Sentences with phrase «century by laymen»

Deism was first formulated in England in the seventeenth century by laymen, members of the established church, but by the middle of the eighteenth century its influence in Britain had begun to wane.

Not exact matches

No one will be able to do responsible theological work during the remainder of the twentieth century without taking account of the philosophy of Charles Hartshorne; and all who study it, layman and theologian alike, will be profited, if not fully convinced, by it.

Laymen were called on to help meet the challenges thrown before Protestantism by the industrialism and urbanism of the late nineteenth century.

Over the centuries, the power of written scriptures and organized religions had unfortunately replaced the power of direct discernment by laymen.

In order to not exceed the much - feared two - degree tipping point beyond which (in layman's terms) uncontrollable climate hell breaks loose, we're going to need a 40 - 70 percent global emissions reduction by 2050, and to bring emissions to zero by the end of this century.

In short, my layman's view is that the limitations of the current generation of multi-century paleo recons are so severe (and so incompletely recognized by the specialist community) that they have very little to contribute to the broader discussion of 20th / 21st Century global warming.

As Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, «I have felt from the beginning that reform can not ultimately succeed unless it is participated in and supported by the lay public... England found in the long struggle for legal reform in the Nineteenth Century that laymen were indispensable...» FDR was a great leader, and we should heed his words and recognize the shortcomings of the federal judiciary.