Sentences with phrase «think over centuries»

You would think over centuries of war based on religion, we would have learned something by now.

For it is possible to think that man is the image of God only insofar as man is a spiritual being, as indeed so many Christians have thought over the centuries.

Not exact matches

«When we think back over the centuries that Lloyd's has been doing business, of course we understand that women weren't even in the workplace for several hundred years,» said Beale.

Over 300 attendees from 33 countries convened to learn from designers from Wallpaper *'s Design Power 200 list as well as business leaders from Fortune 500 companies on how design thinking can be implemented into 21st century business strategy.

Over these five years, the iconic 130 - year - old organization has experienced a modern renaissance, with dramatic membership growth and a rediscovered relevancy for 21st - century business, government and thought leaders.

An approach to investing that began over a century ago, this field started as a way to avoid exposure to companies that contradicted the moral or ethical values of investors — think about industries such as tobacco, gambling or weapons.

very god - like... kill... kill... kill... somehow I think something was lost in the translation over the centuries.

Over the past half century or so, too many parts of the Catholic world have come to think of «reform» as something we conjure up from our own cleverness, as if we must puzzle out what makes the Church «relevant.»

... 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

Even if you think Jesus had some nice ideas, these writings from someone who rarely presented Jesus» ideals well has done little more than divide people over the centuries.

The subsequent centuries have witnessed endless conflict over the Christian cultus, but one element in the long development of Biblical experience and thought concerning fellowship with God has remained as the common and unifying gain of all — «Thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret.»

Berry also believed that there had been a failure in religious imagination in Christian thought over several centuries, and wished to marry it to our scientific understanding of the universe.

It was nonetheless the logical conclusion of stressing time and experience over eternal creed, which Powell calls «the setting of the stage» for twentieth century thought.

By subtle, unnoticed gradations the presentation of old patterns of thinking slips over into twentieth - century categories and phrases.

It was common in the nineteenth century and even later to set Darwin over against Lamarck or vice versa, and by this means to point up the contrast between the inner and the outer orientation of evolutionary thinking.

Indeed, as early as Origen in the third century it was being pointed out that we must not think of the Ascension as a movement in space; and in fact Luke seems to have translated into mythical form, i.e. a pictorial narrative, the universal belief of the early Church that Jesus has ascended to the throne of God, not in a physical manner but in the sense that he has been exalted to Lordship over all the world.

We must on no account think that now the Church has got over the Council it is high time to restore peace and order as if, as an Italian Cardinal is supposed to have said, the Council had produced only broken pieces which would take a century to put together again.

We 21st Century Americans tend to think these are boring and irrelevant, and so we mostly just skip over them and get on to the next verse.

As for Aristotle's logic, its dominance over several centuries «imposed on metaphysical thought the categories naturally derivative from its phraseology» (PR 30 / 45).

Don't you think REAL scientists have been trying to disprove evolution for over a century?

Sorry Prism, but even though you can not stand the thought, your religion has radically changed its morality over the centuries, and I already gave you examples.

Sounds like a well thought out campfire story to me that got twisted over 3 centuries.

To be sure, for the Jewish people, who have experienced their fair share of forced conversions over the centuries (think the Spanish Inquisition), the suggestion that victims like Holocaust victim Anne Frank or Pearl might be baptized after death can be horribly offensive.

Surely Paul was not thinking of time crisis over 16th - century indulgences when he wrote about «faith alone.»

In this new book he offers a snapshot of the penetration of what might be called «alien'thinking (though this is not a term Trower himself uses) into twentieth - century Catholic intellectual life, singlingout in particular two writers accorded iconic status over the years, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Karl Rahner.

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

Jeremy Myers sure that is true, but I never ever thought that way anyway, for I have known since I was a kid the meaning of the word church and the building has only been one of the most popular places church has met over the centuries

This integrative way of thinking about Church, state, and society has also been common among many Protestants and Catholics over the centuries.

