Sentences with phrase «turning points in the history»

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).

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.

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?

«I've been here for 19 years and we had some turning points in the history.

I believe we may be at a profound turning point in our history, not just in UK but all over Europe and elsewhere.

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.

But not all turning points in history are so special, so ostentatious.

This tiny Catholic school for women dominated the sport at a turning point in history, and this plucky, old - fashioned sports drama sets the scene and tells the tale with a lot of heart and a dash of wit.

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.

Kevin fills in some gaps from the 80s and 90s while Joe tells the intimate details of his passionate marathon experiences, including the turning point in history where he might have never been involved with them ever again.

«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 initiated a turning point in our history.

The Thrall's Tale is a chronicle of love, hatred and revenge at a turning point in history when Christianity first penetrates the pagan Viking sphere.

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.

When you look back at great turning points in history, whether wars or economic calamities, the world sometimes knows what it is going to happen and other times it doesn't.

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.

As the Studio Museum prepares to break ground here next year, coinciding with its 50th anniversary, Ms. Golden, 52, is overseeing the institution at a turning point in its history.

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 Constitution of the US was a turning point in history and continues to be frustrating for the elite and the powerful.

It was a turning point in history; we took the reins from our natural environment and have ruled ruthlessly since.

But there was another important turning point in history occurring at the same time.

My point is that this is probably a turning point in history.

The new global climate change agreement establishes a revised goal of keeping average global temperature rise «well below 2 degrees Celsius,» sets up a clear mechanism for countries» greenhouse gas reductions to be revisited every five years and, for the first time, commits every nation - state on Earth — 196 different entities — to do something to address this collective threat... The Paris agreement marks a real turning point in history.

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

Going into this challenge, it seems we are at a turning point in history.

Not exact matches

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In fact, looking back at history can offer some valuable insights as to how certain major benchmarks have behaved leading up to critical turning points.

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.