Sentences with phrase «about a century after»

You begrudgingly accept evolution (about a century after Darwin proved it and after accepting Genesis as literally true for about 2,000 years) and that Adam and Eve was totally made up, but then conveniently ignore that fact that your justification for Jesus dying on the cross (to save us from Original Sin) has therefore been eviscerated.

It was not until about a century after Jesus that Christians began to regard as normal an ecclesiastical structure which had bishops as its chief administrative officers.

In so doing, they rely on later sayings attributed to Muhammad or works written about him centuries after his death.

The Channel fox population on four islands — Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel, and Santa Catalina — declined dramatically in the 1990s, about a century after settlers first brought pigs to the islands: a move that attracted golden eagles, who found the foxes tasty, as well.

About a century after the revolution that brought the independence of the nation, a new revolution was to take place, albeit a far less violent and a more gradual one.

But for about a century after Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883)-- Julius» nominal founding figure — makers of rebarbative artworks did feed a continuing stream of history consciousness in which, as Robert Motherwell put it, «everything..

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Just a couple of weeks ago, any media company with significant TV - related assets — including Disney, Comcast, 21st Century Fox and Time Warner — got hammered by investors, after a loss of subscribers at ESPN (which is owned by Disney) triggered fears about cord - cutting and the rise of streaming services.

After digging into the history of the term, I found that journalists used «fake» in the 19th century to warn American consumers about products proffered by patent medicine pushers, con artists and hucksters.

After Verizon announced slightly - better - than - expected first quarter results on Tuesday, analysts pushed Ellis about rumors that the company might bid for a major media company, such as 21st Century Fox (fox).

There is nothing new about transporting this form of crude oil — and after nearly half a century, there is no evidence that internal corrosion is caused by transporting oil from the Canadian oil sands.

Some seniors at Century Village in Pembroke Pines talked about the difficulty of not having power and enduring the heat after Hurricane Irma caused a power outage.

In a perhaps apocryphal story, Adolph Hitler recalled to his General Staff in 1939 the amnesty that outside powers gave to the Turkish officials who massacred over one million Armenians nearly a quarter century earlier, quipping «Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?»

the only surviving writings about Christianity from the first centuries after the apostles come mainly from men steeped in Greek thought and philosophy.

It's hard to consider fears about the world as the motivation for the rise in the horror genre when» from Mary Shelley's The Last Man to Max Brooks» World War Z, and from Richard Jefferies» After London to Cormac McCarthy's The Road» post-apocalyptic subject matter is hardly a creation or expression confined to this century.

His rhetorical question some time back about Mormonism only coming about about in the nineteenth century, some 1,800 years after the Ascension of our Lord is spot on!

Yes, the available history says that the heart was in the possession of the church about a century later, so either someone kept it for a long time after cutting it out of his corpse — yeah, that sounds likely — or it is a medieval «relic» that is actually the heart of a pig or a sheep that some clergyman sold along with genuine pieces of the cross and bones from St. Peter to make a buck on the rubes, uh, faithful.

Pretty soon the likes of Einstein, Kepler, Maxwell, and Newton will have to be a fuzzy ambiguous creature of some sort so all the non-white non-Jewish kids who aren't Asian (i.e., the black kids) don't get any wrong ideas about ethnocentricity or Western cultural superiority producing such sheer conceptual and mathematical genius century after century.

The Muslim Arabs first settled on the Malabar coast about fifty years after the Hijrah, toward the end of the seventh century A.D., at a time when South India was agitated by religious conflicts and political instability.

Writing about a quarter of a century after the death of Jesus, he says that the tradition passed on to him, presumably when he became a Christian some twenty years earlier, contained the following statements: «that Christ died; that he was buried; that he was raised to life on the third day; and that he appeared to Cephas and afterwards to the Twelve.

When Christian leaders blame LGBT people for natural disasters or warn they are going to «come after» Christians, it's hard not to be reminded of what was often said about Jews in Europe to justify centuries of prejudice against them.

Islam was and is all about conquest and submission... in the 8th century Muslims invaded Iberian peninsula — barely a century after Mohammed's death and were finally driven out in the late 15th century (and people focus on the Christian Crusades - funny).

Frankly, I worry about the mental and spiritual health of anyone who continues to support the RCC after all the absolutely heinous, irrational, unethical things it has done over the centuries to obtain and maintain power.

