Sentences with phrase «of earlier encounters»

Human skeletal muscles have an epigenetic memory of earlier encounters with growth, according to a Keele University - led study.

[103][104] Although the Muslim army had the best of the early encounters, indiscipline on the part of strategically placed archers led to a Muslim defeat, with 75 Muslims killed including Hamza, Muhammad's uncle and one of the best known martyrs in the Muslim tradition.

Tells us about some of your early encounters with Jesus, or with religion.

In terms still reminiscent of his earlier encounter with the Word, Moses protests again.

For instance, one of the early encounters that you have is with a crab in a box.

It's a film that justifies repeated viewing, each time a new detail underlining its resonant depiction of love as an adventure, whether it be the pleasure of selecting a gift that will remind the other of an early encounter, or the frisson of difference represented by three white, perfectly scaled - down suitcases alongside a solitary, ordinary yellow one.

But the camaraderie of those early encounters evaporated in the intervening decades, as the two men assumed control of their families» bus businesses.

Gyasi, who moved to Huntsville's predominantly white southeast district at 9 years old, wrote in The Times of an early encounter with racism in Tennessee, where she lived prior.

This combination of early encounters and diverse influences culminated in Emblema's decision to focus on the perception of transparency in painting as a lifelong endeavor, despite ever - changing and evolving art genre and fashionable trends in art.

Not exact matches

They encountered the bikes as consumers and came to corporate Pedego's rescue in the early days, when it was struggling for lack of distribution.

Dropping out of Reed College; early encounters with LSD and Indian mysticism; selling, as his first business, the Little Blue Boxes used in the 1960s to make free phone calls, then an act of counterculture rebellion.

Although Hsieh did not found Zappos — he was an early investor and joined the company as CEO in 2000 — he encountered the same sense of connection and tribal identification in running the online shoe company that he had once felt at raves.

It's a Brand New World: In the early formative years of the Edison Awards, we encountered a brand resurgence.

Oceans works closely with founders and executive teams to actively solve problems that early - stage companies encounter across all aspects of their business in order to successfully achieve key growth milestones.

He also goes the extra mile to address some of the financial issues you are most likely to encounter years after your early retirement.

I encountered some of Family Radio's missionaries personally earlier this year, whilst staying at a hotel in Potts Point, Sydney.

I was in my early twenties when I first encountered a fossil record that didn't match what I'd been taught in Sunday school about the «myth» of evolutionary theory.

Although, according to Grant, what characterizes the God of the gospels is «all - inclusive love,» the theme of love was one that philosophical theologians treated «only with difficulty»; after the New Testament, we encounter «relatively few references to God's love» in the early Christian literature.4 The subject of God's power, however, is an altogether different matter.

He was active early in the second century CE and is well known for having posited not one but two Gods, one represented in the Old Testament and seen as responsible for the world's creation, the other encountered only in the New Testament in the teaching of Jesus and specifically in the theology of Paul.

The early encounter of the Christian witness with prevailing Hellenistic philosophical notions about the nature of God was of crucial importance in establishing the universal relevance of the Judeo - Christian story about God's dealings with humanity.

The most important of these is the middle section dealing directly with St Francis's encounter with Islam and Sultan al - Malik al Kamil, the ruler of Egypt, Palestine and Syria, during the Fifth Crusade in the early thirteenth century.

Early stories such as the encounter with Yahweh at the burning bush, where Moses was warned to put off his shoes because the spot was «holy ground,» (Exodus 3:5; cf. Joshua 5:15) reveal the way in which this dread of holy things and places and this need of insulations against their dangerous potency issued in sacred rites and customs.

Both appear — if in exceptional roles — in association with group prophetism; Micaiah with Ahab's official court prophets and Elisha with the cult - related «Sons of the prophets» at Bethel (II Kings 2:3), Jericho (II Kings 2:5), and Gilgal (II Kings 4:38; cf. 6:1)- These «sons of the prophets» (first appearing in Elijah's day in I Kings 20:35) are in direct descent from the «bands of prophets» encountered more than a century earlier in the Saul narratives (I Sam.

It is, of course, possible to say that the early Christians were wrong, but not, to my mind, to deny that they claimed to have encountered God in the person of Jesus Christ.

For us who are Christians all of this is demonstrated in the words and encounters of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Gospels; it is spelled out most clearly in the Epistles of John and in the letter of Paul discussed earlier.

The same can be said of the Second Conference on East - West Religions in Encounter, held under the sponsorship of the University of Hawaii's department of religion on Oahu early this year (January 3 - 11).

The claim that in Jesus we were encountering God Incarnate was evaded: Jesus was invisible, hidden behind stories that told us more about the early Christian communities when the gospels were written than about Jesus himself as the source of those stories.

