Sentences with phrase «first century modern»

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Senior leaders finally realized that the military in general and various task forces at the tip of the spear had to transform into modern twenty - first century organizations that were aligned behind a single narrative for the vision.

Porn has been at the forefront of every modern leap from VCRs to the Internet, but Web 2.0, dominated by these tube and file - sharing sites, is the first technology in a century that pornographers have failed to exploit.

One of the journal's more interesting features during this pre - World War I period was a column called «Modern Womanhood» written by the Century's first female editor, Ida Withers Harrison.

Even worse over the centuries since Descartes right up to the invariably profound pages of First Things Catholic thinkers have downplayed the metaphysical relevance of modern science.

Nevertheless, if some Christian scholars describe Christ as too much the enlightenment liberal or modern revolutionary to possibly have lived in the first century, Paula Fredriksen may go too far in emphasizing how easy it is to explain Jesus» message in its historical context and how comprehensible that message was to his Jewish listeners.

To young priests and seminarians of the first decades of the 21st century, he is the hero figure of the later decades of the 20th, and as such a priest and bishop for the modern era whose style and message, insights and vision are a model for them to follow, as well as a saint whose intercession they seek and to whose influence many attribute their discernment of a call to the priesthood.

Typically Greeks identify as White... Jesus though was a first century Jew and likely has a skin color similar to a modern Syrian.

This conception was worked out in the first three centuries of the Christian era, given more precise shape in the Middle Ages, and has been more or less accommodated to the newer knowledge of modern times in recent years.

The real content of many so - called modern difficulties are as old as the eternal hills, as old as human pride, as hoary as the «non serviam» which was uttered by the first man and has been re-echoed since down the centuries.

(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.

Just as we do not practice medicine as it was practiced in the first few centuries A.D., we have to practice Christianity in the context of modern knowledge and science.

Bosch says that the word mission, in its modern sense, was first used in the sixteenth century by Jesuits in Northern Germany to refer to their work of reconverting Protestants to Catholicism.»

My first point is that while plurality has existed in India for centuries, pluralism is a modern reality.

Many evangelicals are beginning to grasp the fact, that certain ways of reading the Scriptures and certain doctrines about the Scriptures may actually become the means of oppression of modern women by the imposition of first century social patterns.

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.

As 500 BCE marks the central point of the First Axial Period, so the 18th century Enlightenment marks the irreversible threshold of change by which the Second Axial Period brought us into the modern world.

Intentional reflection on the «foundation, motives and aim, and the nature of mission» has not been an integral component of modern missions.1 Now, at the turn of the twenty - first century, we are aware of the need to navigate a complex...

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.

In the first half of the 17th century, Rene Descartes put forth a new method of philosophy, inaugurating what would come to be called the modern age.

It is significant that from the second century to the nineteenth, when modern historical scholarship became current, theories about the Bible were held which no competent historian now accepts, such as that Moses wrote the entire Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) including the description of his own death.

Real Jews, according to LaRouche, are followers of Philo of Alexandria, a first - century Jewish thinker with no modern following other than the Jews of the LaRouche movement.

And the fact is that two Catholic priests, Gregor Mendel, O.S.A., and Georges Lemaitre, were pivotal figures in creating two of the most important scientific enterprises of the twenty - first century: modern genetics, which is giving humanity previously unimaginable powers over the human future; and modern cosmology, which is giving us glimpses of the universe in the first moments of its existence.

This is a quote from Alan Knox: «The biggest problem in the modern church is not trying to recreate the first century church today.

As a Christian Gnostic, I don't have a hard time with this cartoon at all; If we read the Gospels carefully, when Jesus asked that He be believed in, it's not in the modern connotation of «I believe in Santa Claus», but in the first century idiomatic, «Trust me enough to emulate me through my teachings».

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.»

Both terms are relatively modern, first used (synonymously) in the seventeenth century.

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.

He's SOOO, like first century A.D. I figure you're right that 100 years from now everyone in the future will read your post and see what a uniquely wise, modern, advanced thinker you are.

