Sentences with phrase «from other centuries»

Rauch's paintings suggest a narrative intent but, as art historian Charlotte Mullins explains, closer scrutiny immediately presents the viewer with enigmas: «Architectural elements peter out; men in uniform from throughout history intimidate men and women from other centuries; great struggles occur but their reason is never apparent; styles change at a whim.»

Not exact matches

Orban, who in common with other Eastern European leaders is anxious to show voters that they have not swapped half a century of rule from Moscow for diktat from Brussels, defended himself in the European Parliament on Wednesday.

Dish hasn't been shy about using its new muscle against other content providers either: It has taken recent disputes with both CBS (cbs) and 21st Century Fox (fox) to the point where both removed their channels from the network, but ultimately signed new agreements at what Dish felt were more favorable rates.

By the middle of the 19th century, notes Banner, the death penalty had been removed from «crime after crime until none of the northern states used it for any offense other than murder.»

A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering amounts of corn, wheat, cotton, and other crops — and will continue to produce that valuable bounty, whatever the currency may be.

Russian women, despite their former revolutionary fervor, typically receive flowers and chocolates from their significant others, having traded Soviet war songs for romantic dinners in the latter part of the twentieth century.

Other studios have had mixed results with the Marvel characters they own (see: Fox's 2015 Fantastic Four reboot), but Deadpool «s success could pave the way for that character to find his way into future films from the successful X-Men series, to which 20th Century Fox also holds the rights.

The drive to break the power of landed aristocracies in Britain, France and other countries became the major political fight from the century spanning 1815 and World War I.

«Kooky 18th century protectionism will jack up prices on American families — and will prompt retaliation from other countries... if the President goes through with this, it will kill American jobs — that's what every trade war ultimately does,» Sen. Ben Sasse (R - NE) told Politico's Burgess Everett.

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The nearly century - old American Civil Liberties Union and its foundations raised about $ 146 million last year, and they're seeing record donations this year, with support from Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Lyft Inc. and other companies.

From a small trading post in the 15th century to a metropolitan area with a population of over 14 million, this massive city dwarfs Thailand's other urban centers.

So, though southerneyes44 writes of Christian «appreciation of alternate views», there's a long and brutal history of Christians persecuting adherents of other religions, including the followers of Judaism, from which Christianity arose, during various European pogroms against Jews throughout many centuries, and adherents of other branches of Christianity.

He offers not just a selective summary of «the historian and her sources» but also an umbrella of charges and allegations from other prominent figures over the past half century.

your really going to deny the movment that came from him and the Writings of Joesphus, Thallus, Roman Taticus and several other historicans in the 1st century?

This is a lesson I learned from Herbert McCabe and other Dominicans, like Fergus Kerr, who effected a kind of marriage between Wittgenstein and Aquinas during the second half of the 20th century.

Take 10 minutes from patting yourself on the back and take a look at my blog / websites, and / or my comments on other threads here, and you'll be quickly disabused of the notion that I treat the Scriptures «as though they are written directly to 20th Century A.D. Americans» (For what it's worth, I'm not American, so why would I do such a thing).

At the close of the twentieth century, with ecological deterioration accelerating and the nuclear threat ever with us, we need to feel not acceptance but the challenge to join forces on the side of life, for while we, like all creatures, are ultimately part of a universe that is brutal and may well end, we have, while we live, a part to play different from that of any other creature: we are responsible agents who can join with our loving parent to help our own and other species to survive and flourish.

The fact remains that Christians today, far from being repelled by violence, or considering it a possible but shocking necessity, or trying to find a compromise — far from all that — many Christians today participate in «revolutionary» violence just as fervently as, half a century ago, other Christians participated in military violence.

There are a number of important Greek manuscripts from the second and third century containing over half of the new testament, and there are other smaller fragments as well.

I do nt know any other religion that has made itself fat with wealth throughout the centuries from others sufferings.

Before, however, we look at the questions of intellectual openness, fellowship with other faiths and social engagement, it will help to see why many thinkers picture the new century — it seems presumptuous to speculate about the new millennium — as very different from the century that is drawing to a close.

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.

For centuries, workers» skills and crafts were refined primarily by learning from others» successes and failures.

To bad people like you are willing to believe other famous people from centuries ago are real but not Jesus

During the first two centuries congregations claiming to possess a copy of a letter from an Apostle, or a fragment of a Gospel, or a writing of Paul contested the similar claims of other congregations.

