By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.
Not exact matches
This
follows an announcement
by Century Aluminum that it will double its workforce to 600 at a Kentucky smelter.
By continuing to follow the prudent conventions of the last century into a new era of «Inflation onDemand» ©, which was instigated by the Greenspan Fed and has been carried to new extremes under the Bernanke Fed after Greenspan's mess unwound in 2007 - 200
By continuing to
follow the prudent conventions of the last
century into a new era of «Inflation onDemand» ©, which was instigated
by the Greenspan Fed and has been carried to new extremes under the Bernanke Fed after Greenspan's mess unwound in 2007 - 200
by the Greenspan Fed and has been carried to new extremes under the Bernanke Fed after Greenspan's mess unwound in 2007 - 2008.
Much of the mergers and acquisitions movement and its strategy underlying corporate takeovers has
followed the pattern developed
by real estate investors over the past half
century.
Follow - up posts described historical experiences and compared the relative stability of the US and Canadian 19th
century branching systems: Canadian banks demonstrated a much higher level of financial resilience thanks to their ability to open branches nationwide, compared to the great instability and recurrent crises experienced
by large US state banks — whose ability to open branches in other states or districts was severely constrained
by law — and later «unit» banks, which were not allowed to open branches altogether.
After all, nineteenth -
century Lutheran theologians like Ritschl and Harnack were leading lights of what Troeltsch later called «Neo-Protestantism»; they were
followed in the twentieth
century by the likes of Bultmann, Ebeling, and lesser imitators fighting at all costs to save Lutheranism against Karl Barth's new orthodoxy or Dietrich Bonhoeffer's call to discipleship.
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.
It was unfortunate that the earliest attempts to liberalize Islamic theology were quickly
followed, in the first half of the twentieth
century,
by the attempts of Muslim leaders like Ataturk, in Turkey, and Reza Shah, in Persia, to force their societies to emulate the secular West.
The volume is also divided into two separate stories, set a
century apart: a long first - person narrative
by a Handmaid in Gilead is
followed by «Historical Notes on «The Handmaid's Tale,»» a fictive academic commentary
by the urbane male editor of the anonymous woman's tapes discovered in the late 21st
century, decades after Gilead's fall.
To see Plato through fourth -
century Athenian eyes as just another young aristocrat, his dialogues a way to attract a
following by which to further his own political agenda or feather his nest financially, is to strip away the later accretions of canonicity and to see him for what he was rather than for what the Western world has made of him.
By the end of the
following century, the people in these lands were largely Moslem, as a result of the militant spread of Islam.
In this perspective he was
following a trail first blazed
by a fellow Alexandrian a
century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.12
To answer your question... yes I am exploring the same issues
by creating a very simple series of short vidoes placed on the web which exmaines a different path for the 21st
century church to
follow and what it could look like, Its not advertised but about 3500 viewings so far.
They are preceded and even anticipated, however,
by a Nathan in the tenth
century and an Elijah in the ninth, and they are
followed by a succession of distinguished but lesser lights in the sixth and fifth
centuries.
However, in the work of William Faulkner, perhaps the only 20th -
century novelist worthy of standing beside Hawthorne and Melville, the southern sense of defeat has been deepened into a genuine apprehension of tragedy, not so much
by dwelling on the actual military defeat as
by an unsparing delineation of the triumph of rapacious commercial values that
followed it.
In the
following year, C. C. Morrison, then editor of The Christian
Century, combined a series of articles from that periodical
by D. C. MacIntosh, Max Carl Otto and Wieman into a book entitled, Is There A God?
By the 1960s and 70s the established Anglican and Catholic churches would be experiencing the power of this charismatic renewal; intensifying towards the end of the century with the arrival of John Wimber and his Vineyard Church in the UK, followed by the Toronto Blessin
By the 1960s and 70s the established Anglican and Catholic churches would be experiencing the power of this charismatic renewal; intensifying towards the end of the
century with the arrival of John Wimber and his Vineyard Church in the UK,
followed by the Toronto Blessin
by the Toronto Blessing.
The
following article is excerpted from the concluding chapter of historian Jaroslav Pelikan's book titled Jesus Through the
Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture, scheduled for October publication
by Yale University Press.
We know that the fertile lands of the Near East were overrun during several
centuries following about 2000 B.C.
by desert invaders — the same groups referred to in the Old Testament as Amorites.
Following the bible, is like following directions written centuries ago by some person helping someone else get from Jerusalem to Damascus, they don't work if you're going from New York to Jersey, or most other plac
Following the bible, is like
following directions written centuries ago by some person helping someone else get from Jerusalem to Damascus, they don't work if you're going from New York to Jersey, or most other plac
following directions written
centuries ago
by some person helping someone else get from Jerusalem to Damascus, they don't work if you're going from New York to Jersey, or most other places today.
That, however, is not so easy to do when for
centuries the church has
followed policies (not unwittingly, as the Fuller professors state, but systematically and
by unholy design) that sought to de-Judaize the Jews and submerge them in various brands of Christendom.
