Sentences with phrase «book written centuries»

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And it would be hard to compile any list of the best business books of the year without mentioning Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty - First Century — which «sparked a fantastic global discussion this year about inequality,» Gates writes.

It all started when he pulled a random, rare book from his shelf — a book written by a 19th - century horticulturist whose work had fallen into obscurity.

In 1901, eleven years before he drowned on the Titanic, the English newspaperman William Thomas Stead wrote a book called The Americanization of the World: The Trend of the Twentieth Century.

Rohr, who has also written «Quest for the Grail,» a book on mythology, says people have learned these hard lessons for centuries through myth.

Not until the last - written book in the Hebrew Bible» the Book of Daniel, from the second century b.c.» do we find a biblical affirmation that God will raise the dead to eternal lbook in the Hebrew Bible» the Book of Daniel, from the second century b.c.» do we find a biblical affirmation that God will raise the dead to eternal lBook of Daniel, from the second century b.c.» do we find a biblical affirmation that God will raise the dead to eternal life.

For atheists like me, it's always funny how worked up ignorant people get over a book, written by people trying to profit from, control and manipulate people in the 4th century AD.

You miss the mystics of all traditions who are far closer to the teachings and path of Christ than anyone who simply follows a book written by man centuries after he lived.

b) seek professional help to figure out why you have the compulsions in the first place, and develop a strategy to help you replace your unhealthy addictions with healthy habits c) contact a wild - eyed shaman to tell you which parts of his ancient magic book, written primarily for an illiterate, credulous audience, apply best to 21st Century psychological issues.

These books were written roughly between the first three centuries B.C. and the first century A.D..

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

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.

Similarly the Book of Daniel, written in the second century B.C., represents a type of Judaism in which new apocalyptic hopes were blended with the old devotion to temple and sacrifice.

If you know about it once, you know about it always, or you have to accept that your bible is just a book written by men that has been edited and modified throughout the centuries and has no real bearing.

In the twentieth century, and especially since the establishment of the state of Israel, there has been renewed Jewish interest in Jesus and a number of books have been written about him by Jews.

When one looks at how the book was written, edited, compiled, altered and translated over the centuries, it becomes pretty obvious that it is an entirely human affair, bereft of any divine authorship or inspiration.

You know as well as I do that the current accepted canon is not what has always been accepted and there are dozens of 1 century letters and books that were written and included and then removed by the Church in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

This from reading a book written by men with an agenda to control the world with their blatherings, centuries of corrupt, evil popes leading to King James, who burned women at the stake and believed in the divinity of kings?

It appears that some time in the third or fourth century of the Christian era an effort was made to bring together all the writings that remained, and to put into written form such oral traditions as were still retained concerning the lost parts of the book.

The Bible is a book of lies, written by charlatans with an agenda, and it has been used for centuries as a means to oppress innocent people, ratinoalize bigotry, justify wars, and as a hiding place for false prophets who bugger little boys and defraud little old ladies.

Very few Christian groups believe that there have been additional books added to the Bible since the book of Revelation was written in the first century A.D..

In describing religion I often use the model created by Baron von Hügel in his book The Mystical Elements of Religion, written in the early 20th century.

Other than a book that was written down centuries after the events it speaks about occurred, what proof can you present?

(A book written by man in the fourth century.)

In fact, it was written during the 6th - century BCE, about 100 - 200 years after the original author of the Book of Isaiah died.

Such a view was accepted by Justin and Irenaeus in the later second century, although in the third century Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria, attempted to minimize the authority of the book by proving that since John son of Zebedee wrote the gospel ascribed to him, he can not have written the book of Revelation, since the two writings employ different ideas, styles and vocabularies.

Centuries before the oldest books of the Bible were written, both the Egyptians and Babylonians approximated p to a few decimal places.

The Old Testament properly so called is the corpus of books, written and handed down in Hebrew (or in the kindred Aramaic), which were received as Scripture in the first century of our era by Hebrew - speaking Jews, representing the central tradition of Hebrew and Jewish religion.

(ENTIRE BOOK) A classic written by one of the nineteenth century's greatest theologians.

