Sentences with phrase «of preceding centuries»

One of the many extrapolations of Nochlin's essay is that contemporary museum institutions continue to reflect the gendered and racist biases of preceding centuries by reinforcing the supremacy of specific master artists.

Nature was the great alternative background to the confusion in theology of preceding centuries.

It reduced the compromises by the churches of the preceding century and gave rise to new movements which made Christianity more nearly in accord with the Gospel than it had been since its earliest centuries.

6 «Source» criticism ran its full, complex course in the latter half of the preceding century and the early years of the present century.

Now the temperature record — though only for 2008 — can suddenly be trusted, and the widest possible inferences be drawn from the latest figures, though not, of course, from the records of the preceding century.

Not exact matches

There is growing sentiment that our fiat currency system should be replaced with a hard anchor, such as the gold or silver standards in place in much of the world over the two centuries preceding gold's abandonment by the United States in 1971.

This instance may be different in the near term, but a century of evidence argues that the completion of the market cycle will wipe out the majority of the gains observed in the advancing portion to - date (even without valuations similar to the present, the average, run - of - the - mill bear market decline has erased more than half of the market gains from the preceding bull market advance).

Ned Davis Research has looked at many of the major Bear markets worldwide for the past Century, and found that they tend to last about a third as long as the preceding Bull.

The reason the English took to their Marian devotion with such intensity and fervour is that, in their cherishing of marriage from the sixth century onwards, they could instinctively perceive how Mary was the exemplar (through the power of her own assent to God) and the national emblem of the way in which the spiritual precedes the physical.

They were the most notable series of ethical teachers in the ancient world and the fountainhead of the noblest moral qualities in the Hebrew faith, but the great prophetic writers were comprehended within four centuries, and not only the legal but the sacrificial system preceded, underlay, and outlived them all.

Some of them were more obviously opposed to the spirit and teachings of Jesus than had been any of the agencies of spread in the preceding five centuries.

It was the Universal opinion of the Century preceding the last, that Civil Govt could not stand without the prop of a Religious establishment, & that the Xn religion itself, would perish if not supported by a legal provision for its Clergy.

The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.

They are preceded and even anticipated, however, by a Nathan in the tenth century and an Elijah in the ninth, and they are followed by a succession of distinguished but lesser lights in the sixth and fifth centuries.

Solomon Schechter, the great scholar and chief spokesperson for Conservative Judaism in the first half of the twentieth century, preceded Kaplan in emphasizing that «the collective conscience of catholic Israel... [was] the sole true guide for the present and future» of Judaism.

With variation, but in essential correspondence of members of the plot, it happened of course throughout the spreading human family in the centuries and years, perhaps even months or days, preceding; and it has most assuredly continued to happen, in its significant essence, with persistence and always accompanying human carnage down to our own time and decade and, who knows, even day and hour.

Other dams had preceded this one; m fact, in the 18th century local farmers filed a series of legal suits against the various corporations that built dams on the river.

All of these, but especially the last named, were doctrines of paramount importance during the half century preceding the fall of Japan, at the end of World War II.1 But of that we shall speak at greater length presently.

An important difference between the twenty - first century and those that preceded it is that the western world as a whole can no longer seek comfort and security in the certainties of a century ago.

In the 17th century, both Catholics and Protestants systematically executed Anabaptists for holding to the «heresy» that a confession of faith should precede baptism.

A second great wave of revivals in the early 19th century preceded the Civil War.

The social reformers of 19th century America count in many ways as evangelicals, as do the revivalists who preceded them in the 18th century.

By such a statement we do not mean, of course, that the same span of time follows as precedes that event — this is only very approximately true and will become increasingly less true as the centuries pass.

In Jesus Christ, prepared for through the long preceding development of Jewish religion, and His meaning apprehended through the long centuries of subsequent Christian experience, man is given a vivid and striking disclosure of the eternal Reality; and given it not through the retailing of information but through the whole content of a Life.

More Anabaptists were martyred in the 16th century than Christians as a whole in the three centuries of persecution that preceded Constantine.