Meanwhile, Protestant thought, influenced
by the moral idealism and historical optimism of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries,
followed a similar course but moved closer and closer to a form of utopian pacifism in which war would be eliminated because of the increasing perfection of human social institutions.
We have been moving toward globalization for
centuries, but the process was interrupted
by the communist revolution in Russia, the Great Depression, World War II and the cold war that
followed.
Jerusalem was taken
by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and
centuries to
follow.
(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated
by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth
century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth
century for the
following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered
by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.
With the use of Mongol power in the 12th and 13th
centuries, the Nestorian church
followed by Roman Catholics, began to come to China once again.
Indeed, the new virtues of personal freedom and human equality being promoted
by the Enlightenment led to the French Revolution,
followed by much social change and radically new thought in Europe in the 19th
century.
Some of the concepts developed
by the Fathers in the first few
centuries of Christianity may be presented as
follows:
By the second half of the
following century the dualistic view became transmuted into scientific materialism.
Our study of the path
followed by the idiom, however, has made it abundantly clear that while the Lucan tradition has been dominant throughout most of Christian history, it is
by no means the only view that has been held
by Christians, particularly in the first and twentieth
centuries.
It is surely no accident that renewed Catholic attention to the priesthood of the laity has in our
century been
followed by an unprecedented Catholic endorsement of the free economy.
By the third
century following Christ's death, different traditions arose about the date of his birth.
The Russian Formalists of the early twentieth
century rightly pointed out that her novels exclusively
follow the Cinderella plot: A young woman falls in love with a man of superior social standing and has to wait for him to make the first declaration of love ¯ to be
followed, even more excruciatingly,
by the hoped - for offer of marriage.
But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid
by the federal government for the
following half -
century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.
Louis XIV's revocation of the edict in 1685 was
followed by a massive flight of some 200,000 Protestants from France, and renewed persecution at home met with a sustained guerilla uprising in the rural area of the Cévennes in the early years of the eighteenth
century, which diverted French military forces at a critical moment from their struggle against foreign enemies.
In the
following century Hosea was still trying to convince Israel that it was not Baal but their own God YHWH «who gave her corn, new wine, and oil... who lavished upon her silver and gold which they spent on the Baal».2 Many scholars have noted the disguised reference to Adonis made
by Isaiah, and which the New English Bible has rendered,
The asses of the time were much less efficient than the camels that were to come into use many
centuries later; nonetheless Sumerian commerce ventured far, blazing many a path
followed by the merchants and adventurers of long succeeding ages.
In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported
by the Turks and
by various peoples of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more highly civilized than all of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith of the majority of the peoples of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth -
century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive
followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in human affairs than did Christianity.
These movements,
followed by Methodism and the evangelical revival, focused on inner subjective experience, just as the charismatic movements have been doing in the late twentieth
century.
In addition, the twelfth -
century pope Innocent III's pessimistic appraisal of humanity is quoted to exemplify medieval gloom,
followed by» in the very same chapter» a defense of the contorted portraits
by Gorringe's contemporary Francis Bacon as «help [ing] us see the truth about human beings.»
By such a statement we do not mean, of course, that the same span of time
follows as precedes that event — this is only very approximately true and will become increasingly less true as the
centuries pass.
The Indonesian proclamation of independence on August 17, 1945, right after the Second World War, was
followed by the 5 - year war of liberation against the Dutch Colonial Regime which colonized Indonesia for more than three and a half
centuries.
Widowed in 1829, he
followed his great contemporaries Goethe (1832), Hegel (1831) and Schleiermacher (1834) into eternity on March 8, 1835, mourned
by his brother Alexander (who was to survive him for nearly a quarter -
century),
by his nation and
by his friends and admirers throughout the civilized world.
This message in full is released
by Second Isaiah in the latter half of the sixth
century,
following Judah's destruction at the hands of Babylon.
Following his death, Islam spread from Spain to the Indus river in India within a
century, and
by the fifteenth
century had completed its expansion and major theological developments.
That was
followed a
century later, in 1614,
by Brerewood's Enquiries touching the diversity of languages, and religions through the chiefe parts of the world, which ran through some thirteen editions in the seventeenth
century, in English, French, and Latin.
Bultmann is here
following Gunkel, whose work, though half a
century old, is in its approach to the problem
by no means out of date.
Each of Europe's great nations in turn asserted its own claim to election, starting with Isidore of Seville and the Visigothic kingdom of Spain in the seventh
century and
followed in turn
by the French, the British, the Russians, and the Germans.
Yet the idea of Mary's perpetual virginity became so popular that in the late fourth
century the faithful greeted with horror two pro-marriage churchmen's suggestion that it was biblically and historically justifiable to believe that,
following Jesus» birth, Mary had children
by her husband just as any other wife would.
Ironically, as Jews were persecuted
by Christians for
centuries to
follow, Jews were thrown in prison for objecting to Christians for quote mining and minimizing their faith.