Sentences with phrase «earlier centuries by»

And this is the point where people need to realize there's a reason why the big eeeevil publishers were there in the first place and we didn't just outsmart the earlier centuries by «liberalizing» the industry.

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The philosophy of stoicism, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, asserts that virtues (such as wisdom) should be based on behavior, rather than words.

But Jobs» diet grew more adventurous after reading «Mucusless Diet Healing System» by early - 20th - century German dietitian Arnold Ehret, a guy who recommends practices like «intermittent juice fasting.»

The original paper contains a wealth of links to studies conducted by businesses, universities, industry associations and the military that supported early - 20th - century leaders as they embraced the short week.

It was founded by PR exec Audrey Gelman and business partner Lauren Kassan, and was inspired by the women's social clubs of the early 20th century.

By the early 20th century, bandwagons were commonplace in political campaigns, and «jump on the bandwagon» had become a derogatory term used to describe the social phenomenon of wanting to be part of the majority even when it means going against one's principles or beliefs.

Though beer production dates back to Greek and Roman times, it truly only fermented in the early 16th century under Emperor Charles V. Flemish by birth, this mighty Spanish ruler was not terribly fond of the local beverages and thus imported his own brewers.

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.

For a third example, not everyone in the early 1960s believed that the USSR would inevitably overtake the US economically before the end of the century, but excluding fierce anti-Communists predicting fire and brimstone, I don't know anyone who expected that by the 1980s the USSR would essentially be insolvent (technically it wasn't, but LDC debt traders nonetheless included the country in their universe of defaulted or restructuring sovereign borrowers).

It involves policies that can be traced at least as far back as the «American System» of the early 19th Century, and it has been implemented in various forms by many different countries around the world during the past 100 or even 200 years.

That seems doomed to fail, as more than a century of case law dating back to the early days of the railroad suggests that provincial measures that directly thwart interprovincial infrastructure may be overruled by federal jurisdiction using 92 (10)(c) and this would be a prime example of when it should be (and has historically) been used.

By the turn of the century, online retailing had become a veritable bubble, and in the early 2000s, that bubble burst, causing millions of people to lose faith in online shopping.

These words have held true throughout the centuries, and remain as applicable today as they were when invoked by President Kennedy in the early «60s.

The X Prizes, started by Peter H. Diamandis, an entrepreneur, seek to recreate the barnstorming prizes of the early 20th century that spurred aviation advances like Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic.

Smith Barney, since the early nineteenth century was intent on helping the individual to invest by beginning with recommended low risk mutual funds for the novice investor.

The Keynesian Perspective The «animal spirits» idea that French refers to represents another take on bubbles that was coined by the early 19th century economist John Maynard Keynes.

In times past there were two methods of engaging in this type of fraud, both of which can be illustrated by the practices of English goldsmiths in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the forerunners of modern - day banks.

There is little doubt that the Bible is rife with edits and insertions done by lowly scribes over the early centuries.

The Islamic faith was founded by Muhammad on the Arabian Peninsula in the early seventh Century.

Authorship of John — many if not most NT scholars believe that John nor one of 12 wrote John; James — most agree not authored by James, and sometime in 2nd century AD; Peter — a mystery — some think that it could have been an early template for the other gospels; Luke — a mystery; Mark — finally it seems like we really might have another original author here — or were he and later Paul just using a very early Peter story?

This work helped Protestant and Catholic scholars break out of tired, polemical post-Reformation patterns of interpretation (which were greatly reinforced by earlier, supposedly «scientific» Protestant historical critics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries).

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

Pre-tribulation rapture theology was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren, [15] and further popularized in the United States in the early 20th century by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible.»

A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.

Pre-tribulation rapture theology was developed in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren, and popularized in the United States in the early 20th century by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible.

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.

I took this from a discussion of Jesus» bloodline that is in wikipedia - «Differing and contradictory versions of a Jesus bloodline hypothesis have been promoted by numerous books, websites and films of non-fiction and fiction in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which have almost all been dismissed as works of pseudohistory and conspiracy theory.

