Sentences with phrase «early converts»

Slavery, as social phenomenon and as metaphor, has been an important topic, as has the role of prophets and prophecy, the practice of magic, and the class status of early converts to Christianity.

Nevertheless, many Mormons are Christian people who have been mislead into a church that believes, and conceals from early converts, a false religion.

Both Abde and McCray came to Casco Bay from King Middle School — the nearby early convert to expeditionary learning.

By the 1930s, European and American Modernism was making slow but steady inroads into Texas through a few well traveled and educated early converts to radical art forms of abstraction.

Andre Masson was a relatively early convert to the emerging Surrealist tendency.

The simplicity and ease of use of Palm devices won early converts to that platform before there were any real rival products.

It was «not in order», it was suited to the needs of early converts, and it carried the authentic ring of genuine reminiscence; on the other hand there is little specifically «Petrine» about it.)

(An early convert to the new view was Ben Bernanke himself, who, at a May 2014 conference in which yours truly also took part, declared that «There is absolutely no need or requirement for the balance sheet to go back to normal as monetary policy normalizes.

But it was the cross that excited Cambridge University archaeologists, marking her out as an early convert to Christianity and - as the earliest Christians were from noble families - indicating she was of aristocratic or even royal blood.

Koblick was among the early converts to the concept of undersea living when it came of age in the 1960s, in the shadow of the momentous achievements of the race to the moon.

James Dann, who teaches physics and applied science research at the private Menlo School in Atherton, California, was an early convert to free online textbook sharing.

Tulsa used a gas chamber until 2008, and the others had earlier converted to humane injections.

By American standards an early convert to abstraction, he was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group, which was formed in 1936.

An early convert to the speed and brightness of acrylic primary colors, he bent Pop to his own purposes, which were to declare a clear break from Abstract Expressionism, as Pop was already doing, and to infuse the graphic punch of posters and hot rod decoration into high - minded abstraction.

William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) One of the earliest converts to American Impressionism, he was also known for his outstanding teaching abilities.

Artist Statement «Early converts to the Mormon church traveled 1,300 miles via handcart and covered wagon to escape religious persecution, including mob violence, fire, imprisonment and an official?extermination order?.

William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) One of the earliest converts to American Impressionism.