Sentences with phrase «following early century»

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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.

It was unfortunate that the earliest attempts to liberalize Islamic theology were quickly followed, in the first half of the twentieth century, by the attempts of Muslim leaders like Ataturk, in Turkey, and Reza Shah, in Persia, to force their societies to emulate the secular West.

If, as a progressive Protestant, I am fully committed to the truth, whether or not it is supportive of my Christian biases, should I in fact continue to follow a Jewish teacher of the early part of the first century whose teaching obviously reflected a very different socio - cultural situation than mine?

In this perspective he was following a trail first blazed by a fellow Alexandrian a century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.12

Hippolytus of Rome, early in the third [46] century CE, referenced the gnostic Valentinus as having followed 1 John in naming God as «wholly love,» in relation to which «love is not love unless there is something loved.»

Writing about a quarter of a century after the death of Jesus, he says that the tradition passed on to him, presumably when he became a Christian some twenty years earlier, contained the following statements: «that Christ died; that he was buried; that he was raised to life on the third day; and that he appeared to Cephas and afterwards to the Twelve.

To disentangle from its many complications the idea of God, for example, and to follow through from early Hebraism to second - century Christianity this idea's progress, while it makes the story more easily understandable, obscures the actual confusion of cross-currents, back - eddies, stagnant shallows, whirlpools, rapids, and cataracts present in history itself.

The orthodox are stuck in the 19th century believing that they are following the religion of 3000 years earlier, when, in fact, most of their traditions are based on experiences in the diaspora of the last 1900 years, but mostly limited to the past 200.

The closure marks the culmination of a dramatic surge in secularism in the USA following the Catholic Church scandals of the early 21st Century.

The Russian Formalists of the early twentieth century rightly pointed out that her novels exclusively follow the Cinderella plot: A young woman falls in love with a man of superior social standing and has to wait for him to make the first declaration of love ¯ to be followed, even more excruciatingly, by the hoped - for offer of marriage.

Louis XIV's revocation of the edict in 1685 was followed by a massive flight of some 200,000 Protestants from France, and renewed persecution at home met with a sustained guerilla uprising in the rural area of the Cévennes in the early years of the eighteenth century, which diverted French military forces at a critical moment from their struggle against foreign enemies.

The effect of denominational size, we know from other research, can be linked in turn to the effect of immigration to the United States, to competition among denominations and between Protestants and Catholics for members, and to the so - called «baby boom» that followed World War IL In other words, in the United States, sectarianism has been associated with demographic expansion in the world system, just as it appears to have been in Europe in earlier centuries.

Centered around Percy Fawcett, who traveled across South America as a cartographer in the early 20th Century, The Lost City of Z doesn't just follow an epic story of one man obsessed with discovering a mythic civilization that exists only in rumors and sparse ruins.

Other music, known as «early music» (roughly European «classical» music before the 18th - century classical period), has attracted a significant and ardent audience that augments the already considerable following of baroque music such as Pachelbel's «Canon in D,» Bach's Brandenburg Concerti and Handel's Messiah.

Luther's writings early won a wide following, but in the latter half of the sixteenth century Calvinism largely supplanted Lutheranism.

The others followed by an interval of several years, the Fourth Gospel probably coming down into the early part of the second century.

In the earlier part of the last century it was quite common for harsh potty training methods and punishment to be used; however this was followed by the gentler, child led approach.

That President Xi has accumulated so much personal power is partly a reflection of his political acumen, and partly a recognition by the Party that China needs a single strong leader at the moment as it transitions from a weak local power recovering from the disasters of Japanese occupation in the early 20th century followed the cultural revolution and the great leap forwards, and instead becomes a global power.

These rumbles may not be precursors but aftershocks — readjustments at a fault following a larger event, in some cases centuries earlier.

Other proposals include the radionuclide spike in the wake of the first atom bomb explosion in 1945 to a dip in CO2 levels around 1610 occasioned by the mass deaths that followed European arrival in North and South America a century or so earlier.

They found sobering results, including significant decreases in tree regeneration following wildfires in the early 21st century, a period markedly hotter and drier than the late 20th century.

The sizes of the earliest equines followed the ancient temperatures through major climate change, adding evidence to a centuries - old evolutionary theory

Early 20th - century studies claimed that hermit thrush song follows the same principles found in human musical systems, but these were anecdotal reports which were not supported by a rigorous analysis.

