Sentences with phrase «back as a century»

But the way in which each state moved forward afterward reveals how fractured the landscape can be when archaic laws enacted as far back as a century ago are put face - to - face with innovative, tech - driven fantasy contests of today.

Not exact matches

Supporters see the Telegram ICO as the blockchain investment of the century and an opportunity to back a product that poses an existential threat to Facebook.

He points out that while the 12 - month home sales chart looks impressive, the housing picture isn't as rosy if you look back at the past half - century.

As a rhetorical strategy for eroding trust in the media, the term dates back to the end of the 19th century.

Crisis Economics is probably the most lucid and accessible attempt yet to place recent events into a global and historical context, exploring the deep structural roots that make it of a kind with other crises dating as far back as the 17th century.

Cambodia's second - largest city (home to around 250,000 people) doesn't feel at all like the capital, Phnom Penh; in fact, wandering around Battambang, I felt as if I had traveled back to the early 20th century.

It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the «American System» of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years.

That seems doomed to fail, as more than a century of case law dating back to the early days of the railroad suggests that provincial measures that directly thwart interprovincial infrastructure may be overruled by federal jurisdiction using 92 (10)(c) and this would be a prime example of when it should be (and has historically) been used.

Starting in the 18th century, nation - states increasingly used precious metals such as gold and silver to back their paper money, creating a monetary system called the gold standard.

In this segment of the «Look Back» series, we consider inflation and the subsequent real rates of return of holding cash (defined as holding Treasury bills or T - bills) over the past century.

I have a hunch that, as history looks back on the twentieth century, the most chaotic of all centuries, certain Christian artists will be remembered simply because they hammered in a few firmly embedded nails.

For many centuries after Constantine I, the Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 A.D., backed Christianity as a common religion for the Roman Empire in the 4th century, Christians used violence and the threat of death to expand and maintain their control of populaces.

Many want to get back as quickly as possible to the early church to reclaim a common patrimony for all Christians in the fathers and mothers of the church of the first few centuries.

If what I think is going to happen economically does happen, he will forever be known as the 21st century Herbert Hoover and the GOP will be out of power for the next 40 years, as they deserve to because they created this current economic mess back with Reagan's cut taxes but not cut spending starting in 1980.

The Century welcomed the change in Cuba from Fulgencio Batista, who had been backed by the U.S., to Fidel Castro and criticized the Bay of Pigs invasion as a «debacle» (May 3, 1961).

Gouden Carolus Easter — The Gouden Carolus brewery traces its roots back to 15th century Belgium when Christian women were responsible for brewing beer and lived in communal settings known as Beguines.

As far back as the fourth century BC, philosophers considered the household to be a microcosm, designed to reflect the hierarchal structure of the society, the gods, and ultimately the universAs far back as the fourth century BC, philosophers considered the household to be a microcosm, designed to reflect the hierarchal structure of the society, the gods, and ultimately the universas the fourth century BC, philosophers considered the household to be a microcosm, designed to reflect the hierarchal structure of the society, the gods, and ultimately the universe.

And note those guillotined during the French Revolution and those Russians who died in concentration camps suffered these indignities as a direct result of the revolution of the peasants and poor abused by centuries of domination by religion - backed aristocracies.

Sigurd Daecke finds anthropocentrism to be deeply embedded in Protestant theologies of creation reaching back to Luther («I believe that God has created me») and Calvin (nature is the stage for salvation history) and finding a twentieth - century home in the humanistic individualism of Bultmann as well as the Christocentrism of Barth («the reality of creation is known in Jesus Christ»)(see Daecke).

Take 10 minutes from patting yourself on the back and take a look at my blog / websites, and / or my comments on other threads here, and you'll be quickly disabused of the notion that I treat the Scriptures «as though they are written directly to 20th Century A.D. Americans» (For what it's worth, I'm not American, so why would I do such a thing).

Here is a fisherman's wife of the first century, in an obscure corner of the Roman Empire, grasping at the possibility that her two sons — without education, breeding, or financial backing — might sit as princes in Messiah's kingdom.

Of course, as Origen had noted all the way back in the third century, much of the material in the four gospels is contradictory.

The church in Asia has a long and rich history, dating as far back as the first century, and it includes periods of both blessing and hardship.

Even as far back as the fifth century B.C:.

