Sentences with phrase «christian era»

For facts about the two earliest styles, which influenced so many Irish artists during the golden age of the early Christian era in Ireland, see: Hallstatt (c.800 - 450 BCE) and La Tene (c.450 - 50 BCE).

Installation view, Mary Beth Edelson, «Proposals for: Memorials to 9,000,000 Women Burned as Witches in the Christian Era,» A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 1977

Based on an archive founded by French - American arts patron Dominique de Menil in the 1960s, the series begins with the pharaohs and continues through the fall of the Roman Empire and the early Christian era, to the Age of Discovery and the Age of Abolition.

The Maltese Dog was common in Mediterranean Cultures before the Christian era.

This includes Latin, from the origins of the language until the Christian era.

The English phrase common Era appears at least as early as 1708, and in a 1715 book on astronomy is used interchangeably with Christian Era and Vulgar Era.

, scientists at the University of The English phrase common Era appears at least as early as 1708, and in a 1715 book on astronomy is used interchangeably with Christian Era and Vulgar Era.

For example, the Gregorian calendar numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox churches have their own Christian eras).

These types of fabrics were first made in Armenia where it has been evidence of making lace with the needles has also made a tradition before Christian era.

By the start of the Christian Era, cucumbers were grown all around the Mediterranean, from Asia Minor to Italy, Greece, and across North Africa.

Its ethical precepts have been the basis of moral education of most of the Chinese people for a period longer than the entire Christian era.

There is in existence little or nothing of a literary character from Hebrew sources, outside their canonical writings, which goes very far back of the Christian era.

Substantial parts of it were certainly in existence in the second century of the Christian era.59

If the body of divinely revealed knowledge contained in the Bible and guarded by the church was the basis of the Christian era, so the body of knowledge being accumulated by science was seen to be the foundation of modernity, fueling human confidence in an ever better future.

The Graeco - Roman culture of ancient times, for example, had already reached its highest point by the beginning of the Christian era.

This they determined to be 3,760 years before the beginning of the Christian era.

It dates back to the fourth century of the Christian era and is connected with the Roman emperor Constantine, under whom Christianity became established as the official religion of the Roman state.

Speaking of The hidden history of Christianity in Asia, John C. England, a church historian from New Zealand, rightly points out that unfortunately only a few churches in the region have retained a strong sense that their history began in the early century of Christian era.

Dionysius argued that, just as the Romans had come to regard the foundation of Rome as the beginning of the civilization of ancient Rome, so the coming of Jesus Christ into the world marked the beginning of a new era in the history of the world — the Christian era.

In England the Christian era was adopted at the Synod of Whitby in 664, but it did not become general in Europe until the eleventh century, and in the Greek world not until the fifteenth.

Only some Jewish parties, such as the apocalyptic writers of Daniel, I Enoch and Jubilees, and the Qumran Sect and the Pharisees, embraced some or all of these Zoroastrian notions before the beginning of the Christian era.

It is very unfortunate that only a few Christian churches in the region have retained a strong sense that their history goes back to the early centuries of the Christian era.

It might have seemed of small account that in their processions the boys of Catholic Action walked in threes, in imitation of the Fascist militia, and not in fours, as they had done up to 1922; that they carried their flags with the staffs resting on their stomachs, again in imitation of the Fascists, and not on their shoulders, as had been the custom before the March on Rome; that even the most obscure parish magazines and journals of religious associations showed the year of the regime along - side that of the Christian era; and that Catholics habitually observed all the outward forms of Fascism, beginning with the Roman salute and the conversational use of voi, abandoning, because the Duce so willed it, the age - old use of the third person as the polite form of address.

The Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, completed in the centuries just before the Christian era, lists an additional five names, which no doubt accounts for the statement in Acts 7:14 that «Joseph sent and called to him Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy - five souls.»

It again became acute in the third and fourth centuries of the Christian era.

the point of time or space at which anything begins: the beginning of the Christian era; the beginning of the route.

Maybe if Anne Rice's books during her «Christian era» did as well as her Vampire books we wouldn't be having this dialogue.

Along with this, the philosophical notions about soul, about immortality, about a realm above and beyond the hurly - burly of this world, present in the tradition of Greek philosophy and variations on that philosophy in the early Christian era, had become so much part of the atmosphere of thought that inevitably these two affected Christian thinkers.

The Hijrian year 290, for example, corresponding to the year 902 of our Christian Era, evokes two feminine names of considerable eschatological importance in Islam, Maryam (mother of Jesus: M + R + Y + M = 290) and FATIR, the initiation name of Fâtima, daughter of the Prophet, ancestress of the Fatimites (F + A + T + R = 290).

Historians have estimated that there were four or five times more people living there during the Christian era than in Canaanite or Israelite times.

In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American people, find our account running under the date of the 20th century of the Christian era.

Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era, the Age of the Tannaim.

In rabbinical Judaism after the beginning of the Christian era the hope retreats more and more into the background, not indeed as a fundamental conception but as a practical attitude.

In the first few centuries of the Christian era, a synthesis of thought took place between the declining Graeco - Roman culture and the still - evolving system of Christian thought which had burst out of Judaism.

Therefore, our next step is to examine in more detail the way Christian believers, that «cloud of witnesses,» found meaning in Jesus and the Gospel throughout the Christian Era, and how their cultures influenced their own search for meaning.

(Berakot 5a as quoted by George Foot Moore: Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era, Vol I, p. 547) If suffering is thus in itself expiatory for the individual, why may it not be so for society, especially if it is voluntarily chosen or innocently and patiently endured?

During the first few centuries of the Christian era the creeds formulated to clarify Christian beliefs contained many statements that further emphasised truths essential for science.

From the beginning of the Christian era, Buddhism from India was widespread among the Turks.

This new apologetic task is not unlike other apologetic tasks undertaken by Christianity in other periods, especially at the time the biblical tradition encountered the Greco - Roman world in the first centuries of the Christian era, from Paul to Augustine, and at the time of the transition from the Middle Ages to the dawn of modernity, including the great reformations of Europe and the Americas.

During the second and third centuries of the Christian era the office of bishop was taken out of the local community and made into an area or district job.

It is with that kind of faith and hope that we can enter the new millennium as we come to the end of the Christian era.

The transition from the Christian era of the past to that of the future is the subject of this book.

Although this decline in Christian allegiance, occurring mainly in one century, is quite sudden relative to the length of the Christian era, it has been sufficiently slow and unspectacular relative to a person's lifetime that most churches have, until recently, been hardly aware of it.

In the intervening centuries of the Christian era, the Jewish people have pursued a course which is quite unique in human history.

By some it is regarded as an original poem setting forth Krishnaism based upon the Sankhya - Yoga philosophy, but modified later by the additions in which the Vedanta is taught.73 Others think that it is an old verse Upanishad worked over by a poet in the interest of Krishnaism, after the beginning of the Christian era.74

It will be enough to say that somewhere, not far from the beginning of the Christian era it attained its present form and has been since that time the highest expression of the essentially devotional type of Hinduism at its best.

It is probable that they were not consigned to written form until sometime not far from the beginning of the Christian era.

Not only are some of its roots to be found in ancient Persian religion, but throughout most of the Christian era, the resurrection hope has been shared by Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Does not the entire «Christian era» provide one great testimony that the fulfillment of the prophetic promises is still a vision of the future?

This is one of the tasks which Christian thought will have to take up through the next millennium of the Christian era.