Sentences with phrase «founded early this century»

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The philosophy of stoicism, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, asserts that virtues (such as wisdom) should be based on behavior, rather than words.

It was founded by PR exec Audrey Gelman and business partner Lauren Kassan, and was inspired by the women's social clubs of the early 20th century.

Early in the 20th century, trans fats were found mainly in solid margarines and vegetable shortening.

The Islamic faith was founded by Muhammad on the Arabian Peninsula in the early seventh Century.

In the early fourth century, when Constantine embraced and sanctioned Christianity, the believers went from suffering servants who were persecuted to those who found themselves living in comfort and security.

We find it quaint that colleges and even some state universities required chapel attendance, until secularism ended that in the early twentieth century.

For Antonina's generation of early Twentieth - Century immigrants, the freedom of America's press offered solid evidence that their faith in the young country's promise and opportunity was well - founded.

The Knights Templar were a Christian military order founded in the early 12th century.

What one finds in Greene is perhaps a more subtle insight into marriage than what one finds in nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century novels: the lack of fulfillment in marriage and the need to seek this in the company of someone else.

Joseph Smith founded Mormonism in the early 19th century.

The Dominicans, founded by St Dominic (1170 - 1221) in 1215, like the Franciscans, date from the early thirteenth century.

But the same notion is to be found many centuries earlier, in Chaucer or even in Homer.

In the course of a wide reading of Puritan and other Protestant writers in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, I have found nothing but opposition to this type of ascetic «perfection».6

When reading the Old and New Testament, one finds that right from the start, both in Judaism and early Christianity, family relationships were considered extremely important, and this is also seen in the work of the churches throughout the centuries.

Earlier we found that Marx's critique of religion is derived from a detailed analysis of the manifestation of nineteenth century religion, and his negation of religion has a predominantly social character.

They found initial expression in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries among Brahmin intellectuals who were disillusioned with British rule and sought a more traditionalist basis for political and cultural identity.

When I first met her, Mary, who was to become my wife, was secretary of the Cambridge branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which was founded as a Christian Pacifist Organization early in the twentieth century.

It isn't found in any that date back later than the 8th century in fact and is not referenced by any of the early church writers before the 13th century.

Rhetorical criticism of the Bible is nothing new; it can be traced back at least as early as Augustine, but the twentieth century practice of rhetorical criticism finds its origins in James Muilenburg's work with Hebrew poetry and Amos Wilder's lectures on early Christian rhetoric.

Since so much of the book depends upon conjecture, it remains doubtful that Wilson has truly found the man behind the art, but he nevertheless presents an informative and highly readable account of both Holbein and the early sixteenth century.

The events took place; the Church was founded; and out of the experience and needs of the Christians of the first and early second centuries the writings came.

Early use of this allegorical approach may be found in the work of Philo in the first century of the Common Era.

At times, it seems that the purpose of listening is simply to occupy the time until Muslims, for example, make the same transitions that Catholics and Protestants did centuries earlier so as to «find themselves increasingly at home in a dynamic, liberal, and capitalist world that is full of many faiths and many cultures.»

There are traditions that Christianity found its way to China in the first century, but the earliest more reliable report is from Arnobius who wrote in 300 AD, stating that the Gospel had been preached in China.

The other view is that the church was founded in India at a very early date (during the course of the first three centuries) by Christians from East Syria.

Archeology has found ruins of Christian houses of worship throughout the middle east that date beck to the early centuries.

Called «The Religion of Healthy - Mindedness» by William James in his classic work, Varieties of Religious Experience, New Thought is a spiritual and philosophical movement associated with the founding of a number of ideologically - related churches in the late 19th and early 20th century United States.

As early as the time of the first Isaiah toward the end of the eighth century we find him saying:

So using radio carbon dating they found camel bones that were from the 10th century BC, OK how does this prove anything about if camels were domesticated much earlier or not?

The correspondence between the English and French scholar, found in the British Library, have been held there since the early nineteenth century but have never been published.

