Sentences with phrase «beginnings early this century»

They are unlikely, though, to have much knowledge of how these organisations came into being, and the development of the UGC from its beginnings early this century.

Not exact matches

The business of trying to divine customers» desires has been around almost as long as there have been customers, but market research as an industry began with the advent of modern magazine ads and radio commercials in the early 20th century.

Although the term (it means «for life») wasn't coined until the 1960s, understanding of them began more than a century ago when Ilya Mechnikov, a Russian - born Nobel laureate in the late - 19th and early - 20th centuries suggested drinking sour milk containing bacteria — which sparked a fad diet in Paris.

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In the early 20th century, hemp was beginning to be widely used for paper in addition to rope, clothing and oil applications.

Smith Barney, since the early nineteenth century was intent on helping the individual to invest by beginning with recommended low risk mutual funds for the novice investor.

Who knows, the 21 Century church may begin to look more like the early church sooner than we think.

In the tumultuous sixties, as an undergraduate at Harvard (for which I have prayed for forgiveness most of my life), I was disappointed again and again by the common Victorian and early twentieth - century convention of beginning a chapter with lush description and then abandoning it in favor of....

Encompassing the Social Gospel movement of the early twentieth century and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops at the beginning of the twenty - first, this project has transcended the historical and theological division between Catholics and Protestants.

Ten major persecutions are enumerated, beginning with Nero in the first century and ending with one launched by Diocletian early in the fourth century.

It is roughly from the end of the first century, when the earliest Christian proclamations were already requiring some reinterpretation, that some aspects of the ancient character of religion began slowly to return.

Bultmann began writing in the early decades of twentieth century, that is the time between the first two world wars.

That move began much earlier, with the same second - century apologists whom she extols as champions of liberty.

Meanwhile, Oscar Handlin had written in his 1954 textbook, The American People in the Twentieth Century, «religious activities fell into a fundamental tripartite division that had begun to take form earlier in the cCentury, «religious activities fell into a fundamental tripartite division that had begun to take form earlier in the centurycentury.

Beginning with the missionary movement in the early nineteenth century the church began offering ministries to people in special settings or with special problems, including military and hospital chaplains, and service to the disadvantaged in urban, rural, suburban and metropolitan settings.

With new vigor in the early nineteenth century, the churches of Western Christendom, through the overseas missionary movement, began their long and ever more complex recognition that the ministry and church must go to people in special settings or with special problems.

It was in the late 19th century that churches began to switch to grape juice, and this became the standard practice during Prohibition in the early 20th century.

But there was another tradition of political thought also beginning to seep into the American colonies in the early 18th century, one related to Calvinist theology and classical philosophy in curious patterns of attraction and repulsion.

As we stated the Acts was written at the beginning of the third century, reflecting a tradition that existed earlier.

So here at last, from a reputable, if unamiable, Roman historian, we have an account of the beginnings of Christianity, in the late twenties or early thirties of the first century.

Pursuant to the cooperative spirit of the early nineteenth century, Baptists throughout America united for mission via the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America which met every three years beginning in 1814.

On the high school and college level, however, the Christian institutions had to compete with the large networks of Hindu and Sikh institutions which, paradoxically, were begun earlier in this century in response to the Christian institutions, the conversion appeal of which seemed to challenge the Indian religions.

The earliest theories in Christian education, at the beginning of the twentieth century, often equated good Christians with good citizens.

From the early beginnings of biological evolutionary theory, in the nineteenth century, two trends of thought have prevailed in scientific circles, developing side by side without mingling to any appreciable extent.

In the historical context, these churches housed the vast majority of American Christians from the colonial era up until the early 20th century where they began to lose membership due to their being labeled too «liberal».

Protestant and Catholic tracts on revelation began to appear more abundantly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Later (as early as the beginning of the second century, and probably even earlier) there were people who took offence at this — people of Greek provenance.

And an increasing sense of being involved with the formation of a new generation, at the heart of the Church in the early years of a new century: «Today the FAITH Movement is at a new stage — and perhaps its real work is only just beginning.»

