Sentences with phrase «as the century comes»

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Although society has come a long way since a half - century ago, Buffett recalls a time when women were kept out of the workforce and predominantly told to depend on marriage as their path to livelihood.

The move comes as part of Washington's rapprochement with Havana after more than half a century of enmity.

[As trade barriers have come down over the past half - century,] small countries can now gain the advantages of large markets through trading with other nations.

The above - mentioned Peter Schwartz says that just as the 20th century expanded on the wave of low - priced energy, the coming century will expand on a wave of low - priced information.

The most extraordinary Christian growth over the past century has come in Africa: home to 8.7 million Christians in 1900, 542 million today, and perhaps 1.2 billion by 2050, when there will be as many African Christians as Latin American and European Christians combined.

This coming July, the world will mark the centenary of the First World War, the seismic calamity that began the 20th century as an epoch and that, in another hundred years, may well be regarded as the sanguinary first act in the end of Europe as «Europe» had been known for over a millennium.

These theological visions come from many sources, including: apocalyptic books of the Bible from Daniel to Revelation; a nineteenth - century viewpoint on the end of times known as dispensational premillennialism; and images of the so - called «rapture» popularized in novels such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and the more recent Left Behind series.

Rome (CNN)- Benedict XVI's time as pope came to a historic end Thursday, as he became the first pontiff in six centuries to resign as leader of the world's Roman Catholics, who now number 1.2 billion.

This is why I don't understand that «the team of scholars puts the papyrus piece coming out of the middle of the second century» automatically make it as being too new to be real.

On the other hand, political theologians are sometimes prone to the opposite danger, so historicizing their conceptualization of reality that nature comes to be treated, as it generally was in 19th century continental Protestant thought and on into the 20th century, as a mere stage for history.

Thank you southern conservatives as well for your regressive 18th century outlook on life as well and this coming from a former conservative baptist to a moderate democratic precatholic who denounces protestantism for what it is a cult of uncheck moral imparative.

Some of the prophecies are so framed, in fact, as to preclude their fulfillment by anyone living after the first century A.D.. For example, the patriarch Jacob said, in Genesis 49:10, «The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come.»

Liberal Protestants in the last two centuries also claimed to use Scripture as their sole norm, and over time came to distinguish revelation from the words of the Bible.

In the 20th century individual clergy coming into the Catholic Church from ecclesial bodies separated from the Catholic Church at the Reformation, were given special permission to be ordained as Catholic priests.

Over the past half century or so, too many parts of the Catholic world have come to think of «reform» as something we conjure up from our own cleverness, as if we must puzzle out what makes the Church «relevant.»

We're so used to the default trope that China is «the world's most populous nation» that it will come as a shock to many that, by some demographers» estimates, China's current population, 1.4 billion, will shrink to 500 million by the turn of the next century.

Rejoice with me Jesus paid my frightful price — Took me to Him — Into HIS Mystical Body — That we shared in life the same tormented cry; He had walked in His Way the same streets as I — Insane — I was never at a total loss; I KNEW the Blessed Mother choose my Cross In Her maternal love for me and for us all; THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION — Conceived In LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for me -

They need to come into the 21st Century as does our country!

Unfortunately, some defenders of theism in the eighteenth century wedded themselves to this view of the complex machine and its maker and associated it with the view that such special forms of the machine as the human body came into existence fully formed in an aboriginal creation.

Some Christians today, as they have through the centuries, continue to try to predict the date of Christ's second coming.

It almost seems as if the fifth - century monk, Pelagius, had come back to life.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, waves of Catholic immigrants came to America from Ireland and Germany and settled in big - city metropolises, such as New York, to the great alarm of native - born Protestants.

Centuries ago, according to the biblical narrative, a man who came to be known as Abraham felt the promise of a deeply fulfilling future summoning him to leave his ancestral home and launch forth into the unknown.

In Jewish tradition, we frequently speak in terms of «Written Torah» (the text of the Hebrew Scriptures as they have come down to us) and «Oral Torah» (the ensuing centuries of conversations and interpretations of our sages and rabbis, which are also considered to be holy.)

To those familiar with the story's sole source» the semihero Bartolomé de Las Casas, who wrote in the early sixteenth century» this should come as no surprise.

At the beginning of the sixth century of the Hijrah, Muhammad Ibn Tumart — known as the Mahdi, that is, the Imam who is to come — appeared as a reformer and established a new state with the avowed purpose of reforming dogma and the social order.

For centuries it has served as the main center for the study of Islamic doctrine and as a meeting place for Muslim students from all over the world who come to receive training for careers as judges, jurists, and scholars; above all, it is a great mosque where prayers are said, and Friday sermons are preached to the assembled worshipers and to the thousands who hear them over the radio.

