Sentences with phrase «monks written»

You don't need much knowledge of cultural history and the philosophy of science to understand why the testimony of mediaeval monks written in Latin doesn't stand a chance against statistics.

An interesting comment — «You don't need much knowledge of cultural history and the philosophy of science to understand why the testimony of mediaeval monks written in Latin doesn't stand a chance against statistics.

At the advice of German officers, the monks wrote Hitler and asked for the protection, which he provided.

One monk wrote about his nightly practice of descending 18 steps into a holy cave and making 100 genuflections on each step.

The monks wrote of a coffee trade between Yemen and Ethiopia, where the beans originated.

The first written description of the dog dates to 1297, when a monk wrote about a sailor hauled out of the sea by a dog with a «black coat of rough hair, cut to the first rib and with a tuft on the tip of his tail.»

Not exact matches

«Google is definitely a genius - based company,» wrote Bob Monks, chair of LENS Investments, in an email.

Trump has often stated that his returns are «all very beautiful,» as if written by monks in gold leaf.

In a 1959 letter to the Catholic monk and writer Thomas Merton, Milosz wrote, «As to my Catholicism, this is perhaps a subject for a whole letter.

He said that since the play was written by monks in a seventeenth - century monastery, it was inconceivable that the authors could have harbored anti-Semitic feelings, and he pointed out that the text has not been revised since 1860.

When St Augustine arrived in England, he wrote to Pope Gregory to describe the aggression, lawlessness and promiscuity, the broken families and the neglect of children, which his monks had encountered there.

I saw the show about the Monks (in greece) & it really hit home for me, I write now because i'm missing my dad, he was called home when i was 18 now 34, is anyone out there?

How can Thomas Merton, a Benedictine monk and hermit, who's writing revitalized the American monastic movement in the fifties and sixties, die in Bangkok while participating in a spiritual summit with Buddhists?

Well I'm sure the various monks and theologians of the Catholic Church have managed to write 25K «writings» that reference their god and / or the bible in the last 2000 years or so.

In the eighth century, Patriarch Timothy I wrote that in his time many monks crossed the sea and went only with staff and scrip to the Indians and the Chinese.

Not proven beyond a doubt but by referencing various written works by many of his «disciples» and others (monks etc) over 600 years AD who all had the exact same story though threatened with death etc it seems HE did live.

What makes you think that a monk who wrote the bible 1000 years ago (when most people were illiterate) knows anything more about a man named Jesus who lived 2000 years than we do today, when we all can't even agree on where President Obama came from today?

«Though I lived as a monk without reproach, I felt that I was a sinner before God with an extremely disturbed conscience,» he later wrote.

The fascinating story of how medieval Irish monks» practices of reading and writing, along with their efforts to teach others to do the same, saved Western civilization as we know it.

A leveling of occupations is reflected in Luther's writing: «Even a small work, even a maid cooking and cleaning, must be praised as a service to God far surpassing the holiness and asceticisms of all monks.»

Tirso de Molina (the nom de guerre of Gabriel Téllez, a monk in his day job) wrote most of his plays between 1605 and 1625; but he did not include El Burlador de Sevilla in any collection of his works, so we do not know when — or perhaps even if — he wrote it.

First, you write on your own blog that you are disappointed in city of Bethlehem, «struck by the ugliness of the place... and the rudeness of the monks» and «resonate» with Bethlehem being called a «grand comedy» ``??? And then, you rush over here to discuss David's hyperbole and histrionics (that is, theatrical exaggeration)???

Sohaku Ogata, a Zen monk in Kyoto who has visited the United States and has had many American disciples in Japan, has written Zen for the West, an explanation of Zen with an anthology of Zen writings selected with Western readers in mind.

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.

In the year A. D. 535, a monk named Cosmas1 wrote a book which he entitled, Christian Topography.

Five days later, he wrote to Spalatin: «Good Lord, will our people at Wittenberg give wives even to the monks?

You do know the bible was written by multiple people, then translated (from 3 different languages) and copied by hand by monks for hundreds of years, right?

As I metioned, the Beowulf epic was rather clumsily «christianized» by whichever monk liked it enough to write it down — and yet still, neither grendels nor dragons exist in real life.

In Merton & Waugh, Coady mentions that Merton wrote thirteen letters to Waugh, and Waugh only seven to the monk.

It was written to justify the decision to remain a monk rather than to undertake the more onerous tasks of a parish minister.

If he writes, his fingers will get sore, arithmetic may cause pains in his chest (why, one wonders); painting would hurt his eyes; so in the end they decide he shall become a monk, since this is the easiest and most comfortable way to make a living!

And to complicate matters the writers wrote in various languages which were duplicated by scribes and monks who made copies of text they could not understand.

José Guerra, writing in «Foods from Spain News,» speculates that monks at the Monastery...

José Guerra, writing in «Foods from Spain News,» speculates that monks at the Monastery of Guadalupe in Extremadura were the first Europeans to discover the flavor — and heat — of chiles by crushing them and adding them to their soups.

I've written before about the pseudo meat - monks that will religiously tend a fire from dawn till dusk.

As Alex Bellos, author of Futebol, writes «The phrase «Brazilian footballer» is like the phrases «French chef» or «Tibetan monk».

* I love so much of what Micha writes at mama: monk.

A team member and Bhutanese historian, Karma Phuntsho of the Shejun Agency for Bhutan's Cultural Documentation and Research in Thimphu, studied original historical texts — including biographies of monks — written in Classical Tibetan.

To search for evidence of historical earthquakes in Bhutan, geophysicist György Hetényi of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and his collaborators examined published accounts of Bhutanese history and original documents written by monks and temple builders.

The Italian monk Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 for pushing the idea; Galileo was convinced that alien beings lived on Jupiter; and in the late 1700s, Sir William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, wrote of his certainty that the moon must be inhabited.

Like Newman's, Principe's immersion in the labyrinthine world of alchemy began in college, in his case in the early 1980s, after he read The Twelve Keys, an allegorical work written in the 15th century by an influential alchemist and supposed Benedictine monk, Basil Valentine.

Millions of women forego their favourite foods for new year weight loss goals, but an eating technique used by Tibetan monks means you needn't be one of them, writes Dr Evelyn Lewin

Lastly, in what feels like a nod towards online dating apps, you're asked to write a passage... There's even a Buddhist monk using Vive to offer insight and advice, apparently, which sounds very zen.

Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by monks, but were later written down and composed as manuscripts in various Indo - Aryan languages which were then...

Healing Scriptures, 1993, 80 pages, Kenneth E. Hagin, 0892765216, 9780892765218, Faith Library Publications, Incorporated, 1993 DOWNLOAD http: / / Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by monks, but were later written down and composed as manuscripts in various Indo - Aryan languages which were

Written with her sister, Caroline, and based on their childhood in Wolverhampton, the working class growing pains of young Germaine (Helen Monks), Aretha (Alexa Davies) and Yoko (Molly Risker) fly past in a barrage of witty dialogue.

Brendan, a young monk growing up in a monastery dominated by fear of Viking invasion, longs to become a scribe and help the new monk in town write his Book.

The question is whether or not we are in touch with it, writes Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk and author.

He has written about his experiences working with monks of Sera Jey monastery and has published short fiction in several literary journals including Ecclectica, Stirring, and Convergence.

Before The Long March she wrote Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud in which she follows in the footsteps of seventh century monk Xuanzang, who set out from China for India in search of Buddhist scriptures.