Sentences with phrase «of earlier evangelists»

Both innovated communication techniques that startled the world — Sunday with his elaborate teams of «experts» and sophisticated and expensive «revival machinery» that developed huge audiences; Graham with his even more impressive cadre of technicians, and his use of television to extend his reach beyond the wildest dreams of earlier evangelists.

The existence of an old local tradition and of families whose ancestry seems ancient and indigenous, rather than of foreign immigrant trading stock, are factors which suggest the possibility of an early evangelist in the country, but the dependence of all traditions on the Edessene Church prevents us considering those factors conclusive proof that this early evangelist was St. Thomas.

This was a characteristic of the early evangelists who first attracted the attention of newspapers in the last century.

Not exact matches

When Baker started D2L in 1999 at the age of 22, he became an early evangelist for technology's potential to improve the classroom.

The son of late evangelist Oral Roberts and former president of Oral Roberts University was arrested early Tuesday on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and speeding, authorities said.

From reporting in The Texas Observer and The Texas Monthly, I learned about the Dominionist supporters of Rick Perry, including a number of evangelists to whom Perry gave leading roles in his huge public prayer service, called the Response, early this month.

Its narratives Contain many echoes of the stories in Mark and some of those which occur in Luke, and the evangelist has modified and added to the earlier traditions (his Gospel is generally agreed to be the latest of the four) in such a way as to make them the vehicle for a great body of deep religious truth.

That the Bible is the record of centuries of religious change, that its early concepts are allied with primitive, animistic faiths, that between such origins and the messages of Hebrew prophets and Christian evangelists an immensely important development is reflected in the Book — this general view is the familiar possession of many in both synagogue and church.

In the book's concluding chapter, Hays totals the «strengths and weaknesses» of the evangelists as OT readers and outlines briefly a set of ten methodological prescriptions gleaned from the early chapters.

As we saw, the early missionaries were evangelists and social reformers in one, because they believed that both functions belonged together in the message of the gospel.

The evangelist, therefore, is deliberately subordinating the «futurist» element in the eschatology of the early Church to the «realized eschatology» which, as I have tried to show, was from the first the distinctive and controlling factor in the kerygma.

In this profound restatement of the apostolic Preaching the Fourth Evangelist has succeeded in bringing into one picture those elements which in its earlier forms appear as past, present, and future.

Centuries earlier, this Latin phrase had been invoked to argue that the accounts of the four evangelists, while different, are nonetheless fully coherent.

The Evangelist's staggering affirmation is possible only out of the remarkable claims of earlier Jewish apocalyptic.

C. H. Dodd from the angle of realized eschatology and his conviction that Jesus believed the kingdom had already come in his own person interprets them as originally spoken by Jesus to refer to the crisis connected with his own death and resurrection.9 Others who believe that Jesus could not have said these things attribute them to the early church and the error of the evangelists in presenting them as his words.

In further detail Robert Funk has analyzed the parable and the epistle as oral speech.33 It will not take a lengthy exposure to such studies of the lively modes of discourse used by Jesus and the early Christian evangelists to cause the average preacher to look upon his own standardized sermon outline with a new lack of appreciation.

Paul speaks of the «brethren of the Lord» as being among the early evangelists and refers to «James, the Lord's brother,» who was apparently the head of the Jerusalem church.

Certainly, every single parable in the tradition has to be approached with the basic assumption that, as it now stands, it represents the teaching of the early Church: that the voice is the voice of the risen Lord to the evangelist, and of the evangelist to the Church, not that of the historical Jesus to a group gathered by the sea of Galilee.

CNN: Oral Roberts» son arrested on suspicion of DUI The son of late evangelist Oral Roberts and former president of Oral Roberts University was arrested early Tuesday on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and speeding, authorities said.

It's always been a cult of the leader's personality from the early church fathers to the reformation to the American evangelists.

In the early twentieth century, Indian Christians demonstrated this goal of self - propagation through the Madura Church Council's initial emphasis on every church member as an evangelist; and in the growing leadership of Indian teachers, doctors, nurses, and administrators in Christian institutions like schools and hospitals.

Now this kind of narrative is possible only because of the equation earthly Jesus = risen Lord and the consequent and subsequent equation: Situation in earthly ministry of Jesus = situation in early Church's experience, which equation is necessarily implied by the methodology of the synoptic evangelists.

If those scholars are right to conclude that in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers there are practically no reflections of the synoptic gospels, the Apostolic Fathers stand almost as close to the earliest traditions about Jesus as the synoptic evangelists do.

This means that these early Fathers differ from the evangelists in the degree of their closeness to the earliest traditions, not in the kind of relationship to them.

One thinks of William Temple, who in more ways than one deserved the phrase humorously applied to him in early days, «not one, but all mankind in effigy,» 46 Those who think of him first of all as philosopher, Christian socialist, ecumenical statesman, or evangelist should remember that it was the priesthood of the Church of England to which his life was primarily devoted, and by its traditions that he was inspired.

When I hear evangelists talk about these digital tour guides, I'm reminded of the early 1990s hype about «hypermedia» CD - ROMs and the digital revolution.

Bradford spoke about how The League focused on building up hype and a dedicated group of early users and brand evangelists by throwing exclusive parties before the app even launched.

«We're honored to recognize and congratulate the first educators to achieve the Flipped Learning Level - I Certification,» said Jon Bergmann, flipped learning co-founder, evangelist, and center of a global network of flipped learning early adopters around the world.

He became an early pioneer of self - publishing ebooks, and — as his sales began to skyrocket — a fire - breathing evangelist for the «indie» path.

Dan being the VR evangelist had access to some of the early consumer VR devices, They decided to start experimenting and seeing what new original ideas they could come up with.

In the early 1990s, he took the pages of The Black Book, Robert Mapplethorpe's idealised photographs of nude black men, and framed them beside quotes from philosophers, critics, activists, and even religious evangelists.

Early adopters of green technologies tend to be evangelists and we enjoyed the infectious energy of the Chevy Volt owner who pulled up next to us at one of the free public charging stations located in town.

Kurt Maddox of Jefferson Audio Video Systems in Louisville, Ky., which helped introduce cameras in Kentucky in the early 1980s and recently installed cameras in the Indiana courts conducting the experiment, is his company's «chief evangelist» for the use of video recording.

Roger Ver is a well - known early Bitcoin investor and evangelist who has probably done more to promote the usage of Bitcoin and its technologies than anyone else.

Ripple was actually the brainchild of two Bitcoin evangelists who very early on saw the shortcomings of the existing cryptocurrencies.

During any period of change there are informed leaders, zealous evangelists, early adopters, many laggards, a number of doubters and a few people who just stick their head in the sand, covering their eyes and ears saying things are just «fine the way they are and there is no need to change».