Sentences with phrase «which follow century»

Experienced hand - crafters from Lithuania create unique and intricate necklaces, bracelets, pendants, rings and earrings, which follow century's old European style.

Not exact matches

Cable channel AMC took SXSW as an opportunity to promote its upcoming show The Terror, which follows a 19th - century British Naval crew on a deadly polar expedition.

The movie — which stars Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, and Adam Driver — follows Jesuit priests in 17th - century Japan as they face violence and persecution.

By continuing to follow the prudent conventions of the last century into a new era of «Inflation onDemand» ©, which was instigated by the Greenspan Fed and has been carried to new extremes under the Bernanke Fed after Greenspan's mess unwound in 2007 - 2008.

Follow - up posts described historical experiences and compared the relative stability of the US and Canadian 19th century branching systems: Canadian banks demonstrated a much higher level of financial resilience thanks to their ability to open branches nationwide, compared to the great instability and recurrent crises experienced by large US state banks — whose ability to open branches in other states or districts was severely constrained by law — and later «unit» banks, which were not allowed to open branches altogether.

Even with Constantine's efforts to define the orthodoxy of Christianity in the 4th century, there were so many different beliefs — mostly varying on the nature of the divinity of Christ which ultimately led to lots of persecution in the Byzantine empire to schismatic groups that did not follow the Chalcedonian doctrine of the Greeks.

To see Plato through fourth - century Athenian eyes as just another young aristocrat, his dialogues a way to attract a following by which to further his own political agenda or feather his nest financially, is to strip away the later accretions of canonicity and to see him for what he was rather than for what the Western world has made of him.

In this perspective he was following a trail first blazed by a fellow Alexandrian a century and a half earlier, the Jewish philosopher Philo, a contemporary of Jesus who attempted to clothe the Septuagint in amenable patterns from Greek philosophy, particularly Platonism.11 His synthetic effort is echoed throughout the corpus of Clement's writings, which are far less systematic in approach than one would wish; the Stromata («Miscellanies») is less an orderly treatment of theological topics than a series of notes woven into a tapestry whose warp and woof are difficult to discern.12

To answer your question... yes I am exploring the same issues by creating a very simple series of short vidoes placed on the web which exmaines a different path for the 21st century church to follow and what it could look like, Its not advertised but about 3500 viewings so far.

Hippolytus of Rome, early in the third [46] century CE, referenced the gnostic Valentinus as having followed 1 John in naming God as «wholly love,» in relation to which «love is not love unless there is something loved.»

During the social and political turmoil of the centuries following Alexander's death — in which his empire was dismembered, the «members» seemed continuously to war with one another, and then were largely absorbed into Rome's growing empire — the practice of paideia continued to be the dominant force shaping the educated classes.

For example, the notion of automatic progress, which seemed to follow rather naturally from nineteenth - century evolutionism, can not be deduced so readily from this context.

Meanwhile, Protestant thought, influenced by the moral idealism and historical optimism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, followed a similar course but moved closer and closer to a form of utopian pacifism in which war would be eliminated because of the increasing perfection of human social institutions.

Such an approach, for example, led Cyril of Alexandria to interpret chapter one, verse thirteen («My beloved is to me a bag of myrrh, that lies between my breasts») as referring to the Old and New Testaments, between which hangs Christ.52 Not all interpretation that followed through the centuries was as ludicrous as this, although much of it was.

Example you can be German Egyptian Russian but if you truly follow the lord you know we hail from the Jews which would make us Israelite just watered down through the century's you can't be a follower of yeshua if you don't listen to his teachings or doing the Lord's holy days or following the law of Moses.

Louis XIV's revocation of the edict in 1685 was followed by a massive flight of some 200,000 Protestants from France, and renewed persecution at home met with a sustained guerilla uprising in the rural area of the Cévennes in the early years of the eighteenth century, which diverted French military forces at a critical moment from their struggle against foreign enemies.

In the following century Hosea was still trying to convince Israel that it was not Baal but their own God YHWH «who gave her corn, new wine, and oil... who lavished upon her silver and gold which they spent on the Baal».2 Many scholars have noted the disguised reference to Adonis made by Isaiah, and which the New English Bible has rendered,

In that disheartening period which followed the fifth century, when Christianity appeared to be passing, geographic gains were being made in Western Europe which formed the basis for most of the next advance.

A revised and expanded version of the Henry L. Stimson Lectures that Walzer gave at Yale University in 2013, his new book seeks to explain how secular national liberation movements, which built independent states in Algeria, India, and Israel following World War II, eventually spawned «religious movements that challenged the achievement roughly a quarter century later.»

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

Doubtless their history contributed much — their national heritage and the discipline which the centuries brought; other peoples had comparable advantages and comparable stern molding, but save for their names, they are lost in the following years.

Before the end of the fifteenth century those geographic discoveries were in progress which in the following centuries were to carry Christianity around the world and plant it in areas which heretofore had not known it.