Hajime Nakamura, an expert on early Buddhism in India and noted for his book on ways of thinking, East and West, was very open to the discussion of diverse historical models as a new approach to East - West encounter.

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

He attended Morehouse College in the early 1970's where he encountered the teachings of Dr. Howard Thurman, combining a deep mystic spirituality with the necessity of social engagement.

Its worship may be more varied today than it was in earlier decades, and its leadership may now be more representative of its members as a whole, but the fundamental patterns of congregational culture that most of us encountered as children will probably cloak our aging and burial.

The early encounter of...

I gave him the benefit of the doubt early on, even though every single person I have encountered, who is of the Reformed persuasion, has proven to be extremely capable of pointing out to everyone else where everyone else is wrong, and can do it in such a way as to give you the impression that, not only do they want to correct your erroneous beliefs, but also want to make sure you feel very, very bad about being completely wrong.

An earlier version of chapter two appeared in Interpretation 26/2 (April 1972), 198 - 209, while chapter four has drawn on materials originally appearing in «Lionel S. Thornton and Process Christology,» Anglican Theological Review 55/4 (October 1973), 479 - 83; «The Incarnation as a Contingent Reality: A Reply to Dr. Pailin,» Religious Studies 8/2 (June 1972), 169 - 73; «The Possibilities for Process Christology,» Encounter 35/4 (Winter 1974), 281 - 94; and «Theological Reflections on Extra-Terrestrial Life,» originally given as the Faculty Research Lecture for the Spring of 1968 at Raymond College of the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, and published in The Raymond Review 2/2 (Fall 1968), 1 - 14.

Earlier versions of this position were published in Encounter 41 (1980), 287 - 292; and in the inaugural volume of the (now defunct) Santa Clara University Journal, Logos 1 (1980), 45 - 52.

These critiques of the law were newly formulated in Paul's mind in the wake of his encounter with the risen Christ; they reflected neither his earlier views of Judaism nor any sense of widespread dissatisfacdon toward the law among his Jewish contemporaries.

Among the defenses frequently encountered in counseling and therapy are repression (of painful memories into the unconscious); fixation (at a safer - feeling growth stage); regression (to an earlier, safer - feeling.

The Jewish child encounters the moderate use of alcohol from his earliest years.

This was especially true in the early period of the colonial and missionary encounter with the «natives.»

At a relatively early age he was drawn to philosophy through his encounter with the lectures and writing of Martin Heidegger.

Such moments were staging posts in the early life of CS Lewis as he struggled to make his atheism fit with his experience of «joy» when he encountered poetry, literature, music and beauty that seemed to belong to another world, a process he describes in Surprised by Joy.

Nevertheless, as process theology now encounters the challenge of political theology, its roots in the earlier period of the Chicago school take on a new currency and relevance.

I may have «picked up» the wrong notion from your earlier reply, but would it be fair to say that certain schools of Christian teaching were at least in measure responsible for the «heaviness» of the spirituality you encountered?

«In traditional thought and literature, there has been virtually no interest in foreign countries, societies, cultures or religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «dialogue» with Christian - European, or any other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduism.

In this essay a good deal of the emphasis upon the encounter with the historical Jesus by means of an existentialist historiography was quietly dropped, and attention was more sharply focused on the basic parallel between the message of Jesus and the kerygma of the early Church, and on the significance of scholarly study of the message of Jesus for the Church.

We need to trust, furthermore, that the means by which Jesus has chosen to communicate with us are reliable: that the portrayal of him in the Gospels is not the result of the early church's malicious manipulation or fundamental misunderstanding, for example, or that the entire tradition of creed and teaching is not so corrupt that it distorts Jesus entirely, or that the encounter with Jesus through meal and word and saint and stranger is not mere fantasy or projection.

The manifold variety of doctrines which could be encountered in early Greek philosophy and in the early Hellenistic age was abandoned (though to some extent revived in Gnostic circles), and in its place came a fairly uniform teaching, largely Stoic in origin, which laid emphasis on the four virtues of justice, courage, sobriety and understanding, and was addressed by preachers to individuals.

The «canonical» history of Hebrews is somewhat confused by the fact that while it was used by many early Christian writers, some of them were aware that as it stands it can not have been written by the apostle Paul (see Chapter xix) We first encounter clear traces of Hebrews in the letter of Clement to the Corinthians, written at the end of the first century; but Clement does not say what he is quoting from.

The idea that Mark wrote a gospel is attested by Papias, early in the second century; he says that Mark never encountered Jesus but later became the disciple and «interpreter» of Peter.

But Swansea, who have plagued Van Gaal ever since his arrival in England — winning all three of their encounters with the Dutchman's United side — otherwise took some breaking down in the early stages.