Sentences with phrase «on ancient work»

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You could look at Drucker's statement on work and family as ancient history.

From novel scheduling systems, to exhortations to invest in health, and even spiritual reminders that «work - life balance» is really a modern spin on the ancient and fundamentally difficult question of what constitutes a life well lived, you can spend hours upon hours neither working nor living but simply reading through posts and columns on the topic.

I spent my days either working on the Reserve Community Farm, or helping re-open ancient First Nation Trails in the Wilderness.

Whether the masses are innocent is, of course, not a matter that can be documented, but I have observed in conversation with many spectators tenacious conviction that the Passion Play is (a) a great work of religious art or (b) the work of sincere peasant folk bent only on fulfilling an ancient vow.

It was the first public evidence of the project that had gradually taken shape in my mind during the preceding years: to work out on the level of systematic theology the ancient Israelitic view of reality as a history of God's interaction with his creation, as I had internalized it from the exegesis of my teacher Gerhard von Rad, after I had discovered how to extend it to the New Testament by way of Jewish eschatology and its developments in Jesus» message and history.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

God said we should not kill (murder is the word from the direct translation from the Ancient Greek and Hebrew) and He did not tell people to stone their servants if they worked on the sabbath (the metaphore was generated by mortal man).

My grandfather and many others from the village were against the Nazis and worked hard to prevent them from getting their hands on people and ancient artifacts.

But from what I understand out of the ancient monastic materials I work on, prayer is really an entire relationship, and the verbal part is only one element.

Hermann Gunkel, in a sense the unique father of us all in modern biblical scholarship, despite his insistence on saga's supervision of the Elijah narratives as we receive them, nevertheless affirms on the one hand Elijah's kinship with the greatest of all ministers of ancient Israel, Moses, in their mutual contention with their own people; and, on the other hand, Elijah's legitimate and immediate relationship to the great prophets who follow him and who, essentially, continue the work he began.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

But if enough time is not available, a basic course could be worked out on a typological basis in which one primitive cult, one of the ancient religions of the Near East and the two great competitors of Christianity — Islam and Buddhism — could be dealt with.

The introduction to this work mentions the ancient custom of the Lenten stational Masses in Rome, revived by Pope John Paul IIand celebrated in specific Roman Churches as stopping places on the way.

In the words of an ancient prayer, it is the visible expression of «that wonderful and sacred mystery» which speaks to us and works on us, through the very imperfection, weakness, error, and even the sin of the empirical institution, to manifest in the world of time and space the abiding reality of God's operation in the event of Christ for human wholeness.

Now tell me this, if you believe in the authorship of these ancient works with such a vast period of time in between, how on earth could you not believe in the New Testament's credibility?

This is no less true of Warren's literary criticism, whether in such ambitious works as the famous essay on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner («A Poem of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading»), the more modest but nonetheless incisive essays on such writers as Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter, or in the textbooks themselves — just hardheaded practical sense for anybody who loves literature and believes it is an autonomous discipline and not a substitute for anything else.

Many of us have become embarrassed about that ancient script because of our awareness of the ideological failures that are present in it, We are too ready to hand it over to the waiting arms of the dominant ideology; we have given up on the hard work of hearing and speaking the alternative message in what Karl Barth termed «the strange new world within the Bible.»

Other groups were the Scotists using the works of the philosopher Duns Scotus, championed by the Franciscans; the Thomists using the texts of Thomas Aquinas, championed by the Dominicans — Aquinas had worked philosophy and religion into a great single Summa, transposing Aristotle into the context of Christian theology under the influence of Augustine and Bernard, in which fides quaerens intellectum, faith seeking understanding, was integrated organically with philosophy; finally there was also a via antiqua, the ancient way, which was centred on Plato, but was also used to describe the Thomists.

Most of my time abroad has been spent on Crete studying the life and work of Nikos Kazantzakis (cf. Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, Saviors of God and Report to Greco) and the ancient Minoan culture.

It is remarkable that in spite of the massive scholarly work on medieval science there are still books on the history of science that begin with an account of the achievements of the ancient Greeks and pass immediately to the Renaissance, completely ignoring the contribution of the Middle Ages.

On the left are my roasted tomatoes from 2010 in what appears to be a very photogenic Tupperware container... Back then I used an ancient point - and - shoot camera which I bought in 2004 and used for so long that eventually every cell phone was being manufactured with a better camera than what I was working with.

I'm working on using this base for a few other recipes — oatmeal honey, cinnamon raisin, ancient grain blend, etc., so I'll be sure to share those recipes when I have them perfected!