Furthermore, a Sumerian text from Nippur from the same early period gives clear evidence of domestication of the camel by then, by its allusions to camel's milk... For the early and middle second millennium BC, only limited use is presupposed by either the biblical or external evidence until the twelfth century BC.

«I see this preference for knowledge over hope as repeating the move made by leftist intellectuals who, earlier in the century, got their Hegelianism from Marx rather than Dewey.»

For example, complex numbers were invented and the theory of them deeply investigated by the early nineteenth century, a mathematical development that seemed to have no relevance to physical reality.

In the later part of the First Century the Early Church fathers recognized Peters position as set up by Christ Jesus.

Centuries of honest textual criticism, archeology and history are virtually unanimous in their agreement that two of the Gospels are eye - witness accounts, two are commissioned investigations by the early church and all of the canonical Epistles were written by first - generation apostles.

(Job 26:7) Now how could Job know that the earth is» suspended upon nothing» over 3,500 years ago, since the earliest telescope was only made in the 17th century C.E. by Galileo?

It claims descent from the Ethiopian eunuch converted by Philip in Acts 8, and dates formally to the preaching of Frumentius in the early fourth century and the acceptance of Christianity in A.D. 330.

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

Almost forgotten in the last two decades of his life and completely forgotten today except by students of American religious history, Ward was a nationally prominent radical in the early twentieth - century tradition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel movement.

It is typical if, in so behaving, Williams believed himself to be guided by a custom outlawed by the Church in the early fourth century.

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

The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity by peter brown harvard, 288 pages, $ 24.95 In the opening pages of this book, Peter Brown declares that he will «compare two ages — the world of the early church in the late second and third centuries and the earlEarly Western Christianity by peter brown harvard, 288 pages, $ 24.95 In the opening pages of this book, Peter Brown declares that he will «compare two ages — the world of the early church in the late second and third centuries and the earlearly church in the late second and third centuries and the earlyearly....

The foundations of behavior therapies were constructed by the Russian physiologist Pavlov's experiments in conditioning animals early in this century.

An appendix indicates that the much loved «Prayer of Saint Francis» («Lord, make me an instrument of your peace / Where there is hatred, let me sow love...) was written in the early twentieth century and, by a circuitous route, ended up being attributed to the saint.

It is not sanctioned by religion and was not observed in the early centuries of Islam.

From the days of Marcion in the second century, certain Christians, troubled by the anthropomorphisms of the early Old Testament and by the immoralities attributed to Yahweh, have discredited the Hebrew books and have even wished to drop them from the Christian Bible.

In the tumultuous sixties, as an undergraduate at Harvard (for which I have prayed for forgiveness most of my life), I was disappointed again and again by the common Victorian and early twentieth - century convention of beginning a chapter with lush description and then abandoning it in favor of....

Yes unions made a difference in the early part of the 20th century (but empowered by the NLRB have become bandits..

The idea that males and females are equal in being was promoted by the early evangelicals until the 20th century, when Enlightenment intellectuals challenged the miracles of Scripture, and more importantly, the inerrancy and authority of Scripture.

Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth - Century America by Elizabeth Clark University of Pennsylvania, 576 pages, $ 69.95 If you wish... to understand German thought,» the German theologian August Tholuck wrote an American student in 1839, «I....

The Dominicans, founded by St Dominic (1170 - 1221) in 1215, like the Franciscans, date from the early thirteenth century.

Ten major persecutions are enumerated, beginning with Nero in the first century and ending with one launched by Diocletian early in the fourth century.

All in all this is a remarkable and valuable book, not only for the illustrations it offers of ancient rites, but also for the accurate accounts it offers of the way in which baptism was addressed by early Christian writers from the New Testament to the fourth century, making great use of Cyril of Jerusalem and John Chrysostom in the east and Ambrose and Augustine in the west.