Sentence examples for historical task from inspiring English sources
This historical task broadens into a concern with the history and tradition of the religion that a particular theology represents.
The single most important purpose of Remembrance is its amalgamation of all wars and atrocities into a single historical task in the service of human freedom.
First of all, if the major historical task of that epoch was really to learn, to acquire, and to preserve the riches of tradition, a certain degree of "scholasticity" was not only inevitable but essential.
At one point the narrator suggests that cinema is inadequate to the historical task with the comment-question "The eye of the camera always opens too late?" The Dardennes shifted to directing fiction with their experimental 1987 feature "Falsch," an adaptation of an autobiographical play by the Belgian writer René Kalisky, whose father died at Auschwitz.
But as with all novelties that have become normal, the real historical task is to envisage not liking them, not understanding them - to imagine yourself as one of those who visited Manet's 1863 exhibition and, as King says, "menaced his canvases with their walking sticks".
According to Yorck, Luther's anti-metaphysical, historical stance towards transcendence remains a historical task for the future development of philosophy (CR, pp. 144 & 145).
Classification of religions involves both the systematic and the historical tasks of the general science of religion.
As Bauer's political writings from this period show, he proposed that the assumption of universality, and the transcendence of particular interest, were historical tasks, undertaken by the state and the republican citizenry.
Trotsky had before him a world-historical task, time-bound by the likelihood of assassination.
For example, TopCoder [8] maintains a historical track of the number of tasks each worker chooses to execute, but did not conclude.
Those early historians, both black and white, dedicated themselves to the task of historical reclamation.
