Sentences with phrase «first century people»

It is remarkable... that in the twenty - first century people continue to admire a medieval charter that is not law in any world jurisdiction, and that contains provisions relating generally to customs and institutions that have not existed anywhere for hundreds of years.

At the beginning of the twenty - first century the People's Republic of China governs the destiny of close to 1.3 billion people, or 21.6 per cent of the world's population, making it the most populous country on earth.

Not exact matches

The world's first «three - person baby» of the 21st century has been born.

We've already experienced two market crashes in the twenty - first century, which is why some people feel that the next bear market will look like the previous two episodes.

In fact, the Tanach is very clear to the Jews that the only covenant they have (and will ever have) is the one pounded out between G - d and the Jews on Mt. Sinai (which, if you read the fine print AND the NT is allowed to be understood / interpreted by designated leaders in the Jewish society; Jesus believed those people to be the Pharisees and told his JEWISH followers to adhere to Pharisee teachings... the Pharisees were the honorable, compassionate end of the theology spectrum in the first century instead of the bad rap they get from a mis - reading of the NT (done generally with no comprehension of Jewish culture or history).

It is a place (around the first century, a rabbi postulated that the maximum time spent there would be a year)... in which a person is can essentially be purged of their unrighteous DEEDS, and come close to G - d.

According to metropolitan Kallistos Ware, the central question of the twentieth century was the nature of the Church, whereas the central question of the twenty - first century is likely to be the nature of the human person.

As Christians spread their religion into Europe in the first centuries A.D., they ran into people living by a variety of local and regional religious creeds.

The number of married people in Britain has gone up for the first time in nearly half a century, according... More

They were no longer loving or hospitible and many of the traits that people used to identify a Christian in the first century were gone.

Since the sixteenth century, when the dream first began to take hold of European peoples, there have been some ups and downs of confidence.

The «central thesis» of The Arrogance of Faith, he announces at the book's outset, «is that Christianity, in the five centuries since its message was first carried to the peoples of the New World... has been fundamentally racist in its ideology, organization, and practice.»

So many Christians suffered for people like us in remote places can get the Gospel finally last century for the first time.

The first person to do so at length was Augustine, whose Confessions, written in the late fourth century, is regarded as the founding document of autobiography, spiritual and secular.

The volume is also divided into two separate stories, set a century apart: a long first - person narrative by a Handmaid in Gilead is followed by «Historical Notes on «The Handmaid's Tale,»» a fictive academic commentary by the urbane male editor of the anonymous woman's tapes discovered in the late 21st century, decades after Gilead's fall.

It did not require each person to proclaim a reading, hold up a banner or do a dance; active participation in the divine work celebrated at the altar meant something deeper for St Paul, as indeed for the Fathers of the first five centuries of the life of the Church.

It's kind of amazing how many people in the first - century wanted to follow Jesus but were sent away frustrated.

The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

it was a collection of oral and written tales form the area that the people who wrote it hoped would teach morals to jewish children.as the pagans that lived around them did not have theytype that the first century jews would have aproved of.

With carefully chosen words and images charged with first - century political meaning, he constantly reminded his followers that they were to be a set - apart people, a people who lived counter-culturally by loving their enemies, praying for those who persecuted them, lending without expecting anything in return, and surrendering allegiance to a crucified and risen Lord.

(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.

Even if we were certain of the original meaning of the root underlying the Hebrew noun we could hardly take this as conclusive evidence of the basic understanding of the Old Testament prophet in the middle centuries of the first millenium B.C. Rather, we will have to understand the sense of the term nabi» from the person of the prophet himself as he appears and functions in the community of ancient Israel.

Moreover, the changes from wordiness to brevity, and from the impersonal third person to the personal second, are absolutely in accord with the differences between the Lord's Prayer and other first - century Jewish prayers noticeable throughout the former.

Evidence that's genuinely convincing will propagate just like the idea that the earth orbits the sun — at first, almost nobody believed it, but as more and better evidence was found, more and more people changed their minds until now practically everyone agrees that the earth orbits the sun, even though this is diametrically opposed to people's beliefs a few centuries ago.

