Sentences with phrase «early writers on»

They exchanged craft goods produced in their homes for a variety of foreign goods, and most of this economic activity was accomplished outside imperial control and ignored by early writers on the Aztecs.

The attempts of the early writers on the life of Jesus to unearth plain facts, and to reassure Christians that the facts were not really miraculous, went nowhere.

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Though Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller released a statement early Tuesday morning praising Melania Trump's address as «beautiful,» and noting that her «team of writers took notes on her life's inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking.»

The comedian, writer, actor, movie director, and lover of jorts and hockey jerseys shared a very lighthearted and optimistic post on Twitter early this morning, offering a hospital selfie and writing, «After the first show this evening, I had a massive heart attack.

Perhaps some notes of Paul's were incorporated, somewhat as the Gospel writers drew on earlier sources, but it is practically certain that these letters in their finished form stand at or near the end of the New Testament writings.

The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.

In his earlier writing, Pinnock's Biblically derived qualifications concerning inerrancy were based on the facts that modern historiography was unknown in Biblical times, that writers use the language of simple observation (e. g., the sunrise), that figurative and mythological language is used (Isa.

Experts point out that the King James is based on at least two earlier major English translations, so its creators were editors as much as originators of these phrases, but it is the King James Bible that the great English writers knew, Goff said.

I had just seen their Howards End, based on the novel by E. M. Forster, a writer whose work Merchant and Ivory had earlier mined successfully with A Room with a View and, less successfully, Maurice.

It is possible, of course, that water baptism continued to be practiced as frequently as ever, and the writers simply stopped mentioning it, but when we understand the cultural and religious significance of water baptism in the first century Mediterranean world, and specifically the role of baptism within the book of Acts, it becomes clear that water baptism served a special and specific role within the early church which became unnecessary later on.

Earlier writers had recognized that Volkmar went too far in his attempted demonstration of Mark's dependence upon Paul — he found evidence of such dependence on almost every page of the Gospel — but his view was such a welcome relief from the one - sided Tübingen theory, according to which Mark was a «neutral» in the great apostolic controversy over Jewish Christianity, that the main thesis of Volkmar was accepted without careful scrutiny of his supporting arguments.

Earlier this week, I contacted a diverse group of writers, teachers, and pastors to ask which books they found most helpful in developing their own perspectives on heaven, hell, justice, and salvation.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

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.

As we shall see, this hypothesis of Lohmeyer's not only enables him to write the most penetrating of commentaries on the Gospel of Mark; it also enables us to reconstruct — in further hypothesis of course, since hypothesis is all we can hope to achieve in this area — to reconstruct one or two of the stages through which the gospel tradition passed before it reached Mark, the writer of the earliest account of what Jesus said and did.

I spoke of the earlier generation, influenced by the grand gestures of modernism and sensitive to the aggressive early twentieth - century secularist attacks on religion, as writers inclined to «shout.»

These writers believed themselves to be inspired by the Spirit and called as teachers, and their writings, argues Wright, «were not simply about the coming of God's Kingdom into all the world; they were, and were designed to be, part of the means whereby that happened... Those who read these writings discovered, from very early on, that the books themselves carried the same power, the same authority in action, that had characterized the initial preaching of the «word.»

Equally puzzling is the inclusion of Edmund Leach's essay «Fishing for Men on the Edge of the Wilderness,» which has little to recommend it but the author's eminence as perhaps the world's leading structural anthropologist — who here wishes to demonstrate that structuralism enables a style of biblical exegesis not unlike «the typological style of argument employed by the majority of early Christian writers.»

Now I come close to the theme of this article: one writer, and I have found no other, in the early Middle Ages attacked classical theism head - on precisely on its two most vulnerable points — its affirmation of, or failure definitely to reject, unqualified theological determinism, and its commitment to endless posthumous careers for human persons, making them in that respect rivals to God.

Early on, the New Testament books were translated into other languages, which seldom happened with other Greek and Latin writers.

The D - League's premier writer, Scott Schroeder of Ridiculous Upside, wrote this in early February while campaigning for Green to be called up to play his first NBA game since the» 09 -»10 season, and Schroeder was spot on:

A few days earlier, a writer from the Bay Area had called DeBartolo's secretary seeking a phone interview for a story on Walsh.

As a writer living on the West Coast of the United States, I was up early this morning as kick off was at 5.30 AM out here.

Jan Hunt, director of The Natural Child, points out, «As the writer John Holt put it so eloquently, having feelings of love and safety in early life, far from «spoiling» a child, is like «money in the bank»: a fund of trust, self - esteem and inner security they can draw on throughout life's challenges.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Early in Inferior, science writer Angela Saini recalls a man cornering her after a signing for her book Geek Nation, on science in India.

