Preterist Christian commentators believe that Jesus quoted this prophecy in Mark 13: 14 as referring to an event in his " 1st century disciples '" immediate future, the siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

Preterist Christian commentators believe that Jesus quoted this prophecy in Mark 13: 14 as referring to an event in his " 1st century disciples '" immediate future, such as the siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

In the Preterist view, the Tribulation took place in the past when Roman legions destroyed Jerusalem and its temple in AD 70 during the end stages of the First Jewish – Roman War, and it only affected the Jewish people rather than all mankind.

Preterism ( from the Latin praeteritus, meaning " gone by ") is an approach which sees prophecy as chiefly being fulfilled in the past, especially ( in the case of the Book of Revelation ) during the first century.

In the Futurist approach, Revelation is chiefly seen as referring to events which as yet have not come to pass, but which will come to pass at the end of the age, and the end of the world.

In the Historicist approach, Revelation provides us with a broad view of history, and passages in Revelation are identified with major historical people and events.

In the Idealist ( or Spiritualist or Symbolic ) approach, the events of Revelation are neither past nor future, but are purely symbolic, dealing with the ongoing struggle and ultimate triumph of good over evil.

Some Catholic scholars criticised Drewermann for focussing in his work on individual psychology without taking into consideration Christian communities and Christian tradition, arguing that Drewermann's approach had the effect of reducing the historical relevance of the Gospel and Revelation to a mere collection of texts used to cure individual anxiety.

Facesitting and smothering are forms of body worship which differ chiefly because of their aggressive approach.

approach is used chiefly to map or " encode " the coordinate of each sensor

Hypermodernism refers to a cultural, artistic, literary and architectural movement distinguished from Modernism and Postmodernism chiefly by its extreme and antithetical approach.

The second Belgrade period ( 1955 – 1977 ) was characterized by emphatic independent research into the fundamental principles of the modernist painting, chiefly its two-dimensional plane, as well as the non-mimetic approach through the use of pure, non-descriptive visual elements.

The preferred Gelugpa approach, Prāsangika, was represented chiefly by Candrakirti.

The idea of MWI originated in Everett's Princeton Ph. D. thesis " The Theory of the Universal Wavefunction ", developed under his thesis advisor John Archibald Wheeler, a shorter summary of which was published in 1957 entitled " Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics " ( Wheeler contributed the title " relative state "; Everett originally called his approach the " Correlation Interpretation ", where " correlation " refers to quantum entanglement ).

IKEA contends that it has been a pioneering force in sustainable approaches to mass consumer culture .. Kamprad refers to the concept as " democratic design ," meaning that the company applies an integrated approach to manufacturing and design ( see also environmental design ).

Pei refers to his own " analytical approach " when explaining the lack of a " Pei School ".

* Limited political terrorism – Genuine political terrorism is characterized by a revolutionary approach ; limited political terrorism refers to “ acts of terrorism which are committed for ideological or political motives but which are not part of a concerted campaign to capture control of the state.

# Martin Luther rejected the Roman Catholic approach and developed a different two-level system McArthur refers to as the two realms view.

In the objective approach, every person in the dream refers to the person they are: mother is mother, girlfriend is girlfriend, etc.

The book, whose title refers to the distance between the pitcher's mound and home plate, details their careers and approach to the game.

Though not all Method actors use the same approach, the " method " in Method acting usually refers to the practice, influenced by Constantin Stanislavski and created by Lee Strasberg, in which actors draw upon their own emotions and memories in their portrayals, aided by a set of exercises and practices including sense memory and affective memory.

" Method acting " or " the Method " usually refers to the teachings of Lee Strasberg, but the term is also sometimes mistakenly applied to the teachings of his Group Theatre colleagues, including Stella Adler, Robert Lewis, and Sanford Meisner, and to other schools of acting derived from Stanislavski's system, each of which takes a slightly different approach.

Williams took a modernist approach, especially with his use of polytonality, which refers to the sound of two different keys played simultaneously.

Piedmont blues ( also known as East Coast blues ) refers primarily to a guitar style, the Piedmont fingerstyle, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern supports a syncopated melody using the treble strings generally picked with the fore-finger, occasionally others.

Compunction refers to the act of actively expressing remorse, usually requiring the remorseful individual to physically approach the person to whom they are expressing regret.

In addition, the term refers to an academic approach to the Jewish legal tradition and a concomitant effort to apply that tradition to modern Israeli law.

For instance, Steven Cox and Kendell Easley list four separate approaches to a solution, ranging from a grammatical approach to the translation of the Greek word prote used in Luke to be read as " registration before Quirinius was governor of Syria " to archeological arguments and references to Tertullian that indicate that a " two step census " was performed, involving an early registration, given that Luke 2: 2 refers to the " first enrolment ".