And what makes your claim any different from the thousands of other gods that have been claimed over the centuries — none of which you presumably believe in?

Two other ancient prayers, the eleventh of the Eighteen Benedictions, from the period before the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, and the Alenu prayer, probably from the third century AD, both use a form of the verb mlk, «to reign, be king», with God as the subject.

5A reading of Bacon's New Organon reveals a more nuanced and less empiricist approach to induction than Whitehead (and other twentieth - century philosophers) usually give him credit, One text in particular refers to the ascent and descent characteristic of imaginative generalizations:»... from the new light of axioms, which have been educed from those particulars by a certain method and rule, shall in their turn point out the way again to new particulars, greater things shall be looked for.

In short, prior to the 19th century women as well as men thought of themselves, and of each other, as passionate sexual beings, and often their passion led them to deviate from existing community norms.

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

We can very accurately know what happened centuries and geological ages ago from our current knowledge of phyisics, chemistry, paleoclimatology, paleogeology and many other science fields, the amount of evidence is definitely feasible.

The moral directorship of the past was perhaps more effective than any consensus of today in the realm of personal morality; but even that is far from clear, given the bitter divisions in the 19th century over temperance, chastity, sabbatarianism and a dozen other moral issues.

Closely following the teachings of B.R. Ambedkar, the 20th Century symbol of Dalit power and protest, the Dalit asserted their separateness from other Hindus and demonstrated vehement opposition to classical Brahmanic Hinduism.12 However, it may be stated that Dalit movement in India is not yet homogenous and does represent diverse policies and means of liberation.

It is also an assurance that these absolutely respected leading intellectuals from the 20th Century scholarship, of whom most were religious, have agreed to have each other's names associated with their own and that they felt comfortable with what each other were saying in an academic setting and commanded world - wide respect as conservative, careful, and sincere, life - long teachers, academics and scholars.

But I have no doubt it was written by a Jewish believer from the 1st or 2nd century who was writing to other Jewish believers.

Ethnographic descriptions and anthropological observations of the 19th century highlighted the fact that Malayarayans were different from other hill tribes of Travancore on many counts.3 The Travancore Census Report (1901) describes Malayarayans as «a class of hill tribes, who are little more civilised than the Mannans, and have fixed abodes in the slopes of high mountain ranges.

Following the bible, is like following directions written centuries ago by some person helping someone else get from Jerusalem to Damascus, they don't work if you're going from New York to Jersey, or most other places today.

More recently, most of us have acquired computers, devices that enable us to watch movies, be they from half a century ago or the latest release, and numerous other technological marvels that demand our constant attention.

It is assumed that the soul by its nature is eternal, which was also the view of the third century Christian thinker Origen (c. 185 - c. 254) although in Advaita philosophy from the standpoint of realization the individual soul is not other than the Universal Soul.

In our earlier sections, we have noted that F.C. Burkitt, Arthur Voobus and several other historians have shown that the emphasis on celibacy and abstinence from marriage belonged to an authentic tradition of the Syrian church till the fourth century.

At an early date it was a favourite of those who expected the imminent coming of God's reign on earth; Papias (early second century) made use of it and supplied other traditions about future miraculous fertility from what (he said) had come from John the Lord's disciple.

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

Since AD 1834 numerous coins have been found in the Punjab and Afghanistan bearing his name in Greek on one side and in Pali on the other, and they are dated to be from the first half of the first century.

When we read the story of his dismissal from the Northampton church and then think of the temper in other New England towns two centuries ago, we can not honestly say that he would have fared better elsewhere.

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.

Of course, other explanations of the experience are possible and Freud, for example, a century later, suggested that religion is a collective expression of neurosis and an attempt of individuals to find an escape from the realities of a hostile and indifferent universe.

The evidence of the New Testament books themselves can now be supplemented by that of other Christian writings which are dated from the end of the first and the beginning of the second century, notably by the so - called

The evidence of the Rabbinical literature, which is mostly of late date and uniformly hostile to Christianity, adds little of historical worth, but confirms that Jews who became Christians formed a community to some extent separate from other Jews, and by the end of the first century at least were regarded as heretics.

Apart from this ecclesiastical relationship, there were at least two important waves of emigration of groups of Persian Christians to South India, one in the fourth century and the other in the ninth century, which reinforced and strengthened the existing St. Thomas Christian community.