Sentences with phrase «early nineteenth»

From the two - time Booker Prize — winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth - century America.

Indeed, whether we look to the teachers of ancient Israel or to the Platonic academy or to Augustine at Cassiciacum or to the medieval university or to Pico's disputatious Florence or to the small colleges of early nineteenth - century America, we find learning flourishing in communities formed by the conscious practice of spiritual virtues.

The Museum's holdings now consist of more than 3,000 works ranging from early nineteenth - century landscape paintings through American Impressionism and into the twentieth - and twenty - first centuries.

We stand in something of the same position relative to anti-foundationalism as was once occupied by early nineteenth - century American colleges relative to foundationalism.

Parley Parker Pratt, Sr. (12 April 1807 — 13 May 1857) was an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement whose writings became a significant early nineteenth - century exposition of the Latter Day Saint faith.

The adaptation was accomplished in order to preach effectively in cities the same gospel early nineteenth - century revivalists had preached in the backwoods of Kentucky.

Cook - Sather examines the history of popular attitudes about young people, exploring early nineteenth century philosophy and mid-twentieth century psychology.

«Six years ago, I stumbled upon a semi-derelict early nineteenth - century temple in Jodhpur known as the Mahamandir, built by the Maharaja Man Singh (1803 - 43) for his Nath guru...

• • • Thomas Dent Mütter's story is not so surprising if you consider that a man did not need a medical degree to practice medicine in early nineteenth - century Philadelphia.

Themes of self - reflection, performance, and identity are traced from early nineteenth - century experiments through contemporary digital techniques in outstanding self - portraits drawn entirely from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

He is currently working on a history of commercial fraud in the United States, and especially organizational fraud against consumers and investors, from the early nineteenth century to the present.

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.

(Thomas F. Mulledy, S.J., was an early nineteenth - century Georgetown president who sold slaves to raise money for the school.)

In the early nineteenth century, the skopets Kondraty Selivanov, who proclaimed himself God incarnate, as well as Catherine the Great's dead husband Peter III, enjoyed a wide following among the elite.

The formal establishment of relatively orthodox churches came to an end in the early nineteenth century, and the Blaine Amendments mark the political ascendancy and establishment of theological liberalism — an establishment not of any particular, let alone orthodox church, but of a vision of individual spirituality unimpeded by ecclesiastical authority.

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 late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a new schism thus developed, the gravity of which we are only now grasping.

And memories of forced union with Reformed churches in Germany in the early nineteenth century (which prompted much Lutheran immigration to the U.S) also induced isolation from broader American Evangelical culture.

In the early nineteenth century, however, a new and virulent strain of hyper «Calvinism made strong inroads among Baptists in America, leading to major disruptions of fellowship and outright schism.

Beginning with the missionary movement in the early nineteenth century the church began offering ministries to people in special settings or with special problems, including military and hospital chaplains, and service to the disadvantaged in urban, rural, suburban and metropolitan settings.

With new vigor in the early nineteenth century, the churches of Western Christendom, through the overseas missionary movement, began their long and ever more complex recognition that the ministry and church must go to people in special settings or with special problems.

Russell points to two main schools of earlier revisionist historians as the primary sources: the progressives of the early nineteenth century and the Darwinians after 1870.

Nowhere was the resulting «republican religion» more apparent than in the «Yale theology» of the early nineteenth century, the goal of which was «the moral renovation of the American people through revivalism, reform societies, the religious press, and sumptuary legislation.

Pursuant to the cooperative spirit of the early nineteenth century, Baptists throughout America united for mission via the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America which met every three years beginning in 1814.

The early nineteenth reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1772 - 1833), who is buried at the Arnos Grove Cemetery at Bristol, wrote, «I found the doctrine of Christ more conducive to inculcate moral principles and better adapted to rational beings than any other that has come to my knowledge.»

The correspondence between the English and French scholar, found in the British Library, have been held there since the early nineteenth century but have never been published.

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.

The «real Lincoln,» they insist, was a rich railroad lawyer far less interested in the abstractions of the Constitution than the «Whig economic program of the early nineteenth century.»

American society may soon embark upon the most important constitutional debate since the early nineteenth century.

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.

It has not, however, been as prominent in the actual life and thought of religious communities — even in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when the argument from design was frequently presented by Christian apologists.

The «Berlin» type of excellent Christian theological education only emerged in the early nineteenth century, while the «Athens» type had emerged by the end of the first Christian century.

In the early nineteenth century, China was closed to foreigners, and Christians, who were descendants of those converted by earlier missionaries, were a tiny number.

The main characters of the novel were actually famous zaddikim of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the relations between them which Buber describes are based on actual Hasidic manuscripts and legends.

In the early nineteenth century, a group of leading lay evangelicals, as we shall see, 15 who belonged to what was known as the «Clapham sect», led the campaign for the abolition of slavery, which was ended in the British dominions in 1833.

Thirteen men living in the early nineteenth century signed legal affidavits, swearing under oath, that they personally had seen the Golden Tablets delivered to Joseph Smith by the angel Moroni with their own two eyes, and three of these men signed affidavits that they had seen the angel Moroni himself with their own two eyes... but yet no Christian believes this eyewitness testimony.