Sentences with phrase «through early this century»

Still, the old patriarchal institutions were not completely unsuited to land tenure, and through these early centuries the idea of family possession took such firm hold as to be written into the laws and to provide the background for the colorful incident of Jezebel's theft of Naboth's ancestral property.

Similar arrangements had been made through earlier centuries dating from the expulsion of the Moors (Muslims) and Jews from Spain in 1492 and the subsequent escalation of the Inquisition (started in 1478), which persisted for several hundred years.

It is the first of a series of best - sellers that feature the intertwined histories of two dynasties, the Turners and the Devreys through the early centuries of the United States.

Nome, home to about 3,400 residents in 2009, sits on the southern side of the Seward Peninsula.13 The Nome area saw a warming trend from 1907 to 1941, and again from 1976 through early this century.4 As might be expected given these trends, and like much of the rest of Alaska, Nome is undergoing physical changes linked to global warming.8, 14

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The project is a typically finicky downtown venture: the early - 20th - century structure occupies almost the entire property it sits on, so the materials and heavy equipment have to be shoehorned in via a narrow alleyway or, in the case of massive new roof joists and pipes, through the roof.

The five films Murdoch's 20th Century Fox division put out this summer season (which runs from the first weekend in May through Labor Day in the entertainment industry) grossed $ 783 million as of earlier this week, according to film revenue - tracking website Box Office Mojo.

Hemp made it's way through Europe in the Middle Ages and North America in the early 16th century.

Or will only a renewal of the idea of freedom for excellence» freedom tethered to moral truth and ordered to goodness» see us through the political and cultural whitewater of the early twenty - first century?

Sometimes in direct attack, as in the Roman persecutions of early centuries and the Nazi and Communist movements of our time, sometimes through sneers and the opposition of hostile public opinion, Christianity has had to defend itself against those who believed the false or utopian ideas of its founder to be dangerous.

The prevailing winds that blew through the doctrinal formulations of the early centuries of the church were jarring nor» easters insofar as any biblical insight into a dynamic and interactive God of love is concerned.

There is no limit to what our prayer can accomplish, as Dr. W.P. DuBose, the American theologian of the early years of this century, once said; but (he went on to say) it is always in us and through us, not entirely in spite of us or by means that are contrary to the consistency of the divine operation itself.

To disentangle from its many complications the idea of God, for example, and to follow through from early Hebraism to second - century Christianity this idea's progress, while it makes the story more easily understandable, obscures the actual confusion of cross-currents, back - eddies, stagnant shallows, whirlpools, rapids, and cataracts present in history itself.

The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.

We are still feeling the effects of three great populist movements that ripped through Southern Baptist life in the early and middle decades of the nineteenth century: Campbellism, Landmarkism, and hyper «Calvinism.

That winged vision, rising on the updraft of an earlier time, has valiantly beat its course through fair and stormy skies until now, 70 years after The Christian Century was refounded, it still summons us to move forward and finish the Reformation.

As early as the third century Clement of Alexandria spoke of this book as a «spiritual gospel,» and this it has been through the centuries as Christians have loved it and been moved by it to greater inward depths.

With new vigor in the early nineteenth century, the churches of Western Christendom, through the overseas missionary movement, began their long and ever more complex recognition that the ministry and church must go to people in special settings or with special problems.

Even by the second century there was little indication of «seeing through the eyes of Christ» in the early church.

At an early stage in the church's history a process of de-Judaization was set in motion — a process that through the centuries has deprived the church of some of the richest elements of its Hebrew heritage.

First, his formulation reflects and summarizes the debates of the previous century and a quarter, in which canonists and theologians collected, thought through, and systematically organized earlier normative Christian thought on the use of armed force.

Nowhere was the resulting «republican religion» more apparent than in the «Yale theology» of the early nineteenth century, the goal of which was «the moral renovation of the American people through revivalism, reform societies, the religious press, and sumptuary legislation.

Through common study of the Bible we have gained a better understanding of God's word in the tradition of the great preachers and theologians of earlier centuries, and thus we have learned to read the Bible more faithfully in and with the Church.

If I have one criticism it would be that in the section on the modern period there is insufficient mention of the influence of the Oxford Movement and Newman in the 19th century, and of the internal renewal of the Church through such phenomena as the Liturgical Movement of the early 20th century.

Edwards» «angry God» became progressively more user - friendly through the ensuing centuries, culminating with Billy Graham, who could play amicable golf with people whom earlier revivalists would have threatened with fire and brimstone.

