Sentences with phrase «of early converts»

It was «not in order», it was suited to the needs of early converts, and it carried the authentic ring of genuine reminiscence; on the other hand there is little specifically «Petrine» about it.)

Slavery, as social phenomenon and as metaphor, has been an important topic, as has the role of prophets and prophecy, the practice of magic, and the class status of early converts to Christianity.

William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) One of the earliest converts to American Impressionism, he was also known for his outstanding teaching abilities.

William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) One of the earliest converts to American Impressionism.

Not exact matches

She's competing against WattUp from Silicon Valley's Energous Corp., which beams a 5.8 GHz radio frequency that wireless devices convert into DC power, and may debut in early 2016 in devices developed by SK Telesys (a Korean rival of Samsung) and manufactured by Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn.

Founder and CEO Phil Roberts spent the early part of his career at Arco Petroleum Products, converting the company's standalone gas stations in California into highly profitable convenience stores.

Angel investors normally provide capital for start - ups or businesses in the early stage of growth in exchange for equity, or in some cases, convertible notes, that converts into shares or cash value at a point later on.

He is believed to have converted to Islam in his early twenties, and left two young children in Britain when he travelled to Gaza in 2009 as part of a controversial Gaza aid convoy organised by former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway.

Finding success in the global marketplace can be daunting, especially for companies in the early stages of considering whether to convert their business from domestic to international.

When you do a convertible note with a cap that converts into the next round of funding one of the unintended consequences is that if you're successful and raise at a larger price than your cap the early angels often get «multiple liquidation preferences» on their dollars in.

The principal and related interest was due and payable on December 31, 2010, unless earlier converted into shares of our convertible preferred stock.

I would argue that the mechanism that forced up the savings rates in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact economies seems to have been the scarcity of consumer goods: income levels among workers were generally not too bad, but these workers could only convert income into consumption with great difficulty, if they got in the right line at the right store early enough.

Another clash of giants took place earlier this week when Carl Icahn decided to take on fellow activist Warren Lichtenstein of Steel Partners over Steel's decision to convert a fund into a public company via a reverse merger without his investors» consent.

Earlier this week we reported that Changpeng Zhao, Binance's founder and Chief Executive Officer, had hinted at the implementation of a «broom» that would allow users to finally convert their small fractions of various cryptocurrencies, colloquially known as dust, leftover from trades, i...

In Europe, Charlemagne, who in 800 A.D. became the first emperor in western Europe, after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier and who was a pivotal figure in the Christianization of Europe, issued the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, which prescribed death for Saxons who refused to convert from their native Germanic paganism to Christianity.

It claims descent from the Ethiopian eunuch converted by Philip in Acts 8, and dates formally to the preaching of Frumentius in the early fourth century and the acceptance of Christianity in A.D. 330.

Here's one place where the numbers of early Christians (and the # of Hebrew «converts») are calculated and discussed:

The opportunity to try this significant experiment in an inter-racial, international religion of converted individuals was given to the early Christians and indeed was forced upon them by Judaism itself when it drove them from the synagogue.

Established a few years earlier by Bruno Hussar, a Dominican monk of Jewish origin, Isaiah House was intended to be a center for Christian — Jewish dialogue, a much - needed sanctuary for Israeli converts to Catholicism, and a retreat for Christian contemplation of the «mystery of Israel.»

Furthermore, as Pentecostals looked to the Acts of the Apostles in an effort to follow the apostolic patterns of the early church, they noted that converts were baptized in water in «Jesus» name.»

That «sheol» or sprit world afterlife was in fact an Old Testament and even Torah - based belief and within that spiritual realm of sheol those spirits (all the spirits who were once living) were in either a state of happiness or in a state of limited ability to obtain happiness, or in other words a state of damnation or being in like a spiritual prison, which would later be further described in the New Testament (which the earliest figured written versions of the New Testament were written in Greek for newly gentile converts) as hell.

Writing early in his career on the case of «Brother Daniel,» a Jewish convert to Christianity who sought to immigrate to Israel under the Israeli law of return, Wyschogrod explained:

Even after the birth of the church in Acts 2, the vast majority of the early Christians were Jewish, and most of the Gentiles who converted were «God fearers» which means that they knew and respected the teachings of Judaism, and even followed many of the Jewish traditions and practices (cf. Acts 10:2).

She comes very early to be identified as a converted prostitute with long, flowing and usually red hair, who just before his last trip to Jerusalem anoints Jesus» head (or feet) with an expensive ointment and to the end of her long life remains a somewhat disturbed penitent.