The bishop's views have been echoed by many other Catholic theologians since the Second Vatican Council as Luther's teachings, especially his esteem for the Word of God, has come to be appreciated in a way that would have been unthinkable a century ago.

The first Latter - day Saints gathered around Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, as the Book of Mormon came into being; the Mormon field has, even now, been «white to the harvest» for a century and a half.

Thus, where historical criticism, reading the Book of Isaiah, tries to distinguish which materials come from the eighth - century prophet, the sixth - century prophet and the fifth - century prophet, literary and canonical critics focus on how the final form of the book has created the context within which all of its materials are now to be read, as a movement from judgment to salvation.

If the traditional beginning of the Japanese Kingdom, some twenty - six hundred years ago, be accepted as true, that would mean that it came into being about the time of Confucius, and Chinese culture stretches many many centuries back of Confucius» time.

Such an oversimplification ignores the biographical, religious and political realities running through the history of Christian missions during the «great century» and long before, as missionaries have, in the name of Jesus, striven to understand and learned to respect the particularities of the cultures to which they have come.

The bible would have taken roughly a century to get into proper circulation, and only two and a bit centuries later, it's quite possible that maybe it grew on some of the Romans and out of remorse, re-considered that they actually were responsible for killing the son of God (in the sense they started to believe him to be), thus Constantine coming around and establishing it as a Rome's primary religion, and how closely apart the dates are, makes me think its considerable evidence than Jesus couldn't have just been a made up figure.

He was able to picture early Christianity this way with the more assurance because he did most of his scholarly work before attention shifted back to Palestine in the time of Jesus (thanks in part to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls), and before the themes of light against darkness, life against death, came in the 1960s to be understood as first century Jewish themes.

Rome had their post-Greek pagan religion for about 3 - 4 centuries after Jesus death, them and the Jews also supposedly had persecuted Christians until Constantine came around and established Christianity as the main religion of Rome..

When Constantine - Cyril and Methodius came as Christian missionaries to the Slavs in the ninth century, they translated not only the Bible but the Eastern Orthodox liturgy into Slavonic.

Prayer but a shortened version of meditation that having come over the many centuries / as the art of true prayer in meditation was lost / where the focus of reality had turned to the external based on ideas belief / rather than practical spiritual experience of one turning the senses inward / thus knowing / not believing.

Thus as Asia and Africa grow in military capacity, perhaps based on chemical or biological weapons, «the coming havoc, in short, will make the bloody religious wars of the 16th century look and like calesthenics.»

The rapid rise and spread of Communism must be accepted by Christians as the most seriously challenging deviant form of the Judeo - Christian heritage, just as, in the eighth century, the rise of Islam came about because of the tendency for Christian Trinitarian doctrine to revert to polytheism, adding weight to Mohammed's call for a pure monotheism.

Buber has spoken of Kierkegaard and Dostoievsky together as the two men of the nineteenth century who will, in his opinion, «remain» in the centuries to come.

It may be no coincidence that a century and a half ago, as this rediscovery of Jesus was just getting under way, there came to light a collection of Jesus» sayings used by Matthew and Luke in composing their Gospels.

Even within the coming century, they say, we could be facing the end of human existence as we know it.

«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.

But there is no inquiry into the continued impact of colonial exploitation as by the mining companies which are giant transnationals coming from the beginning of the 20th century.

However, it was only at the beginning of the fifth century, as a result of deliberations by a number of synods, that the re-organization of the Persian church came into effect.

The beauty came from elsewhere as a free gift, in the language of worship and Scripture chosen in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The view that Jesus was a village farmer who also has practiced part - time carpentry in his native village and immediate surroundings as corroborated by the parabolic emphases has been confirmed by recent archaeological discoveries.31 Recent explorations have revealed that Nazareth was a small agricultural village that came into being in the 3rd century BCE.32 Settlements in Nazareth were mostly found right at the top, whereas in the nearby «three northern spurs» they were to be found largely «on the slopes, lower ridges, and just off the basins.

But of course the creedal statement, hallowed as it is by centuries of use during the celebration of the Eucharist, can be understood only when it is seen as a combination of supposedly historical data, theological affirmation put in a quasi-philosophical idiom, and a good deal of symbolic language (with the use of such phrases as «came down from heaven», «ascended into heaven», and the like).

They can all be described as the demand for more convincing proof, and strangely enough they come from two quite different directions, both of which were already known in the first century.

Perhaps mormonism will replace christianity as it fades out in the centuries to come.