Sentences with phrase «yet over the millennia»

Yet over the millennia, we've created a modern society which rewards deferred gratification and forward thinking — very much removed from our basic animal instincts.

Not exact matches

Yet for us this epistemological dimension of the redemption is not from the supposedly «incurably» dualistic nature of human knowing but from stubbornly dualistic theories of human knowing which over the millennia of their influence have whittled away wonder.

With regard to the second problem, namely, an agreement on «Tradition» (with a capital T), its hermeneutical assessment, and its binding force, it is desirable that the Tradition of the as yet undivided Church of the first millennium, especially its Christological and Trinitarian doctrinal decrees and its status as a communio ecclesiarum, be given priority over the later confessional developments of a particular Church.

See, Answer, that's yet another misconception about me that has been popularized over the past two millennia.

So began the idea of a millennium, which even yet in Biblical fundamentalism exercises a potent sway over the imagination of many Christians, and upon which the curiosity of the credulous has worked for centuries in an endeavor to predict «times and seasons.»

Yet despite intense interest in such cures over the millennia, whether religious or secular, scientific or mystical, none of the approaches based on mind or spirit has proven to be particularly effective.

Over the past three millennia, money has had many incarnations, but none — most likely — as strange as what is yet to come.

Those water vapour swings have changed the power of the greenhouse effect many times over the millennia, far more than CO2 is expected to, yet no tipping point has ever been crossed.

Millennia have passed since Zeus supposedly controlled the weather, and yet contemporary debates over geoengineering seem preoccupied with the connections between deities and the climate — regardless of which side of the debate you find yourself.

The first is climate inertia — on very many levels, from fossil lock - in emissions (decades), ocean - atmospheric temperature inertia (yet more decades), Earth system temperature inertia (centuries to millennia) to ecological climate impact inertia (impacts becoming worse over time under a constant stress)-- all this to illustrate anthropogenic climate change, although already manifesting itself, is still very much an escalating problem for the future.

From changes over a millennium at least — the cool Pacific state seems likely to persist for a decade or so yet.

This is a current limitation of the models when confronted with, as yet unexplained, real world climate variations occurring over periods of decades to millennia.