Sentences with phrase «early modern centuries»

The cold spells of the early modern centuries, experts were beginning to realize, could be at least partly explained by other influences.

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The business of trying to divine customers» desires has been around almost as long as there have been customers, but market research as an industry began with the advent of modern magazine ads and radio commercials in the early 20th century.

The hotel's Queen Anne decor may harken back to an earlier time, but modern amenities like heated marble floors, plasma TVs, therapeutic tubs and high - speed wireless Internet keep it firmly in the 21st century.

Sizzle Of The Week, The Great Bikesharing Boom Bicycles in their modern form became common in the early 20th century, making them...

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.

In its classic usage in the early twentieth century, modernism meant an approach that gave modern historical assumptions authority over church doctrine.

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.

In the preface to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, Hartshorne celebrates «our English inheritance of critical caution and concern for clarity»; he seeks to learn more from Leibniz, «the most lucid metaphysician in the early modern period,» as well as from Bergson, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Whitehead, «five philosophers of process of great genius and immense knowledge of the intellectual and spiritual resources of this century.

(R. M. MacIver: The Modern State, pp. 103 - 104) It was the glory of Roman jurists in the early centuries A.D. that they first conceived the jus gentium, the natural law of all peoples, as incorporating the duties and rights which belonged to human beings everywhere.

By the early - to - mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25, [17] a date later adopted in the East, [18][19] although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which corresponds to January in the modern - day Gregorian calendar.

He therefore has an intimate knowledge of how modern science has operated both in its early centuries and lately.

As late as the nineteenth century, the Church still banned the writings of Hugo Grotius, an early defender of the sovereign state and the father of modern international law.

In the modern missionary movement up to the early twentieth century, religio - territorial was undisputedly the defining boundary which Christian missionaries were understood to cross.

Modern methods of textual criticism have increasingly been able to verify the reliability of early scriptural sources, and respected academics such as Richard Burridge, NT Wright and Richard Bauckham have been showing why the Gospels contain the hallmarks of reliable first - century Jewish biography.

In the origins of the modern university in Berlin, early in the nineteenth century, this special role of philosophy was affirmed.

It fits in so deeply with the Faith of the Church, takes in the beautiful teaching of the Fathers from early Christianity, and also tries to makes sense of modern science, in much the same way as St Thomas Aquinas attempted to do in the thirteenth century.

Back in the early seventeenth century Francis Bacon, the first modern philosopher of science, recognised that the developmental nature of modern scientific methodology provided a truer vision of how human knowing arrives at formality than the scholastic theory of abstraction.

There must be some connection,» Walls suggests, «between these events and the missionary movement; and the modern missionary movement, though affected in important ways by earlier influences, took shape as recently as the 19th century.

If I have one criticism it would be that in the section on the modern period there is insufficient mention of the influence of the Oxford Movement and Newman in the 19th century, and of the internal renewal of the Church through such phenomena as the Liturgical Movement of the early 20th century.

That was in the early»70s, when with long hair, bobbles, bangles and beads and a gleam of communitarian utopianism in my eyes, I finally found my way into the fourth century treatise by Nemesius, peri phuseos anthropon («On the Nature of the Human»), where it at length dawned on me that ancient wisdom could be the basis for a deeper critique of modern narcissistic individualism than I had yet seen.

Inheriting 19th - century philosophies that were optimistic about human nature, early 20th - century moderns refined and canonized them.

Problems of relating biblical criticism and modern philosophies to Christian tradition are still in a state of flux that would seem familiar to an early - century theologian.

When that culture started changing in the early 20th century, the small «c» church didn't change with it but kept redoubling its efforts in the 19th century mode (albeit w / some modern technological updates).

Most Orthodox thinkers operating in a modern framework — a tradition stretching from Samson Raphael Hirsch in the early nineteenth century to David Hartman in the late twentieth century — have engaged in one form or another of cognitive bargaining.

This type of interpretation starts with Schleiermacher, the father of modern liberal theology, in the early part of the nineteenth century.

If these early followers had been content to withdraw from and forget their relationship to the rest of society, Newbigin says, they would have posed no threat to the Emperor and his power:» [the first century church] would have enjoyed the protection of the law — the same protection which churches enjoy in our modern culture, available for exactly the same reason — namely, that they pose no threat to the ideology which controls public life.»