Early on in the crisis, IS militants in Northern Iraq daubed the letter on the houses of Christians («N» standing for «Nazarene») who were ordered to convert, flee or face death.

The early apostles also knew, however, that the church would be restored in the latter days and in anticipation of that great day they spoke directly to you and me in Acts 3, «19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of rest itution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.»

Within the church, similarly, women, like men, were early converts and the description of the first - century church suggests that women were engaged in significant ministry within it (1 Cor.

In the early years of Islam, when the Muslim community was small and frequently under attack, the Prophet Mohammed sent a delegation of recent converts from the city of Mecca to the kingdom of Abyssinia.

In India, Radhasoami was attracting thousands of new converts yearly, especially from those lower classes which once provided Christian converts during the days of the mass movement earlier this century.

It seems that enough of these women had joined the church to tarnish its reputation, repelling potential converts and giving the Roman authorities yet another reason to be suspicious of the church, which was the last thing the early Christians needed.

It occurs to me that had revival broken out in the early 60s, the Church was broadly rather cold and formal, hardly qualified to embrace numbers of new converts from a broken world.

I wrote that as a Roman Catholic convert stunned and dismayed by the Holy Father's inclusion of African shamans in his peace summit in Assisi earlier this year.

But it was the cross that excited Cambridge University archaeologists, marking her out as an early convert to Christianity and - as the earliest Christians were from noble families - indicating she was of aristocratic or even royal blood.

Complete with rhyming monikers, Priscilla and Aquila were the it couple of the early the church, always described as doing something interesting together — traveling, planting churches, teaching new converts, running a business.

Terrible persecution accompanied the early days of the Church, especially in the Palestinian cities where the apostles made many converts to the Lord Jesus (cf. Acts 8, 1).

«My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire... Second, that all their books — their prayer books, their Talmudic writings, also the entire Bible — be taken from them, not leaving them one leaf, and that these be preserved for those who may be converted... Third, that they be forbidden on pain of death to praise God, to give thanks, to pray, and to teach publicly among us and in our country... Fourth, that they be forbidden to utter the name of God within our hearing.

In 1679, still in her early twenties, she made a perpetual vow of virginity, something highly unusual even among native American converts.

In an earlier article I noted that in India, any discussion about baptism and conversion takes on «added significance because of the understanding that after baptism the «converted» person has not only changed his or her religion but also social milieu, habits, customs, and manners, in addition to forfeiting several legal rights, especially with regard to the inheritance of property.

Or maybe early leaders in the positions of power did eactly what was done «eventually» in Christianity, which is to adopt certain practices which makes its easier to attract converts, especially when you tell them its all the same thing?

This finding agrees with all earlier research showing that most new members of Christian churches already possess a Christian world view» (Converts, Dropouts, Returnees, p. 36).

Beginning primarily with the missionary activities of the Portuguese in India in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Christian converts became for all practical purposes outcastes, cut off from caste and community.

Secondly the discovery of the Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew character suggests that the earliest Christians in India were Jewish converts.

We may recall that the early Church prevented, albeit after much controversy, the imposition of a foreign (Jewish) law upon Gentile converts (Acts 15; Gal.2: 14).

Studies of early Christian baptisms, as reflected in Pauline letters and writings of the church fathers, indicate that converts to the faith wore a garment symbolic of the old life, and when they arose from baptism their new life was symbolized by the donning of a white garment.

In the early nineteenth century, China was closed to foreigners, and Christians, who were descendants of those converted by earlier missionaries, were a tiny number.

Essentially, the church was formed by Rome thanks to the salesmanship and editorial skills of Paul, who by his writings and interpretations of the various fables and stories surrounding the Jewish rabbi known as Jesus, was able to «de-Jew» those earliest Christian beliefs, thereby making them into something more palatable to the masses, and ultimately to the Roman Emperor Constantine, whose mother converted to the new religion before her death.

The early church faced a bewildering array of philosophical challenges and competitors, from Neo-Platonism and Manichaeism to the Roman mystery cults, with many of the great saints, martyrs and apologists of that age being converts from other belief systems.

James Taylor has suggested that if the early church had had the use of mass media more people would have known about Christianity but far fewer people would have been converted to become Christians themselves.

The earlier ones already showed the relation of Scripture to theology in Pentecostal practice: such works were simple, uncritical explanations of biblical teaching for recent converts and for new but untrained ministers.

He had good reason to count on the gratitude of the community because he was an early convert to Islam who had contributed of his fortune to the needs of the community, he had married successively two of the daughters of the Prophet, under his rule the domain of Islam had been further extended, and he had established the authorized, written version of the Qur» an.