Sentences with phrase «over the millennia of»

Yet for us this epistemological dimension of the redemption is not from the supposedly «incurably» dualistic nature of human knowing but from stubbornly dualistic theories of human knowing which over the millennia of their influence have whittled away wonder.

It's hard to improve upon nature: Its intricate forms and patterns were molded over millennia of evolution and fine - tuned to precision.

As the book's title suggests, the best model for parents and teachers — honed over millennia of human evolution and trial and error — is not the carpenter who works diligently from an established blueprint, but the patient gardener who provides a safe space to let nature take its course, and then gets out of the way.

No people really in the sense that they came from a specific group that formed over the millennia of human history.

The artists within Collective Memory explore the idea that over the millennia of human history, the arts remain the singular and lasting footprint of civilizations.

Not exact matches

Larry Puglia, whose T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund has trounced the S&P 500 with annualized returns of 18.5 % over the past five years (and 37 % in 2017 alone), says that some of the same companies he avoided around the turn of the millennium are now among the biggest holdings in his portfolio, including Amazon (amzn), Alphabet (googl), and Microsoft (msft).

Pilbara - focused gold miner Millennium Minerals has reported good news in a gloomy industry with a maiden profit of just over $ 34 million for the first half of calendar 2013.

Countless smash - ups over the millennia spread around enough of these exotic metals that when our planet formed, they were baked right into its crust.

The FDA has actually been ruminating over this challenge at least since the turn of the millennium.

While Reese says he doesn't know the exact reason, people have labored over the intricacies of language for millennia and usually consider themselves experts in their native tongue.

But none of this compares to the biggest change that we would have coming over the next millennia.

Sacrifices that seem extreme in the context of a single generation look more reasonable when you amortize them over a millennium or two.

St. Louis was once corporate America's manufacturing backyard, but through strategic planning initiatives first launched at the start of the new millennium, the region has evolved into a vibrant hotbed of technology, as well as a cradle of entrepreneurship over the past decade.

In the right set of circumstances, many multiples of that amount could incrementally flow into gold, a simple product that has been innately understood for millennia by human beings all over the globe.

Even more than the Constitution, which was written by a group of men over a span of months, the Bible, which was written by many different voices over millennia, is (to borrow from Souter) a «pantheon of values.»

This coming July, the world will mark the centenary of the First World War, the seismic calamity that began the 20th century as an epoch and that, in another hundred years, may well be regarded as the sanguinary first act in the end of Europe as «Europe» had been known for over a millennium.

The Christian Church, particularly in Europe, was the center of intellectual life for over a millennium and had a powerful influence over it until recent times.

The emergence of Evangelical Catholicism is a Spirit - led development reflecting the cultural contingencies of history, like other such evolutions over the past two millennia: the evolution from the primitive Church to the Church of the Fathers; the evolution from patristic Catholicism to medieval Catholicism; the development of Counter-Reformation Catholicism (the Church in which anyone over sixty today was raised) from medieval Catholicism.

There are plenty of extremes in Christianity, including racism and anti-Semitism to the point of genocide for over 2 millennia.

And in just that apparent consensus about the ridiculousness of it all, amid all those ashes scattered over a Christian teaching stretching back two millennia, arises a fascinating and in fact exceedingly amusing modern morality tale — amusing, at least, to those who take their humor dark.

The tradition of teaching that began with Confucius has guided the Chinese over two millennia.

fred, Any idea how an omniscient omnipotent being that created the 100's of billions of galaxies, ours with 100's of billions of star systems, provided his word to so few humans over the last few millennia?

A great attraction of the Catholic Church over the past two millennia, in the eyes of many non «Catholics as well as most Catholics, is her universal character.

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

Streams of endless craving, clinging, dreaming, flowing day and night, midnights, years, decades, centuries, millennia, streams of tears, of pledging, of waitings - from all over the world, from all corners of the world - carried us of this generation to the Wall.