As far back as the 8th, and 9th centuries, and truly earlier, it was from the Hebrews, the «original writing» beginning with Moses from YHWH.

By the early years of the 2nd century the idea of the Virgin as the ideal woman began to grow.

Beginning primarily with the missionary activities of the Portuguese in India in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Christian converts became for all practical purposes outcastes, cut off from caste and community.

In the early part of the second century various books began to be written in Christian circles about the apostle Peter, or even in his name, until one could have collected a whole New Testament bearing his name.

Had he been born a hundred years earlier, when the wars which preceded the creation of the principate by Augustus were still to be fought, or had he appeared two centuries later when the imperial structure was beginning to crumble, the course of the Christian faith would have been much more difficult.

Consultation between missionaries of different denominations who were working in the same or nearby areas began quite early in the nineteenth century.

A professor of history and law at the University of Georgia, Larson begins by relating how the debate over Darwinism unfolded in America in the early part of the century, and developed into the warfare between science and religion that exploded in the trial (and continues to this day).

Concurrently with the decline in the vigor in the Christianity of Western Europe which began to be marked after the high tide of the late thirteenth and the early fourteenth century, schoolmen questioned the formulations arrived at in the creative years.

Despite its brilliance, the apologetic tradition began to run dry early in the twentieth century.

Croce contrasted the «democracy of the eighteenth century as mechanical, intellectualist, and abstractly egalitarian, whereas the «liberalism» of the early nineteenth century was personal, idealistic, and historically organic: «The democrats in their political ideal postulated a religion of quantity, of mechanics, of calculating reason or of nature, like that of the eighteenth century; the liberals, a religion of quality, of activity, of spirituality, such as that which had risen in the beginning of the nineteenth century: so that even in this case, the conflict was one of religious faiths.

Here excavations indicate that the city (earlier and under a different name, the capital of the Hyksos Dynasty) was destroyed in the sixteenth century when the Hyksos were expelled, that reoccupation probably began shortly before 1300 B.C., and that work went on there under the first two kings of the Nineteenth Dynasty, Seti I (about 1310 - 1290 B.C.) and his son Rameses II (about 1290 - 1224 B.C.), who gave his name to the city.

It may be that tradition reinterpreted the present story in the light of this seeming heresy; but there is no reason to deny that the story was already in existence earlier in the tenth century and that, in fact, image representation began in the beginning of Israel's life as a people, in the first, Mosaic chapter of that life.

Speaking of The hidden history of Christianity in Asia, John C. England, a church historian from New Zealand, rightly points out that unfortunately only a few churches in the region have retained a strong sense that their history began in the early century of Christian era.

As early as the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practice.

We begin with the Didache of the late first or early second century, perhaps written in Syria and we end with Hymns by Simeon the New Theologian, Byzantine mystic and spiritual writer, who lived from 949-1022.

But a theological inquiry that narrows the historical community, that excludes from the conversation such men as the early Fathers of the Church, or the medieval theologians, or the Reformers, or the sectarians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or the Puritans, Pietists and social gospelers, or such movements as monasticism, scholasticism, Biblicism, et cetera impoverishes itself from the beginning.

Towards the beginning of this century there was great enthusiasm for the comparative study of religions; it was often conducted by scholars who believed that when they had discovered parallels to early Christian expressions, ideas, institutions or rites in other religions they had shown that the Christian phenomena were derived from these other religions and also that their meaning within Christianity was essentially the same as it was within the other religion or religions.

Kirschenmann Brothers custom farm management began with potatoes in early 20th Century; now the family's diversified plantings include table grapes, almonds and cotton

Sometime during the early part of the sixteenth century, Francisco Mendoza, son of the Viceroy of New Spain, took ginger to the West Indies and tropical America and began cultivation; by 1547, a thousand tons of ginger were exported to Spain from the West Indies.

During the early part of the 18th century North Americans began to use the word «cookie» to define a small, sweet, flat or slightly raised confection.

Individual estate owners produced their own rum on the island beginning in the early 19th century.

They have been at the forefront of the food industry since the company's beginnings early in the 20th century, President and CEO David Radlo says.