In the early 21st century, patterns of consumption and recreation similar to those of the United States became more widespread in Europe and especially in Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Following the model of the great early - 20th century photographers, the artist has assembled familiar seaside objects into a remarkable still - life composition.

Following up Mother's Milk with Blood Sugar Sex Magic in 1991, the classic album firmly established RHCP as one of the greatest rock bands of the late 20th and early 21st century.

One of the early entries in the late - 20th - century resurgence of the Disney animated feature (following 1989's The Little Mermaid and 1991's Beauty and the Beast), Aladdin finally makes its long - awaited Blu - ray debut in a digital transfer that's every bit as eye - popping as what played theaters over 20 years ago.

Based on a screenplay by A Monster Calls author and screenwriter Patrick Ness, the story follows Anya, an unpopular 16 - year - old who gets stranded in an underground cave where she rescues Emily (Roberts), the apparent ghost of a teenage girl who died a century earlier.

Directed and co-written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu («Birdman»), the film follows an early 19th - century expedition of the American wilderness, where explorer Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) is mauled by a bear, and then robbed and left for dead by his own hunting companions.

Following on from the release of the «Uptown Munk» clip earlier this week [check it out here], 20th Century Fox has debuted three more sneak peeks from the upcoming sequel Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip.

I Melt with You (R for profanity, violence, sexuality and pervasive drug use) Midlife crisis drama about the annual retreat taken by four, former college buddies (Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven, Christian McKay and Thomas Jane) who agree to follow through with a macabre pact they entered into as classmates a quarter - century earlier.

Jarrod Emerson's Tribute to Omar Sharif Part 3: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) We follow the life of «Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago» (Sharif), a doctor by profession, but a poet at heart, as he and loved ones endure the hardships of various conflicts in early twentieth century Russia.

Following the success of their spinoff Deadpool earlier this year, 20th Century Fox will start production on Gambit in 2016, and the studio is also developing The New Mutants and X-Force, although it isn't known when production will begin on those projects.

Following an early look in September, 20th Century Fox returns with the official trailer for director Francis Lawrence's Red Sparrow.

In it, he calls Head Start «the most important social and educational experiment of the second half of the 20th century» — and offers the following controversial proposal for extending its benefits beyond early education:

By the early AD 1900s, there was a large and flourishing Jewish community in Londonâ $ ™ s East End following large scale immigration form Russia in the last two decades of the 19th century.

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According to a Harvard publication, until the early 20th century, U.S. schools were mostly configured as K — 8, followed by a 9 - 12 high school.

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The American literate culture that is widely shared by successful citizens was consciously formed in the beginning by people like Noah Webster and Parson Weems, and by those schoolmasters who followed them in the early nineteenth century.

This has meant some early ones (The Voyage Out, Night and Day) as well as this highly experimental late one, which follows the Pargiter family from the late 19th century to the years after the First World War.

In the format of James Patterson's signature (extremely) short chapters, the story is set out over three time periods: modern day, where we follow James» progress in writing the book; the late 19th and early 20th century and the discovery of King Tut's tomb; and 14th century BC, contemporary with King Tut's life.

Based on real events, this sweeping historical follows the intrigue surrounding the marriages of two very young princesses in the early 18th century.

The Christmas of the early American republic — of the half century following the Revolution — would be barely recognizable to us.

The U.S. had abundant free - roaming dogs from settlement times until the advent of motorized transportation in the early 20th century, which gradually drove working animals out of the streets, closely followed by the introduction of regularly scheduled urban garbage disposal, enclosed sewers, near - universal access to indoor plumbing in urban areas, and home refrigeration.

Egg hunting in the 17th and 18th centuries, followed by plume hunting in the mid-19th century, had pushed roseate terns to the brink of extinction, but after a brief recovery in the early 20th century, their numbers again crashed.

A club of fanciers was formed in France in 1897 and the breed's fortunes followed the tides of war in the early 20th century.

Despite having its entire roofline destroyed by an early morning fire in 1967, followed by numerous owners and financial hard times, the Crescent Hotel operated as a vacation, wedding, and honeymoon destination for the next nearly half - century.

Switzerland's history follows a similar path to that of many other European countries in that its earliest settlers were displaced by the attentions of the Roman Empire, which prospered here in the first and second centuries AD but began to decline under pressure from Europe's Germanic tribes in the fourth century.

Early the next morning we rode out to take in the vast, dramatic landscapes just as explorers would have done centuries before, followed by kayaking on a flat azure lake alongside creaking glaciers.