Example sentences of "view of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Baillie has made the further point that , in his detailed criticism of cyclical views of time , St Augustine was anxious to defend the doctrine of creation and particularly its corollary that ‘ through the creative power of God the course of events is characterized by the emergence of genuine novelty . ’ |
| 2 | A changed view of time is one of the really momentous recognitions of the self-directed , ‘ alternative ’ life . |
| 3 | Instead , they are more inclined to adopt a cyclical view of time , in accordance with the periodicity of the motions of the sun , moon , and planets . |
| 4 | To what degree , however , such a view of time was developed in Mesopotamian thought is not revealed by the cuneiform records , although according to Seneca the late Babylonian astronomer-priest Berossus ( c.300 BC ) believed in the periodic destruction and re-creation of the universe . |
| 5 | Clearly , although he did not agree with Plato , he too was profoundly influenced by the cosmological view of time . |
| 6 | Because of the way in which it began , Christianity inherited the peculiar Jewish view of time with its hope of redemption from successive oppressors . |
| 7 | This essentially historical view of time , with its particular emphasis on the non-repeatability of events , is the very essence of Christianity . |
| 8 | The Christian view of time directed to the future , as presented by St Augustine , differed from the ideas of time current in Classical antiquity in that it was neither cyclic nor would it continue indefinitely without anything essentially new occurring . |
| 9 | In assessing the importance of St Augustine for the development of the Christian view of time , his writings can be contrasted with the New Testament . |
| 10 | This atomistic view of time was associated with a drastically contingent and acausal concept of the world , its existence at one instant not implying its existence at any subsequent instant . |
| 11 | This type of eschatological view of time was , of course , not confined to Islam , for we find it also in Zoroastrianism , Judaism , and early and medieval Christianity . |
| 12 | This was particularly frustrating in view of time constraints , and the appearance of late regulation amendments which the IPG wanted to incorporate quickly and accurately . |
| 13 | I perceived that the orthodox view of Time , as gradually established in the Western world , was a mistaken one . |
| 14 | When I suggested , in view of time pressure , that it might help if I completed the paperwork there and then , he agreed . |