Sentences with phrase «ancient elements of»

Travelers to Budapest are sure to leave enriched after discovering a city that has developed a fascinating and eclectic blend of its ancient elements of Roman and feudal architecture with a bustling modern city.

Not exact matches

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

This approach assumes we can not learn from ancient or mediaeval dramas the way educated audiences of the 1600s and 1800s did, taking the particularity of the time straight, and as a key thematic element of the play.

When James characterized «reality» as made up of eaches and suches, of concrete particular facts and abstract relational concepts, he added a third element: «the whole body of other truths already in our possession» (P 96), the «ancient stock» of truths I have called our «social canon.»

And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.

I often struggle with what appear to be misogynistic elements of the Levitical purity codes, of ancient Israeli wartime conduct, of the letters of Paul and the doctrines of the early church.

In her effort to present this gap in belief and experience between the time of Jesus and our own time, she includes an unusual element: two passages, five and eight pages long, which don't just describe but re «imagine the historical context of ancient Palestine.

Moreover, the problem of primitive Christianity is not to account for early Christian messianism — for there was enough of that element in ancient Judaism, after the second century before Christ — but to explain why Christianity survived when other messianic movements came to nothing and disappeared.

In an essay addressing the «ancient controversy between individualism and collectivism,» Soloveitchik emphatically rejected both alternatives, insisting that for Judaism «both experiences, that of aloneness, and that of togetherness, are inseparable basic elements of the I - awareness.»

In any event, developed Christian theology rejected nothing good in the metaphysics, ethics, or method of ancient philosophy, but — with a kind of omnivorous glee — assimilated such elements as served its ends, and always improved them in the process.

This element of economic belief was well known in the ancient world.

For instance, there are the hermeneutical questions of whether the image of Christ emerging through the glasses of Islamic mysticism is what the Bible or Biblical authors «intended»; If the purpose of the crystallization of the supposed authorial intention or purpose is to connect the ancient and the present «viewpoints» or the worldviews, one may ask if such a possibility of a pure state of intention possible to extract at all, or is it not that the reader often always creates» at least some elements of the supposed «intentions».

Are we saying that the Christianity we grew up with is actually a syncretistic religion, containing elements of not only ancient Christianity, but also of Roman pagan worship, complete with temples (buildings) and paid employees (priests and others)?

The framework created by these four elements decisively shapes the meaning of many «big» Christian words, giving them meaning very different from their biblical and ancient Christian ones.

Philosophers back in ancient times would often develop explanations for light, the different forms of matter (liquid solid gas) the theory of elements, water fire etc..

But from what I understand out of the ancient monastic materials I work on, prayer is really an entire relationship, and the verbal part is only one element.

There was initial rote memorization of the words that, in their various inflections, were the elements of the language — usually more of them than any ancient speaker ever used, or ever knew.

SevenPup, the four elements of the ancients are earth, air, water and fire.

It is clear, however, that unlike the Osiris and Adonis myths where the male element is dominant, in ancient Mesopotamia it was the goddess Inanna who took the major role, embodying in herself all the creative power of nature.

3) Biblical scholarship relating the creation account of Genesis and ancient Near Eastern cosmology continues to become more accessible to the average reader, so Christian university students are in a great position to learn from Bible professors why a literal, scientific reading of Genesis 1 and 2 need not be a fundamental element of the Christian faith.

In large measure the Jewish element in it was explained away and its primitive flavor neutralized, for it was now no longer a Hebrew book, but a Greek thesaurus of most ancient oracles.

The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.

Colin Renfrew, «The Archaeology of Religion,» The Ancient Mind; Elements of Cognitive Archaeology, edited by Renfrew and Zubrow (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Msgr. Jaeger expanded upon that theme, noting that «while often presented as if it were absolutely new,» the teaching of Nostra Aetate «perfectly corresponds to the most ancient intuitions of Christian theology» when it affirms there can be, and in some cases are, «elements of truth and holiness» in other religions, particularly Judaism, as explained by St. Paul in the Epistle to the Romans.