For James, the ongoing permanence and stability of a unified Roman Catholic that has weathered cultural change and religious persecution over the millennia, stands in contrast to a Protestant Church fractured into thousands of denominations and riven with differences.

Taylor Swift — who famously took on Apple Music, too — is among hundreds of artists and labels who are petitioning to Congress to update the legislation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow them to be paid properly and have more control over the way their music is used on the website.

It is easiest to critique Bingham by chiding him for ignoring the great stories that have been told over the millennia by Socrates and Aristotle, Moses and Jesus, Muhammad and Siddhartha, the Gitas and the Tao — all of which have nontrivial implications for the process of cultural evolution.

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with over 2 billion of us, we may disagree on a lot — but we all agree on certain basics (that are intrinsic to the faith and have been for millennia)... for example, read the Apostles» Creed.

If this is the uncertainty over a period of a few years, what is the case with purported periods of centuries, millennia, or millions of years?

Now here is something to ponder: There have been innumerable books of Church history written over two millennia.

Over the millennia is has provided an occupation and a living for millions of people, and a means to control the masses.

Much more significant is the truly amazing unity of viewpoint, doctrine, and vision that this heterogeneous library of occasional writings, put together by more than forty writers over more than a millennium, displays.

I have discovered that the conservative evangelical church's viewpoint in the 1950's did not necessarily represent the viewpoint of other churches, nor the viewpoint held by the church over the previous two millennia.

Death's brutality over the greater part of the last two millennia cast a long shadow over everyday life as disease, famine, and infant mortality claimed victim after victim.

Both bad Christian ideas — I wonder if the Mayflower thing was inspired by Christians seeing the Acts story as God's way — I think lots of Christians have over the millennia.

In his September 1, 2011 column «Gay and Christian,» Russell Saltzman addressed my article in the New Oxford Review, in which I sketched a brief history of homosexual politics over the past two and a half millennia as a background for understanding the present controversy.

So they set out to do in action what over two millennia earlier Plato's Republic had attempted to do in words: create a political constitution virtually from scratch on the basis of self - conscious deliberation.

The various cultic interpretations of the poems remind us that such poetry as this is never created new, but rather always draws from the articulate lover of last spring and the spring before and the spring before that, and so on back not merely over the years, but over the centuries and even the millennia.

It is altogether another to recognize that such a God had tremendous power over the minds and faith of Christians for two millennia but has now ceased to wield such clout.

Thus, over two millennia, there have been innumerable different ways of understanding what it means to be a Christian and during the last 500 years they have been multiplying.

Over five million manufacturing jobs were lost just during the eleven - year period following the turn of the millennium, which indicates that the decline has accelerated in recent years.

God's story isn't a fast one, but one that slowly unfurls over millennia, revealing more of who God is and what he calls his people into.

With regard to the second problem, namely, an agreement on «Tradition» (with a capital T), its hermeneutical assessment, and its binding force, it is desirable that the Tradition of the as yet undivided Church of the first millennium, especially its Christological and Trinitarian doctrinal decrees and its status as a communio ecclesiarum, be given priority over the later confessional developments of a particular Church.

Further, for Kinzer, the renunciation of supersessionism means that God is still with the Jews, including non-Christian Judaism over the last two millennia.

However, we needed at least one speaker who could explain in a rigorous but popular way the objective basis of the Church's teaching, constitution and ministry, and properly analyse its salvific effects on human culture over the last two millennia.

Until a little over a hundred years ago men were using the same means of travel as had been used for several millennia — the horse by land and the sailboat by water.

So began the idea of a millennium, which even yet in Biblical fundamentalism exercises a potent sway over the imagination of many Christians, and upon which the curiosity of the credulous has worked for centuries in an endeavor to predict «times and seasons.»

This may be true with some people about some things, but overall, the Bible has grown organically, is very close to human experiences of people over centuries and millennia, speaks the truth about our frailty, draws characters that are complex, raw, and authentic, warts and all.