Those early experiences sparked Gilbert to chronicle the central events of the twentieth century and to recover the stories of people who lived through it — especially those who had suffered most.

It received a powerful new lease on life in 20th - century Christian circles through C. S. Lewis's widely influential early book The Problem of Pain, especially in its first edition.

Eucharistic theology provides part of the support for this position as early as the late second century, and continues to do so through the 12th century.

It had made vast gains through immigration in the latter part of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and had consolidated its gains with its outstanding organizational and administrative work.

A century earlier John Wesley and his brother Charles had written hundreds of hymns which stirred working class people in England, and this tradition continued in America through such writers as Timothy Dwight, Samuel Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and more recently Henry Sloane Coffin and Harry Emerson Fosdick.

In the early twentieth century, Indian Christians demonstrated this goal of self - propagation through the Madura Church Council's initial emphasis on every church member as an evangelist; and in the growing leadership of Indian teachers, doctors, nurses, and administrators in Christian institutions like schools and hospitals.

In the second part, «Unanticipated Consequences of Emancipation,» Wisse sketches» through the lens of the Jewish experience» the crisis of modern liberalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

They were not, of course, the first critics of dogma but they carried through systematically the criticisms of an earlier age by people such as Fausto Socinus of the sixteenth century, perhaps the first «modern» process theologian.

Instead, while tracing back to the easiest access to North America scientists have agreed earlier in this century that Native Americans came mainly from North Asia through the Bering Strait land bridge.

This story of Moses» birth sounds a simple theme which appears, with variations, widely through the centuries and lands surrounding the time and place of the early Hebrews.

His monumental achievement, in such epic works as the Summa Contra Gentiles and the Summa Theologiae, was to marry the wisdom of a millennium of Christian philosophy and theology to the «new philosophy» of Aristotle that had been rediscovered in Europe (largely through the mediation of Arabic philosophers) in the early thirteenth century.

In the eighteenth century the picture that one understands God through love as a feeling state deeply shaped the early Methodist movement through John Wesley's experience of a heart «strangely warmed.»

, Reading Romans through the Centuries: From the Early Church to Karl Barth (Grand Rapids, MN: Brazos Press, 2005), 35, 77.

Meanwhile, from early in the eighteenth century, specifically theological training was commonly acquired through study under the supervision of established clergymen, either parish ministers or ministerial professors.

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).

From Sam Raybould, who bagged 120 league goals in the early 20th century, through Harry Chambers and Gordon Hodgson in the 1920s and 1930s, and then onto Billy «Liddellpool» Liddell in the 1950s, top goalscorers are nothing new at Anfield.

This is highlighted by the so - called «Galactico» era which Madrid went through in the early part of the century.

This represented a stark change from the colonial era, when mothers normally breastfed at least through infants» second summer.3 The move to early weaning was so relentless that doctors complained bitterly in a 1912 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that breastfeeding duration rates had been declining steadily since the mid-19th century «and now it is largely a question as to whether the mother will nurse her baby at all.»»

Visitors can also see how maple sugaring has changed over the years through a Maple scavenger hunt and demonstrations of different tapping techniques, including traditional Native American methods, early 19th - century New England techniques, 20th century metal buckets, and contemporary tubing.

The competencies needed for a successful, purposeful, and joyful life in the 21st century are best cultivated through an education that fully meets and engages the developmental needs of children, which are fundamentally different in early childhood, elementary school, middle school, and high school — in other words, «the right thing at the right time.»

Leo was very popular at the turn of the 20th century until its decline from the 1930s through the early 2000s.

Until the early twentieth century, however, infants who were exclusivelydry nursed or fed artificially usually failed to thrive, either because of inadequate nutrition or contaminated animal milk or water.6 Thus before industrialization the overwhelming majority of women breastfed their infants for a considerable length of time, and in Europe and the United States evidence suggests that through the seventeenth century women generally breastfed their infants beyond the second summer.

Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special election defeats: In one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earlier.

It wasn't until the early 20th century, though, that researchers understood seismic waves, which we now categorize as either body (moving through the planet's interior) or surface.

The jawless, blood - sucking sea lamprey found its way into the Great Lakes in the early 20th century through man - made canals, and has been disturbing the peace ever since.

But Darwinism says that there has been change through time, since all life comes from a common ancestor — something that appeared to be supported when, early in the 20th century, scientists discovered that X-rays and specific chemicals caused mutations.