In A.D. 1500, Islam, supported by the Turks and by various peoples of Central Asia; Confucianism, the system on which the Chinese Empire, larger and more populous and apparently more highly civilized than all of Western Europe, was based; Hinduism, the faith of the majority of the peoples of India, a subcontinent more varied racially and probably more populous and wealthier than fifteenth - century Western Europe; and Buddhism, with extensive followings in Southern, Central, and Eastern Asia, all loomed larger in human affairs than did Christianity.

Never had Christianity or, indeed, any other system or set of ideas been so widely spread as in the century which followed the close of the Napoleonic Wars, primarily through the missionary movement.

The madrasas followed a scholastic pattern which had not changed for centuries, emphasizing memorization and repetition.

Fifty years ago religious teaching in the Turkish area was following about the same methods which had been used for centuries.

[53] In the centuries immediately following, the issues under debate were more oriented to the understanding of Jesus as the Christ, [54] and then the question of the Trinity, [55] which led to the great ecumenical councils, to say nothing of the «conversion» of Constantine.

The Indonesian proclamation of independence on August 17, 1945, right after the Second World War, was followed by the 5 - year war of liberation against the Dutch Colonial Regime which colonized Indonesia for more than three and a half centuries.

Therefore our duty, he implored the council fathers, «is not only to guard this precious treasure... but to dedicate ourselves with an earnest will and without fear to that work which our age demands of us, pursuing thus the path which the Church has followed for twenty centuries.»

What follows from this is one's commitment to a whole host of ideas and proposals which, despite the fact that they represent a major departure from what has been the dominant American ethos for more than half a century, are called conservative.

While hymns covered just about every subject, those which found particular favor in nineteenth century America were based on a personal experience of Jesus and the gospel, particularly in regard to faith («Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine»), the atonement of Jesus («When I Survey the Wondrous Cross»), confession («Just As I Am, Without One Plea»), dedication («Nearer, My God, to Thee»), following Jesus» example («Saviour, Like a Shepherd Lead Us»), and salvation («Amazing Grace!

Once it had become clear that nineteenth - century historical method had failed to penetrate the depths at which the reality of history lies, and consequently that its «historical Jesus» failed to exhaust the reality of Jesus of Nazareth, it was inevitable that a re-study of historical method should follow, in an attempt to gain access to that deeper level of historical reality.

That was followed a century later, in 1614, by Brerewood's Enquiries touching the diversity of languages, and religions through the chiefe parts of the world, which ran through some thirteen editions in the seventeenth century, in English, French, and Latin.

To the extent that an analogy is intended between the fourteenth - century theory of impetus and Whitehead's formulation of GTR, the following observation may be made: the concept of impetus in both cases designates a physical characteristic attributed either to the mass - particle or to the physical field which it causes and in both cases is developed in opposition to theories which would attribute this physical characteristic to the surrounding air or to the spatiotemporal frame of reference and its metric structure.

Never had Christianity or, indeed, any other system or set of ideas been so widely spread as in the century which followed the close of the Napoleonic Wars.

In general, the four and a half centuries which followed the dawn of this new age fall into four periods of unequal length.

In the welter which followed the waning of Carolingian might in Italy, in the first half of the tenth century the Papacy sank to the lowest level of weakness it ever reached.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Fr Yates thought that there was an unbalanced perspective which followed Pope Leo XIII's very necessary attempt to reform theological studies in the Church at the end of the 19th century, a narrowness that was made worse by the modernist crisis that continued into the 20th century.

In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the stars.

In some respects the threats have been more serious than at any time since the disheartening four and a half centuries which followed A.D. 500.

«What is sometimes called, although not with entire accuracy, the First World War, was followed by a peace, now more correctly seen as an uneasy truce, in which much of the familiar nineteenth century persisted.

At the same time, there were hugely significant developments in this period which darkened our world for much of the following century.

We are now a century beyond the founding of the Wright Company, which was shortly followed by the Lockheed Aircraft Manufacturing Company and the Glenn L. Martin Company.

Early 20th - century studies claimed that hermit thrush song follows the same principles found in human musical systems, but these were anecdotal reports which were not supported by a rigorous analysis.

As it stands, the people of the planet seem to be leaning toward a peak in population followed by a gradual decline — a 21st - century world of the aged, which can be seen today in Japan or parts of Europe — but there is still a good chance of continued growth in our numbers.

In the centuries that followed, during which the city's population increased more than tenfold, more than 20 botanists recorded the flora of Halle.

In the following two centuries, many zinc - based batteries were commercialized, some of which are still on market.

In the century that followed, numerous studies attempted to either prop up or debunk this theory, focusing primarily on Christianity, which condemns suicide as the worst of sins.

A breezy account of the evolution of science over the past few centuries is followed by an account of «how to be a scientist», which begins with how to go about entering the profession and winds up with making significant discoveries and winning prizes.