Sentences with phrase «beginning of the renaissance»

There is, however, the beginning of a renaissance in Kuwait and Bahrein because of the wealth brought by oil royalties.

Correction: Late middle ages, beginning of the Renaissance, if you want to get technical about it like my charming little replier, and believe that this epoch consisted of wall to wall enlightenment.

Could the recent promise of play - off football signal the beginning of the renaissance?

Arsenal feel like they're at the beginning of a renaissance, but winning the most prestigious club competition in the world comes mid-renaissance, not just as its starting.

As Newman read old alchemical texts, he discovered that by the late 15th and early 16th centuries (the time of da Vinci and the beginning of the Renaissance), alchemists had refined not just mercury but also their core ideas about matter.

It was the beginning of the renaissance of humanity.

Commonly the Trecento is considered to be the beginning of the Renaissance in art history.

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Thirdly, a network of highly educated conservative academics has begun something of a renaissance of classical Wesleyanism.

Washington Post: Muslims look for mates in D.C. at annual speed - dating event The swelling crowd of several hundred single Muslim men and women at the Renaissance Washington hotel meant the evening of speed dating and socializing known as the Matrimonial Banquet was about to begin.

Consider this possibility: William F. Buckley may be best understood as a central figure in the golden age of what came to be called the American Catholic Renaissance, which began just before the Second World War and ran through the beginning of the Second Vatican Council.

At this point in the course, I would want my students to grasp what was just beginning to become clear to the Renaissance humanists themselves: that there are fundamental commonalities between humanistic culture and Christianity that bring them together objectively, irrespective of the wishes and plans of writers, artists, and intellectuals.

Tillich used to say we are living in the last century of the modern period, which began at the Renaissance, and like the Middle Ages and the Greek era we are caught in the midst of radical change and its accompanying spiritual malaise.

The religious renaissance experienced by the West at the beginning of the twentieth century enabled the West to understand the spiritual horizon of the primitives, namely, «the structure of their symbols, the function of their myths, the maturity of their mysticisms».

A year and a half ago, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York began a program of adult education, offering classes on topics as demanding and varied as «The Nature of God the Father» and «Renaissance and Reformation: The Formation of the Protestant Tradition.»

Solovyev was the father of the Russian religious renaissance of the beginning of the twentieth century with its interest in the problems of culture.

The Renaissance had appeared to mark a beginning of the decline of the influence of Christianity.

Already at the Renaissance, scholars had begun to pore over the ancient writings which included the original Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible.

The men of the Renaissance began to turn away from the eternal and the absolute (as commonly conceived) and to concern themselves with the world of nature and of internal human experience.

The leading thinkers of the Renaissance began to look with new eyes on the human condition.

Galileo is unmistakably part of the Italian Renaissance — which happened after the «dark» ages (no matter whether you use the term «dark ages» to refer to all, or the beginning of the medieval period).

The revolution in Western civilization — it had begun at least as far back as the Renaissance and had shaken much of Europe in the last decades of the eighteenth and the opening decades of the nineteenth century — had several aspects.

Now, the historians have destroyed the legend of the «dark ages» and shown that the renaissance» or as I have called it, renaissances» never actually began or ended.

In the sixteenth century the Renaissance was beginning to provide an alternative model, but theology still predominated: «I am sending you, my Michael, my rebuttal of Erasmus, which I completed in a short time and in a hurry.

It is remarkable that in spite of the massive scholarly work on medieval science there are still books on the history of science that begin with an account of the achievements of the ancient Greeks and pass immediately to the Renaissance, completely ignoring the contribution of the Middle Ages.

Whether they then date the beginning of modernity with the first appearances of the Enlightenment or earlier depends on their interpretation of Reformation and Renaissance.

But since the Renaissance humanists and the Protestant Reformers were each still trying to revive the past, many see the real beginnings of modernity with people like Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).

Thus several weeks ago the scramble began for a stupendous venue, one to match the scope of what King calls the grand renaissance of boxing.

