Sentences with phrase «century ago»

The debate among Christians about the meaning and nature of the resurrection of Jesus has moved from the appeal to inerrant scripture, which was regarded by most until a century ago as being quite sufficient, to the arena where the tools of historical and literary criticism are regarded as legitimate.

Many other such buildings have been recovered, though hundreds were lost forever in that frenzy of hatred nearly a century ago.

More than a century ago, Dutch statesman Abraham Kuyper coined the term «sphere sovereignty» to account for the diverse forms of community found in the mature society.

Indeed, a half century ago, the proportion of Jews in the U.S. population was quite a bit greater than the combined proportion of Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists today.

Over a century ago, Ahmad (as) emphatically declared that an aggressive «jihad by the sword» has no place in Islam.

A century ago traveling across an ocean would take months and came with great peril.

As Randall Stewart pointed out nearly half a century ago, Hawthorne's lifelong literary models and companions were the great Puritan moralist - seers Spenser, Milton, and Bunyan, and of the eighteenth - century writers, the great Augustan Christian humanists, especially Dr. Johnson, whose boyhood home in Lichfield Hawthorne visited on what must be called a pilgrimage of veneration.

More than half a century ago, Roman Catholic philosopher Yves René Simon observed that authority has come to have a bad reputation in the modern world.

As scholars such as Randall Stewart and Mark Van Doren pointed out nearly a half - century ago, Hawthorne disbelieved in the secular, progressive optimism of the nineteenth century because, in his own words, the progressive spirit «preposterously miscalculated the possibilities» of human life.

Apart from a couple of very obscure references, one would never guess that he served as president of the «Christian Union» (Inter-Varsity) at Edinburgh a quarter of a century ago.

Only half a century ago did the so - called ecumenical movement in Protestantism begin to gain ground; for centuries attempts in this direction had been suspect and remained fruitless.

You can only tell movement has happened by looking at the marker of its position a year or a decade or a century ago.

(John Henry Newman argued more than a century ago that the churches that had maintained strong doctrines on Mary are those that had not abandoned strong christological ones.)

A quarter - century ago, the process was «far too informal,» said Cockrell.

A century ago, the noted Protestant leader Abraham Kuyper recognized that the common defense of a Christian worldview made necessary precisely the kind of effort in which we are today engaged.

The most obvious center of accession is tropical Africa, which even a century ago was statistically marginal to Christianity; the most obvious center of recession is Western Europe, which a century and a half ago would certainly have been identified as the most dynamic and significant Christian center.

I recall sitting in a classroom in a huge Southern Baptist seminary a quarter of a century ago, hearing my own favorite Professor John Doe explain all Mullinsism as being not only Southern Baptist but also «conservative [Wilhelm] Hermannian» (after a German theologian we had been taught to call an «I - theologian» more than a «God - theologian»).

The author points out that the former works out very well, as the current standard of living in developed countries is way beyond anything even princes could have dreamt of just a century ago.

More than a quarter century ago, when this move to «update» criteria for determining death began, it was met with suspicion.

Almost a century ago GK Chesterton wrote these words: «We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which furious party cries will be raised against anybody who says that cows have horns, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three - sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.»

In the last 20 years, a despised Catholic church has become allies with those who less than a century ago would have gladly snuffed them out.

An important difference between the twenty - first century and those that preceded it is that the western world as a whole can no longer seek comfort and security in the certainties of a century ago.

However this is not basically a new kind of source, but is actually what Ernst Renan a century ago entitled «the fifth gospel».

There are many mysterious things about the modern world, but the biggest mystery of all is how «the sexual revolution» is viewed as some sort of feminist triumph, when the objective truth is that if the most despicable, cretinous, woman - loathing men of a century ago had outlined their....

To say that yesterday might have been otherwise is to imply that, as things were the day before yesterday, or a year or a century ago, or at the big bang, or..., it was not entirely settled what yesterday was to be.

The theoretical tradition initiated by Max Weber nearly a century ago has remained a popular perspective from which to examine religion, ideology, and, in general, the processes of change in these cultural systems.

George A. Gordon, minister of Boston's Old South Church a century ago, was asked if he could remember a certain historical fact.

More recently, most of us have acquired computers, devices that enable us to watch movies, be they from half a century ago or the latest release, and numerous other technological marvels that demand our constant attention.

You're surprised that a guy growing up over half a century ago in Irelandwas able to spend time with his family and read?

This deep - level understanding of the market system and identification of plant closure with retraining as the solution for a basic problem was spelled out by Pius XI in one of the classic documents of the social magisterium half a century ago.

A recent study found that a quarter - century ago, Brazil was 90 % Catholic, but today it is 65 %.

Almost half a century ago, in 1961, he wrote: «Apostolic office is never the taking of some official powers that are then at the disposal of the office - bearer.

Pope Francis will visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima north of Lisbon, where six reported visions of Mary, to child shepherds took place a century ago.

As with most academic traditions, and especially those that are viewed as soft, there are orthodoxies and fashions, and sometimes sudden turns, that are conventionally described — following Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions of almost half a century ago — as paradigm shifts....

One young Egyptian likely knows how King felt watching the buses drive by empty on that December morning a more than half a century ago.

Only then will our race truly begin to evolve as we were supposed to, as Nietzsche pointed out a century ago.

In fact, as Max Weber noted a century ago, capitalism's practitioners have often enough been unusually godly folk.

I recall the filthy English invading and colonizing nearly every single Muslim country existing today, nearly a century ago.

As Anthony Trollope observed over a century ago in Phineas Finn, the fault of a prominent politician was «not arrogance, so much as ignorance that there is, or should be, a difference between public and private life.»

Remember, up until about a century ago, everyone, christians included, believed the Universe was infinite in time (all that is required in Christianity is that the world have a creation).

Just as the big bang was invalidated by relativity a century ago.

The bishop's views have been echoed by many other Catholic theologians since the Second Vatican Council as Luther's teachings, especially his esteem for the Word of God, has come to be appreciated in a way that would have been unthinkable a century ago.

A century ago at least half our population could live on the produce of their own gardens.

Though it would no doubt be an over-simplification, one can see Justices Clarence Thomas and Thurgood Marshall as direct intellectual descendants of these two great black protagonists of nearly a century ago.

What Whitman wrote in Democratic Vistas a century ago is even more apt today:

Well over half a century ago, Charles Hartshorne offered this observation:

Melville wrote of our condition more than a century ago when he spoke of landlessness: «as in landlessness alone rests highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God — so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety.

A century ago, the most important task was probably the resolution of the «economic problem», the inability to keep people fed, housed and clothed.

A century ago Walt Whitman declared, «I celebrate myself and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume.»

Half a century ago the orthodox Muslims believed that it was forbidden to translate the Qur» an, fearing that translations would supplant the original Arabic version and that versions in different languages would cause disagreements and misinterpretations of the revelation of God.