Sentences with phrase «twentieth century every people»

The revolution was to mount until in the twentieth century every people, tribe, and nation was profoundly altered and the whole human race was ushered into a world which in time dimensions was rapidly shrinking and which was displaying common cultural features.

I was born in a welfare state Ruled by bureaucracy Controlled by civil servants And people dressed in grey Got no privacy, got no liberty Cos the twentieth century people Took it all away from me.

Not exact matches

«The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide.

Many people continue to use it, despite its thorough debunking as a twentieth - century fabrication.

The explanation, argues South African theologian John de Gruchy in his book Reconciliation, lies in the growing conviction among Christian theologians in the twentieth century that God's reconciliation of the world to himself through Jesus Christ encompasses political orders, not merely relationships among persons or within families or church communities.

However, the senseless murder of tens of millions of people during the twentieth century by atheistic godless governments does not convince me atheism holds any real answers.

According to metropolitan Kallistos Ware, the central question of the twentieth century was the nature of the Church, whereas the central question of the twenty - first century is likely to be the nature of the human person.

And you have pointed up a fact that is apparently so big that people can't see it: That the twentieth century was the bloodiest and most godless century in human history.

In loose blank verse akin to Milton's in Paradise Regained, Logue marshals all the imaginative resources available to an educated, sentient person at the end of the twentieth century.

A Desert in Bohemia is a welcome addition to the growing literature on what happened to ordinary and not so ordinary people in the bloody second half of the twentieth century.

Paul Tillich, a great theologian of the twentieth century, defined God as a person's ultimate concern.

In addition to Gilson's discoveries, the latter half of the twentieth century has seen further development of a distinctive metaphysics of the person and of the relationality implicit in the metaphysics of St. Thomas.

In the twentieth century, the Holocaust, skepticism about God's existence, global anti-Semitism, and the foundation of the State of Israel all contributed to Jews» seeing their attachment to a unique people as the starting point (and in most cases also the end point) for Jewish identification.

Since the early twentieth century, German Protestant theology has sought forms in which first - person confession and second - person address, or, in other words, witness and proclamation, can shape the exposition of Christian theology.

The Episcopal church had too much money and power early in the twentieth century and, like the House of Hapsburg manifested in the person of Prince Charles of England (or I could make a bitter allusion to the Bush clan but will refrain), became dull - witted and boring without an infusion of mongrel ideas.

Meanwhile, Oscar Handlin had written in his 1954 textbook, The American People in the Twentieth Century, «religious activities fell into a fundamental tripartite division that had begun to take form earlier in the cCentury, «religious activities fell into a fundamental tripartite division that had begun to take form earlier in the centurycentury.

With this experience of what we humans are capable of doing to one another, and with the decline of belief in a providential God, there is far less confidence about the human future among informed people today than there was at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Whether Israel is exiled by Babylon or a modern people displaced, whether Rachel or a twentieth - century mother mourns for her children they need the same assurance that «your work shall be rewarded....

What are the unique needs of people in this community in the second half of the twentieth century?

Hollinger thinks our intellectual culture would be healthier if we had today people such as Robert Ingersoll, a brilliant atheist who in the early twentieth century toured the country lambasting religion.

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.

During the twentieth century indigenous peoples have sought emancipation from foreign imperialism, and colored races emancipation from white domination.

At first, globalization seemed perilously close to being Europeanization, but in the latter half of the twentieth century European supremacy has been modified, partly by the spread of Indian, Chinese and Japanese people, and partly because some of the colonized peoples took the opportunity of their imperial citizenship to settle in Europe.

People born in recent decades have no first - hand experience of what active Christian allegiance was like at the beginning of the twentieth century, when practically everybody in the western world other than Jews claimed to be Christian.

God is not left without witnesses, however, and the urge to create religious statements and the evidence that the power of the gospel still gripped persons outside of systems led to the fact that a great body of religious art was produced in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries outside of official religious circles.

Prior to the twentieth century, Kennedy observed, «many persons did not deem homosexuals to have dignity in their own distinct identity.»

The church in the late twentieth century is no different from the church in any age in her need for leaders to feed God's people by telling them the truth about God, the world, and themselves.