Last century, L Ron Hubbard wrote a book, as foolish as it is, making all sorts of outrageous and outlandish claims, backed up by zero evidence, and he has millions of followers.

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

But to understand the rise of Muslim fundamentalism we must go as far back as the 18th century, when Muhammad al - Wahhab founded the Wahhabi movement in Arabia.

Interest in oriental religion goes back in America to the early 19th century, as we have seen, but never before have significant numbers of people gone beyond reading books to become adepts and engage in arduous practice.

Rhetorical criticism of the Bible is nothing new; it can be traced back at least as early as Augustine, but the twentieth century practice of rhetorical criticism finds its origins in James Muilenburg's work with Hebrew poetry and Amos Wilder's lectures on early Christian rhetoric.

This story has been put forth since at least the 15th century, and possibly as far back as the 9th century.

As late as the 19th century, artists like Audubon or Catlin or Bierstadt could venture into the wilderness and bring back pictures of a teeming paradisAs late as the 19th century, artists like Audubon or Catlin or Bierstadt could venture into the wilderness and bring back pictures of a teeming paradisas the 19th century, artists like Audubon or Catlin or Bierstadt could venture into the wilderness and bring back pictures of a teeming paradise.

Yet New Testament studies became increasingly isolated in the nineteenth century as the study of rhetoric was given a back seat in school curriculums and limited to the study of style and ornamentation (Watson names Nils Lund's Chiasmus in the New Testament as a notable exception).

I suspect that a future observer, looking back from some distance on the church in 20th century America, will not be half so impressed by the decline of the «60s and «70s as by the astounding boom period of the late «40s and the «50s.

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.

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.

This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»

Yet I am convinced that when Christians look back on this century of theology in America The Politics Of Jesus will be seen as a new beginning.

The etymology of the term «Dalit» goes back to the 19th century when a Marathi social reformer and revolutionary Mahatma Jyotirao Phule used it to describe the «outcastes» and «untouchables» as the «oppressed and crushed victims of the Indian caste system.»

As for the sweet contents, those spices were brought back from the Crusades in the twelfth century, and many liked to think they represented the exotic Magi from the East.

Still, his words — intended as a simple statement of fact about the different holidays celebrated among his friends — bring me back to high school history classes, learning how Christians persecuted Jews for centuries.

A group of atheists want to remove the core concept of the understanding of Christmas as it was created as a mass of the celebration of the birth of Christ way back in the 5th century AD — with reason.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

Details of that backstory emerge slowly during several days of sightseeing that include contemplation of Hieronymus Bosch's Last Judgment and Bruges's most important relic, a phial of the congealed blood of Christ brought back to Bruges from the Holy Land by a local 12th century crusader; as well as varieties of self - destructive behavior that betray in different ways Ray's internal anguish.

The conception of God as immanent in the world order was one of the ideas by which nineteenth - century theology sought to get God back into the world from which a strictly Darwinian interpretation of the natural processes would seem to have excluded Him.

Supersti - tion will inevitably lose its place in society and be looked back on just as today we look back at ancient Egyptian, Roman, and Greek mythologies, except centuries and millennia from now it will be referred to as ancient Christian, Jewish, and Muslim mythologies.

The various cultic interpretations of the poems remind us that such poetry as this is never created new, but rather always draws from the articulate lover of last spring and the spring before and the spring before that, and so on back not merely over the years, but over the centuries and even the millennia.

Moreover, Oregon has a long - standing tradition of anti-Catholicism, harking back to strong Ku Klux Klan activities earlier in the century, as well as pre-World War II efforts to prevent religious (especially Catholic) schools from operating, a movement that failed only on appeal to the Supreme Court.

Get back the 1st century church, and everything will be as it needs to be!

The metaphor of the universe as clockwork and God as the clockmaker goes back to a French bishop Nicole Oresme in the fourteenth century (White 1975).

Ceramic evidence indicates occupation of the City of David, within present - day Jerusalem, as far back as the Copper Age (c. 4th millennium BCE) with evidence of a permanent settlement during the early Bronze Age (c. 3000 — 2800 BCE) The Execration Texts, which refer to a city called Roshlamem or Rosh - ramen] and the Amarna letters (c. 14th century BCE) may be the earliest mention of the city Some archaeologists, including Kathleen Kenyon, believe Jerusalem] as a city was founded by Northwest Semitic people with organized settlements from around 2600 BCE.