Sentences with phrase «in early society»

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What such early true believers opposed was a society with lords and ladies — so egalitarianism became an article of faith, with «comrade» replacing «Mr» and «sir» in party forums.

Entrepreneur John Battelle, an author, blogger, and one of the founding editors of Wired, thinks the basic infrastructure of the future of business and society was born in the early days of the web: the banner ad.

Even Rupert Murdoch said so earlier this month, warning in a tweet that America is becoming a «class society.»

The demutualisation was opposed by a group of members, some involved in the founding of the society in the early 1960s to offer an alternative to banks, which at the time were regarded as unfriendly to consumers.

The side effect was first observed earlier this month at the American Society of Hematology conference, where CEODavid Schenkein spoke with CNBC about the safety of one of the molecules in its drug, which was meant to treat pyruvate kinase deficiency, a rare, genetic anemia.

«There's a massive opportunity here to change the global financial structure, to change a lot of ways that society interacts with technology,» says Elizabeth Stark, the CEO of Lightning Labs, which, in March, released an early version of much anticipated software that is designed to make Bitcoin transactions faster, cheaper, and more private.

Recalling the blunders that led to the island's defeat in early 1942, he wrote, «In 70 days of surprises, upsets and stupidities, British colonial society was shattered, and with it all the assumptions of the Englishman's superiority.&raquin early 1942, he wrote, «In 70 days of surprises, upsets and stupidities, British colonial society was shattered, and with it all the assumptions of the Englishman's superiority.&raquIn 70 days of surprises, upsets and stupidities, British colonial society was shattered, and with it all the assumptions of the Englishman's superiority.»

We invest much less in young children, and that stems largely from the fact that most other advanced economies view early childhood education, child care and other benefits targeted at parents with young children as «public goods,» meaning investments that, absent public support, would be insufficiently made from the perspective of society's well - being.

Like the technocratic progressives in the early 20th century, one can easily see how Silicon Valley's masters of the universe might see themselves as best able to «manage» society.

Jeff Schwartz, president of the Parkland Historical Society, said between 1,500 and 2,000 tributes that were placed near the Parkland Recreational and Enrichment Center and amphitheater in Pine Trails Park were already collected earlier this month.

During a talk at the Japan Society in New York, the CEO of the Monex Group made connections between the derivative market in the early 1980s and the current state of cryptocurrency.

Grammy - winning performer and producer Wyclef Jean believes the combined creativity, ingenuity and energy of young people in their last few years of high school and early college is a musical, cultural and political force that a society ignores at its...

There are so many things that have faced human society that were completely incomprehensible to the original disciples and apostles, the early church, and yet the church endures, the church survives because the Gospel isn't tied to one particular time in history, one particular school of thought, one particular framework.

Still, she notes that, «In the early 19th century, the United States was one of the most egalitarian societies on the planet.

And while it is surely obvious that not everything can be covered in a discussion of this length, I would argue that the prayer and Bible - reading decisions of the early Sixties have had a far greater impact politically, culturally, and legally on American society than many scholars realize.

A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugain the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» PortugaIn general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugain and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugain the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» PortugaIn all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.

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.

In many early societies harming someone meant that the entire family would seek out retribution on the other family.

I think it» a bit early to believe we have everything figured out when we can't even fix very simple problems that exist in our society.

Even primitive societies were aware of it, and it inspired not only feelings of religious awe (many expressions of which are found in the Bible itself) but also the earliest attempts at mathematical science.

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

Some theologians in the Wesleyan tradition, especially those most under the influence of neo-evangelicalism, in the early years of the post-World War II Evangelical Theological Society attempted to work in the neo evangelical coalition.

As Imbruglia notes, the utopian vision of the Paraguayan missions was created by the Jesuits themselves: In widely circulated accounts, Jesuit authors described how once - «savage» Indios «became different men» through their conversion and joined a «perfect society» resembling the early Church.

Its authors, Norman Dennis and George Erdos (neither of them Catholic) quoted The Ecclesiastical History of England by the Venerable Bede to remind readers of an earlier time when society had been in an equally parlous state.

