Sentences with phrase «fact written century»

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One cause of this decline in awareness of Buckley's Catholicism may be the fact that he wrote less about his faith than any other major Catholic figure of the twentieth century — at least, if we calculate by sheer percentage of the prose he turned out in his hugely productive lifetime.

Seriously, a scrap of papyrus is somehow taken this seriously, but the fact that no first century historian wrote of Jesus, that Jesus himself left no writings, that Jesus left no Physical evidence of his existence, those don't matter, right?

So the bible stories are just that, stories written half a century after the fact and no without any other secular history to back it up.

In fact the opposite is true, for they are willing to trust God only if these millions of words written over a period of centuries from two to three thousand years ago are all literally true, whereas my faith in God does not depend on this.

Centuries earlier the psalmist and later the writer of II Peter wrote, «Do not be ignorant of this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day» (3:8).

In fact it can be found in all these essential outlines in the Adversus Haereses of St Iranaeus, written in the second century AD.

In fact, it was written during the 6th - century BCE, about 100 - 200 years after the original author of the Book of Isaiah died.

In fact, a pastor named George Herbert from the 16th century writes in his book, The Country Parson, that since doctors are so rare, it is a good idea for pastors to know as much medicine as possible and administer it when they can.

We can summarize the discussion up to this point by saying that the literary form of Mark's tomb pericope shows definite signs of having developed in three stages, consisting of two appendices with one third final addition (leaving aside the fact that in the second century a still further addition of Mark 16:9 — 20 was made) and that because of this, it may not have been part of the author's original plan as he set out to write his Gospel.

The Bible is not a textbook on science, for it was written many centuries before the modern scientific method and the vast accumulation of facts we call scientific knowledge had been dreamed of.

The fact that you're embarrassed by her dogma, and thus want to alter the terms used to describe it is understandable, but keep in mind: Rand isn't some 2rd Century figure who wrote in Latin.

In fact, we wouldn't have any Bible at all, for the work of writing and transmitting the Bible through the centuries was painstakingly carried out by committed and dedicated scholars.

I, by faith, believe that onlly God knew these things and revield them to Job (and Moses who later wrote the book of Job) How would you account for these people knowing these astronomical facts that were not proved until centuries later?

The information I speak is based on fact not some book written by men who never met one another... it is based in the 21st century.

«If Sodom's sin had indeed been homosexuality,» writes Matthew, «it is highly unlikely that every written discussion of the city for centuries following its destruction would fail to mention that fact.»

In fact, four centuries after Muhammad's death, some Muslim writers, like Abu Nu`aym al - Isfahani and Ahmad al - Bayhaqi, expanded a genre of Muslim writing, Dalā» il al - nubuwwa (The Signs of Prophethood), detailing extensive accounts of metaphysical miracles attributed to Muhammad as proofs of his prophethood.

Written by «historians» decades and in one case a century after the «fact» before they were even alive from second - hand sources when Christianity was considered a cult.

The very fact that, a) Jesus left NOTHING behind, no writings, no physical evidence, nothing written by any first century historian, and b) there were no less than 12 deities prior to Jesus throughout the world who were born of a virgin, taught at the temple when young, preached, healed, fed the hungry, were killed and rose from the dead.

The «canonical» history of Hebrews is somewhat confused by the fact that while it was used by many early Christian writers, some of them were aware that as it stands it can not have been written by the apostle Paul (see Chapter xix) We first encounter clear traces of Hebrews in the letter of Clement to the Corinthians, written at the end of the first century; but Clement does not say what he is quoting from.

In 2013, 20th Century Fox Television bought the rights to «Enemies Within,» the investigative story that unearthed many previously undisclosed facts about the NYPD's counterterrorism efforts, written by two reporters then with the Associated Press, Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo.

Ballard goes the furthest and, quoting from his earlier writing, says: «Science fiction, far from being an unimportant minor offshoot, in fact represents the main literary tradition of the 20th century... The main «fact» of the 20th century is the concept of the unlimited future... All literatures other than science fiction are doomed to irrelevance.

As you read the original accounts of this extraordinary age of polar exploration, written a century or more ago, you may be reminded of the common character of exploration, science and technology, each of which celebrate the opening of new frontiers, the discovery of unknown facts and the advancement of human endeavors.

In a Trinidad Garza social studies class, Engelhart recalls how a teacher introduced her students to robber barons — unethical American businessmen in the late 19th century, and later big businesses throughout the 1930s and 70s: «I want you to read this information about the robber barons, and then write down two questions: one about a fact that you don't understand and what you need to know about it, and a thinking question: How?

This election season has created the opportunity to challenge our own mental models and marry 21st century skills with critical pedagogy, allowing students to express themselves through writing, fact finding, action research, analyzing the authenticity of text, communicating with elected officials, and engaging in debate from both their own and others» perspectives.

Once I had done the preliminary research it was fairly easy to switch between the historical eras — in fact it was quite invigorating and fun to be writing about seventh - century Tang Dynasty Chang «an one week, and then switch to the nineteenth century and the Opium War the next.

«There are all kinds of things written on them and they provide an interesting snapshot of the last half century,» says 34 - year - old Mr Chang, who arrived in Liverpool on Wednesday to set up the exhibition at the city's FACT art centre.

BASIC FACTS: «Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty - First Century (Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture)» is written by Lauren Cornell (Editor) and Ed Halter (Editor).

Lamb wrote, «In fact, from about the beginning of this century up to 1940 a substantial climatic change was in progress, but it was in a direction which tended to make life easier and to reduce stresses for most activities and most people in most parts of the world.

As a matter of fact, as Emmanuel Garnier, one of his former students, wrote in a later book: it just happened two or three times a century, regularly, during the last 700 hundred years!

Once in a while I could see in the facts of a case details of the time and place, and it seemed to me that out of such material the century and a half during which the U.S. has been a nation could be written up, not from the standpoint of an individual, as in diaries, nor merely from the angle of the unusual, as in newspapers, but from every standpoint — as many standpoints as were provided by the witnesses themselves.