Rome had their post-Greek pagan religion for about 3 - 4 centuries after Jesus death, them and the Jews also supposedly had persecuted Christians until Constantine came around and established Christianity as the main religion of Rome..

Other than a book that was written down centuries after the events it speaks about occurred, what proof can you present?

In fact, it was written during the 6th - century BCE, about 100 - 200 years after the original author of the Book of Isaiah died.

The first Gospels date to a couple DECADES after his death, the first non-Christian mention is about 80 years later, and the first Roman mention about a century.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

«We have no means of knowing how it came about that the name of Gondophorus whose time and succession had wholly vanished from the earth was still remembered in a syriac speaking country at least a century, perhaps considerably more than a century, after his death».

Today, more than a century after Lincoln articulated a moral center on behalf of national reconciliation, secularity has so infiltrated our leadership and our elite institutions that presidential candidates are reluctant to employ moral language and are uncertain about any symbolic code.

James... I can certainly agree on yr point about self - deception, but remember how long it took the «entire package «to evolve as we know it today... the first list of «our 27 NT books» doesn't appear until the latter half of the 4th century and we know that many other books (that didn't make it in) were known, read and circulated for many generations after.

After centuries of accusing the Jews of killing their savior Jesus Christ, about 20 years ago they changed their view to consider Israel the protector of the biblical sites from infidels.

[10] Cardinal Henri de Lubac a great colleague and ally of Joseph Ratzinger in the turbulent period after the Second Vatican Council, made a very similar comment about modern biblical critics: «they are primarily specialists, and their function has become very necessary and very important during the last few centuries.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

After all these centuries of the practice of power and of theorizing about its nature and function, what is to be said about it that hasn't been said before many times over?

We have noted that the Old Testament prophet on whom Jesus seems most to have patterned his life work was the one whom he knew as Isaiah, though we may now speak of him as Second Isaiah, since he wrote during the exile and about one hundred and fifty years after the Isaiah of the eighth century.

Their reforms did not come about, save only after centuries and then imperfectly.

Nor was it about his redemption of our sins (a theology developed to its current form only centuries after the facts primarily from the epistles of Paul, who never knew or spoke with Jesus personally, in the flesh.)

Renting space in the magnificent Auditorium Theater, with its golden mosaics and turn - of - the - century opulence, Willow Creek Chicago has about 1,200 attenders after only a year of operation.

I think being written only a few decades after these events is about as good a deal as you can get w / ancient history; same goes for finding early 2nd century samples of m in Egypt.

After that the Turks were comparatively free from European attacks for two hundred years, and did not have to face another Crusade until about the beginning of the fourteenth century (the latter half of the nineteenth century A.D.).

In short, were we dependent upon the epigraphical sources alone for information about ancient Israel, we would know little more than that an entity known as Israel existed toward the end of the 13th century BC, and that two minor kingdoms, called Israel and Judah, existed alongside each other in the central Palestinian hill country after the mid-ninth century BC.

In case one who was about to learn to dance were to say, «For centuries now one generation after another has been learning positions, it is high time I drew some advantage out of this and began straightway with the French dances» — then people would laugh at him; but in the world of spirit they find this exceedingly plausible.

After rising slowly until the seventeenth century, when it reached about 400 millions, the earth's population began to shoot up in an alarming fashion.

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The civil theology of the youthful Hegel in Germany during the decades after the French Revolution shows the yearning for the union of Christian and citizen was still vigorous at the end of the eighteenth century.6 These youthful speculations stand behind Hegel's mature political theory as well as, curiously, behind the thought of Marx about man and citizen.

Over a half - century after it was written, it still stands as essential reading for anyone who cares about justice.

After describing the hopes of those who wrote the Constitution, Carter takes note of the assumption that almost all men of affairs in the eighteenth century shared about the fate of governments like the one proposed in Philadelphia.

Murray told EW, «What I have found by bringing these characters back is that it's not so much about nostalgia, but a sense that they still feel relevant and fresh to me, and after 20 years, they can't wait to comment on modern life in the 21st century.

It may have taken form as early as the middle of the ninth century, B.C., that is, about a century and a half after the time of David.

We may be tempted to leave out Philemon because it is so badly attested in the second century and because debates later arose about its inspiration; but we must finally — after all these calculations — remember that if the scribe wrongly calculated the number of pages for his book he could glue on others at the end.