Sentences with phrase «ancient ideas of»

In the Twentieth Century, the discovery by modern physicists that all matter exists only as a shifting field of energized sub-atomic particles, strongly reinforced these ancient ideas of reality being nothing more than an artificial projection of the mind and gave them a new impetus.

The implication of the question was that we know immeasurably so much more now than ever in the past that ancient ideas of religion have become obsolete.

And, as the prophets later saw, all this presented two focal points of peril to the best traditions that had come from the desert: it substituted for the old austerity the alluring licentiousness of baal worship, and it sanctioned the commercial inequalities and tyrannies, which the baals of sophisticated Canaan sponsored against the ancient ideas of social solidarity, equality, and justice for which Yahweh stood.

But there was always room for a little change and that is how the heritage of ancient ideas of the world was gradually built up.

Etsy is a revolutionary company that combines the power of e-commerce and social networks with the ancient idea of craftsmanship.

This ancient idea of the lex talionis — «an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth» — was explicitly repudiated by Jesus.

Again, like the prophets and like Jesus, the early church preserves the ancient idea of Cod's antagonistic warfare against his own rebellious people and against all who are sinful.

The abyss separating us from the ancient idea of sacrifice can not be bridged simply by an intellectual jump.

Not exact matches

The idea of selling out seems very ancient now,» Gardner says.

The idea of «processing» — from ancient techniques of salting and curing to the modern arsenal of artificial preservatives — arose to make sure the food we ate didn't make us sick.

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And so a plausible case might be made, despite the absence in ancient Rome of direct resemblances of modern Western constitutional liberty, for a «Ciceronian» support of the idea, and of the lived sentiment, of values to be faithfully commemorated.

This idea of a periodically expanding and contracting universe, which involves a scale of time and space of vast proportions, has arisen not only in modern cosmology, but also in ancient Indian mythology.

Dwight clearly has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to «blood rituals,» but the sight of blood on fruit stirs an idea of something ancient and powerful in him.

And often, ancient texts on conquest shared by Judaism, Christianity and Islam provide a kind of grounding for this idea.

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I have one idea of my own that will probably sound crazy, because we have this idea that ancient people were very primitive.

For this idea he had support in the ancient prophetic conception of a faithful and saving remnant standing out from a disobedient and apostate people.

The idea that a Man is the Head of the Home has its roots in secular ancient culture, not in the Word of God or the created order of humanity.

Still the flavor of the ancient idea was recognizable when Isaiah saw the Most High seated on his throne, with the seraphim chanting above him, «Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of hosts.»

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Duffy, the author of a popular history of the papacy, Saints and Sinners, offers a fresh defense of some very ancient ideas.

Paul Schubert, «The Twentieth Century West and the Ancient Near - East», The Idea of History in the Ancient Near East, ed.

However, if we do not assume the Greek idea of a temporary separation of body and soul, then we can think of the resurrection as affecting the whole person, all at once — as the ancient Jews thought of it.

After all, the dominant religions in the United States keep their followers by encouraging them to remain ignorant of other religions out of fear they will find out that there's basically nothing new under the sun, and that the ideas of Christianity date all the way back to ancient Egyptian religion ant the mythology surrounding Horus and Set.

Following Wittgenstein's idea of «family - resemblance theory,» he compares the generic features of ancient Lives — such as length, style, atmosphere, purpose, external structure, and so on — with those of the gospels.

Anyone can have a theological idea - and all are equal in their evidence of fact (or lack thereof)... ancient Hindus & Egyptians, Greeks & Romans, Moses, Paul of Tarsus, Mohammad, Joseph Smith, David Koresh, and Sam the bus driver.

3, page 157) «Furthermore your ideas, as we understand them, appear to contemplate the intermarriage of the Neg.ro and White races, a concept which has heretofore been most repugnant to most normal - minded people from the ancient partiarchs till now.

The idea of being sons of God recalls the ancient Semitic idiom used in the Old Testament to indicate belonging to a particular species or group of any kind (Ps 8:4; 90:3).

Plato and Aristotle had already been brought into some harmony and their ideas interpreted in the light of the ancient wisdom of the Orient with its characteristic religious sentiment.

The idea of a divine lawgiver was a commonplace among ancient peoples, and it played some role in almost all religions.

The fact of Eve's seduction is verified by noting the acceptance in ancient Jewish literature of the idea that angels could have sexual relations with human beings.

In his significant work Christianity in World History, a prominent theologian Arend Theodor van Leeuwen has argued that the idea of separating out the things of God from the things of people in such a way as to deny the divine nature of kingship was first formulated in ancient Israel and then became a major motif of Christianity.

The idea of a poor mortal confronting and shaking his finger at the Ancient of Days as though he were an errant schoolboy is almost impossible to hold steadily in mind.

«Furthermore your ideas, as we understand them, appear to contemplate the intermarriage of the Neg.ro and White races, a concept which has heretofore been most repugnant to most normal - minded people from the ancient partiarchs till now.

In such ideas may lie the ancient meaning of the baptismal bath, which gave John the Baptist a right to employ it in connection with his preaching about the coming judgment: a voluntary and therefore precautionary forestalling of the great catastrophe which God had determined shortly to bring upon the world.

This is purported to be an improvement over the ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value as the only source of secure happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil life, passed mainly in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a life relatively immune to disaster.

He scoffs at the idea that some modern proponents of homosexual marriage see homosexual behavior in the deep male friendships of ancient literature.

He also acknowledges debts to Augustine and especially to Luther, and although he rejects Christianized «Hellenic» conceptions of justice and the state, his program seems to owe much to ancient and modern ideas about civility and civic virtue.

The ancient writers... were operating without the vaguest idea of what we have learned to call «sexual orientation.

pat is an oppresionists in Christian cloting... the ancient egyptians wheret the fathers of the trinity and it predates 10,000 years... there is no love or forgiveness in pats life, politics or ideas.

This popular notion is the ancient Greek idea that in the moment of inspiration the human personality was put into a kind of cold storage; or, to use the Greeks» own example, the person became as a flute, passively ready to play whatever was breathed into it.

Another way of reading the Bible is for historical reconstruction of ancient cultures, ideas, or religions.

This story, so embedded in ancient Semitic ideas, accents God's role as the initiator, stipulator, and guarantor of the agreement.

Finally, the ancient bond between an oracle and techniques of divination establishes an almost invincible association between the idea of prophecy and that of an unveiling of the future.

The ideas on which the formula was based came out of ancient ancestral traditions; the logic of the doctrine was unassailable once the premises were granted; great prophets, such as Amos, Micah, and Jeremiah, held stoutly to it; and the formula was confirmed and solidified by the final rewriting of the Hebrew historical narratives to illustrate the thesis that every calamity in Israel's record had been a definite punishment for Israel's transgression.

It separates the prophetic mode from its narrative context, tends to tie prophecy to the still more ancient genre of the oracle, and hence to the idea of an unveiling of the future.

When, therefore, the ideas of suffering as present punishment or as possible discipline failed to cover the case, the ancient appeal to patience was still in reserve — the injustices of time would be righted in eternity, and the scales, here unbalanced, would there hang even.

Personally I believe the idea of an angry god comes from things that in ancient times that were inexplicable, like earthquakes and storms.