Sentence examples for historical expression from inspiring English sources

For Frankel, Hebrew represented the spirit of Judaism and the Jewish people, and Judaism itself was not merely a theology of ethics but the historical expression of the Jewish experience; this definition he called "positive-historical Judaism".

It is not "a collection of only high achievement based on the judgment of the period in which we live, which most collections are, but a living historical expression".

Certain philosophical ideas are only capable of achieving historical expression under specific historical conditions.

His analysis of 'betweenness' shows it to be communality, and communality as a mutuality wherein each individual may affect every other individual and thereby affect the community or communities; and the community, as an historical expression of the whole may affect each individual.

Thus, its historical expressions may be as diverse as the Jeffersonian United States and Hitlerian Germany.

The historical expressions of pastoral care have focused on the predominant but not exclusive expressions of ultimate concern characteristic of the period in question.

This implies, first, the view that tradition extends into the present and, second, the claim that in order to gain understanding of history, hence also of the interpreter's own time, historical expressions should not be judged by the criteria of the present but be seen within their own context, be it cultural, political, religious, or all of the above.

I'm certainly not anywhere near as enlightened as the greatest historical expressions of humanity's highest spiritual attainment, but my teacher did bestow upon me a measure of what they knew.

Myth in Buddhism is used at various intellectual levels in order to give symbolic and sometimes quasi-historical expression to religious teachings.

If anyone understands the allure of these garments -- and their, if you will pardon the expression, historical underpinnings -- it is Chi Chi Valenti, who was running around town in her underwear years before Courtney Love showed up on Oscar night in a vintage white satin slip and a tiara.

On a strict historical reading, the expression 'conceptual art' refers to the artistic movement that reached its pinnacle between 1966 and 1972 (Lippard 1973).[1] Amongst its most famous adherents at its early stage we find artists such as Joseph Kosuth, Robert Morris, Joseph Beuys, Adrian Piper, to name but a few.