But before we can see this, we must let go our hold of that traditional picture of Jesus which Christian thought and devotion has built up over the centuries and which reached its climax in the Christian mythology of the Middle Ages.

The victory of the «iconodules» was the victory of incarnational theology over the Platonic template that Origen had imposed on Christian thought from the third century.

Besançon first earned his reputation as a historian of Soviet politics and of Russian nationalism (toward both of which he entertains understandably dim views), and he thinks that the Russian nationalists of the nineteenth century, among their other sins, killed the genre of icon «painting when they began to praise the icon's superiority over Western art.

Over the centuries ancient man learned to express his thinking about the world in the form of myths, or stories of the gods, in whom were personified the unseen forces he presumed to be at work in the phenomena he observed.

We tend to think most immediately of religions and sects that have sprung up over the centuries after Jesus.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

@Chad «I have never seen anyone successfully argue that Hitlers actions were anything other than motivated by german nationalism, however, I do think horrendous theology in Christianity over the centuries has contributed a great deal to anti-semitism, so I do think we as Christians have an ownership of a great deal of the holocaust and I wont shy away from that.

It was fascinating, and I think important, to see the development over the centuries of the philosophical rift which eventually grew between science and religion, as a result of which many scientists (although by no means all) abandoned any idea of a Creator God.

Personal religious experience and inner feeling, therefore, began to take precedence over religious thought and dogma at the very time when traditional Christian doctrines were becoming increasingly out of kilter with the new ideas and advancing human knowledge of the last two centuries.

I think one of the major problems with it, is that it was formulated in the late 1800's, before many significant archaeological discoveries over the following century that contradict the theory.

To a circle of early 20th - century English theologians, the thought of God's ruling over a universe of pain and yet being untouched by it was unbearable.

A second example involving religion comes from thinking about America's position in the world economy over the past half century or so.

What is of immediate significance to us is that, in conceiving the physical existent as «matter,» seventeenth - century thought accepted and carried over as the essential connotation of «matter» (which is indeed grounded in the etymology of the term3) what it had been in the medieval epoch, namely of sheer passive potentiality.

When they were driven out from synagogue and temple, they faced a disruption in their religious thought and practise comparable with the shock of the Exile to the Jews over six centuries before.

It is good to read your posts on this controversial topic... I think there is a battle over the Bible that is likely going to heat up as we continue forward into the 21st century.

We need to understand the legacy of lynching more honestly and carefully, we need to even revisit segregation and the legacy that it's created if we're going to make progress I think there is a continuing presumption of dangerousness and guilt that gets assigned to people of color, I think it would break Dr. King's heart to know that black youth in New York are getting stopped and frisked, that this police violence that has been such a problem for over a century continues, that we haven't made the commitment to overcoming bigotry and race discrimination in the way we need to.

Furthermore, in the United States, for over a quarter of a century the writings of Professor Charles Hartshorne, including Beyond Humanism, The Vision of God, Reality as Social Process, The Divine Relativity, The Logic of Perfection, and A Natural Theology for Our Times, as well as many occasional articles and essays, have eloquently argued the case for «process - thought».

These over the centuries have been incorporated into Christian thinking and at least partially into the social structure of the Western world.

This is why true religious adherents are so singularly closed minded, and why the bad ideas fostered by religious thinking — like creationism — repeat themselves over the course of centuries.

Because the Church has been guilty of many glaring faults over the centuries, because Christians have frequently failed to be Christians through cowardice or lethargy, because an archbishop has said a foolish thing, because the methods of some evangelists are not approved, or because of some other quite trivial or irrelevant reason, some people appear to think that Christianity is finally discredited and its challenge can be honorably ignored!

So because Medieval Europeans hooked on one religion created a calendar system centuries afterward, and over time, with the expansion of empire, it came to become the primary system, you think that's some proof of your beliefs?

For well over a century and a half this identification has been widely, and we think, rightly accepted.