We might say that society has a vested interest in protecting the «sacred interplay» we spoke of earlier, encouraging only permanently committed couples to approach that ground.

The alternative comedy movement started in the late 80s and early 90s, blossomed, flourished and impacted society, and the Church had no response.

The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.

The findings are supported by Bible Society's earlier «Pass it On» report, in which 43 % of eight to fifteen year olds indicated they had never read, seen or heard the story of the Crucifixion of Jesus.

It is, however, a mentality that Dawson seeks to capture, and he grounds it historically in the emergence of late medieval / early modern urbanites whose place in society Dawson thinks contributed to a view of persons as isolated individuals, disconnected from the land and from one another.

The early»60s were also an optimistic time at home when it seemed that the civil rights movement was bringing about long overdue changes in our society and a new phase of democratization seemed possible.

The current interest in practical theology may be seen as a return to the earlier effort to develop a comprehensive, integrated understanding of the life of faith in contemporary society.

Sometime in late October, early November 2001, the tone of that discussion switched, and it became: What's wrong with the Islamic world that it failed to produce democracy, science, education and its own enlightenment, and instead created societies that breed terror?

In such a materialistic society, the Church MUST reclaim the strong language used by early church leaders to warn of the potential dangers of wealth, and we MUST be more careful of proclaiming all wealth as an undisputed blessing from God.

To call for religious warfare, as some of them do, is to recall the religious wars of earlier centuries that unraveled civil society and led thoughtful people to the conclusion that religion in public is inescapably divisive and destructive.

And as we noted earlier, this gives rise in his scheme, to structured societies of Societies, etc..

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

On the level of male - female relations, the mythic account of the fall in fact describes the patriarchal society of the early people who created this Genesis myth, which in its turn confirmed the social structure of male dominance and female subjection.

Each actual entity in the society has a conceptual prehension of the defining characteristic which it derives from its feelings of earlier actual entities in the society (Whitehead, Process 34).

There are such pressures in American society, but the court has not fallen captive to them, at least not since 1970, when Chief Justice Warren Burger spent many words rejecting the earlier hard - line — though still not «absolute» — separationist stance of the Earl Warren court.

I invite them to read the Gospels and the Acts and they will find Our Lord Jesus Christ having compassion and charity for the poor, sinners and all outcasts of society, and the early Christians following in His footsteps.

Even the Ten Commandments, given in the setting of early Hebrew society but still relevant today, have to be applied in the light of contemporary circumstances.

Reversing what she sees as a trend among historians, Pagels focuses not on the ways in which Christians were similar to their «pagan neighbors» (an emphasis useful in overcoming overstatements about the uniqueness of the early church), but instead explores, in Tertullian's phrase, the «peculiarities of the Christian society.»

This defining characteristic is «inherited» by later actual entities in the society from earlier actual entities in the society.

Current enthusiasm for civil society is usually traced to the arguments of Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, and others who posited the claims of civil society against the totalitarian claims of communism, and, earlier than that, to the To Empower People manifesto authored by Peter Berger and myself in order to lift up the crucial role of non-governmental «mediating institutions» in public policy.

The fourteen - day difference reflects the retention by certain Orthodox congregations of the Julian calendar, which was replaced by Gregorian reckoning in the majority of Orthodox societies early in the twentieth century.

The unity movement, a vocally accepted way of life in the 1950s, reached its high point in the early 1960s, at a time when society had a sense of working together.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

Religion surfaces in Blankenhorn's book mostly to support his views, for example, that a main theme of the Hebrew scriptures is the establishment of patriarchal fatherhood or that the world's great religions share a common marriage heritage that dates back to early Egyptian and Mesopotamian society.

This weakened the church's ability to resist the quasi-fascist genocidal racism that emerged in a sector of Hutu society in the late 1980s and early 1990s and eventually led to genocide against their Tutsi compatriots.

(2) Some Whiteheadians may assume that earlier conscious personal occasions are privately objectified only for later occasions within the same personally ordered society, and not for other occasions in other societies.