Sentences with phrase «which ancient communities»

This has been a period in which the categories of the social sciences have been employed for the study of such ancient literature, alerting us to the ways in which ancient communities are rooted in social realities, as well as the ways in which social structures and ideologies reinforce each other.

Not exact matches

The ancients, too, vaguely sensed these difficulties, and always imagined the spirit or soul as having some body or form, even though, of necessity, it had to be of a ghostly or ethereal «substance», and pictured a spirit or soul world in which the soul found community.

The immediate implication of this, which is really my second statement in shorthand form, is that the Bible is thus a human product, namely, the response of two ancient communities to their experience of the Sacred.

In her «Introduction» to a special issues of the Journal of Early Christian Studies, which had as its theme «The Markings of Heresy: Body, Text, and Community in Late Ancient Christianity,» Virginia Burrus noted that the essays collected

Is there a permanent pattern in the anatomy of community which may be discerned in such diverse communities as the tribe, the city - state, or the ancient or modern empire?

21 (12, 15 - 17), 22 (19 f.), and 31 (15b) but thought to be an original and ancient unit, in which series the death penalty is assigned when comparable offenses in other codes are less drastically punished.13 But the death penalty in these cases serves generally to underline the moral and religious seriousness of the covenant community, and in the Israelite scale it in no wise conflicts with the pattern of law which places human life above all other values save two: the sacredness of family and the integrity of Yahweh.

In her «Introduction,» to a special issue of the Journal of Early Christian Studies, which had as its theme «The Markings of Heresy: Body, Text, and Community in Late Ancient Christianity,» Virginia Burrus noted that the essays collected

Hence, the majority - dominant community, by appealing to the romanticised myth of an ancient pristine society, provides legitimation and sanction for a discourse which calls into question those that appear to be impositions and accretions on such a society.

While great attention therefore needs to be paid to the manipulation of power and the management of economic and political forces, we know that the primary mode by which a community reconstitutes itself is by its interpretation, by its reflection on ancient memory and tradition, and by its recasting of that memory and tradition in new ways that are resonant with the new situation.

It stresses that «all peoples comprise a single community» and that from ancient times «there has existed among diverse peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things».21 Reference is made to the contemplation of the divine mystery in Hinduism and to Buddhism's acknowledgment of the «radical insufficiency of this shifting world».

The church and the ancient Hebrew - Jewish community, with which it is continuous, together form the historic stream of which the event, in the stricter sense in which we have for the most part been using the term, is the center.

I think there is, and that it is being found in the return to a more corporate understanding of the place of the Christian priesthood in the Church, in which we will both go back of the Middle Ages to the days of the early Christian community and forward into the future with new expressions of ancient life, bringing out of God's treasure things new and old.

In a larger sense, «man» can refer both to individuals and to larger communities (or tribes, in ancient times) that one belongs to and toward which one feels protective — by virtue of sharing an in - group identity.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

«The tension in the ancient town which host the Hausa community in century is getting down, normalcy is gradually returning to the warring communities, each sides are already taking quick review of their roles while each sensible player nurse regret with serious intention never to repeat such in future.

Niccole Villa Cerveny teaches geology at Mesa Community College in Arizona, including a research course for which students rate the susceptibility of ancient Hopi rock art to erosion.

Their work, which links ancient climate and archaeological data, could help modern communities identify new crops and other adaptive strategies when threatened by drought, extreme weather and other environmental challenges.

In many instances, although the scientific medical community still prevaricates, some of the ancient medical cultures did have something real; something which in many cases is only now being proven through the latest advances in modern medical science and our better understanding of diet and how our bodies work.

In her new, seemingly important role in the community, Kira goes to live in the ancient but still grand Council Edifice (which appears to be the remains of a church).

Besides being home to a horde of grey long tailed macaques, deep inside this cool nutmeg forest are a collection of ancient and mysterious temples, «guarded» by the furry animals, and which are revered by the local Ubud village community of Padangtegal.