And Paul is making claims about «all flesh» and «every person» and about the «power of the gospel to save» that go beyond the specific cultural conditions of Jews and gentiles in the first century — his language demands to be engaged with at the anthropological / theological level.

Many people do not realize that the four Gospel accounts about Jesus (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) follow an ancient literary genre in the first century Roman Empire.

Centuries before the Karen people of Burma first heard the gospel, their poetry taught of one creator God who mankind had sinned against by eating forbidden... More

It has alerted a large number of people to the fact that there really is historical investigation into the first century, and that the world of the first century is not the same as ours.

Since the early twentieth century, German Protestant theology has sought forms in which first - person confession and second - person address, or, in other words, witness and proclamation, can shape the exposition of Christian theology.

A first step might be the realization that over the centuries, Protestant theology has largely stood aside from peoples outcast, downtrodden, humiliated.

How can people living in the twenty - first century find spiritual satisfaction and confidence?

We met in his office not far from the burial place of Bishop Frederick Baraga, a 19th - century missionary to the Ojibwa known as the «snowshoe priest» — a beloved figure among Indian people and the creator of the first Ojibwa dictionary.

The Pax Romana or «Roman Peace» was a term coined by the people in power during the first - and second - century Roman Empire.

In Augustine's time, Christians were the «third people,» after pagan Romans and Jews, while by the end of the sixth century they were indisputably the «first people,» with all that entailed for the development of Christendom.

However, I do notice that in the first century, most people were functionally illiterate.

First Century writings about Jesus, his personal traits, his teachings, the people around him, his concept of «Messiah,» his travels and final trip to Jerusalem, the crucifixion and responses thereafter.

The people who lived in the Middle East in the First Century AD where Caucasian.

In eighteenth century Europe, for the first time in history, people discovered that it was possible for the economy to grow continuously.

The person, in this sense of the term, emerged clearly for the first time in seventh - century Israel.

Many people today still live in a first - century culture,» he said.

But the fact that a bodily resurrection could have certain implications for people of the first century does not necessarily mean it can have these same implications for us today.

For one thing, the Messiah was not the only person expected or hoped for by first century Jews.

The vocation of St. John as the apostle of the Divinity of Christ's one person has fed and powered the true development of the doctrine of the Church at all times, not least in the first centuries in which the true doctrine of both the divinity and the humanity are hammered out in great Councils, and the concepts are refined in the fires of contrary heresy against either the full Divinity or the full Humanity of Christ.

The Spanish Inquisition was responsible for the deaths of between 3,000 and 5,000 people during its 350 - year history, about 2 \ % of all cases, with executions peaking in the tribunal's first fifty years (mostly converso) and at the end of the sixteenth century (mostly morisco).

I like this comment you made: > I believe that John, in his Gospel, is trying to get people to see that Jesus is God, and is possibly trying to instill more meaning in the terms «Christ» and «Son of God» than the average person in the first century would have understood or immediately grasped.

But for the likes of me and most ministerial readers of The Christian Century, our need is to be humble enough to learn from a genius like Schuller about getting people within earshot in the first place.

Both the biblical and philosophical humanisms that emerged in the first and second centuries C.E. were fostered by and responded to two enormous social changes: new discrepancies of status (the same person could occupy more than one role in a pluralistic and mobile society), and the downward mobility of values.

Centuries before the Karen people of Burma first heard the gospel, their poetry taught of one creator God who mankind had sinned against by eating forbidden fruit.Their poets also foretold the coming of a white man who would visit with a holy golden book that contained the truth about life.

That is why Isaac Peebles in the 19th century thought it was wrong for people to sing during a train ride; and why it is wrong to race our cars through the streets, stereos cranked high enough to be sure that everyone we pass has the opportunity to enjoy the music we happen to like; and why it was wrong for Cohn to wear his jacket; and why it is wrong for racists to burn crosses (another harmful act of self - expression that the courts have protected under the First Amendment).

Racism is an obsession as pernicious and devilish as any possession by evil spirits of first - century people; we can do everything within our powers to oppose racism.