What he terms «radical imagination» roughly corresponds to an idea introduced twenty — three centuries ago by Aristotle, who discussed two completely different meanings for phantasia — one of which (prime or primary imagination) is, says Castoriadis, that «without which there can be no thought and which possibly precedes any thought» (RI 136 - 137).

Another way to say this is that for sixteenth - century exegetes, like the early Christian writers and medievals who preceded them, the interpretation of the Psalter must be «ruled.»

As if the preceding several centuries of killing have been insufficient to show just how nasty the abrahamic religions often are.

Although Jesus was a genuine Jew of the first century, he is important not only for casting «enormous light upon that which preceded... and so prepared for» him, but also for «opening up for the future new and remarkable possibilities both of understanding and of action» (PT 211).

Had he been born a hundred years earlier, when the wars which preceded the creation of the principate by Augustus were still to be fought, or had he appeared two centuries later when the imperial structure was beginning to crumble, the course of the Christian faith would have been much more difficult.

And the prophet's sure hope of Israel's re-creation, of her restoration again to life and meaning, is climaxed in the stirring description of the overthrow of Gog — Babylon no doubt for Ezekiel, but certainly in subsequent centuries again and again the oppressor, the most conspicuous contemporary source of injustice and brutality and all human anguish, whose overthrow must precede the reign of God in history, the establishment of his just rule among men.

Concurrently with the shocks to the old order in Europe and the threats to Christianity, on the geographic frontiers of the faith the gains of the preceding two centuries were shrinking.

Leclerc's critique of seventeenth - century thought actually arises from a dialectical interchange between that thought and the Aristotelian philosophy of nature that preceded it.

Not long after A.D. 950 a recovery began from the low ebb of the preceding half - century.

The two and a half centuries surveyed in the preceding pages witnessed fully as striking contrasts in the record of Christianity as had any of the preceding periods.

He entered a house of the Observant Augustinians, a reform movement which had begun in the preceding century, and studied theology, applying himself chiefly to masters of the Occamist tradition.

In the preceding century, in the early days of the Swedish invasion, some missionaries came from England.

That appraisal would have been supported by the fact that geographically Christianity was confined to a smaller proportion of the earth's surface than it had been at the close of the fifth century and that the cultures into which it had entered were held by fewer of civilized mankind than had been true at the close of the preceding height of the Christian tide.

From 21:2 to 22:17 the Covenant Code presents laws for the most part apparently borrowed from Canaanite practice in the course of the two centuries preceding the establishment of monarchy.

Deuteronomy was produced — like the Yahwist's work from a wide range of sources and including some very old materials — out of prophetic Yahwism in the century preceding Josiah.8 Deuteronomy was probably already in process during the reign of Hezekiah (about 715 - 687) and influenced his reforms (II Kings 18:3 ff.).

Thus the rise of the Gospels, let us say, belongs in the last thirty years of the first century; the tradition that underlies them must, by the same token, be assigned to the period preceding.

«Centuries of racism precede us.

The book is ordered in three parts; the first explaining the diplomatic alignment of Europe during the years preceding the outbreak of war; the second focusing the prevailing cultural and ideological milieu in the early years of the twentieth century; and the third detailing the successive crises in the years immediately preceding the outbreak of war.

Statistical analysis revealed a pattern: Each documented introduction of plague in Europe was preceded by a significant climate event in Asia, such as a sudden shift in the annual monsoon pattern in the mid-14th century, which pushed the northern border of activity from China to Siberia.

Every several centuries or so, profound insights do occur, immortalizing the names of the investigators who achieved them: Euclid (who cataloged the insights preceding him), Galileo, Newton, Einstein.

Until now, this odd trait had generally been attributed to the introduction of blonde genes by European explorers and traders in preceding centuries.

Using samples from the stumps of giant sequoias logged in preceding centuries, the researchers will be able to push the record back even further.

Gehrels and others (2008) comment that this is «a significantly higher rate of sea - level rise during the 20th century as compared with preceding centuries.»

However, one of the panel's reservations was that ``... a statistical method used in the 1999 study was not the best and that some uncertainties in the work «have been underestimated,»...» The panel concluded «Based on the analyses presented in the original papers by Mann et al. and this newer supporting evidence, the committee finds it plausible that the Northern Hemisphere was warmer during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period over the preceding millennium.

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