Sentences with phrase «earlier centuries often»

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The second century is quite early, and I think this provides support that Christianity was a much more diverse religion than we are often taught today.

Their whole analysis of decline hangs on a prescriptive or normative understanding of church - relatedness, and that normative understanding resembles suspiciously what the colleges were, or at least claimed to be, sometime earlier in the century, in perhaps some «golden age» of church - relatedness (and, unfortunately, often concomitant ethnic insularity and academic mediocrity).

In describing religion I often use the model created by Baron von Hügel in his book The Mystical Elements of Religion, written in the early 20th century.

Originating early in the sixth century, 2 and now often referred to as «pseudo» - Dionysius to distinguish it from any earlier period, the writings convey a «Godhead» that is, strictly speaking, absolutely beyond all possible distinctions.

Baron Friedrich von Hügel, the great lay leader of Roman Catholic modernism in the early years of this century, spoke often of the need for «a humble sense of creatureliness.»

Whether one considers the cessation of the gladiatorial games in the days of the early church, the ending of savage bestial games in Wilberforce's day, or the banning of dueling in the nineteenth century, Christians have often led the culture in critical analysis of its pastimes.

The earliest theories in Christian education, at the beginning of the twentieth century, often equated good Christians with good citizens.

Often this tension was felt to have been so painful that one or another heretic sought to suppress either the Hebrew or the Hellenic element, as with the efforts of the second «century Marcion to get the Church to excise the Old Testament from the Christian Bible, or, from the opposite side, the sneering rhetorical question from the puritanical pen of the early «third «century Tertullian, «What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?»

In the earlier part of this century such sayings of Jesus were often cited to reinforce belief in an evolutionary progress toward a better world.

Consider some aspects of the American history of racial and ethnic relations: Systematic racial segregation emerged in the South after the failure of Reconstruction, while in the 1880s a growing California banned Chinese immigration and in the early twentieth century ethnic politics, often bitter and sometimes violent, dominated major American cities.

In the early 20th century, it wasn't considered proper for the wealthy to raise their own children, with couples often leaving for an extended vacation just days after the birth of a child in order to give the nanny space to adjust the baby.

And, they are often kind and gracious people — not the caricatures of a century earlier.

The early part of the decade was a tense time, with Senator McCarthy making his reckless charges and the nation on edge after a war in Korea against communist North Korea and the People's Republic of China (often termed Red China, even in the Century, for most of the decade).

However, as we have said earlier, the Christian missions of the nineteenth century, although often associated closely with commercial and political imperialism, were to a lesser degree tools of that imperialism than in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, and even than in the Middle Ages.

Americans often find it difficult to understand the Empire — the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved by Napoleon a century earlier — and its place in the European imagination.

There can be no doubt that what we identify in the Tetrateuch (Genesis - Numbers) as P employs and incorporates in the fifth century some material as old or possibly older than J. And J in the tenth century may well have had as a primary source an earlier effort to bring together coherently a wide assortment of stories deemed to have significant bearing on the life of the people Israel.2 Certainly individual units in the J corpus had been in existence for centuries before they were integrated; and beyond any doubt these units were often strikingly modified in meaning in the context of the J work.

According to Bart D. Ehrman (AGNOSTIC), «These scribal additions are often found in late medieval manuscripts of the New Testament, but not in the manuscripts of the earlier centuries.»

According to Bart D. Ehrman, «These scribal additions are often found in late medieval manuscripts of the New Testament, but not in the manuscripts of the earlier centuries.»

It has often been noted that an earlier Protestant reverence for the Bible was later transformed into an equally Protestant disintegration of the Bible at the hands of the «higher critics» in nineteenth - century Germany, with the bibliolatry of the first three centuries of the Reformation transmogrifying into the biblical iconoclasm of the last two centuries.

Towards the beginning of this century there was great enthusiasm for the comparative study of religions; it was often conducted by scholars who believed that when they had discovered parallels to early Christian expressions, ideas, institutions or rites in other religions they had shown that the Christian phenomena were derived from these other religions and also that their meaning within Christianity was essentially the same as it was within the other religion or religions.

Interesting enough, olive oil crops up often in some of the early recipes, including those from turn - of - the - century California.

Team McNichols scored early and often and eventually hit the century mark while grabbing the huge victory.

By the early twentieth century doctors supplanted midwives in delivering babies, who now entered the world more often in hospitals than in homes.

Historians at Old Sturbridge Village are often asked if St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in early 19th - century New England.