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the great twentieth - century theoretician of Jewish law (Halakhah) who died twenty - five years ago today, addressed these questions within the context of his own tradition — though his answers are relevant to people of all faiths.

«People feel that they can get along perfectly well without religion,» said John Robinson and added that «Bonhoeffer's answer was to say that God is deliberately calling us in this twentieth century to a form of Christianity that does not depend upon the premise of religion».

De Lubac's book is a masterpiece of intellectual erudition and sophisticated apologetics that argues that the deepest human longings for unity — longings that made communism so alluring to many idealistic people in the first half of the twentieth century — are fulfilled in the Church's supernatural mission.

A key task, then, which twentieth - century Catholic theology largely ignored, is to show the fundamental compatibility of the modern natural sciences with a deeper philosophy of nature and a metaphysics of the human person, one religious in orientation.

When, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, European peoples again expanded, colonizing fresh sections in the Americas, occupying all of Africa and the islands of the Pacific, and subjecting to their control much of Asia, Christian missions followed and in some instances anticipated the advancing frontiers of Occidental power, and modified profoundly the revolutionary results of the impact of Western upon non-Western peoples and cultures.

Perhaps he relies too much on twentieth - century Anglo - American scholarship, but his work will prove helpful for any reader interested in the first two centuries of Christianity, particularly in the question of how unwavering devotion to the divine person of Jesus so rapidly became a sine qua non of the first believers» lives.

The large - scale compilation of data of the nineteenth century and up to World War I has in the twentieth century and particularly since World War II been supplemented by a living encounter — a large - scale face - to - face meeting between persons of diverse faith.

Through the colonialism and imperialism of European peoples the cultures of non-Europeans were here and there beginning to display the profound changes which in the twentieth century would quickly swell to major and often traumatic proportions.

In the nineteenth century and still more in the twentieth century, the revolution reshaping these peoples threatened the existence of the religion which had become identified with them.

Future historians, it has been said, will look back upon the twentieth century not primarily for its scientific achievements but as the century of the coming - together of peoples, when all mankind for the first time became one community.

Due to this, a number of avowedly Marxist governments in the twentieth century, such as the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, implemented rules introducing state atheism.

In twentieth - century Paris, the Virgin failed to inspire awe or move people to great achievement.

In the usual histories about the usual suspects, the people of faith whom the twentieth - century revolutions killed are generally ignored.

They also tell me that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat (everybody knew it was round), that women in the Middle Ages were no better than cattle (they had more freedom than they would enjoy until the twentieth century), that people in the Middle Ages were morose and grim (they were boisterous partiers who loved color), that they were morbidly fascinated with demons (they portrayed demons as ridiculous stooges), and they were oppressed by their kings (most of the kings were weak).

Confucianism, which, until the twentieth century revolution, was for centuries the State religion, has been the dominant faith, and has been most influential in shaping the patterns of the religious and moral life of the people.

I am sure that Rudolf Steiner's work for children must be considered a central contribution to the twentieth century and I feel it deserves the support of all freedom - loving thinking people.

Whether one wants public support for the media or not is a political question (and one all developed democracies have answered in the affirmative in the twentieth century), but as people's media habits and the economics of the industry change, effective intervention probably ought to be built around the «information» part of the sentence quoted above rather than the «several large sheets» part (just as «public service broadcasters» have in many countries sought to redefine themselves as «public service media organizations» to emphasize their cross-platform ambitions).

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

Mention the name Wedgwood Benn and most people think of Tony Benn, politician and minister and enfant terrible of the Labour Party in the last half of the twentieth century.

Neurologists had presented case studies of «acalculic» patients such as CG from the early twentieth century onwards, if not before, but «people hadn't thought a lot about the specific brain areas involved in calculation», says Butterworth.

The federal government has played a critical role in fostering science and technological innovation, particularly in the latter half of the twentieth century, and the American people and our economy have benefited tremendously from those public investments.

The number of people living in the Great Lakes basin grew dramatically throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

Margaret Thatcher earned her enduring place in history, of course, as the United Kingdom's first — and thus far only — woman Prime Minister, and the person to hold that post the longest — more than 11 years — in the twentieth century.