That was in the early»70s, when with long hair, bobbles, bangles and beads and a gleam of communitarian utopianism in my eyes, I finally found my way into the fourth century treatise by Nemesius, peri phuseos anthropon («On the Nature of the Human»), where it at length dawned on me that ancient wisdom could be the basis for a deeper critique of modern narcissistic individualism than I had yet seen.

In Roman Catholicism, for example, one goes from the official condemnation of the «modernists» in an early part of this century to what might be appropriately described as the dominant position today, found in Pope Pius XII's Human generis (1950), which, concerning the relation between evolution and creation, accepts evolution yet insists on the special, «second» creation of the human soul.

I think being written only a few decades after these events is about as good a deal as you can get w / ancient history; same goes for finding early 2nd century samples of m in Egypt.

The Religious Education Association was founded during the early decades of the twentieth century.

None (that I am aware of) envisions returning to the conditions of the 18th or 19th centuries (as is sometimes alleged), but all find aspects of earlier Methodist experience that challenge what they perceive as the current deteriorating state of Methodism.

A German reaching the peak of his adult powers in the mid-twentieth century - some of whose early works were confiscated by the Nazi government - he eventually found a wider readership in countries other than his native land.

The theory / practice distinction has dominated theological curricula since the founding of independent divinity schools and seminaries in the early 19th century.

I want to suggest to you the classical definition of Christian prayer that is found first stated by a great theologian of the earlier days of the Church, St. John of Damascus, and taken over by St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century: «Prayer is the elevation of the soul to God.»

Newer generations of liberals would find the reversion to 18th - and early 19th - century sources irrelevant in a postMarxian and post-Freudian context.

The beautiful opening of the Third Eucharistic Prayer of the Church of England's Alternative Service Book (1980) draws its inspiration from the Eucharistic prayer found in the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c.l70 — t ~ 236), which is thought to represent a tradition of the early third century.

Just my observation, but I think nakedpastor would not have been comfortable in a gathering of believers in the early first century church unless he found it fully in compliance with HIS expectations of what it should be.

Indeed, whether we look to the teachers of ancient Israel or to the Platonic academy or to Augustine at Cassiciacum or to the medieval university or to Pico's disputatious Florence or to the small colleges of early nineteenth - century America, we find learning flourishing in communities formed by the conscious practice of spiritual virtues.

Ceramic evidence indicates occupation of the City of David, within present - day Jerusalem, as far back as the Copper Age (c. 4th millennium BCE) with evidence of a permanent settlement during the early Bronze Age (c. 3000 — 2800 BCE) The Execration Texts, which refer to a city called Roshlamem or Rosh - ramen] and the Amarna letters (c. 14th century BCE) may be the earliest mention of the city Some archaeologists, including Kathleen Kenyon, believe Jerusalem] as a city was founded by Northwest Semitic people with organized settlements from around 2600 BCE.

Knowledge of the existence of a vital third (organic) tradition — the others being Aristotelianism and mechanism — in the seventeenth century, of its early success in promoting scientific discoveries, and of the dubious reasons for its defeat, may help embolden some theologians to revive this tradition, in purified form, in a way that would be beneficial both to the religious life of humanity and its «scientific» understanding of the reality in which it finds itself (p. 41)

Early in the thirteenth century Francis created a monastic order founded on the principle of conformity to the life of Jesus «in all things.»

Americans often find it difficult to understand the Empire — the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, which had been dissolved by Napoleon a century earlier — and its place in the European imagination.

As early as the end of the first century, the Christians found themselves under a political power — the Roman empire — which persecuted them but at the same time insured a kind of order and a kind of justice.

According to Bart D. Ehrman (AGNOSTIC), «These scribal additions are often found in late medieval manuscripts of the New Testament, but not in the manuscripts of the earlier centuries.»

According to Bart D. Ehrman, «These scribal additions are often found in late medieval manuscripts of the New Testament, but not in the manuscripts of the earlier centuries.»

To this day I find it ironic but also revealing that scholars regularly reference his early (1947) book «The Uneasy Conscience of Fundamentalists» but seldom make reference to a work that represents the accumulated wisdom of an additional quarter century of thinking on the part of one of the most recognized and celebrated systematic theologians of the twentieth century.