Sentences with phrase «anti-proton early this century»

Earlier this century, only bonds were deemed a safe investment; equities were considered too speculative.

There is little doubt that the Bible is rife with edits and insertions done by lowly scribes over the early centuries.

In the early centuries, in the High Middle Ages, and again at the time of the Reformation, Christians were compelled to rethink and reformulate their understanding of marriage and the family.

In disputes with Jews, Christian thinkers in the early centuries argued that the promises of return and restoration (in Isaiah, Ezekiel, and the minor prophets) must be interpreted to refer either to the time of the exile in the sixth century B.G.E, i.e., the time of the return from exile in Babylonia, or to the new gathering of humankind in the church.

In the early centuries suicide was not always condemned.

Sometimes in direct attack, as in the Roman persecutions of early centuries and the Nazi and Communist movements of our time, sometimes through sneers and the opposition of hostile public opinion, Christianity has had to defend itself against those who believed the false or utopian ideas of its founder to be dangerous.

The prevailing winds that blew through the doctrinal formulations of the early centuries of the church were jarring nor» easters insofar as any biblical insight into a dynamic and interactive God of love is concerned.

It is not sanctioned by religion and was not observed in the early centuries of Islam.

Its history goes back to the earliest centuries of the church.

(R. M. MacIver: The Modern State, pp. 103 - 104) It was the glory of Roman jurists in the early centuries A.D. that they first conceived the jus gentium, the natural law of all peoples, as incorporating the duties and rights which belonged to human beings everywhere.

He therefore has an intimate knowledge of how modern science has operated both in its early centuries and lately.

Mention of the Donatists is a reminder of the agonizing choices that those who have faced persecution have had to make, as much in the twentieth century under Fascist and Communist regimes, as in the early centuries of the church.

I can give you the short answer as to why Catholic Churches were so beautiful in earlier centuries; in the words of Isaiah, «I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house and the place where thy glory dwelleth.»

To call for religious warfare, as some of them do, is to recall the religious wars of earlier centuries that unraveled civil society and led thoughtful people to the conclusion that religion in public is inescapably divisive and destructive.

But, alongside the hymn book, there is an important movement of more popular religious songs, echoing the musical styles and themes of the present, and not the metaphors and rhythms of an earlier century.

The early centuries were turbulent ones as different sects fought for supremacy within the Church (Ebionites, Marcionites, Gnostics, etc.).

The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.

In the early centuries of the church, the Roman Empire also had it's banners and seals, and Roman Citizens were required by law to swear fealty to Caesar by stating some sort of Pledge of Allegiance to one of his banners or seals.

It does reveal, however, the shift of emphasis which took place in the early centuries of the Church from the Trinity of experience to the Trinity of doctrine.

Whereas most Biblical talk of God locates God as an actor in a story, the theology forged in the early centuries is deeply influenced by Greek reflection about substances.

He is certainly right in pointing out the frequent contact between north - west India and the countries now known as Iraq and Iran in the early centuries of the Christian era.

There were Christian communities in Persia, Central Asia, Tibet, China, Arabia, India and Ceylon in the early centuries.

If we had been living around the eastern Mediterranean in the early centuries of the Christian era, we might have noticed, scratched here and there on the sides of walls and houses or simply on the ground, the crude outline of a fish.

There would probably have been a lot more difference in the early centuries of the Christian Era.

Through common study of the Bible we have gained a better understanding of God's word in the tradition of the great preachers and theologians of earlier centuries, and thus we have learned to read the Bible more faithfully in and with the Church.

It gave him an aura of priestly strength, like a Confessor from the early centuries or an Old Testament prophet.

The church of the early centuries closed the gap between possible and actual doctrinal tests on several occasions.

That was ably discussed in an earlier Century article («The Pros and Cons of Robert Schuller,» by Wilfred Bockelman, August 20 - 27, 1975).

Archeology has found ruins of Christian houses of worship throughout the middle east that date beck to the early centuries.

In India, Radhasoami was attracting thousands of new converts yearly, especially from those lower classes which once provided Christian converts during the days of the mass movement earlier this century.

The church was the law in the early centuries and rules were made to control the people.

Despite some important continuities between 20th - century painters of Christian subjects and those of earlier centuries, the differences are significant.

Still, the old patriarchal institutions were not completely unsuited to land tenure, and through these early centuries the idea of family possession took such firm hold as to be written into the laws and to provide the background for the colorful incident of Jezebel's theft of Naboth's ancestral property.

The contents of Proverbs 22:17 - 23:10 appear substantially (and certainly originally) in an Egyptian writing called the Teaching of Amen - em - ope, variously dated in the early centuries of the first millennium B.C..

As far as the idea that heterosexual intercourse was «at least venially sinful» in the early centuries... I'm pretty sure that was the influence of Roman / Greek body / spirit duality.

During the early centuries of Islam there grew up five schools of law in the Muslim world: the four Sunni schools of Hanbali, Maliki, Shafi`i, and Hanafi, and the Shi`a school which is sometimes called Ja «fari after the sixth Imam.

Certainly, for instance, the Christological and Trinitarian controversies of the early centuries have been more universally formative for Christian faith.

Such art abounds, particularly that done in earlier centuries; but it is still prominent today.

The desert saints in the early centuries of the church suffered from what they called «the demon of noonday.»

Similar arrangements had been made through earlier centuries dating from the expulsion of the Moors (Muslims) and Jews from Spain in 1492 and the subsequent escalation of the Inquisition (started in 1478), which persisted for several hundred years.

Luther encouraged hymn singing, but there are Greek and Latin hymns dating from the early centuries of the church.

One example from the early centuries of the church of the opening part of the Eucharistic prayer is that of St Chrysostom, which is still the normal Eucharistic prayer of the Orthodox church:

«When we read the history of the early centuries, here in Rome, we read about so much cruelty to Christians.

Why do you think that slavery in the early century in the middle east as an abomination?

It was along a line of thought such as this (though I realize that I am grossly over-simplifying a complex and subtle process of reflection on the part of the Christian community) that the dominant problem for theology in the early centuries came to be how to assert that Jesus is our Lord, and hence, since Lordship implies worship and it is idolatry to worship man, how to assert his deity.

The effect of denominational size, we know from other research, can be linked in turn to the effect of immigration to the United States, to competition among denominations and between Protestants and Catholics for members, and to the so - called «baby boom» that followed World War IL In other words, in the United States, sectarianism has been associated with demographic expansion in the world system, just as it appears to have been in Europe in earlier centuries.

For in this case Christians did not take the land by might of arms but by persuasion, and ruled not as foreign conquerors but as inhabitants and natives, harvesting the fruit of earlier centuries during which the bulk of the local population gradually adopted the new religion as its own.

In the early centuries of the Christian church, for example, there appears to have been a group of women known as subintroductae who lived - and even slept with their monogamous male partners while remaining celibate.

would we have rediscovered other things that had got lost, [in the early centuries of the Church], another way?

Such a view can not be accepted as it implies that the Indian church in the early centuries was theologically ignorant or indifferent.