Sentences with phrase «of primitive»

In addition to underwater scenes, Faulkner's other abiding professional interest «and specialty has been the portraiture of primitive people.

Twins David and Peter Paul make a lot of primitive noises and do some uncivilized things while building humongous bodies

Like life itself, a weekly magazine is largely about timing, and in that era of primitive color photo technology, the cover had to be sent to the printer six weeks before publication.

Ozil in the middle would be the target of every primitive tackle from the opposition and he would not have any chance for any assists.

Wasted 2 hours from my personal time to watch this shiiiite... enough is enough, catastrophyc!!!!!!! we play nothing, some kind of primitive football, this is disgusting.The senile in charge must go, he lives in the past.

A similar movement, even more extensive, arose in Russia, the revival of primitive monastic ideals in the spirit of the early Fathers of the Desert begun by Paissi Velichkovski (1722 - 94), a monk on Mount Athos and later Abbot of a Moldavian monastery.

There may be some doubt about the origins of the apostolate, but there can be none that the apostles were the spiritual leaders of the primitive church.

In Peter's brief exhortation some theological implications should arrest our attention as evidence of what had already become the convictions of the apostles and were through their teachings to become guiding principles in the life of the primitive church.

Such a distinction has merit in helping to bring out the full content of the message of the primitive prophets and teachers; but it would not do to identify the «preaching» with the prophets and the «teaching» with the teachers.

Any reconstruction of the primitive church's ministry — as indeed of any other phase of its outward life — must rest upon what are regarded as the implications of a very few scattered passages in a very meager literature.

Thus in place of three basic, though overlapping ministries of the primitive church (sometimes concurrently discharged by the same person) we found at the end of the two centuries of evolution three main orders of the clergy: the episcopate, the priesthood, and the diaconate and an ever - growing series of lower orders.

Some of the lower orders mentioned here were survivals of the earlier and inchoate ministries of the primitive church, others resulted from the differentiation and depression within the established ministries.

But to what extent does it apply to the rest of the primitive church, and were there not, in all probability, significant differences even among the Pauline churches?

It looks as if prayer for other persons might be mere wishful thinking — at best an attempt at thought transference, at worst a relic of primitive magic and incantation.

Open the Bible and read the rantings, ravings and tales of superst.ition of primitive Middle Eastern men who knew a whole lot less about the world than you do.

The «Fall» was rejected as an outmoded fragment of primitive folklore.

In the course of the rethinking of primitive Christian eschatology which this entailed, and as a part of his own distinctive eschatology, he develops the conception of the death of a Christian as a kind of individual experience of the parousia, (We are here indebted to C. K. Barrett, «Stephen and the Son of Man», in Apophoreta.

It mined the power of the primitive: blood and soil.

While the heirs of the sophisticated primitives live on, the land is full of primitive sophisticates.

Second, when one turns to anthropological study of primitive cultures, one discovers a somewhat startling revelation; namely that the economic factor of life more than any other factor has dictated the ethical behavior norms, particularly those norms which relate to the various generations.

«Time» anticipates causal efficacy in terms of physical imagination and memory (EWM 306), but perception in the mode of causal efficacy does not make its appearance until 1927.8 When it does, the emphasis is upon a phenomenological description of our primitive experience of causation, not upon its theoretical analysis in systematic terms.

In his representation of Jesus» teaching on Eternal Life and on Judgement the fourth evangelist disagrees with much of the teaching of the primitive Church and even with some of the teachings ascribed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels, but that his account is based on a fuller understanding of the real teaching of Jesus seems clear.

But «metaphysics» means nothing in American public life today, and after three decades of trying to explain the Christian «anthropology» of John Paul II to various audiences, I am still being asked what «anthropology» is, and what the behavior of primitive tribes has to do with Christianity.

Jerusalem was the centre of the primitive Church and the undisputed leader of the Jerusalem community till A.D. 62 was James, the brother of Jesus.

Furthermore, it drew the attention of the intellectual elite to the behavior of primitive man, to his psycho - mental life and his cultural creations.

Old timey stories were handed down for generation upon generation of primitive Middle Eastern people before they were even attempted to be written down.

But Yahweh also is a creator; Yahweh's very creation ex nihilo is found comparable to the creation of some Supreme Beings of primitive peoples who create by means of pure thought and will.

We have enough waste being released into our water without religious twits throwing away more stuff in an act of primitive veneration.

But in any event, it is in violation of the nature and character of the tradition (and, we suspect, of the faith of Moses himself and the people under his leadership) to isolate the instance and reduce it in meaning to a case of primitive but effective chemistry.

Religion will cease to be the driving influence of humanity only when 400 millions years of evolution of the primitive parts of the human brain is removed.

After the still crude patterns of primitive religions, after the progress accomplished by the Jewish people, in Jesus religion manifests itself in structures whose critical reduction shows that they express the inwardness and universality that are the requisites of the mind.

This unity becomes especially clear in religious language; the high forms of religion, the most subtle mystic, as well as the most vigorous prophetism, constantly speak the language of primitive magical religion without being conscious of it.

He maintained that the core of the primitive Gospel was «eternal life in the midst of time, by the strength and under the eyes of God,» but that it had been obscured and distorted by its early contact with Greek thought.

I'm rather glad we've at least got rid of that bit of primitive ignorance.

Much the same may be said of work in sociology and anthropology, where today great emphasis is being laid on the structural quality of social life, on the patterns seen in tribal custom, and on the holistic behavior patterns of primitive peoples.

But in its turn, this last character of Yahweh is likewise one of the more constant attributes of the Supreme Beings of primitive peoples.

In the case of the primitive Christian community, the coming events were viewed as entirely supernatural.

Advances in civilization were never throwbacks to some garden of Eden with a restoration of primitive innocence.

Beato mentioned that Gerd Theissen, in his sociological analysis of primitive Christianity, had reached the conclusion that there is continuity between Jesus and his first followers and the Mosaic liberation tradition.

In the study of primitive origins, the family is universally found to be the basic unit of society.

His starting point is his discovery of the manuscript of a brief early history of the Movement, entitled Revival of Primitive Doctrine and written in 1840 by a devout and intelligent lay disciple of Newman's called S.F.Wood (the text is published here in an appendix for the first time).

On the one hand we do not think that Scripture can be turned into a naïve palaeontology that is incompatible with the evidence of observation and common sense — man could not exist in the traumatic upheavals of primitive geological formation on earth, nor indeed could he co-exist environmentally with dinosaurs.

So inevitably is universal dominion suggested by such a concept of deity that some even suspect a kind of primitive Semitic monotheism as a background against which the mass of lesser gods arose.

We have repeatedly asserted that this part of the primitive Christian proclamation is unmythological throughout.

The gospels as the good news are part of the primitive kerygma.

The music I hear today is truncated, roughly equivalent to the scratchy sound of a primitive, windup phonograph.

In the history of primitive religions this form of human sacrifice is familiar.

From the days of the primitive kerygma which lies behind the speeches in Acts, behind the oral tradition which was eventually crystallized in Mark and Q, the primary source of the theology of the cross is the words and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth.

The lesser ideas were the old, inherited jungle of primitive religion; the great prophets were the road - builders laying down a highway through the jungle and out of it.

The addition of «Christ» and similar titles in the MS tradition only shows how quickly the meaning of the primitive kerygma ceased to be understood.