Best - selling author and science writer Ed Yong offered a whirlwind tour of the world of microbes from their early dominance of Earth to their comfortable occupation of the human body during an evening lecture on 4 October as part of the annual AAAS - Hitachi Lecture Series.

Because Jackson wanted to become a writer early on, she spent time becoming better at it, which has helped her with her career.

Editor's note: This slide show is part of a four - part series that Anne Casselman, a freelance writer and regular contributor to Scientific American, reported in early June during a rare opportunity to conduct field reporting on grizzly bears in Heiltsuk First Nation traditional territory in British Columbia.

Editor's note: This post is part of a four - part series that Anne Casselman, a freelance writer and regular contributor to Scientific American, reported in early June during a rare opportunity to conduct field reporting on grizzly bears in Heiltsuk First Nation traditional territory in British Columbia.

«The evidence for early oceans on Mars is controversial, and this question hits on a pretty fundamental issue,» says Science News astronomy writer Lisa Grossman.

Many writers can look back on things they wrote early in their lives and cringe, and The Population Bomb certainly has its share of cringe - worthy passages.

Rowman and Littlefield will publish Linden's first book, Living Well on the Road, with the foreword written by famed actor and travel writer Andrew McCarthy, in early 2017.

One of the earliest was Alex Jack, a prolific writer on the virtues of macrobiotics.

2018-04-08 18:26 I stand quietly while you do somersaults on the bed as you aren't being naughty, you are just trying to get your out of sync body under stand Writer Amy Chua shocked the world with her provocative essay, «Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,» when it appeared in the Wall Street Journal earlier...

By early March, sets were being built while «Spotlight» writer Josh Singer simultaneously worked on rewrites of Liz Hannah's script.

Updated about three decades from Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan (the Irish writer's first stage hit), this frothy adaptation is set in the early 1930s on Italy's Amalfi coast, with no sign of poverty or fascism on the beautifully art - directed horizon.

This debut feature from writer - director David Veloz, based on a 1995 autobiography, starkly retells Stahl's rise and fall in LA - LA - land over the course of a multi-day shack - up with ex-addict Kitty (E.R.'s Maria Bello), a sucker for rehab patients who coaxes him away from a dead - end job (in, appropriately, Phoenix) in favor of sex (initially as frigid as the frozen chicken he was hacking at only hours earlier at his fast - food outpost) and conversation.

Lee directed a script by «12 Years A Slave» writer John Ridley, who would have been showrunner, «Entourage» mastermind Doug Ellin was also producing, and the show was based on the early life of Mike Tyson (boxing having been HBO's bread - and - butter back in the day).

-LSB-...] optional commentary by writer / director Rian Johnson, reveals an early vision for the film that may have focused more on John Boyega's ex-Stormtrooper Finn, literally from the start.

The Greasy Strangler (review) left our jaws on the floor at SXSW Film Festival earlier this year, where we also caught up with writer / director Jim Hosking and lead actors Sky... Read More

Matt Brown offered an in - depth look on how the film tackles the dangers of conformism and socialization in his essay «The Normalized Atrocities of Julia Ducournau's Raw», and earlier today we published an interview with the writer - director herself, in which she discusses her process as a writer, the fine - tuning of her cinematic language, and underscores how Raw addresses the subject of human identity in a manner that both challenges and transcends stereotypical conceptions of gender roles.

The Greasy Strangler (review) left our jaws on the floor at SXSW Film Festival earlier this year, where we also caught up with writer / director Jim Hosking and lead actors Sky Elobar and Michael St. Michaels to chat about the cult classic in the making (interview).

When asked for details about the plot, Reeves revealed that the project will not be based on the story Affleck worked on earlier, together with writers Chris Terrio and Geoff Johns.

The theme of «Moonlight,» writer - director Barry Jenkins» melancholy meditation on one young man's coming - of - age, is summed up in an early scene in the film.

His legacy as an upstart graffiti artist, clothing designer, painter and musician is on view in this informative and perfectly rendered (director / writer Sara Driver) retelling of his early years.

The summer 2018 movie season is set to begin early, as writer - director Vaughn Stein's thriller, «Terminal,» will be distributed in theaters and on VOD and Digital HD this Friday, May 11, by RLJE Films.

Actress Charlize Theron is in early talks to collaborate with her «Young Adult» team, director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody for a film on motherhood.

Charlize Theron is in early talks to collaborate with her «Young Adult» team, director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody for a film on motherhood.

Screenplay predictions can be a bit tricky this early on as we saw with this year's Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner Moonlight, which won multiple Original Screenplay citations from critics as well as the Writers Guild of America but was deemed Adapted by the Academy deep into the Oscar season.