Sentences with phrase «only about a century»

Finally, reliable records for most ground locations go back only about a century, so setting records may not be as surprising as if they broke marks that had been around longer.

Not exact matches

21st Century Fox (FOX), for example, is only down by about 4 % since the beginning of the year, or less than half Disney's decline.

1910 In the early 20th century, most investors only cared about dividends.

As Christians wrestle through issues like this in the 21st century, we need to remember these kinds of developments are not addressed explicitly in Scripture — there are only general parameters to ponder, wonder about, pray over and wrestle through.

The author in her «wisdom» seem to think that Roman empire was the only place where Christianity spread, what about other locations in the world, including India where Christianity spread right in the First century.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

the only surviving writings about Christianity from the first centuries after the apostles come mainly from men steeped in Greek thought and philosophy.

For centuries the only way this religion of sword has been able to proliferate has been to brainwash people by getting them angry, and injecting sorrow, into their souls about the dead and martyrs, as well as creating hate towards an enemey, even a made - up one Without a funeral, mourning, and a physical shrine, muslims are lost!

His rhetorical question some time back about Mormonism only coming about about in the nineteenth century, some 1,800 years after the Ascension of our Lord is spot on!

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

If this appears a rather rash statement, it is perhaps worth recalling just how problematic some of these sources can be when questions about the dating, provenance or dissemination are asked: the Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37 — 71) which contains so many crucial references to Christological titles otherwise thin on the ground elsewhere outside the New Testament (most notably the enigmatic «Son of Man»), is first attested only in a fifteenth - century Ethiopic manuscript.

Only a few books have appeared in English about these Alpine Christians since the last century.

... Enough said... Think about that one... We are not Perfect beings therefore Religion is far from being perfect... We can see this throughout History and even into the 21st century Religion is A Controlled Evil... Biggest Controlled Beauracracy Hoax over Man's Self yet - is Religion... Brilliantly orchestrated I must say though... Only the Weak Minded can be controlled by Religion... Blessed Be... 696969

Paul Johnson's magisterial Modern Times, published in 1983, only seemed to confirm our worst fears about the meaning of the twentieth century.

(It just about managed to do so, only reviving when the Jesuits took it over later in the century, and today's University College Dublin is proud to count Newman as its founder.)

Even if they attempt to explain away «No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father» (Mark 13:32), they can not explain away that most every Christian, theologian, scholar, and prophet from the first Century until the Nineteenth Century all believed that the church would go through the Great Tribulation and not escape through some secret rapture that would leave the world paralyzed.

In The Christian Century for October 6, 1971, I hazarded some guesses about «The Shape of the Coming Renewal,» suggesting that the growing awakening among young people was only the leading edge of a glacier that would continue to move in steadily until it dominated the American ecclesiastical landscape.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

Their reforms did not come about, save only after centuries and then imperfectly.

Nor was it about his redemption of our sins (a theology developed to its current form only centuries after the facts primarily from the epistles of Paul, who never knew or spoke with Jesus personally, in the flesh.)

About Tyler, Palahniuk will only say that «Tyler is something that maybe has been around for centuries and is not just this aberration that's popped into his mind,» saying that he plans on using the story to explore mid-life crises...

For example a century ago, the only transportation was the horse riding or camel or donkey and so on... you can not imagine at that time people would be thinking about travelling the globe in a day or two... and we do not know what is coming as every scientists theory is being abrogated by a new scientist and the old one becomes obsolete... these also proves that human theory can not be perfect and will never be perfect... there will always be modifications...

In China the number of Christians, at best only a minority, remained about stationary in the eighteenth century and the morale of the Christian communities suffered.

There are few other figures than the monarchs and their satellites — but that only reflects the character of the age — Roman history, Mediterranean history generally, in that century, was a history of Führers and Duces, strutting about imperiously and wreaking their destructions upon the earth.

Renting space in the magnificent Auditorium Theater, with its golden mosaics and turn - of - the - century opulence, Willow Creek Chicago has about 1,200 attenders after only a year of operation.

I think being written only a few decades after these events is about as good a deal as you can get w / ancient history; same goes for finding early 2nd century samples of m in Egypt.

