Sentences with phrase «ancient communities of»

These scientists can study many different subjects, including the microbiology and genetics of living organisms, how species that share the same community adapt to changing conditions over time, and the fossil record (to assess how various ancient communities of species might be related to each other and to modern - day relatives).

The fact is that ISIS threatens not only the ancient communities of Christians, Êzidî and other religious minorities in the region; it also threatens nearly all of its Muslims.

The ancient community of exiles learned, first of all, to express sadness, rage, anger and loss honestly.

Finally, for whatever it's worth, the Catholic Church, surely an ancient community of believers at least, teaches that «final impenitence» will never be forgiven, a conceptual interpretation of the passages rather than a literal one, but one that seems to have support within the relevant scriptures collectively.

The next stop is Chettinad, the ancient community of Chettiars in Tamil Nadu.

Not exact matches

I actually think the article is very affirming of early Christians because it points out that their love for others and the inclusive community they created was the it - factor that awed so many in the ancient world.

The terror group carried out its slogan, «We will break your crosses and enslave your women,» with literal precision against the ancient Christian community of several Middle Eastern countries.

In Lutheranism the retention of the ancient liturgy, sacramentalism, iconography, and much of the music and ceremony of the medieval church made - and makes - it apparent that the Lutheran Reformation did not start a new church but continued the ancient teaching and life of the catholic community.

In local communities, Hassler suggests, ancient truths abide: words retain their power to save or ruin lives, good and evil can yet be distinguished, people remain accountable for their acts, and sin, penance, and absolution are still valid coin of the realm.

Say goodbye to one of the most ancient Christian communities in the world.

This has been a period in which the categories of the social sciences have been employed for the study of such ancient literature, alerting us to the ways in which ancient communities are rooted in social realities, as well as the ways in which social structures and ideologies reinforce each other.

I'm a historian who feels a part of a great community and who wants to make sense of what ancient people said and to appreciate it.

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

Even if we were certain of the original meaning of the root underlying the Hebrew noun we could hardly take this as conclusive evidence of the basic understanding of the Old Testament prophet in the middle centuries of the first millenium B.C. Rather, we will have to understand the sense of the term nabi» from the person of the prophet himself as he appears and functions in the community of ancient Israel.

The ancients, too, vaguely sensed these difficulties, and always imagined the spirit or soul as having some body or form, even though, of necessity, it had to be of a ghostly or ethereal «substance», and pictured a spirit or soul world in which the soul found community.

In ancient Hebrew culture, the Mosaic Law instructed the Israelites that one way to provide for the poor and needy in their community during harvest time was to leave the corners of their field unharvested.

Rather, the Bible is a product of two ancient communities — the Hebrew Bible being the product of ancient Israel, the Christian Testament the product of the early Christian movement.

The immediate implication of this, which is really my second statement in shorthand form, is that the Bible is thus a human product, namely, the response of two ancient communities to their experience of the Sacred.

Rather, the Bible is a gathering of traditional materials that gradually emerged among the people of ancient Israel and early Christianity and eventually became their authoritative statements about their God, the nature of their believing community and their terms for living.

These serial readings from Acts end with Paul established in Rome (probably in today's Trastevere district), speaking with the Roman Jewish community about the fulfillment of their ancient, covenantal hopes in the Risen Christ.

For example, S.K. De, Ancient Indian Erotics and Erotic Literature, (Calcutta: K.L. Mukhopadhyay, 1959), 82; Norvin Hein, «Radha and Erotic Community,» in The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India, John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds.

Wilson can not grasp anything but corniness in a trope that goes back to Ancient Greece, resonates through the Middle Ages, and informs the social preaching of our day — the presence of God in a beggar that binds him into a community with me despite our radically different lives.

His vision was like the ancient concept of the organic community that underlay tribalism, feudalism and early American Puritanism, but it expanded the community to include the whole earth.

The ancient claim that man is by nature a political animal and must in and through the exercise and practice of virtue learned in communities achieve a form of local and communal self - limitation — a condition properly understood as liberty — can not be denied forever without cost.

But because the couple are from the minority Parsi community - part of the Zoroastrian religion, a minority faith founded in ancient Persia - their fate highlights, some say, how prejudice against outsiders in Balochistan makes them easy targets for increasingly powerful criminal gangs.

«Ancient Christian communities in Iraq and Syria are on the verge of extinction and other religious minorities in the Middle East face a constant assault from the so - called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.»

Aristotle believed that such a capacity is limited to communities roughly the size of the ancient Greek city «states (approximately fifty thousand people living in close proximity to each other), but the modern nation «state proves him wrong.