Where Willibald, twelve centuries earlier, had seen a swamp and told a story about Christianity's triumph over it, Endō, in a modern version of the medieval story, draws a direct line between Ferreira's previous failure and Rodrigues's personal «struggle» over his faith.

The essays gathered in The Twilight of the Intellectuals, most of which were first published in the New Criterion, constitute a mordant retrospective on what Julien Benda early in the twentieth century called la trahison des clercs — the treason committed by modern intellectuals (who were mostly middle - class writers, scholars, and artists) against the principles and institutions that had nurtured them.

But viewed in terms of human relationships and the quality of life, there are many indications that peasants in the Middle Ages and the early modern period had more dignity and enjoyment than the industrial workers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

In the second part, «Unanticipated Consequences of Emancipation,» Wisse sketches» through the lens of the Jewish experience» the crisis of modern liberalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

They were not, of course, the first critics of dogma but they carried through systematically the criticisms of an earlier age by people such as Fausto Socinus of the sixteenth century, perhaps the first «modern» process theologian.

They also remind us of some unpleasant truths: that virtually all of us in the modern world are now mere consumers of great urbanism rather than its producers; and that this earlier vision of cities is now so far removed from the mindset of the modern world that the project of reviving great urbanism may be one best regarded in terms of generations if not centuries.

A review of the revivalist tradition in America, however, reveals the similarities of modern television preachers and the earlier manifestations of revivalist preaching during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

«In traditional thought and literature, there has been virtually no interest in foreign countries, societies, cultures or religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «dialogue» with Christian - European, or any other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduism.

If it is correct, as verse 11 declares, that the Israelite slaves built Pithom and Ra - amses - and there are no good grounds to doubt it - the Exodus could not have occurred before 1300 B.C. Pithom is probably to be identified with the modern Tell er - Retabeh; excavations there confirm the fact of ambitious building in the early thirteenth century.

If the first century notions of a maternal spirit and an androgynous Jesus were indeed early teachings that the developing church subsequently rejected (for whatever reasons), then a «balanced out» theology of the Christian godhead, informed by psychological insights, has both «modern» relevance and «ancient» precedent.

For Gregory, a professor of early modern history at Notre Dame, we are where we are in 2012 because of the specific actions, choices, and consequences of the sixteenth - century European conflict among Christians.

Based in Waukegan, Ill, with roots in popcorn making that date back to the early twentieth century, this mother - daughter - owned company is shaking the modern popcorn world with innovative flavors.

The beginning of the modern period in the pursuit of radical human enhancement and longevity can be traced to fin - de - siècle / early twentieth - century scientific and technological optimism and therapeutic activism.

In the above passage, political sociologist Charles Tilly was writing not about modern - day Afghanistan, but about early European states where functional governments took centuries to emerge.

The more I look at it the more I see the EU / Brexit as the modern equivalent of Ireland in 19th and early 20th century British politics.

The New York Times recently called Buffalo «home to some of the greatest American architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries» and on another occasion «a textbook for a course in modern American buildings.»

That glimpse into the past was provided by 66 tree - ring data sets scientists used to stitch together an annual record of snowpack far older than modern observations, which began in the early 20th century.

This new research reveals that grigs, and the way they create sounds using their wings, are of major importance in helping us to understand the early evolutionary stages in the centuries - old lineages of modern field and bush - crickets.

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

Modern postural yoga, the practice of actually holding poses, originated with early 20th century guru Krishnamacharya, who taught a mix of gymnastic and wrestling moves, Western calisthenics and hatha yoga, a medieval practice all but lost in India for centuries.

Other branches of science became modern only more recently: chemistry in the early 19th century; biology in the mid-19th century, or perhaps the early 20th century.

Jaggar's research in the late 19th and early 20th centuries forms the foundation of almost every aspect of modern volcanology, Dvorak says.

Newman noted that Blake was born in 1757 and that Yeats died in 1939: «They reflected a creative interest in alchemy that spanned the late 18th to the early 20th century — exactly the «rational» period of the Enlightenment and of modern science — at the same time that most historians were branding alchemy delusional.»

Modern neuroscience, for all its complexity, can trace its roots directly to a series of pen - and - paper sketches rendered by Nobel laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.