Sentences with phrase «lived about a century»

It was the work of Mencius, a man who lived about a century later, who drank deeply at the fountain of Confucian wisdom, as it had been transmitted to his times, and who became the foremost Confucian teacher of antiquity, or perhaps of all time.

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Entrepreneur met with Tollin in his New York City apartment to discuss the life and leadership lessons he learned following these men, and what the process of working on a quarter century - long project taught him about creativity, focus and the pursuit of one's true passion.

While the traditional pension of the 20th century is rapidly disappearing, companies haven't stopped caring about the later - in - life success of their employees.

Perhaps that's why a pair of business owners have recently spoken out about their attempts to innovate the vacation, rethinking the traditional getaway to better suit the realities of life as a 21st century business owner.

(3) Know more about national and Nebraska efforts to redefine «education» in the 21st Century to include the first five years of life and learning.

Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to know.I hope everyone has the patience to study history and reality of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very common back in the days and just to let you know, that girl was engaged to another man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was common back in the days.Also, the age of 6 mentioned was age of engagement not age of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that «Christians of the first centuries said God created the world for the sake of communion with his divine life, a communion brought about by the «convocation» [gathering together] of men in Christ, and this «convocation» is the Church».

The show stars Anderson as Andre Johnson, a well - off advertising executive with a large, loving family; a lot of feelings about life in the 21st century; and not enough people interested in hearing them.

Tarkington, who saw the effects of the industrial revolution in his neck of the woods in the late nineteenth century, used the novel to talk about the rise of new technology — in this case, the automobile — and the impact it would have on an idyllic life.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

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.

But at least four interrelated themes in Plato's proposals about the education of ideal rulers took on a life of their own and did shape ordinary paideia as the Christians knew it centuries later.

And the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional life.

I'm surprised you would believe men that lived centuries before you did without knowing a single solid thing about them.

Who among us has not been affected, and perhaps somewhat troubled, by the dramatic new discoveries about the stars, atoms and life on earth that have taken place in this century?

Systematic philosophical thinking about urbanism antedates Christianity, going back to Aristotle, who wrote some four centuries before Christ that the best life for human beings is lived in community with others, and most particularly in a polis.

Historical critics are not immune to this danger, as Luke T. Johnson observes about John Dominic Crossan's 1991 work, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant: «Does not Crossan's picture of a peasant cynic preaching inclusiveness and equality fit perfectly the idealized ethos of the late 20th - century academic?»

When we talk about the key shifts of the twentieth century — those involving politics, trade, consumption, art — we leave out what is surely the most astonishing physical change in all of human history, one that has happened mostly during the last century: the doubling of the human life span in much....

And, again, what is reflected here of life in the eighteenth century agrees remarkably with what is depicted in the Genesis narratives about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

It appears that the ideas about «self,» «promises,» and «undertakings» that have since the seventeenth century become increasingly dominant in the political realm have at the same time seeped into the more intimate spheres of life.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

Here are about forty «sketches» of life in the city that Dreiser (An American Tragedy and Sister Carrie) did for daily newspapers in the first two decades of the century.

They are in fact, godless people and the same sort of people who brought about destruction and misery every where they've gone; from the French Revolution with it's guilotining of tens of thousands of people a year to those who established the Soviet Union at the costs of millions of lives and kept half the world under its iron fists for nearly a century.

We have said something about the place of the Bible in the living Christian tradition which preachers represent and for which they function; we have discussed a few of the problems or questions which are raised both for preachers and for people; and we have tried to sum up the theological and moral implications of the gospel as these have been worked out in the tradition down the centuries.

There may be something to learn from all this about the way in which pious men rebel against the idea of divine, incarnational authority and activity living on down the centuries in the Church.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

European societies through 14 centuries had assumed that a political community requires religious uniformity, and the logic of that assumption seemed impeccable: Religion involves the most fundamental commitment of people's lives, their conviction about what makes life ultimately worthwhile; consequently, religious diversity within a political community opens the possibility of serious political conflict.

Centuries before the Karen people of Burma first heard the gospel, their poetry taught of one creator God who mankind had sinned against by eating forbidden fruit.Their poets also foretold the coming of a white man who would visit with a holy golden book that contained the truth about life.

In The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns attempts to present an approach to Scripture which allows for us to accept that it has historical and scientific errors and that it contradicts itself at various places, and yet still retain the Bible as an important witness to the theological and spiritual struggles which were faced by our forefathers in the faith, and more importantly, as a historical document about the life of Jesus and how the death and resurrection of Jesus resulted in the transformation of the first century mediterranean world.

It is widely recognized that when Paul wrote to the Corinthians on this subject about the middle of the first century, he was quoting a well - established credal formula which he had received from early Christian tradition and which ran, «Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the scriptures; he was buried; he was raised to life on the third day, according to the scriptures.»

But what I find interesting about the Christian vision is how over the centuries it has worked out most, and maybe all, of the conceptual pitfalls that go along with the concept of an eternal life.

It is true that the documentary material about his life is thin, not an uncommon obstacle in the Caribbean, a rough climate for print archives even in countries that haven't spent two centuries mired in anarchy.

We have noted that the Old Testament prophet on whom Jesus seems most to have patterned his life work was the one whom he knew as Isaiah, though we may now speak of him as Second Isaiah, since he wrote during the exile and about one hundred and fifty years after the Isaiah of the eighth century.

No twentieth century scientist has been willing to define life (which I find supremely ironic as some physicians testify before Congress about when life begins!).

By the end of that century, archaeologists had excavated a number of the ruins and were learning about everyday life during biblical times.

Princess Dymphna was a lovely Irish lass who lived in about the fifth century A.D..

The modern world has underestimated the wisdom about the inner life gained by human beings over the centuries and embodied in the religious traditions.

We are reading about something which had never happened before in the life of this world, and we can hardly expect the writers of the first century A.D. fully to grasp the significance of what they are describing.

Stephen Crites has this pointed observation about the way in which truth is communicated by ordinary people — including those men and women of the First Century who experienced the Christ event in their own lives:

The nineteenth - century Anglican bishop, J. J. Stewart Perowne, who knew this tradition well, wrote about the importance of the Psalter in the life and liturgy of the church through the ages:

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

For Wright, the most fundamental question is what sort of first - century Jew Jesus could have been, given what we know about the political and theological milieu of early Jewish life.

Oh yeah, 1 Corinthians is usually considered at least first century source and it is likely that Paul did actually teach about the resurrection, and eternal life.

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

Her work contributed to fundamental changes that occurred during her lifetime in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth, but, because she was a woman, she could not participate fully in the scientific community of 19th - century Britain.

Political philosophers for whom Tocqueville is «an old friend» will be able to see beyond the dubious connections between Tocqueville's life and his ideas and learn a great deal about a figure who it now appears will guide us well into the twenty - first century.

and * anything * about his life that isn't hearsay, written by first century cult leaders.

Whether we like it or not, we are separated from our fellow - Christians of the sixteenth century and earlier by virtue of a world view which causes us to think quite differently about some aspects of life on this planet.