Sentences with phrase «of early writers»

A Nasty Problem of Early Writers... I hear this all the time.

The Epistle of James is a book that has been held by some to be not a Christian book at all, but a Jewish tract modified at one or two points to make it appear Christian.66 By another it is said to come closer to the Synoptic gospels in its type of thought than any other of the early writers.

The attempts of the early writers on the life of Jesus to unearth plain facts, and to reassure Christians that the facts were not really miraculous, went nowhere.

Reviewing the exegetical search of the early writers involves, then, for those of us who have come into the inheritance of these traditions, the responsibility not only to interact with these inherited traditions, but also to interpret these in the context of the «extratextual hermeneutics that is slowly emerging as a distinctive Asian contribution to theological methodology [which] seeks to transcend the textual, historical, and religious boundaries of Christian tradition and cultivate a deeper contact with the mysterious ways in which people of all religious persuasions have defined and appropriated humanity and divinity.»

In fact, Mary Shelley is considered one of the earliest writers of science fiction.

The Greek philosopher Parmenides, one of the earliest writers in the history of philosophy, considered being and becoming.

He was one of the earliest writers to highlight and report on a number of companies that have since become «unicorns» (reaching a valuation of $ 1B or more), including Zenefits and Twilio.

striking similarities with the accounts of earlier writers, allowing for what he regarded as an acceptable level of adaptation to changed circumstances;

Not exact matches

Same comfort for a lot less money,» says Hester, a writer at Our Next Life early retirement blog, and veteran of «100 + flights a year and 80 + hotel nights.»

Though Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller released a statement early Tuesday morning praising Melania Trump's address as «beautiful,» and noting that her «team of writers took notes on her life's inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking.»

For some time, hyper - modern writers have brought to bear against their modern past the same sort of scarifying analysis that earlier modern writers brought against the premodern past.

The comedian, writer, actor, movie director, and lover of jorts and hockey jerseys shared a very lighthearted and optimistic post on Twitter early this morning, offering a hospital selfie and writing, «After the first show this evening, I had a massive heart attack.

With that preparation, Professor Richard propounded the first question, the one Percy had to contend with from his early recognition as novelist to the end: «Do you consider yourself as a Southern writer and, if so, what features of your work do you regard as peculiarly Southern?»

c) you seem unaware that Paul is one of (if not THE) earliest writer in the NT (and most scholars presume the earliest source is the best source)

Earlier this year the Fox network, showing either the effects of the writers» strike or the signs of social decay, offered a gem of televised exploitation — the kind that repulses you but you can't help watching.

To appreciate the significance of Calvin's work ethic, it is necessary to understand the intense distaste with which the early Christian tradition, illustrated by the monastic writers, regarded work.

In her early adulthood, Angelou moved to New York and became a member of the Harlem Writers Guild.

The writer who goes under this name has left us some of the most magnificent poetry in the Bible — poetry which is largely free from the archaic obscurity of some of the earlier prophets, and can be enjoyed for the power and range of its imagery and its richly embroidered language, as well as for the sublimity of its thought, which touches, probably, the highest level reached anywhere in the Old Testament.

When referring to the earliest followers of Jesus, the Gospel writers often speak of two groups of disciples: the Twelve and the Women.

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

All the historically significant spiritual writers who advocate frequent communion — one only has to think of the great St Francis de Sales in the late 16th and early 17th century — also stress the necessity for frequent confession and serious preparation.

Although the various scriptural arguments for the resurrection of Jesus are open to question, modern writers insist that some explanation is needed of what empowered the early disciples to spread the message of Jesus across the world.

What the early Christian believers and writers, for example Mark, tried to do was apply to him the highest conceivable categories, human and divine; but in the end these all proved inadequate, as the later church soon discovered; for Jesus means more, was more, and is more than any of these categories could convey.

Centuries earlier the psalmist and later the writer of II Peter wrote, «Do not be ignorant of this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day» (3:8).

The earliest of the three (St. Mark) is clearly the work of a writer almost obsessed by the apologetic necessity of somehow making intelligible to his readers the scandalous outcome in rejection and death of the ministry of one whom he clearly believed to be the expected Messiah.

