Sentences with phrase «by earlier influences»

There must be some connection,» Walls suggests, «between these events and the missionary movement; and the modern missionary movement, though affected in important ways by earlier influences, took shape as recently as the 19th century.

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During Pollard's early days of international expansion, decisions were influenced by factors such as the ubiquity of credit cards or the degree to which the local country had adopted ecommerce.

The Air Force Court of Appeals in May 2017 also reversed a conviction in the sexual assault case U.S. v. Boyce after finding that public statements by Sens. Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand regarding the «Marines United» scandal earlier this year created «the appearance of unlawful command influence» in the case, as retired Col. Don Christensen, a former Air Force chief prosecutor and current president of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, told Task & Purpose at the time.

Responding to negative coverage in The Washington Post, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Trump said earlier this year, «I have respect for Jeff Bezos, but he bought The Washington Post to have political influence, and I got ta tell you, we have a different country than we used to have... He wants political influence so that Amazon will benefit from it.

His tweet got the instant like from Minister of Information and Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad who had earlier warned the Facebook of taking «stringent action» if any attempt was made by them to influence the electoral process in India.

Market analysts blamed the destabilizing influence of leverage in the market for the enduring weakness, aggravated by a lack of economic data to support a rally that had seen major indexes rise as much as 150 percent by early June.

The local newspaper, the Emporia Gazette, was first published by William Allen White in the early 20th century and is quite famous for its political influence.

New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United StEarly Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United Stearly labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.

The figures released earlier today by comScore on the US online display advertising market confirm what most of us have suspected — Facebook continues to grow in influence and presence almost in every measure imaginable.

That post illustrated the role played by the Fed's actual bond buying on the trajectory of the real yield while an earlier post showed how the Fed's communication about its balance sheet intentions in 2013 also influenced the performance of the real yield.

My belief system about romantic love was influenced by my cultural upbringing, my family history, and my early relationships.

It is fair to say that a great deal of Christian preaching, and not only at Christmas, has been powerfully influenced by Brown's earlier (1977) The Birth of the Messiah, and it is possible this new work will make no less an impact.

Early Baptists, both in England and America, were strongly influenced by Reformed theology, and there has been a growing interest in reclaiming this tradition within the Southern Baptist Convention.

Some early Christians were influenced by ascetic and sometimes apocalyptic tendencies; interestingly, they joined pacifism and sexual abstinence to their radical criticism of wealth, possessions and consumption.

But what do they share with religions such as those embraced by the ancient Greeks, the ancient Egyptians, early native American Indians, or the thousands of other religions made up by isolated cultures not influenced in any way by Christianity or its founding influences?

Was the Earliest Gospel influenced by Paul?

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

Dara Shikoh, the son of Shah Jahan, was in his early life influenced by the liberalism of the Sufis, as distinct from the orthodoxy of the ulama, and later began to take increasing interest in the Hindu religion.

(I've never met Peggy, his wife, but was deeply influenced by Tony early in my ministry.)

The influence of psychoanalytic concepts gradually re moved this moralism, revealing the manner in which behavior is conditioned by early experiences and by unconscious forces which are not subject to the will.

I'm convinced that the growth in the early Church was significantly influenced by how the early Christians dealt with adversity and with the circumstances around them.

Hom0s3xuallity, did you consider that gays was brought by parents or influences to a child at an early age?

It must be remembered that the early Christian community moved almost wholly into the Gentile world within a generation or two after its origin within Judaism, and that, as Christian thought took more definite shape within the next three or four centuries, it was inevitable that it should have been strongly influenced by the prevailing philosophy of the Hellenistic culture in which the church moved.

Not the haburah fellowship meal celebrated by a group of Pharisees; no such meal existed (J. Jeremias, Eucharistic Words of Jesus [1965], pp. 30 f.) Not the Qumran communal meal anticipating the «messianic banquet», for all that this may have influenced the Christian practice, because that is simply a special meaning given to the regular communal meal at Qumran, whereas our evidence indicates that the Christian practice was something out of the ordinary which the early Christians did and which helped to give them a special identity.

However, if one chooses to regard it as a sin, it is well to remember that even the early drinking of the alcoholic is part of a total behavioral pattern which is strongly influenced by his damaged personality as well as by cultural pressures.

In these words he disingenuously glides over the fact (known to himself) that the earliest of those «other works,» Shakespeare's Religious Background, was published as early as 1973, when Eamon Duffy was presumably merely a student and when he might even have been influenced by my book» in which I devote a whole chapter to the «English Jesuits.»