Broadly, " cool " refers to a number of post-war jazz styles employing a more subdued approach than that found in other contemporaneous jazz idioms.

Contemporary critical realism most commonly refers to a philosophical approach associated with Roy Bhaskar.

A research approach refers to an integrated set of research principles and general procedural guidelines.

* Convergence ( mathematics ), refers to the notion that some functions and sequences approach a limit under certain conditions

Sinology in general use is the study of China and things related to China, but, especially in the American academic context, refers more strictly to the study of classical language and literature, and the philological approach.

" He adheres to principles originated with Situationism, DIY and other forms of Postmodernism in his theoretical approach to issues of art and commerce but refers to it in his writings as " Pan-Modern.

Contrary to popular belief, the methodological approach of selling refers to a systematic process of repetitive and measurable milestones, by which a salesman relates his or her offering of a product or service in return enabling the buyer to achieve their goal in an economic way.

In theoretical linguistics, generative grammar refers to a particular approach to the study of syntax.

Likewise, the sum of absolute errors ( SAE ) refers to the sum of the absolute values of the residuals, which is minimized in the least absolute deviations approach to regression.

The title of the early Tangerine Dream piece " Fly and Collision of Coma Sola ", appearing on the Alpha Centauri album ( 1971 ), refers to this comet, which at the time was undergoing a moderately close ( 0. 73 AU ) approach to Jupiter.

Instead, they pioneered an approach to a study of long-term historical structures ( la longue durée ) over events and political transformations.

The prophecies of doom concerning the fall of both the House of Jeroboam and the northern kingdom as a whole (" For the Lord shall smite Israel ..., and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river ") might have been composed retroactively, after the events described had already come to pass ( this position is a secular or non-literal approach to scripture ).

Unlike short sprint events such as the 100 m in which a forward lean is used to accelerate, vaulters maintain a more upright torso position throughout the approach to counterbalance the effect of carrying the pole.

His decision to try a different approach in his dealings with the Welsh was influenced by the events in Ireland, although Warren suggests that " it seems likely that Henry began rethinking his attitude to the Welsh soon after the débâcle of 1165 ".

Coupled with this approach was the belief that rare events which seemed to contradict theoretical models were aberrations, telling nothing about nature as it " naturally " was.

Hall's approach was to create peaceful compositions that evoked classicism, to contrast with the turbulent on-screen events and allow audiences to take in the action.

Random quantum events " average out " in the limit of large numbers of particles ( where the laws of quantum mechanics asymptotically approach the laws of classical mechanics ).

Both Bacchylides and Pindar benefited from his innovative approach to lyric poetry and he was more involved than either of them in the major events and personalities of their times.

Unity describes itself as a worldwide Christian organization which teaches a positive approach to life, seeking to accept the good in all people and events, and as beginning as a healing ministry and healing has been its main emphasis for over 100 years.

Before this, General Officers had considered this approach to battle as separate events.

His approach was to create art out of ephemeral materials and using topical events in the life of everyday America gave his work a unique quality.

Commonly tested factors include irritability, activity, frequency of smiling, and an approach or avoidant posture to unfamiliar events.

Among other innovations in Arabic literature was Ibn Khaldun's perspective on chronicling past events — by fully rejecting supernatural explanations, Khaldun essentially invented the scientific or sociological approach to history.

This non-linear portrayal of events on stage gives the listener a means of approach to the abstract compositions, with the same musical ideas being repeated but with extensive variation.

A similar approach measures task-scheduling, network hits, disk-head seek times and other internal events.

Both schools would become part of classic Rabbinic literature, though the decline of scholastic rationalism coincided with historical events which drew Jews to the Kabbalistic approach.

In the 1992 budget his proposal to advance to a 20 % basic rate of income tax through a combination of a narrow initial band, a cut in tax on deposit interest and curtailment of tax allowances was hailed as an elegant way of combining populism with progressivism, though events were later to lend support to Nigel Lawson's view that this approach was strategically inept.

Herodotus confirms the possibility that the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis were fought shortly after the Olympic Games of that year, and only a few months after these events: " On approach of spring, the sun suddenly quit his seat in the heavens, and disappeared " when Xerxes left Sardis, a few weeks or months before crossing over to Greece.

He successfully protects his parishioners by adopting a diplomatic approach during the turbulent events and secures forgiveness for moderate rebels from the restored Charles II.

Messina's approach had treated the plays in realistic terms as events which had once taken place and which could be literally represented on screen.

The document had a marked influence on the course of events and together with Selbe's conciliatory approach assisted in reconciling the Dutch and British communities of South Africa.