Today's police staff associations owe their existence to the efforts of individuals who, during the 19th Century and the early years of the 20th Century, fought and often suffered to achieve decent conditions of service.

Radium played an important, but often forgotten, role in life sciences research in the early 20th century

And there is a lot of money being spent as cities whose storm sewers date to the early 20th century have struggled to clean up discharges into waterways from underground networks of pipes that have often never been mapped.

Bacteriophages are often highly specific to a particular strain of bacteria, and when they were first discovered in the early 20th century there was strong interest in them as antimicrobial agents.

During the early 20th century, they were often wrapped with willow branches for durability and easy transport...

Marcel Carné's towering intimate epic of early 19th - century love and the lives of performers, often heralded as the greatest French film of all time.

«We are pleased to be working with Daniela Thomas to bring her eloquent depiction of the often untold history of early 19th century Brazilian mining life to American audiences,» Music Box President William Schopf said in a statement.

Suffragette (Universal, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD), starring Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, dramatizes the often violent struggle for women's voting rights in Britain in the early 20th century.

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Those supportive, special supervisors reemerged in the late 20th and early 21st centuries with the title of «coach,» often with subject - matter expertise and designations such as literacy coach, math coach, technology coach, and data coach.

Labelled as «one of the most notable and artistically independent sculptors of the early 20th century,» Rembrandt created detailed animal sculptures, with his often bronze coloured masterpieces now being on show in museums across the world.

Julia Franck's unforgettable English language debut throws new light on life in early - twentieth - century Germany, revealing the breathtaking scope of its citizens» denial — the «blindness of the heart» that survival often demanded.

More classical in style than gothic architecture, Jacobean homes built in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, are characterized by steep roofs and decorative terracotta brick work, often with a lighter brick or stone trim around windows and doorways.

In the United States, in late 19th and early 20th centuries, American Eskimo puppies and adult dogs were often found in German immigrant communities.

In fact, at one point in the early twentieth century, dogs that were represented in art and entertainment as the classic family canine often looked like the pit bull terriers that we see today in our society.

At the height of the breed stature in the early 20th century they were often seen as the most decorated heroes in the U.S. Lilly has demonstrated the unconditional love and loyalty that is a hallmark of Pit Bulls — and many, many other dogs as well.

The quarter kilometer long Tonquin Beach (named after an early 18th century fur trading ship) is often referred to as Tofino's town beach because it is located within walking distance of downtown Tofino.

Features borrowed from colonial period houses of the early 19th century include elaborate front doors, often with decorative crown pediments, fanlights, and sidelights, symmetrical windows flanking the front entrance, often in pairs or threes, and columned porches.

Visitors to Budapest are often impressed by its wonderful late 19th and early 20th century buildings, incorporating motifs from old Hungarian architecture, particularly that of Transylvania, folk art and even oriental features.

The episodes are very reminiscent of the silent films of the early twentieth century, as there is no spoken dialogue whatsoever (there are sheep bleets, human grumbles and other sound effects, of course) and the comedy is often physical in nature.

I've often been struck when I hear designers and critics talk about authored narrative, non-linear design, and emergent gameplay that we're essentially having the same conversations filmmakers and theorists like Eisenstein, Vertov, Bazin, and Burch explored throughout the early to mid-20th century.

Conceived as an adjunct to painting in the earliest years of its development in the first decades of the 19th century, when many painters discovered how useful photographs could be in composing their canvases, photography quickly assumed an artistic presence and legitimacy of its own (albeit one that often still took its cues from traditional painterly modes of representation).

This is due in large part to the site's dedication to representing primarily painters working in the realm of Magic Realism, a predominantly Midwest American school of painting often considered an offshoot of Surrealism, but which traces its roots to the early 20th century as an outgrowth of German expressionism (thereby actually pre-dating the surrealists by a few years).

«In the early twentieth century the general public often linked portraiture to flattering transcription and middle - class values; the genre provided strict, longstanding conventions that some modernist artists chose to bend or break,» said Walz.

«In the early 20th century the general public often linked portraiture to flattering transcription and middle - class values; the genre provided strict, longstanding conventions that some modernist artists chose to bend or break,» said Walz.

And yet, though the early decades of 20th - century Russia have been firmly registered in today's art history as a time of radical social and artistic change, the uncompromising and often absurd ideas in Avant - Garde Museology appear alien to a contemporary art history that explains suprematism and constructivism in terms of formal abstraction.