The NRB found ample evidence supporting the claims that some seminaries in the 1960s through the early 1980s were «pink palaces» or powerfully influenced by «lavender mafias,» including sleeping around by both students and faculty.

Many of the early «Church Fathers» were highly influenced by the pagan Greek ideas of Plato and Aristotle, who taught the immortal soul idea.

Whereas most Biblical talk of God locates God as an actor in a story, the theology forged in the early centuries is deeply influenced by Greek reflection about substances.

But psychologically this dichotomic process, whereby at each point of choice something like a new spiritual species breaks away, is influenced throughout by a final orientation which qualifies or obscurely dictates each of the earlier choices: «In what direction and in what form are we to look for this new state of being which we expect to be born of our future development?

If learning takes place, either the central nervous system must be physically changed by new stimuli or new experiences must be influenced by earlier ones.

«55 Lowe claims Bergson has nothing like the method of extensive abstraction, which I have suggested earlier is not only false, but chances are Whitehead even took the idea for extensive abstraction from Bergson, apparently both having been «influenced» (in my sense of the term) by one of William James» insights.

Thus the liberal arts were separated from the rather narrow focus on Christianity that characterized their medieval and early Protestant form, while being reshaped by the influence of the Renaissance.

I have no reason to believe that the other world religions are much different from the Graeco - Judaeo - Roman melange in this regard, bearing in mind that the Jews, Greeks, and Romans influenced one another and that all were deeply affected by still earlier Asiatic world views like Zoroastrianism.

Especially in his earlier writings (including the earlier sections of Science and the Modern World), Whitehead develops a theory of overlapping events characterized by reiterated patterns, showing how sub-events may be organically influenced by the patterns of the events within which they are included.

At the opposite extreme, other Christians, influenced by Rudolf Bultmann but moving beyond him have held that the stories about Jesus and the early preaching do tell us who God is and how we can relate to God in faith.

For an early work exploring the new physics and influenced by process thought, see Capek, Milic, The Philosophical Impact of the Contemporary Physics (New York: Van Nostrand Press, 1961).

Certainly Reinhold had a greater influence on my early formation, but I confess that I reflect more often on arguments made by H. Richard, and his lapidary summaries of whole schools of moral and theological thought stick stubbornly in the mind.

Freud's heavy emphasis on the profound influence of the earliest years is seen as extreme by several of the traditional therapies.

I can not at this point enter into the discussion of types of Diaspora Judaism affected by contact with paganism; I wish only to record my conviction (1) that Paul's Judaism was not of the orthodox Palestinian type, which later became normal, and normative; and (2) that early Gentile Christianity, both before Paul and also outside the area of his influence, was far more substantial than the Book of Acts and the surviving Pauline letters have led many to assume.

Recognizing that our religious ideas and feelings are deeply influenced by early experiences with need - satisfying adults, he saw accurately that we tend unconsciously to project our need for a perfect parent figure onto the universe as we create our perception of deity.

When certain writers found it was possible that early Christianity was influenced by the group that produced this material, they immediately concluded this jeopardized Christianity because it meant that it was nothing but old ideas warmed over in the name of Jesus.

He would provide a profile of the early Church which was «a religious communion claiming a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its members together by influence and engagement, spread over the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant and capable of dividing families and breaking laws.

It seems clear that the early Christians were influenced by their example.

This chapter reviews the three levels on which alcoholic sickness can be prevented by the counselor and religious community: At the grass roots, through the influencing of symptom selection, and through early detection and treatment.

After all, they were prevalent enough among many pagans in earliest Christian times and it was natural for Christian thinkers as well as simple Christian believers to be influenced by them.

Early Christian preaching was influenced by both of these contexts.

Now these characteristic theological emphases were of great importance for the preservation and formulation of the gospel tradition, even prior to its incorporation in the earliest written Gospel, that of Mark, The whole conception of Jesus» earthly ministry is influenced by them: «Jesus is the Savior, but only as combining in himself the office of a Jewish teacher and that of the hidden Son of Man, by virtue of which twofold office he is able by word and deed to bring men to the «gate» of the Kingdom of God.

Another architect of modern evolutionary theory, Dobzhansky, had a less explicit metaphysic than Wright but he was greatly influenced by his early upbringing in the Russian Orthodox Church.

I spoke of the earlier generation, influenced by the grand gestures of modernism and sensitive to the aggressive early twentieth - century secularist attacks on religion, as writers inclined to «shout.»