Sentences with phrase «about twentieth»

They concluded that few of the records showed anything particularly unusual about twentieth century temperatures, especially when compared with the so - called «Medieval Warm Period» a thousand years ago.

That artists continue to pursue the process of working with spaces outside the bounds of the classic painting — «opting out of the painting,» as Laszlo Glozer observed about twentieth - century art — shows the explosive force of this groundbreaking art form.

The Met looks back to when artists were wondering the same thing about the twentieth century.

According to modern portfolio theory, you'd come very close to achieving optimal diversity after adding about the twentieth stock to your portfolio.

If you think of peering into the depths of the universe as like looking down from the hundredth floor of the Empire State Building (with the hundredth floor representing now and street level representing the moment of the Big Bang), at the time of Wilson and Penzias's discovery the most distant galaxies anyone had ever detected were on about the sixtieth floor, and the most distant things — quasars — were on about the twentieth.

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A safe and healthy dose of turmeric is about.15 grams per day, according to this study, or about a twentieth of a teaspoon.

They average half a metre per second — about a twentieth of the speed of fast pain receptors.

It was clearly wrong about the Twentieth Century, and its wrongness was not an innocent misjudgment, because in its enthusiasm for the immanent spread of God's (very Western!)

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Timothy Snyder: When we think about power, we often think about it in terms of traditional, twentieth century indices, like for example, gross national product or capacity for technological innovation.

The larger federal role of the mid twentieth century was really an aberration brought about by the demands of global war.

Within that century and a half there's some good news about the global human condition that ought to be kept in mind when remembering the bad news of the twentieth century and the early twenty - first.

As soon as word broke about the death of Billy Graham, the most influential Christian evangelist of the twentieth century, scholars and admirers began asking: «Will there ever be another Billy Graham?»

What is certainly true is that in serious Christian reflection, questions about the shape and fate of community have come to displace the language of personal conversion, transformation, and development from the central place such language held in Protestant Christian discourse in the first two - thirds of the twentieth century.

One cause of this decline in awareness of Buckley's Catholicism may be the fact that he wrote less about his faith than any other major Catholic figure of the twentieth century — at least, if we calculate by sheer percentage of the prose he turned out in his hugely productive lifetime.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

And, when she describes that change, what she ends up describing is what already more - or-less exists, namely: mainline christianity, embracing the reformed and the catholic, the scientific and the traditional, which has been doing (never perfectly, to be sure) the sort of deep thinking, social justice, and disciplined prayer that she talks about continually while the evangelicals were breaking off to do their own thing (the thing she seems to want them to stop doing) throughout the twentieth century.

And yet, the seeming gulf of this opposition helps explain much about the ways in which the dualism of «individualism» and «collectivism» came to be understood for much of the twentieth century.

It contains a sampling of twentieth - century Bible criticism, mostly attempts to rearrange the text or speculations about interpolations, but also includes post-Holocaust ruminations, with much space dedicated to Elie Wiesel.

If that is not deemed to be conclusive, how about the fact that the average atheist crime against humanity is 18.3 million percent worse than the very worst depredation committed by Christians, even though atheists have had less than one - twentieth the number of opportunities with which to commit them.

In the twentieth - century, there has been much debate about the identity of John.

Paul Johnson's magisterial Modern Times, published in 1983, only seemed to confirm our worst fears about the meaning of the twentieth century.

Rather, I want to draw attention to the fact that ecumenism can take a number of forms, and that this might well shape how we think about ECT on its twentieth anniversary.

Today, however, his importance is scarcely a rumor even to the very literate, and the best known book about him in English is a ghastly, feeble, and imbecile squib by one of the twentieth century's most indefatigably fraudulent intellectuals, Isaiah Berlin.

In the twentieth century, and especially since the establishment of the state of Israel, there has been renewed Jewish interest in Jesus and a number of books have been written about him by Jews.

But if we let our heritage slip from our hands, if we do not understand what we are, then Lincoln's great words about us, words we find it hard to understand in these closing years of the twentieth century — that we are «the last best hope of earth» — will in the end be nothing but a mockery, a sarcastic epithet for a fallen republic.

In the twentieth century, the Holocaust, skepticism about God's existence, global anti-Semitism, and the foundation of the State of Israel all contributed to Jews» seeing their attachment to a unique people as the starting point (and in most cases also the end point) for Jewish identification.

Anyone interested in the twentieth «century story of traditional Judaism and its arrival in the United States or who desires to know more about non «Hasidic Jewish religiosity will enjoy and appreciate these books.

For example, at the beginning of the twentieth century about 40 - 45 per cent of the world's population remained below the poverty line.

When we talk about the key shifts of the twentieth century — those involving politics, trade, consumption, art — we leave out what is surely the most astonishing physical change in all of human history, one that has happened mostly during the last century: the doubling of the human life span in much....

The answer, I think, is to be found in another important volume about communism: The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century, by François Furet (see the discussion by Brian C. Anderson elsewhere in this issue).

The Mennonite - Catholic dialogue, which held its first session in Strasbourg October 14 - 17, 1998, would probably not have been possible without it, so strongly do twentieth - century Mennonites feel about the persecution of their founders by the Inquisition in the sixteenth century.

With this experience of what we humans are capable of doing to one another, and with the decline of belief in a providential God, there is far less confidence about the human future among informed people today than there was at the beginning of the twentieth 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.

Before I tell my stories, however, perhaps we should think a bit about those of Clive Staples Lewis, the pre-eminent English author of the twentieth century.

The twentieth century has seen considerable growth in the study of religions as an academic discipline and much discussion about what is involved in this study.

In A Fierce Discontent, Michael McGerr has gathered an impressive amount of information about the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century.

First, I am a professor of philosophy and a professional philosopher, I guess you could say, privy to the philosophical movements of the twentieth century, many of which, for better or worse, have had an influence on theology and thinking about religion.

He sang about the remarkable things he'd seen in a career that made him one of the most important songwriters of the twentieth century but concluded, «I've seen many a great tomorrow turn to yesterday; I've seen it, boys, and I've seen it go away.»

Russian religious thought of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was also very sensitive about the crisis of classical philosophy; quite strong in the criticism of its errors, but aspiring to work out its own organic vision of the world, it was not inclined to unite science with philosophy and theology.

There were intense discussions in the early part of the twentieth century about this new situation.

No twentieth century scientist has been willing to define life (which I find supremely ironic as some physicians testify before Congress about when life begins!).

It is an experiment not without hypothetical interest, but at most it would tell us what four late - twentieth - century hungry historians at Harvard said they could say together about Jesus.

The church in the late twentieth century is no different from the church in any age in her need for leaders to feed God's people by telling them the truth about God, the world, and themselves.

The history of the twentieth century confirms Plato's judgment and suggests a possible source of information for making Hartshorne's philosophy more realistic about the human condition.

This from his review of James Davison Hunter's Culture Wars: «What I find so remarkable about the history of American Protestantism in the twentieth century is that, despite all of the institutional contortions and the ebb and flow of ideology, the center has held.

Those who are concerned about alcoholism and who also believe that the church has a significant role in the second half of the twentieth century long to see it take a more dynamic role in the solution of this gigantic problem.

In order to understand why things turned out as well as they did, we need to abandon the standard narrative, which narrows everything about the council down to mid — twentieth - century conflicts between traditionalists and progressives.