Early Christian writers mention an Elder John of Ephesus, who was a follower of Jesus but was not the apostle of that name, and they sometimes refer to him simply as «the Elder», just as the writer of these letters calls himself.

In the course of a wide reading of Puritan and other Protestant writers in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, I have found nothing but opposition to this type of ascetic «perfection».6

Early Christian writers speak of two groups of Jewish Christians, the Nazarenes and the Ebionites.

All in all this is a remarkable and valuable book, not only for the illustrations it offers of ancient rites, but also for the accurate accounts it offers of the way in which baptism was addressed by early Christian writers from the New Testament to the fourth century, making great use of Cyril of Jerusalem and John Chrysostom in the east and Ambrose and Augustine in the west.

It isn't found in any that date back later than the 8th century in fact and is not referenced by any of the early church writers before the 13th century.

So far as the interpretation of the saying is concerned, there is general agreement that the «not with observation» denies the possibility of the usual kind of apocalyptic speculation, and the present writer claimed earlier, (N. Perrin, Kingdom, pp. 176 ff.)

Earlier writers (as well as the rest of the New Testament) do not refer to a special birth.

In an earlier essay, Hill quotes a writer familiar to readers of First Things, Eve Tushnet, who also embraces a gay identity.

Perhaps some notes of Paul's were incorporated, somewhat as the Gospel writers drew on earlier sources, but it is practically certain that these letters in their finished form stand at or near the end of the New Testament writings.

Although the early Christian writers had the Old Testament as their Scriptures, not one of them had any idea that he was writing something that would itself become Holy Writ.

The message of the four Gospels is consistent with the writings of the Apostle Paul, who was the earliest New Testament writer, and the message of the Gospel is consistent with the teachings of the early church.

Earlier this month, a website called Veterans News Now (VNN), removed James M. Wall from its editorial board, where he was listed as «associate editor,» and moved his name to a list of the site's «frequently featured writers.»

The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.

That Gospel was by far was the most widely used early Christian book, to judge by the number of copies that have surfaced in the dry sands of Egypt, or by the number of quotations in early Christian writers, or by the number of textual corruptions introduced from Matthew into other Gospels by scribal copyists obviously more familiar with Matthew.

The Addai traditions were as persistent in the early church of Mesopotamia as the Thomas traditions were in India By the end of the fourth century Addai was commonly accepted by Syrian writers both Eastern and Western as the founder of their church.

The criterion for the early theology was taken by writers such as Ibn Khaldun and Adud al - Din al - Iji to be the teachings of the early Muslims and the orthodox party.

From pagan writers of the early second century A.D. it can be gleaned that Christianity had spread from Judaea to Rome, possibly before A.D. 50, (Suetonius, in his Life of Clandius, says that Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome for continual rioting «at the instigation of Chrestus», a phrase which has been variously interpreted, but may refer to trouble between Jews and Christians.)

It has always been an insoluble problem for harmonists and writers of the life of Christ; and it is clear from the way Matthew — and perhaps John — and even Luke used the materials of the Gospel of Mark that they, who were its earliest editors and commentators, did not view the Marcan order as chronological or final and unalterable — save in one section, the passion narrative, though even here they did not hesitate to make some changes in order.

At an early stage of the struggle, two Roman writers have left a record of the way in which they looked at the «Christian question» of their time.

«St Paul, a very early Christian writer and the most influential saint of Christianity, wrote in 1 Thessalonians 2:14 - 16»... the Jews, who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us.

In his earlier writing, Pinnock's Biblically derived qualifications concerning inerrancy were based on the facts that modern historiography was unknown in Biblical times, that writers use the language of simple observation (e. g., the sunrise), that figurative and mythological language is used (Isa.

Experts point out that the King James is based on at least two earlier major English translations, so its creators were editors as much as originators of these phrases, but it is the King James Bible that the great English writers knew, Goff said.

These accounts were easier to spot earlier in the year, because the X-rated semi-literacy of the writers was often unintentionally hilarious.

In the Middle Ages, the slogan was adduced in order to acknowledge that one may speak of a consensus among early Christian writers (consensus patrum) even if these authors displayed some differences in their interpretations of the Scriptures.

One often finds that the Fathers of the early years of the Church are more direct and better at this than modern writers.