Much of the claimed gain comes about in the shift from self - sustaining
peasant life to dependence on the market, and many are skeptical that the small gains in income mean that those involved are better fed, better clothed, or better housed than before.
It is this quality of freshness and of acute and sympathetic observation of Palestinian
peasant life which we may claim is characteristic of Jesus, since we have demonstrated that it is lost in the transmission of the tradition by the Church, and it marks these two similes as dominical.
The original simile, therefore, represents the kind of acute observation of Palestinian
peasant life that is characteristic of the parables of Jesus.
«88 The parables, then, serve as a faithful guide to the middle class and
peasant life in Palestine.89 The realism of the parables with their accurate observations on nature and life led Jeremiah to observe that many of them rose out of some accurate occurrence.90
The recognition of the parables as being drawn from the daily experiences of
the peasant life, in the first century Palestine, 150 lays stress on the close connection between ordinary day - to - day experiences in life and the message concerning the divine rule.
The peasant life witnesses to the constant efforts on the part of the farmer despite all odds for the sake of mere survival.
The book includes subplots of love stories and conspiracies, along with interludes of
a peasant life marked by a spiritual wisdom and uncomplicated human decency that the sophisticated have discarded with contempt.
The solidarity of the social group is not typical of
peasant life.
In this parable we find again the sympathetic observation of Palestinian
peasant life so characteristic of Jesus.
Not only, for Levi, do
the peasants live at a level of «subterranean» intensity beneath the «clear - cut meanings» of reason, religion, and history, they are finally and deeply antagonistic to those meanings:
And out in the near countryside there was a burgeoning
peasant life.
Outside Italy, he became a forgotten man until he bounced back in 1978 with his masterpiece The Tree of Wooden Clogs, a three - hour survey of
peasant life at the turn of the century, which won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (born June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia) was an important and much lauded American writer, famous for her depictions of China and Chinese culture, which earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for the novel The Good Earth and the first Nobel Prize awarded to an American woman for Literature in 1938 «for her rich and truly epic descriptions of
peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces».
Segantini is most well known for his paintings depicting natural settings, from
peasants living in nature to detailed mountain landscapes.
The work of skilled local artisans enabled to preserve the stone fireplaces, the niches dug out in the walls, the water tanks and the ancient vaults, signs of a humble
peasant life which is now far away.
There've even a museum dedicated to
peasant life, called the MTR.
Faced with the options of either staying
a peasant living in squalor with his wife or leaving to take his chances on the high sea's hoping to bring a fortune home so they can have a proper life Edward chooses to risk life and limb for his only chance to make something of himself out on the open sea.
Notable for the diversity of his painting style, his work includes academic portraits, Millet - like scenes of
peasant life, and Monet - inspired nature scenes.
He is best known for depicting horses, of
peasant life in Wallachia and Moldavia, and of battle incidents.
After experimenting with Futurism and Cubism, when he depicted scenes from
peasant life through basic geometric shapes, Malevich turned to pure abstraction.
As Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School in London from 1876 — 1893, he made a dynamic impact on British art education both as a painter and etcher, and exerted a decisive influence on the representation of
peasant life as can be seen in The Tinker 1874.
The other traditional classes of history and portrait painting were present, but the period is more notable for a huge variety of other genres, sub-divided into numerous specialized categories, such as scenes of
peasant life, landscapes, townscapes, landscapes with animals, maritime paintings, flower paintings and still lifes of various types.
A star in the firmament of late - 19th - century artists sometimes dubbed as British Impressionists, Sir George Clausen's highest prices (around # 500,000) have been for his 1880s scenes of rural
peasant life, flecked in sunlight.
The contrasting final chapters, «The Mountain Glory» and «The Mountain Gloom» [70] provide an early example of Ruskin's social analysis, highlighting the poverty of
the peasants living in the lower Alps.
The great Catalan painter and sculptor began by painting scenes of rural
peasant life, and went on to become a wayward surrealist, abstractionist and creator of a freeform symbolic world.
He was an excellent portraitist and genre painter, and his fascination with the landscape and
peasant life around Lake Balaton increasingly occupied his attention and formed his main themes.
The 300,000 Mexican
peasants living within the preserve can barely afford to buy food and resent International tourists who care only about the butterflys.
Dead
peasant life insurance has led to many class action lawsuits against companies abusing this strategy of purchasing corporate owned life insurance, also known as COLI, on its non-key employees and has also led to the IRS establishing specific guidelines and requirements for all employer owned life insurance policies purchased after August 17, 2006.
Not exact matches
Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural
peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour —
life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.
The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and
peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species,
lived there - on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the teenagers and the other, «bowers», kneelers» and «pew
peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of
life.
Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity including Mormonism, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew
peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of
life.
Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Paganism, and Christianity by the «hatters», «bowers», kneelers» and «pew
peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of
life.
Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew
peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of
life (e.g. Do No Harm).
For example, deforestation, which usually accompanies development as now practiced, has been more vigorously opposed by those who see intrinsic value in the whole of the
living world than by those who are concerned chiefly for
peasants and workers.
In the South, of course, among the
peasant - farmers, the battle against
living patent and the genetic genie, is one of the most advanced signs.
That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a
life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread
peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.
Beyond pondering how is my
life like or not like Calvins, or like or not like Jesus of Nazareth, how is my
life like or not like their and others»
peasant followers.
For when in summer the
peasant's horse stands in the meadow and throws up his head or shakes it, surely no one can know with certainty what that means; or when two of them who throughout their
lives have walked side by side pulling in the same yoke are turned out at night, when they approach one another as if in intimacy, when they almost caress each other by movements of the head; or when the free horses neigh to one another so that the woods echo, when they are gathered on the plains in a big herd as if at a public meeting — assume then that they really could make themselves understood to one another.
Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew
peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of
life e.g. Do No Harm.
Since the 1950s, millions of
peasants have left their villages because of guerrilla and military violence or to seek a better
life in the cities, changing the balance of Latin America's population from rural to urban.
Historical critics are not immune to this danger, as Luke T. Johnson observes about John Dominic Crossan's 1991 work, The Historical Jesus: The
Life of a Mediterranean Jewish
Peasant: «Does not Crossan's picture of a
peasant cynic preaching inclusiveness and equality fit perfectly the idealized ethos of the late 20th - century academic?»
A Christian historian tells a true story about a
peasant in the 1600's
living under the rule of the Catholic Church.
Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew
peasants» will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of
life e.g. Do No Harm.
The parable of the Soil has been called a «parable on parables» because of the
life of God that it witness to through an abundant harvest.145 At the arrival of the harvest, the
peasant is overjoyed for the opportunity for his involvement in the creative process of producing something.146
During the process of growth, there is a reversal in the
life process of the
peasant and the sown seed.
As John Crossan points out, demonic possession flourished among the lower, oppressed
peasant class to whose health and liberation Jesus devoted his
life.
Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew
peasants» will converge these religions into some simple rules of
life, e.g. DO NO HARM.
Life had never been easy for Jerzy — born sickly into a peasant family where hard physical labour was part of daily life, he had done his chores uncomplainin
Life had never been easy for Jerzy — born sickly into a
peasant family where hard physical labour was part of daily
life, he had done his chores uncomplainin
life, he had done his chores uncomplainingly.
Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the «bowers», kneelers» and «pew
peasants» are converging these religions into some simple rules of
life.