If they are to mount a comeback, and it would be some uturn considering how depressing the last two months has been in west London — Chelsea have won just twice in the league since the beginning of November, then their renaissance surely has to burst into life immediately, as the margin for error is fine to say the least following yet another underwhelming performance at the weekend.

«I am confident that this resort will be the beginning of an economic renaissance for the Catskills,» said Sen. John Bonacic, a Republican who chairs the.

It was here, more than anywhere else, that the Renaissance began — a period of history that inspired centuries of creativity and critical thought across our continent and which in many ways defined what it meant to be European.

Brian McMahon, executive director of the New York State Economic Development Council, said the plan «implements an economic development program that encourages regional empowerment and focuses resources on growing New York's innovation economy and helping existing businesses expand,» adding, «This is a solid foundation on which to begin an economic renaissance in communities throughout the state.»

Another hoax: that the April Fool's tradition began with Renaissance calendar reform, when the new year was moved from April to January, and those ignorant of the switch were mocked.

Meet a colorful cast of Renaissance thinkers and explore the connections between the famous playwright and the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution!

It began in the Renaissance with the revolutionary observations of Copernicus and Galileo, and flowered in the Age of Enlightenment with Robert Boyle's meticulous chemical experiments and Isaac Newton's ordering of the clockwork cosmos.

When artists in the early Italian Renaissance began applying egg tempera to large wooden panels instead of manuscript pages, they had to build up their images from tiny brush strokes.

Renaissance requirements The search for more uranium has already begun in earnest but nothing approaching the concentration of McArthur River has been discovered since 1988.

A celebration of the contribution that Renaissance Technologies, Inc., made to the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, during which the entire Lab community participated in a series of RHIC Renaissance events, beginning with the Roads to Discovery ceremony, followed by a 1.8 - mile «Collide the Ions» walk for autism research around the newly re-dedicated RHIC Ring Road.

The home needs much restoration, but what better place for a new beginning than the home of the Renaissance?

It is set at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the chief locations are Florence, the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, and a large late nineteenth - century country house in South East England.

All we can hope for now is that this is just the beginning of the 2D Metroid renaissance.

«Four hundred years ago, the renaissance scholar Copernicus demonstrated the unsystematic movements of the planets could be systematically explained if one begins with the assumption that the sun, not the earth, is the center of the universe (as was then thought),» Carroll explains.

Dr. LaTonia Harris, a veteran educator with an impressive track record of success has been hired as principal of Renaissance Charter School at Chickasaw and begins work on May 1.

Released at the beginning of 2017, the Renaissance Growth Platform was built with three things in mind: flexibility, efficiency and usability.

It's a curvier, more elegant update of the Art and Science aesthetic that began Cadillac's renaissance in earnest.

The celebration began with the presentation of the 24 Hours of Le Mans trophy at Compuware Corporation, the primary sponsor of the championship - winning Corvette C6.R race cars, and concluded at GM World Headquarters at the Renaissance Center after a parade through Detroit's downtown business district.

«Our crossover renaissance began last year with the introduction of the all - new GMC Acadia and Cadillac XT5, and continued this year with the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Equinox,» said Kurt McNeil, U.S. vice president of Sales Operations.

When the automotive media begin writing stories about the 2004 New York International Auto Show, expect the renaissance of Buick to be among the headlines.

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Teachout follows Ellington from his childhood in Washington — where he gained his name «Duke» because of his stylish dress — and the first band he formed at 20, to his move to Harlem at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance and his emotional distance from family and friends for the sake of composing his music.

Christopher Marlowe was truly a Renaissance man — not only because he was one of the most important playwrights in Elizabethan England but also because his work has enjoyed a renaissance of interest in our age (His poem, «The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,» which begins «Come live with me and be my love» is certainly one of the most popular wedding reRenaissance man — not only because he was one of the most important playwrights in Elizabethan England but also because his work has enjoyed a renaissance of interest in our age (His poem, «The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,» which begins «Come live with me and be my love» is certainly one of the most popular wedding rerenaissance of interest in our age (His poem, «The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,» which begins «Come live with me and be my love» is certainly one of the most popular wedding recitations.)