Every since mankind has been as the Apostle described us in his epistle (Again, 2 nd Timothy 3:1 - 5; see also what Jesus said in Mark 7:20 - 23), the only thing that has «advanced «at our hands is our architecture, our technology, and our search for medicinal cures for what ails us.No one is denying that we've done tremendous good with these various advances, but we've also done awful, vicious, horrendous atrocities and brutalities as well.I've heard it quoted that out of all the centuries, millennia that we've considered ourselves «civilized», we've had only a few hundred years where something approximating peace has held sway among us.So again, I'm all world seeking to «make the world a better place», as it were; I just believe that mankind in his present moral, ethical, and spiritual configuration is capable of doing so.We can always enhance out technological prowess, improve our architechural designs, and make our drugs more powerful, but what about our hearts?

First century Jewish historian Josephus referred to Jewish beliefs about the greatness of Seth, but only in the Gnostic works does one find extensive literature about Seth.

Not only does Siemon - Netto think these charges are false, but he believes that interpretations and actions based on stereotypical thinking about» The Fabricated Luther» have contributed to the real catastrophes of the twentieth century.

The way some people talk about the Bible, it seems that God's whispering of truth was only heard by a small group of Middle Eastern men for a few brief centuries.

However by the Reformation in the 16th century, Martin Luther not only translated the Gospels, but he interpreted them in printed sermons as well, and when John Calvin, Roger Williams and others broadly disagreed in print with Luther on such matters as what the scriptures said about the role of government in society, the whole matter of scriptural interpretation was opened to thousands of individuals who for the first time could read (or have read to them) the published documents.

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

and this could only have been possible because of a century of the cultural revolutions about human rights, sexuality (individual expression), religion, etc..

Irony besets every action of that strange creature man, and we can only wonder that the ecclesiastical Christian should have ceased to speak about damnation in a century in which guilt and damnation have become an overwhelming motif in so many of the most creative expressions of consciousness and experience.

Although the full complexity of this aspect of man is only now being explored systematically, the basic truth about man's psychological make - up has been a part of his religious intuition for centuries.

Although the United States by tradition was prevailingly Protestant, at the beginning of the nineteenth century only a small proportion, said to have been about seven in a hundred, were members of churches.

With the exception of a very small minority of Roman Catholics, they were Protestant by background, but at the mid-eighteenth century probably only about five out of a hundred were church members.

The view of Moses» possible indebtedness, in these terms, to Jethro has been proposed with many variations for about a century, but it remains only hypothesis.

If one wants only to avoid them, and not answer them, please — editors and authors in the Christian Century — be straightforward about that.

Same sexual orientation was not studied the way we understand it today until the 19th century, that speech is only about male and female relationships, there's no mention of same sex.

``... The only way to understand what is currently happening to us as twenty - first - century Christians in North America is first to understand that about every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale... About every five hundred years the empowered structures of institutionalized Christianity, whatever they may be at the time, become an intolerable carapace that must be shattered in order that renewal and new growth may occur.&rabout every five hundred years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale... About every five hundred years the empowered structures of institutionalized Christianity, whatever they may be at the time, become an intolerable carapace that must be shattered in order that renewal and new growth may occur.&rAbout every five hundred years the empowered structures of institutionalized Christianity, whatever they may be at the time, become an intolerable carapace that must be shattered in order that renewal and new growth may occur.»

About the middle of the second century a ship - owner of Pontus, Marcion, advocated setting aside entirely the Old Testament and making use of only the gospels of Luke and the letters of Paul — ten of them only — as the Christian scripture.

While we have known for centuries about the health benefits of all types of honey, recent studies have shown that only Manuka has an antibacterial component that sets it apart from other honeys.

Our family of premium brands has been dedicated for more than a century to supporting those who are not only passionate about creating great food, but are inspired by the people they serve and come to know on a daily basis.

Keep the faith though chaps we've only got about another century of this and maybe we'll see a change.

It's time for this dark secret to see the light of day: Rhode Island has been lying about its chowder offering for what I can only assume has been centuries now.

There were newspaper comments about the way the fans were turning on the players in the late 19th and early 20th century, there was another total split in the club again between 1910 and 1913, (only resolved through the selfless work of Jack Humble, one of the founders).

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For centuries, parents have used slings to carry their babies, not only because they could go about their daily routines, but also because their little ones seemed more content.