would in all probability constitute a turning point in human history and might be more critical in determining the spiritual revolution of humankind than many centuries of ordinary experience.

[21] We come to see that at the heart of the sacramentality of the word of God is the mystery of the incarnation itself: «the Word became flesh» (Jn 1:14), the reality of the revealed mystery is offered to us in the «flesh» of the Son... The sacramental character of revelation points in turn to the history of salvation, to the way that the word of God enters time and space, and speaks to men and women, who are called to accept his gift in faith.»

the great geographical discoveries, the navigation of the ocean routes, and the building up of the European colonial empires brought a turning - point in modern history.

The date of his birth, if we could know it, would still hold some significance for Christians, but it has lost its universal meaning as a turning point in history.

For them, the birth of Jesus Christ was a turning point in world history, a cosmic event just as basic to the universe as the creation of the earth, sun and moon, and the creation of humankind.

It is to be remembered that Christianity began with an apocalyptic proclamation of the end of history, one which dominated the earliest Christian communities, and one which was renewed at each of the great crises or turning points of Christian history, just as it was renewed in each of our great modern political revolutions, and equally if not more deeply renewed in the advent of our deepest modern thinking and imaginative vision.

The turning point seems to be the publication of Food in History by Reay Tannahill in 1973.

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If the same philosophy was used in WWE history, where part - timers were brought in to main event the show, then Steve Austin and The Rock would have never closed out WrestleMania 15, which was a major turning point in the stardom of The Rock and helped cement Austin as the top draw in the world.

However, the true defining moment, or rather turning point, in its history is when it was discovered that four members of Michigan's basketball team had taken money from booster Ed Martin totaling $ 616,000.

For example, consider the «New Frontier» speech given by Senator (later President) John F Kennedy in 1960: For the harsh facts of the matter are that we stand on this frontier at a turning - point in history.