Sentences with phrase «by most ancient»

A wider reading of the New Testament, especially John and Paul, suggests that such injunctions are only a moment of eschatological delay within a wider promotion of gift - exchange beyond the fetishized limits upon such exchange imposed by most ancient societies.

Not exact matches

The pride and exclusiveness of the Spanish Jews of ancient settlement in this country are most sharply felt by the Ashkenazim.

It's funny how most all those books were written by men in different time periods, and yet there stories all go back and match those of the ancient Egyptians.

How about the most accurate ancient text that has never been proven wrong by any archeological finding.

@ Numbers 31:17 - 18 Destroying entire populations in warfare was a practice that occurred throughout most of the ancient world, and by no means was limited to Israel.

The Romans were the most efficient record - keepers of the ancient world, but no record of this guy who was supposedly a rabble - rouser who was brought in front of the local governor (and his scribes, by extension).

And then that moment of birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever done in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

After studying a series of Western societies from ancient Greece and Iran through the history of Israel, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and on into the twentieth centuries, Polak concludes that the most important single factor involved in the generation of change is the image of the future held by a given group.

And what is most amazing to me is that by your own admission (and the millions or billions who believe as you do) you consider the words in your ancient book to carry more weight than your own personal experience in the here and now.

Thus, in the very things most characteristic of the religion of ancient man, namely altars, sacrifices and temples, the prophets of Israel took the first steps in the direction of their abolition, for YHWH, being wholly different from the ancient gods, neither required the old cultic offerings, nor did He dwell in a house made by hands.

Many accounts of Jesus life were written, the most ancient ones written by eye witnesses (luke is the only one that wasnt written by an eye witness) were canonized.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

Instead, the most ordinary realms of life — what the ancients would have regarded as realms that have «an infrastructural relation» to the good life — can now be sanctified by a God - fearing spirit.

After antifederalist riots at Carlisle, Franklin returned to the scene with a satire against the rioters, comparing them to the ancient Jews who rejected a constitution handed down by God and «recorded in the most faithful of all Histories, the Holy Bible.»

Not only are some of its roots to be found in ancient Persian religion, but throughout most of the Christian era, the resurrection hope has been shared by Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Unlike most modern Western males, I read in various sources that men of the Ancient Near East didn't feel «weirded out» by sharing a bed with another man.

Abinadi, Odds are that you are a Mormon because your parents were Mormons and you were taught as a child that it was the correct religion by adult authority figures and most people you knew held the same beliefs, just as ancient Greek children were taught that the source lightening was Zeus hurling bolts of lightning from Mt. Olympus.

The depth and coherence of such divine love revealed to us through the Cross is perhaps most beautifully captured by that ancient hymn the Letter to the Philippians:

In the Qur» an it is made clear that from most ancient times the word Islam has been used by all divine messengers and their followers as the name for their religion.

Editor's note: David Hazony is the author of «The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life,» published recently by Scribner.

Hartshorne confesses his belief that the insight into God as universal love was most clearly perceived by the ancient Jews and by Jesus, but the distinctive aspect of his position is the claim that secular philosophy can demonstrate and partially explicate the truth that «God is love.

Lessing was not merely one of the most comprehensive minds Germany has had, he not only was possessed of rare exactitude in his learning (for which reason one can securely rely upon him and upon his autopsy without fear of being duped by inaccurate quotations which can be traced nowhere, by half - understood phrases which are drawn from untrustworthy compendiums, or to be disoriented by a foolish trumpeting of novelties which the ancients have expounded far better) but he possessed at the same time an exceedingly uncommon gift of explaining what he himself had understood.

By rebutting some of their public statements and postings we hope that some people whose minds have still not fallen into the intellectual abyss displayed by most theists might be spared the damage to their thinking abilities before they get suck (er) ed too deeply into a routine of closed minded parroting of ancient fairy taleBy rebutting some of their public statements and postings we hope that some people whose minds have still not fallen into the intellectual abyss displayed by most theists might be spared the damage to their thinking abilities before they get suck (er) ed too deeply into a routine of closed minded parroting of ancient fairy taleby most theists might be spared the damage to their thinking abilities before they get suck (er) ed too deeply into a routine of closed minded parroting of ancient fairy tales.

And the holiest and most ancient images, like the famous image of Artemis at Ephesus, were not man made; they were given by heaven itself.