The part of that story that is this story in a messy house at midnight with a loud clock ticking on the wall is what the Greek philosophy books said on that guy's shelf: That more than half a century before the Gospel of John was ever written, more than 500 years before God pulled on flesh and stretched out on straw, Heraclitus was the first Greek philosopher who used that word: Logos.

In fact, a pastor named George Herbert from the 16th century writes in his book, The Country Parson, that since doctors are so rare, it is a good idea for pastors to know as much medicine as possible and administer it when they can.

«For me,» he writes, «the most attractive Lewis is the author of English Literature «in the Sixteenth Century, a fluent, highly intelligent man talking about books in a manner which is always engaging.»

A major part of the problem is that though Immanuel Kant wrote about dignity in the 18th century and the word was in use even earlier, strong efforts to elucidate and work with it have not been made (as have been made for, say, the notion of human rights, the subject of innumerable books, essays and court cases).

A book that was written decades or centuries after the characters were said to have existed.

This book was probably written towards the end of the Persian period, though some date it as late as the second century BC.

Writing a book that was meaningful only to 21st Century, Western, Scientific, Linear - logical minds would be a poor choice.

It was a flawed work, but I could not have deliberately landed on another book written in the last half century by an American author that deserved to be read with more care.

It is significant that from the second century to the nineteenth, when modern historical scholarship became current, theories about the Bible were held which no competent historian now accepts, such as that Moses wrote the entire Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) including the description of his own death.

Theists believe in a supernatural, invisable being with no plausible or credible proof that he exists, they govern their whole lives around a book written in the 1st century by unreliable sources who probably wern't eevn their at the time, thus its all hearsay.Theists believe in fairytales and base their lives on wish thinking.Come on!

Then everybody got together and wrote a whole bunch of stories about him... and centuries later, a Muslim convert got together with some of his homies and put them all into one book... kinda like Readers» Digest.

Learned Iranians, from the first Islamic century on, wrote books and spread the ideas of the religion of the family of the Prophet.

While it is widely accepted that the book of Isaiah is rooted in a historic prophet called Isaiah, it is also widely accepted that this 8th century prophet did not write Isaiah the book.

The «Dumb Ox» 8 of the thirteenth century may have been shy and quiet and slow, preferring the solace of his books and his writing to the demands of oration and teaching, but his effect on all subsequent theologizing was profound and rather all - encompassing, particularly insofar as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned.

In addition to many books in German (with translations into several other languages), Erik wrote two volumes in English that are a great help in understanding the history of the last two centuries: Liberty or Equality (1952; revised edition 1993) and Leftism Revisited (1953; revised edition 1990).

It's a compilation of dozens of books written by men in the first century, voted into canon by a council of bishops from a selection of - hundreds - of such books after being «sanitized» of anything that didn't jibe with church dogma.

The oldest authoritative list of books which corresponds exactly with our Table of Contents comes from A.D. 367, three centuries after the earliest parts were written.

In the same century, John Calvin believed the book to be canonical, yet it was the only New Testament book on which he did not write a commentary.

Selected as Amazon's book of the year, and beautifully written, the 800 - page novel tells the story of Theo Decker and a famous painting — Carel Fabritius» seventeenth - century masterpiece, The Goldfinch — and how Theo's relationship with it transforms his life, for better and worse.

By the way, I agree with your comment on jc knowing the prophecies, and the NT being written, around 200bce, 1st, and 2nd centuries to «seem» to coincide with the OT books, is exactly what the jewish writers did not realistically (jc) compared jc to horus, and isis the zodiac sun gods (Egyptian stuff), but they the hellenistic jewish writers twisted a few things, changing the OT, adding, and taking away, which was warned to us not to do in Deut.4: 1 - 4, but these are YHWH enemies taught in Psalms 83.

From Father Raymond Brown's book, An Introduction to the New Testament, -80-90 % of the critical scholars believe the letter was written by a pse - udo Paul toward the end of the first century, early second century.

By the way, I agree with your comment on jc knowing the prophecies, and the NT being written, around 200bce, 1st, and 2nd centuries to «seem» to coincide with the OT books,