Sentences with phrase «in early centuries»

As with the original TAR series, these new records are not entirely independent reconstructions inasmuch as there are some predictors (most often tree ring data and particularly in the early centuries) that are common between them,

Accepted — text revised to stress overlap in early centuries of the last millennium.

Greyhounds, Pharaoh Hounds, Ibizan Hounds, Borzoi, Salukis, Afghan Hounds and others share this common background and were of unparalleled value to their owners in the early centuries of civilization.

In the early centuries women were always deemed to be lower class in society and couldn't perform and enjoy equal rights with men.

In the early centuries women were always deemed to be lower class in society and can't perform and enjoy equal rights with men.

Mithraism was an unofficial religion that was widespread throughout the Roman Empire in the early centuries of our era.

Farmers may have domesticated pigs 9000 years ago, but genome studies now show that in those early centuries, trysts with wild animals were quite common, particularly in Europe.

These items provide tantalizing hints of commercial traffic on a Silk Road predating by two millennia the trading route that eventually linked China to Europe in the early centuries A.D. Hiebert likens the Oxus civilization to Polynesia — a scattered but common culture held together by camels rather than canoes.

The civilization reached its peak in the early centuries of the Common Era, only to decline after 700 C.E., possibly because they had tapped out the region's ground water, Mattingly explains.

First time mothers weren't getting the information they needed, the type of information that would be passed down from woman to woman in early centuries.

Inevitably, heirs as they were of the Greco - Roman world in both its pre-Christian and its Christian stages, the schoolmen utilized the forms of thought developed by the Greeks, the creeds shaped in the early centuries, of the faith, the writings of the Church Fathers of those years, and always with reference to the Bible.

In the early centuries CE there were many schools of thought at odds with each other.

Now, this first evangelization, in the early centuries of our era, took place slowly and peacefully.

Some of the best exegetical and theological work that has ever been done in the history of the church was done in the early centuries of the church before there were all the creeds and confessions to rein people in.

In the early centuries of Christian history, the Pelagians advocated this view, arguing that human beings were innately good and could always choose the good if they wanted.

It was used in the early centuries to designate the great councils such as the Council of Nicaea, to which representatives came from what was then the whole of Christendom — the section around the Mediterranean Sea where churches had been established.

Some Christians in the early centuries of the church did.

Moreover, Syriac was not an unknown language in India in the early centuries.

Such a view can not be accepted as it implies that the Indian church in the early centuries was theologically ignorant or indifferent.

would we have rediscovered other things that had got lost, [in the early centuries of the Church], another way?

In the early centuries of the Christian church, for example, there appears to have been a group of women known as subintroductae who lived - and even slept with their monogamous male partners while remaining celibate.

It was along a line of thought such as this (though I realize that I am grossly over-simplifying a complex and subtle process of reflection on the part of the Christian community) that the dominant problem for theology in the early centuries came to be how to assert that Jesus is our Lord, and hence, since Lordship implies worship and it is idolatry to worship man, how to assert his deity.

The desert saints in the early centuries of the church suffered from what they called «the demon of noonday.»

As far as the idea that heterosexual intercourse was «at least venially sinful» in the early centuries... I'm pretty sure that was the influence of Roman / Greek body / spirit duality.

The contents of Proverbs 22:17 - 23:10 appear substantially (and certainly originally) in an Egyptian writing called the Teaching of Amen - em - ope, variously dated in the early centuries of the first millennium B.C..

The church was the law in the early centuries and rules were made to control the people.

There would probably have been a lot more difference in the early centuries of the Christian Era.

If we had been living around the eastern Mediterranean in the early centuries of the Christian era, we might have noticed, scratched here and there on the sides of walls and houses or simply on the ground, the crude outline of a fish.

There were Christian communities in Persia, Central Asia, Tibet, China, Arabia, India and Ceylon in the early centuries.

He is certainly right in pointing out the frequent contact between north - west India and the countries now known as Iraq and Iran in the early centuries of the Christian era.

Whereas most Biblical talk of God locates God as an actor in a story, the theology forged in the early centuries is deeply influenced by Greek reflection about substances.

It does reveal, however, the shift of emphasis which took place in the early centuries of the Church from the Trinity of experience to the Trinity of doctrine.

In the early centuries of the church, the Roman Empire also had it's banners and seals, and Roman Citizens were required by law to swear fealty to Caesar by stating some sort of Pledge of Allegiance to one of his banners or seals.

Mention of the Donatists is a reminder of the agonizing choices that those who have faced persecution have had to make, as much in the twentieth century under Fascist and Communist regimes, as in the early centuries of the church.

He therefore has an intimate knowledge of how modern science has operated both in its early centuries and lately.

(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.

It is not sanctioned by religion and was not observed in the early centuries of Islam.

In the early centuries suicide was not always condemned.

In disputes with Jews, Christian thinkers in the early centuries argued that the promises of return and restoration (in Isaiah, Ezekiel, and the minor prophets) must be interpreted to refer either to the time of the exile in the sixth century B.G.E, i.e., the time of the return from exile in Babylonia, or to the new gathering of humankind in the church.

In the early centuries, in the High Middle Ages, and again at the time of the Reformation, Christians were compelled to rethink and reformulate their understanding of marriage and the family.

I can give you the short answer as to why Catholic Churches were so beautiful in earlier centuries; in the words of Isaiah, «I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house and the place where thy glory dwelleth.»

That was ably discussed in an earlier Century article («The Pros and Cons of Robert Schuller,» by Wilfred Bockelman, August 20 - 27, 1975).

Such art abounds, particularly that done in earlier centuries; but it is still prominent today.

Why do you think that slavery in the early century in the middle east as an abomination?

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.

In earlier centuries they had had little active part in the propagation of Christianity among non-Christian peoples.

In fact, in the earliest centuries of Christianity there was no official dress for clergy.

The gains painfully won in earlier centuries were apparently being lost.

As in earlier centuries, the tide of reform gave birth to new monastic movements and to the elevation of the character of some of the older orders.

As we move into the nineteenth century we shall see the same contrast, but heightened, between forces which threatened Christianity in the geographic center of its strength and movements which made that faith more a factor in mankind as a whole than in any earlier century.