Msgr. Jaeger expanded upon that theme, noting that «while often presented as if it were absolutely new,» the teaching of Nostra Aetate «perfectly corresponds to the most ancient intuitions of Christian theology» when it affirms there can be, and in some cases are, «elements of truth and holiness» in other religions, particularly Judaism, as explained by St. Paul in the Epistle to the Romans.

Although the complex moral ability called courage, highly honored by the ancients and ignored by most non-existentialist modern philosophers, is not directly named by Whitehead, it is directly implicated throughout his works in discussions of tragedy and heroism.

Paul Schubert, in a symposium devoted to the The Idea of History in the Ancient Near East writes: «When it comes to the idea of history, it must be said that Israel, through its sacred scripture... has proved to be the strongest and most influential single force observable by the historian in shaping the idea of history throughout two millennia of Western history.»

It is flatly inconceivable that anyone would invent a Son of God who was consigned by church and state alike to die the most extreme form of death by degradation and dehumanization known to the ancient world.

«Just like most of the earliest papyri of the New Testament and other literary and documentary papyri, a fragment this damaged could have come from an ancient garbage heap,» the King says building on prior research by Luijendijk.

The reasons the ancients put these kinds of beliefs in things no longer apply because most of it has been explained by science.

If we grasp this aspect of our preaching, we may well have our part in a great movement of return to the intention of the Reformers of the sixteenth century as well as of the Fathers of the ancient Church: that the Lord's Supper shall in very deed be the act of Christian worship most loved, most used, and most honored by the whole of the Christian world, without base superstition or ungodly fear but in loving obedience to the command of the Lord and for the «strengthening and refreshing» of his people.

Among the most potent was the one launched by the mad sophists of the modern age» those radicals who promised, at long last, to make us at home in the world, not by reconciling us to its imperfections, as their ancient counterparts had proposed to do, but by transforming the world into a post «political paradise.

@Ryan, Actually, from the research I've done, most of the new testament wasn't written down until at LEAST 60 years after the death of Jesus, and at that there were many versions floating around the ancient world both in writing and by word of mouth.

I surfed around on the web and found a couple etymological explanations, with the most plausible being based on a ritual performed by army officers in ancient times.

The Southwest Table is a sumptuous journey through the gastronomic landscape of one of America's most ancient and dynamic regions - a blend of culinary history, classic and contemporary recipes, and vibrant photography all brought together by celebrated cookbook author and chile pepper authority Dave DeWitt.

Our pasta is masterly crafted in Italy by expert pasta artisans, who only enhance the inherent goodness of this most ancient grain.

It was most certainly heavily used by known ancient rulers - from Persian emperors who left behind what was clearly fictitious accounts of themselves, to Cleon of Athens; from Alexander the Great's mom claiming he was a product of an affair with a god to Augustus who commissioned art to portray himself as humble and a man of the people.

As has been discovered by ancient Chinese, Romans and Persians, most of the job of politics is management.

The yoga practiced by most Americans today has little in common with the ancient tradition, but that doesn't mean you should throw away your mat and leggings.

So the orangutan chromosome setup looks the most like the ancient ancestor revealed by Kim's team, with eight ancient chromosomes intact.

The most celebrated hue of the ancient world, by far, was Tyrian purple.

However, new research led by the University of Bristol has identified the cause of this «flip - flop» effect, and in doing so, has revealed sponges are the most ancient lineage.

While studies of ancient gold metallurgy and the colour characteristics of gold alloys are well supported by modern research, the colour properties of prehistoric copper alloys, such as tin bronzes or arsenical copper, the most abundant type of metal artefacts in prehistory, have largely been understudied.

«Most of the archaeological evidence for movement is based on artifacts, but artifacts can be stolen or copied, so they are not a real good proxy for actual human movement,» says archaeologist Doug Price of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who tracks ancient migration by analyzing isotopes.

By January of 1896, most everyone in U.S. athletic circles had heard about the plan to revive the ancient Greek Olympic competitions, promulgated by an energetic Frenchman, Baron Pierre de CoubertiBy January of 1896, most everyone in U.S. athletic circles had heard about the plan to revive the ancient Greek Olympic competitions, promulgated by an energetic Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Coubertiby an energetic Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

By analyzing its evolutionary history, the researchers found that CVDE most likely evolved from an ancient enzyme that was present in the common ancestor of green algae and plants.

While most such publications are low - key, passably written and poorly produced affairs, Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World by Herlaine Silverman is an ambitious, beautifully produced book.

If he's right only in his assertion that the most pleasing faces have mouths that relate to the noses above them by the ancient and mysterious golden ratio, that's not nothing.

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