It was the schooling in local self - government and the institutions so developed back in the hills and valleys of ancient Palestine that gave the uprooted Jews immediately a social organism able to withstand the shock of exile and to support and adapt the community in its struggle to live in an alien environment.

Never more evident is the usefulness of our particular congregation than when a community quakes from the faults of ancient ethnic tectonic plates pushing just below the surface of our culture.

There is nothing better I can do for the moral dilemmas of our time than offer undiluted the ancient wisdom of the community of celebration.

In her «Introduction» to a special issues of the Journal of Early Christian Studies, which had as its theme «The Markings of Heresy: Body, Text, and Community in Late Ancient Christianity,» Virginia Burrus noted that the essays collected

Is there a permanent pattern in the anatomy of community which may be discerned in such diverse communities as the tribe, the city - state, or the ancient or modern empire?

Current awareness of the importance to the health of a family's relationships with the extended family (including the church) accents the significance of these ancient practices of the religious community.

Indeed, whether we look to the teachers of ancient Israel or to the Platonic academy or to Augustine at Cassiciacum or to the medieval university or to Pico's disputatious Florence or to the small colleges of early nineteenth - century America, we find learning flourishing in communities formed by the conscious practice of spiritual virtues.

In a story that's one part Indiana Jones, one part Nana's craft day down at the local bingo hall, and every part bananas, Hobby Lobby — the giant arts and crafts retailer and apparent scourge of the global archeological community — is being forced by the U.S. Justice Department to return thousands of illegally acquired ancient Iraqi artifacts and pay a multi-million dollar fine.

21 (12, 15 - 17), 22 (19 f.), and 31 (15b) but thought to be an original and ancient unit, in which series the death penalty is assigned when comparable offenses in other codes are less drastically punished.13 But the death penalty in these cases serves generally to underline the moral and religious seriousness of the covenant community, and in the Israelite scale it in no wise conflicts with the pattern of law which places human life above all other values save two: the sacredness of family and the integrity of Yahweh.

In ancient Greece, a liturgy was any service rendered or offering made for the good of the community; it did not originally have a specifically religious connotation.

In her «Introduction,» to a special issue of the Journal of Early Christian Studies, which had as its theme «The Markings of Heresy: Body, Text, and Community in Late Ancient Christianity,» Virginia Burrus noted that the essays collected

Hence, the majority - dominant community, by appealing to the romanticised myth of an ancient pristine society, provides legitimation and sanction for a discourse which calls into question those that appear to be impositions and accretions on such a society.

While great attention therefore needs to be paid to the manipulation of power and the management of economic and political forces, we know that the primary mode by which a community reconstitutes itself is by its interpretation, by its reflection on ancient memory and tradition, and by its recasting of that memory and tradition in new ways that are resonant with the new situation.

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department of External Church Relations for the Moscow Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, called on the «world community to join efforts in order to find the abducted hierarchs as soon as possible,» and prayed for peace to be «re-established in the ancient land of Syria and for Christianity to keep developing there.»

I tell myself that this ethical prescription for the ancient ex-slave community and for the Christian community is the ideal for any human community attempting to enhance the quality of relationships.

The community of the New Testament understood and accepted the interpretation of David as the king of ancient Israel, as peculiarly the Yahweh - man, as uniquely foreshadowing the fulfillment of the covenant purpose; and from that interpretation, already given in the history of David, they understood and interpreted the work and mission of Jesus.

To these examples (or their ancient equivflents) and countless others, the eighth Commandment called Israel and later called the Christian community to live out a standard of radical personal honesty in obedience to the God who established our Covenant.

According to Antony Mookenthottam, it is probable that the ancient church in India had developed some theology of its own and this theology is not written down in books but it is implicit in the life, experience and traditions of the community.

In that ancient binding concept of community it is king and people who are judged.

By contrast, the old - fashioned Jesus of the canonical Gospels stands with the ancient prophets to condemn the misuse of power, the failing of community and the pretension of religion.

Obviously Nietzsche was such a prophet and seer, and like his ancient compeers, his vision is an expression of a prophetic community, beginning from at least the time of Blake and extended into our own day.

It stresses that «all peoples comprise a single community» and that from ancient times «there has existed among diverse peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things».21 Reference is made to the contemplation of the divine mystery in Hinduism and to Buddhism's acknowledgment of the «radical insufficiency of this shifting world».

He also shows how this community interacts with ancient Israel and the early church as the first recipients of Scripture.