So before we go and mine the Bible for verses about women and then apply them universally as elements of «biblical womanhood,» we've got to humbly acknowledge our own limitations in applying an ancient text to modern times.

But Christianity, itself a pervasive way of life, had little use for the practical elements of ancient philosophy (other than those it chose to appropriate).

Generally speaking, the more the sense of history developed and turned Israel's attention to the human scene, the more the elements of ancient mythology were discarded.

We are made of stardust, the scientists say — the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, and the chlorine in our skin forged in the furnaces of ancient stars whose explosions scattered the elements across the galaxy.

Researchers analyzed the levels of various trace elements in hundreds of samples of carbon - rich shales that had been deposited in oxygen - poor regions of the ocean surrounding ancient continents during the past 3.5 billion years.

The experiment's result reinforces what scientists call the lithium problem, a discrepancy between the amounts of the element thought to have been produced 13.8 billion years ago and the amounts observed in ancient stars.

But the ancient star shows signs of pollution with lighter elements such as carbon and magnesium, and no sign of pollution with iron.

From the Big Bang to ancient Greece to Nazi Germany and Gandhi's India, Kean highlights the prominent roles of various chemical elements throughout history.

Scientists want to learn more about these ancient stars, which have never been observed directly, because they injected the first doses of carbon, oxygen and other crucial elements into the cosmos.

For many ancient peoples, basic elements such as earth, air, wind and fire formed the essence of the cosmos.

Yoga, an ancient mind - body practice which originated in India and incorporates physical, mental, and spiritual elements, has been shown in several studies to be effective in improving cardiovascular risk factors, with reduction in the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

The study, «VlincRNAs controlled by retroviral elements are a hallmark of pluripotency and cancer» found that novel non-coding parts of the human genome known as vlincRNAs (very long intergenic, non-coding RNAs) triggered by ancient viruses, participate in the biology of stem cells, and in the development of cancer.

An ancient star a mere thousand light - years from Earth bears chemical elements that may have been forged by the death of a star that was both extremely massive and one of the first to arise after the big bang.

Recent research suggests that the element mix in ancient hot springs would have been more likely to give rise to life than that of deep sea vents.

According to Usher, the play references not only Copernicus, but also Ptolemy, as well as Tycho Brahe, who pushed for a hybrid model of the solar system (a compromise that preserved elements of the ancient Ptolemaic system as well as the new Copernican model).

This admittedly weird play, combining elements of ancient Britain and ancient Rome, seems to have been written in 1610 — just late enough that Shakespeare could have read Galileo's account of his telescopic discoveries, published in the spring of that year.

Who knew that the ancient Chinese had their own set of ancient elements — not the Greeks» air, earth, water and fire, but rather wood, fire, water, soil and metal?

The mysterious blacks, reds and whites of ancient Greek pottery can be read in elements — iron, potassium, calcium and zinc — and art history may be rewritten.

Over the past six years, Lee has examined changes in diagrams used in Elements, a collection of 13 books on mathematical and geometric concepts attributed to Euclid, the ancient Greek mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, around 300 BCE.

EUROPEANS are a mixed bunch — a hybrid of ancient hunter - gatherers and early farmers with elements of Native American thrown in.

Ancestral L1s, and ancient elements (MIRs and L2s) have been used previously to indicate levels of DNA loss.

«If existing objects in space couldn't have combined to make Earth's unique mix of water and other elements, the planet must have formed from — and entirely depleted — an ancient supply of water - rich material that has no modern analog, Drake and Righter argue.»

Using a unique capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astronomers announced today that they have detected the rare element boron in an ancient star.

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A temazcal is a type of sweat lodge which originated in ancient Mexico with Prehispanic indigenous people.During this solemn and symbolic ceremony, a Shaman will guide you through this ancient ritual and invoke the four elements to purify your mind, body and soul to propel you forward, day after day.