Sentences with phrase «of early seventeenth»

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

Economism is leading us into catastrophes even worse that the religious wars of the early seventeenth century and the Second World War in our own.

Not exact matches

On the contrary, it reached a kind of apex in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

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

More particularly, and with pointed significance for the tale of Joseph, we know that Egypt, which earlier in this period controlled the affairs of Palestine, was itself under the rule of foreign dynasties (the fifteenth to the seventeenth dynasties) from a point in the eighteenth century to about the middle of the sixteenth century B.C..

Cartesian dualism arose in the early stages of the first scientific revolution that culminated in the late seventeenth century, while we are still coming to grips with the quantum revolution of the twentieth century.

Back in the early seventeenth century Francis Bacon, the first modern philosopher of science, recognised that the developmental nature of modern scientific methodology provided a truer vision of how human knowing arrives at formality than the scholastic theory of abstraction.

The final elimination of Islam in the peninsula was to wait until the sixteenth and the early part of the seventeenth century, when it was accomplished partly by the expulsion of all who were believed to cherish evidences of loyalty to it.

He argues that «gun ownership was exceptional in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, even on the frontier, and that guns became a common commodity only with the industrialization of the mid-nineteenth century» and the militarization of America during the Civil War.

Knowledge of the existence of a vital third (organic) tradition — the others being Aristotelianism and mechanism — in the seventeenth century, of its early success in promoting scientific discoveries, and of the dubious reasons for its defeat, may help embolden some theologians to revive this tradition, in purified form, in a way that would be beneficial both to the religious life of humanity and its «scientific» understanding of the reality in which it finds itself (p. 41)

The «first phase» of progress in health measures, from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, focused on groups rather than individuals.

Oweiss observes that Ibn - Khaldun had given substance and depth to earlier elemental economic ideas and that centuries later these same ideas were developed by the Mercantilists, the commercial capitalists of the seventeenth century, and others, including Sir William Petty (1623 - 87), Adam Smith (1723 - 90), David Ricardo (1772 - 1823), Thomas R. Malthus (1766 - 1834), Karl Marx (1818 - 83) and John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), and also by contemporary economic theorists.

However, as we have said earlier, the Christian missions of the nineteenth century, although often associated closely with commercial and political imperialism, were to a lesser degree tools of that imperialism than in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, and even than in the Middle Ages.

This, as Whitehead among the earliest clearly appreciated, amounts to a radical change in the philosophical conception of the physical, a change indeed no less radical than had been the introduction of the conception of the physical as «matter» in the seventeenth century.

It should be emphasized, what is sometimes liable to be overlooked, that Whitehead's recovery of the problematic of the philosophy of nature would not have been possible without his having gone back extensively to earlier philosophy, especially Greek and that of the seventeenth century.

In the early seventeenth century the conviction had grown that these wholes, of which living organisms were the paradigm instances, were not integral wholes but were rather composites, strictly aggregates — which is to say that they were wholes which were no more than the sum of their constituents.

The impact of Puritanism on the common law is now widely acknowledged.18 David Little has traced the close connections between Puritan theology and early seventeenth - century common law.19 Considering the volatility of the seventeenth century, it is hardly surprising that religious and legal reformation possessed common elements.

Early in the seventeenth century Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood, thus opening a new door in the practice of medicine.

While my point of reference historically and theologically is the early church, most evangelicals make their historical and theological criterion in a much later time, say with the Reformation, with seventeenth - century orthodoxy, with Wesley, or with nineteenth - century Princetonian theology.

Another period of conscious concern for matters of civil religion extends from the later Sengoku period in the sixteenth century to the early Tokugawa period in the seventeenth century.

But what the sixteenth and early seventeenth century gave the late eighteenth century was not so much a set of culture - fragmenting ideas as a bequest of violence.

Social reconstructions of Europe, for example, did indeed work to limit Christian violence after the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

But a theological inquiry that narrows the historical community, that excludes from the conversation such men as the early Fathers of the Church, or the medieval theologians, or the Reformers, or the sectarians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or the Puritans, Pietists and social gospelers, or such movements as monasticism, scholasticism, Biblicism, et cetera impoverishes itself from the beginning.

Researchers have recently figured out that the stress hormone cortisol is found in measurable amounts as early as the seventeenth week of gestation.

Until the early twentieth century, however, infants who were exclusivelydry nursed or fed artificially usually failed to thrive, either because of inadequate nutrition or contaminated animal milk or water.6 Thus before industrialization the overwhelming majority of women breastfed their infants for a considerable length of time, and in Europe and the United States evidence suggests that through the seventeenth century women generally breastfed their infants beyond the second summer.

[4] The Orion nebula was first described in the early seventeenth century although the identity of the discoverer is uncertain.

In the early seventeenth century, Galileo pioneered telescopic observations of the Sun, making some of the first known observations of sunspots and positing that they were on the surface of the Sun rather than small objects passing between the Earth and the Sun.

Early records date the start of the breed's development to the beginning of the seventeenth century.

At its essence, the whole corpus of Nicola Samorì's work is a profound meditation on time and the fragility of existence: His earliest works appeared to be paintings of X-rays of individuals as if seen in a morgue — e.g. Der Neid, 2005; other works were constructed as if assembled from archeological remnants — e.g. Siliqua, 2007; and more recently, Samorì has turned his attention to re-examining famous artworks from the Western canon, notably the paintings of Spanish seventeenth century master Jusepe Ribera.

With material from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century primarily from the United States, and to a lesser degree Great Britain and several other countries, the exhibition demonstrates the breadth of The Amistad Center's permanent collection.

Like so many other foreign painters who settled in Rome in the early seventeenth century, Valentin was inspired by the revolutionary example of Caravaggio (1571 — 1610), whose work, based... Read More

From pencil to pastel, drawing is a diverse medium which that offers insight into almost every aspect of late seventeenth and early eighteenth - century artistic practice.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

Using tobacco as both subject and object, the exhibition includes Xu Bing's adaptations of historical texts and graphics: a book made of whole tobacco leaves and printed with an early - seventeenth - century account of Jamestown, Virginia; a poem composed from historical tobacco brand names and printed on cigarette paper; and Chinese cigarettes printed with selections from Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse - Tung (the «Little Red Book»).

Salomon's two overall fields of expertise are the painter Paolo Veronese (1528 — 1588) and the collecting and patronage of cardinals in Rome during the early seventeenth century.

«Two episodes of markedly reduced sea ice cover also occurred in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries (T2 in Fig. 3).

What might different experiences of dirt and attitudes towards cleanliness tell us from the perspectives of the citizens of Delft in seventeenth century Holland; Victorian London; Glasgow in the 1860s; Dresden in the early twentieth century; New Delhi in the present day and Fresh Kills, New York's largest municipal landfill in 2030.»