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.

I dare to believe that what I take to be the more fundamental analyses of the modern will prevail, and that the energies of the twenty - first century will go into reconstruction on new lines, rather than pressing toward the nihilism that is the final outcome of the modern.

Somewhere in the book, I admit, a clever conceit lies buried: that behind so many of the deranged conspiracy theories that arose during a particularly volatile period in modern European history, and that in countless ways contributed to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century, lurks a single malevolent figure» cruel, cynical, a little psychotic, a liar who delights in the destruction his lies cause.

The 17th century Puritan and poet John Milton was one of the first modern Christians to defend free speech.

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.

Corinthian congregational fission reappears at the end of the first century in First Clement 45 - 47, and the catalogue of New Testament Apocrypha includes Third Corinthians, the «Apocalypse of Paul,» and even a modern and useless apocryphon called the «Epistle of Kallikrates.&rfirst century in First Clement 45 - 47, and the catalogue of New Testament Apocrypha includes Third Corinthians, the «Apocalypse of Paul,» and even a modern and useless apocryphon called the «Epistle of Kallikrates.&rFirst Clement 45 - 47, and the catalogue of New Testament Apocrypha includes Third Corinthians, the «Apocalypse of Paul,» and even a modern and useless apocryphon called the «Epistle of Kallikrates.»

Into this category fell Marsilius of Padua in the fourteenth century with his «modern'theory of the Church as a spiritual body in an entirely secular society, and Jan Huss (d. 1415), a Bohemian priest and university lecturer in Prague, one of the first to compose a treatise on The Church.

In anchoring Jesus firmly in the religion of first - century Judaism, Vermes is part of a growing circle of Jewish scholars whose work makes it possible for modern Judaism to reclaim Jesus as one of its own.

Understandably so, for seeing Jesus against the background of later first - century Judaism makes it easier to portray him as the hero of moderns alienated from religious traditions and structures.

Such conclusions, negative in the face of contemporary scholarly clichés, can be reached not by reading modern summaries but by looking at the heterogeneous testimonies given by first - century men.

Considering how little access poor Chileans had to the benefits of modern medicine during the first decades of this century, experiences of divine healing occupy a privileged place in the conversion testimonies of the first generations of Chilean Pentecostals.

When we bought our mid century modern house two years ago, we knew we would want to re-do it, but of course we kept having other situations that needed to be handled first.

During the first half of the 20th Century, breast - feeding fell victim to modern notions of convenience and propriety.

Explore the making of maple syrup from the tree to the table in three different time periods: the methods of Canada's First Nations, 19th century pioneers, and modern times.

The founder of the modern Olympic games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, first stated the Olympic creed in 1896, and it is as much a cherished ideal today as it was more than a century ago: «The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part.»

No one was keeping exact records a quarter of a century ago, but Patricia Morrison may be among the first of modern day women to earn the title of Mother of Flexible Hours.

Kayden is one of those twenty first century creations, a name that was created in our generation by parents who were looking for something new, modern and fresh.

The biggest difference in our modern world is that fewer women die of childbirth complications in first world countries than they did in past centuries.

Surviving the Twenty - First Century (Allen Lane # 25.00) he has written a series of essays about some of the themes which have dominated out lives, from terrorism to modern capitalism.

Many authors consider hot - air balloons, which were developed in the late 16th century, to be the first step towards modern UAVs.

The French Huguenots who built the London silk market from scratch in the eighteenth century, the likes of Mary Seacole who nursed our troops in the Crimean War, the Afro - Caribbeans who came in the First World War to work in the munitions factories of the North West, or as part of the Windrush Generation to fill gaps in the post-war Labour market, the Poles or the Indians who fought with us in the forties, the Italians who came to work in our mines in the nineteenth century, the Indians who work today in our burgeoning IT and gaming industries, the eastern Europeans who have picked our crops or kept our hotels running, have all played a part in building modern Britain.

But no - one designed it this way and there remains a reticence about seriously reshaping this chamber so that it meets the needs of a modern twenty - first century democracy.