There are tips on how to use art to ease your mind, why the ancient art of paper folding is worth learning, and why working with clay and playing in the park should also be grown up activities.

Police officials said the ring forged the purported burial box of Jesus» brother, James, and a stone tablet with written instructions by King Yoash on maintenance work at the ancient Jewish Temple.

We all have traveled to work together and have each spent hundreds of hours on conference calls and email to distill the best scientific research and ancient wisdom on what treatment of children allows them to thrive.

The company is also working on incorporating lentils and «ancient grains,» such as spelt to their crusts to add fiber and protein.

This book is of course a narrow range of information (and frankly very dry if you're not interested in economics), but these types of works will get you much closer to minute details on the everyday realities and decisions ancient governments faced.

His Republican opponent in November's mayoral election, Nicole Malliotakis, said she would hand over the funding and work with the governor to find a new revenue stream to focus on in order to replace the subways» ancient signal system with a modern alternative.

The two Germans were kidnapped on the February 22, in a Kaduna deep forest where they were said to have gone for archaeological work to discover an ancient town that is not existing now in the forest.

Their work on ancient DNA from Viking Age horses is more promising: Kool and Boessenkool have collected about 100 samples, in different states of preservation, from which they hope to build a detailed picture of how equine populations moved and changed.

«Some parts of Boulby mine are similar to environments we see on Mars, and so we'd like to use Boulby to work out where the best places are to look for signs of ancient life on Mars,» says Charles Cockell, an astrobiologist from Edinburgh University, who heads up the Mars Analogues for Space Exploration project.

The block on excavations has been the latest in a series of obstacles for archaeologists working in Egypt — the home of perhaps one - third of the world's antiquities, which reveal a vanished culture in unmatched detail (see «New research in an ancient land»).

Perched on a leather sofa in a downtown Toronto office, his host, a wealthy businessman, uncorked a $ 7,000 bottle of wine and outlined the multimillion - dollar offer: leave behind his research position at McMaster University's Ancient DNA Centre in Ontario and work full time to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life.

So instead, I volunteered with the marine group, working on everything from lipids in fish to ancient bacteria.

Working with some of the colleagues he'd met on the textbook project, his next step was to apply this information to the creation of a whole new field: the study of ancient environments on planets, such as Mars, that resemble Earth.

More than 500 seismologists and geologists worked for 6 years, using satellite measurements, field surveys, historical records of earthquakes, and geologic evidence of ancient ground motions to document the hazards for all land areas on Earth, says the project's director, Domenico Giardini of the Swiss Seismological Service in Zürich.

In some ancient eras, according to other recent work on ocean chemistry, marine animals lived in «worlds of lower oxygen,» Lyons says.

«There are lots of people who are interested in working on these ancient samples.

We found the God particle, learned to make clean energy work, tapped the healing power of germs, explored ancient streams on Mars, and made 96 other stirring advances.

It is based on some fundamental discoveries made by three German biophysicists — Peter Hegemann, Ernst Bamberg and Georg Nagel working on photoreceptors in ancient bacteria.

During her Ph.D., she worked with ancient DNA from a variety of organisms — including whales, koalas, and maize — before settling on humans, to study their evolution.

Ardren has «brought together studies from throughout the ancient Maya world to show that women were not sidebars in Maya society, but significant actors in their own right,» says Reese - Taylor, who is now building on Ardren's work as she looks for clues about powerful queens who were also fierce warriors.

Bretschneider led the German team from University of Mnster, which worked between 1992 and 2000 at the Euro - Syrian excavations at Tell Beydar, and is now excavating with a Syro - Belgian team in Tell Tweini (ancient Gibala) on the Syrian coast.

«I'm also working on ancient inundation stories and myths from India, and I've been trying to stimulate some interest among Asian scholars.»

As it happens, moas were also the subject of Cooper's first foray into ancient DNA: He spent a year in the late 1980s working on them at the University of California at Berkeley, when paleogenetics was still an embryonic field.

When Vazquez fires up his computer to show a PowerPoint presentation on his work, an ancient map appears on the screen.

In the 1970s, a trawler working Oyster Cove in Chesapeake Bay on America's east coast dredged up ancient stone tools and mammal fossils.

They report on their work studying ancient glass and rock defense walls in a paper published in the May issue of American Ceramic Society Bulletin.

Angielczyk, whose work focuses on ancient mammal relatives, explained the importance of finding new species like Ichibengops.

«So far, much of our surface exploration by rovers has focused on ancient terrains and whether or not the environments they record were habitable,» said Sun, lead author on the study and a graduate student working with Milliken.