Sentences with phrase «earlier this century comes»

It was along a line of thought such as this (though I realize that I am grossly over-simplifying a complex and subtle process of reflection on the part of the Christian community) that the dominant problem for theology in the early centuries came to be how to assert that Jesus is our Lord, and hence, since Lordship implies worship and it is idolatry to worship man, how to assert his deity.

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The quotable quote of the far - right Club for Growth from earlier this century comes to mind, when they castigated anyone to the political left of Mississippi's most stone - aged legislator as a «tax - hiking, government - expanding, latte - drinking, sushi - eating, Volvo - driving, New York Times - reading, body - piercing, Hollywood - loving, left - wing freak show.»

Not exact matches

Demographically, Argentina feels familiar to Americans — most Argentines descend from European immigrants who came during the late 19th and early 20th centuries — and its capital city could easily be mistaken for Paris or Madrid.

«In the 19th and early 20th centuries, millions of people came and they went to the Prairies and we fed them,» she says.

The Old Testament, in its Hebrew and Greek versions, wasn't included, nor were the later chapter and verse divisions (those came in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries respectively), which makes these earliest codices similar, in some ways, to what Green's Bibliotheca project is attempting.

His writings have come down to us bound together with the prophecies of Isaiah of Jerusalem, two centuries earlier, and some other material, under the general title, «The Book of Isaiah».

Moreover, the problem of primitive Christianity is not to account for early Christian messianism — for there was enough of that element in ancient Judaism, after the second century before Christ — but to explain why Christianity survived when other messianic movements came to nothing and disappeared.

To those familiar with the story's sole source» the semihero Bartolomé de Las Casas, who wrote in the early sixteenth century» this should come as no surprise.

The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.

He was able to picture early Christianity this way with the more assurance because he did most of his scholarly work before attention shifted back to Palestine in the time of Jesus (thanks in part to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls), and before the themes of light against darkness, life against death, came in the 1960s to be understood as first century Jewish themes.

The events took place; the Church was founded; and out of the experience and needs of the Christians of the first and early second centuries the writings came.

While this book itself is too late in origin to have affected Christian thought since it comes from perhaps the ninth century A.D., it is probably true that Zoroastrian beliefs concerning eschatology, here carried to such an extreme, did materially affect late Hebrew and early Christian ideas of the ending of the world and the final judgment.

At an early date it was a favourite of those who expected the imminent coming of God's reign on earth; Papias (early second century) made use of it and supplied other traditions about future miraculous fertility from what (he said) had come from John the Lord's disciple.

Whereas Wesley came to his theology chiefly out of his study of the Bible and his personal experience, Whitehead was a mathematical physicist trying to make coherent sense of deep perplexities created by new discoveries in the early part of this century.

The earliest copies of The Jewish War by Josephus (originally composed in the 1st century AD), in contrast, come from nine manuscripts written in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries.

Cartesian dualism arose in the early stages of the first scientific revolution that culminated in the late seventeenth century, while we are still coming to grips with the quantum revolution of the twentieth century.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

We know that later material was in fact added after Mark 16:8, probably early in the second century, and for most of Christian history this was accepted as coming from the original author.

Early in the nineteenth century, Immanuel Kant came to the rescue.

The earliest fragments of scripture come from the first half of the second century A.D.

As a young man, riding his horse one day outside of Assisi, Francis came upon a leper, a person suffering from one of the many skin diseases common in the early 13th century.

In terms of structure, however, it seems likely that the people who bore various titles in the first century — such as bishop or elder or healer or teacher — were not «officials» holding formal offices, as the bishops, elders, and deacons came to do in the early second century.

We can not know with certainty on what basis the clearly non-Pauline legalistic Roman church of the late second and early third centuries flouted the second commandment and came to permit religious funerial art.

The oldest authoritative list of books which corresponds exactly with our Table of Contents comes from A.D. 367, three centuries after the earliest parts were written.

Discredited by its association with a movement which had sought to eradicate Christianity itself, «progressive» Catholicism withered on the vine, while a newly confident «conservative» faith, characterised by rigorous orthodoxy and strict adherence to the Pope, would come to dominate Catholicism throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Like I said high and mighty and sure we came a long way from the early 19th century to place judgment on others thats another reason why we are still lost as Isrellites.

The Kingdom of Scotland came into being in the tenth century with the Scottish Parliament existing from the early thirteenth.

The most formidable such outside pressure came, for example, from the Carnegie Foundation early in this century when it established the college retirement fund that eventually became TIAA / CREE.

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

It was used in the early centuries to designate the great councils such as the Council of Nicaea, to which representatives came from what was then the whole of Christendom — the section around the Mediterranean Sea where churches had been established.

Instead, while tracing back to the easiest access to North America scientists have agreed earlier in this century that Native Americans came mainly from North Asia through the Bering Strait land bridge.

Darwin there reminded his readers that centuries earlier a geocentric world was intellectually more satisfying to ordinary people, but eventually the realization came that the voice of the people can not be trusted to be the voice of God.

[106] The earliest copies of The Jewish War by Josephus (originally composed in the 1st century AD), in contrast, come from nine manuscripts written in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries.

For example, the earliest surviving copies of parts of the Roman historian Tacitus» main work, the Annals of Imperial Rome (written in 116 AD), come from a single manuscript written in 850 AD, although for other parts of his work, the earliest copies come from the 11th century, while other parts of his work have been lost.

But in this case, early in the twenty - first century will come a pollution crisis that will destroy in a few years five sixths of the world's population!

Even earlier, it had nearly met its fate, and later by a few centuries came the final collapse.

As William McLoughlin competently points out in his book Revivals, Awakenings and Reform, the American revivalist tradition came into existence in the early nineteenth century at the same time as the mass market and popular media such as the penny newspaper.

In the concluding book the New Testament the risen and glorified Son of God, before Whose overpowering majestic presence the prophet fell down as dead, is described as saying to one of the early churches which, like many of its successors across the centuries, was self - contented, lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, that He stood at the door and knocked, not forcing it, but waiting for it to be unlocked, and promising, if those inside would open it, to come in, eating with them and they with Him.

This was as true of early Jews in Galilee as it was true of nineteenth century India and is true of contemporary India: «In Jesus's world [just as in the Indian worldview], people were important because of who they were related to, or where they came from, not so much because of who they were in themselves» (Witherington: 35).

In the preceding century, in the early days of the Swedish invasion, some missionaries came from England.

After describing various features of liberalism as it came to be expressed in the early nineteenth century, he writes,

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

The «cast the first stone» story came a couple hundred years later — the earliest couple centuries of the Bible don't have it.

In a candid article published in Christian Century in 1980, Henry admitted his earlier and more optimistic vision of a grand evangelical alliance had come to nothing, and he placed much of the blame on Billy Graham, one of Henry's few critical comments about his former classmate and collaborator.

They were descendants of Amorite settlers who had moved into Canaan from the fringes of outlying deserts some six to eight centuries earlier; or indeed, some of these may well have come out of tribes originally closely related to the group which went into Egypt and now, some centuries later, made its return to the land.

The others followed by an interval of several years, the Fourth Gospel probably coming down into the early part of the second century.

After a pretheological course of three or four years come four years in residence at the major seminary.36 In American Protestantism the theological seminary originated in the early nineteenth century.

Cubeb was the East Indian name given to P. cubeba, which the Arabs recognized as having come from Java as early as the 10th century.

The name comes from the Paris suburb of St. - Germain - en - Laye, where young peas, a rarity in the early eighteenth century, were sown in boxes for early - spring cultivation.