These are the most common methods implemented by people and their families for dealing
with an early death:
They also have an offering which serves the unique need of paying back high - value loans if the wage - earner meets
with early death.
Reduced muscular strength, measured by grip, is consistently linked
with early death, disability and illness.
It would be a shame if the manner of her death overshadowed the splendor of these poems; Hannah's command of form, her fluid yet controlled use of floral imagery, and her wicked sense of humor make these poems buzz with an energy that seems at odds
with her early death.
One of the biggest challenges will be to unite these disparate methodologies to tease apart the normal and abnormal working of the brain in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and the like, diseases that devastate the lives of so many and are so often associated
with early death.
But aside from that, there are even some sins which may cause God to discipline a person
with early death.
Not exact matches
Topics included:
early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian
deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (
with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an
early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
There's really no other way United could respond to the terrible mishaps and horrible press it went through
earlier this year, starting
with the
death of Kikito the French bulldog, and culminating
with the revelation of the fact that almost half of all pets that die on planes, die on United.
As The Wall Street Journal noted
earlier this year, the operas usually end
with someone's
death.
Phase III funding, the round where ideas are validated
with up to $ 10 million in funding, is the very center of the valley of
death, because it's the biggest test for
early - stage companies.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has worked
with the non-profit project Measure of America to publicize the problem because disconnection in young people is such a predictor of poor health and
early death.
Two to three cups were associated
with an 18 % decrease in risk for
early death.
You can think of this as getting your
death benefit
early, but
with a few strings attached.
An accelerated
death benefit rider allows the policyowner to receive a portion of the
death benefit
early when the insured individual is diagnosed
with a terminal illness resulting in a decreased life expectancy.
Earlier this month, the group forced the Christian community in Mosul to flee after threatening anyone who did not convert to Islam
with death...
A ritual meal within the
early Jesus communities, such as those prescribed in Didache 10 and 9,
with no paschal imagery, no Last Supper tradition, and no connection
with the
death of Jesus.
The
earliest writings are from decades after his
death... — Some of the Gospels and the rest of the New Testament were writen by people that knew and travelled
with Jesus.
Professor Troeltsch — whose too -
early death is lamented on every hand — and Professor Julicher, two other Olympians of the last great generation, have treated Barth
with seriousness and apprehension.
The president - elect spoke by phone
with Hunter and other Christian ministers, rejoicing in victory but also grieving the
death of his grandmother, who helped raise him, just a few days
earlier.
On the third day of Lent,
early this morning, a friend texts me that her baby died in the night, and my heart writhes
with disdain of
death and there's a searing sadness that can make you feel physically sick.
To begin
with, there was the narrative of Jesus»
death — the longest continuous narrative in the traditions about him and the
earliest to take fixed form, according to modern form critics.
Such a ministry is geared toward
early help
with minor emotional disturbances, crisis situations, parent - child relationships, and critical life experiences such as birth,
death, illness, marriage, school, and work adjustment.
The other two parts deal
with his
earlier life and then his experiences as a stigmatist, respectively, leading up to his
death in 1226.
The CTS has done a competent job
with Jim Gallagher's simple booklet telling the story of John Paul's life - the childhood marked by his mother's
early death along
with that of his brother; the deep, strong bond
with his father; the grim years of the German occupation and his tough job in a stone quarry; the mysticism and prayer - life; the youth drama groups; the ordination in a Poland coming to grips
with what was to be a decades - long imposition of Communism.
was convicted in a Pakistani court
earlier this month of breaking the country's controversial blasphemy law, a crime punishable
with death or life imprisonment, according to Pakistan's penal code.
We can say such things, for example, as that he was born in Palestine during the reign of Herod the Great; that he was brought up in Nazareth; that he lived the normal life of a Jew of his period and locale; that he was baptized by John, a proclaimer of the
early coming of God's judgment; that he spent a year or more in teaching, somewhat in the manner of contemporary rabbis, groups of his fellow countrymen in various parts of Palestine, mostly in Galilee, and in more intimate association
with some chosen friends and disciples; that he incurred the hostility of some of his compatriots and the suspicion of the Roman authorities; that he was put to
death in Jerusalem by these same authorities during the procuratorship of Pilate.
He was able to picture
early Christianity this way
with the more assurance because he did most of his scholarly work before attention shifted back to Palestine in the time of Jesus (thanks in part to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls), and before the themes of light against darkness, life against
death, came in the 1960s to be understood as first century Jewish themes.
Yet something does remain: the unquestionable fact that the
earliest stories testify to the disciples» firm certainty that God had vindicated Jesus» obedience unto
death, that Jesus was therefore alive, and that they were in contact
with him, not only as one whom they remembered but as one whose reality they could and did now experience.
Locke himself was all about, in the words of Ronald Bailey, not «submitting to the tyranny of Nature's lottery — which cruelly deals out futures blighted
with ill health, stunted mental abilities, and
early death.»
But here we may reasonably suspect a certain amount of embroidery, the more so since Matthew has also an edifying story about the traitor's remorse and grisly end — a story, by the way, inconsistent
with another account of his
death which is found in the Acts of the Apostles, not to mention a third divergent account which we know to have been handed down traditionally in the
early church.
The
early Christians found that God was present
with them in a special way after the
death and resurrection, but in a way that was closely dependent on Jesus» actual life and ministry.
Writing in the New York Times
earlier this month, Gary Comstock recounted the tragic
death of his son, Sam, who was born
with a terminal genetic condition.
When the
early church came to grips
with the problem presented by the extraordinary career and the tragic fate of its Founder, it turned for elucidation to these passages of Isaiah, which speak of a life of service and a martyr's
death.
With this understanding of Jesus»
death, how would a relational approach respond to the questions raised by the cases seen
earlier?
With classic terminology but with an emotional insistence not common in the earlier generations of New England Puritans, Cotton Mather preached that the only hope of reform from these various forms of wickedness was to be born again in Christ, to rise again, not with one's own strength but with his.8 As Mather began to despair that any general reformation of this sort would occur — it would not until Jonathan Edwards» Great Awakening of 1740, 12 years after Cotton Mather's death — he dwelt more and more on prophecies of the end of ti
With classic terminology but
with an emotional insistence not common in the earlier generations of New England Puritans, Cotton Mather preached that the only hope of reform from these various forms of wickedness was to be born again in Christ, to rise again, not with one's own strength but with his.8 As Mather began to despair that any general reformation of this sort would occur — it would not until Jonathan Edwards» Great Awakening of 1740, 12 years after Cotton Mather's death — he dwelt more and more on prophecies of the end of ti
with an emotional insistence not common in the
earlier generations of New England Puritans, Cotton Mather preached that the only hope of reform from these various forms of wickedness was to be born again in Christ, to rise again, not
with one's own strength but with his.8 As Mather began to despair that any general reformation of this sort would occur — it would not until Jonathan Edwards» Great Awakening of 1740, 12 years after Cotton Mather's death — he dwelt more and more on prophecies of the end of ti
with one's own strength but
with his.8 As Mather began to despair that any general reformation of this sort would occur — it would not until Jonathan Edwards» Great Awakening of 1740, 12 years after Cotton Mather's death — he dwelt more and more on prophecies of the end of ti
with his.8 As Mather began to despair that any general reformation of this sort would occur — it would not until Jonathan Edwards» Great Awakening of 1740, 12 years after Cotton Mather's
death — he dwelt more and more on prophecies of the end of times.
Every few years, beginning in 1967
with Death at an
Early Age, Kozol has brought forth another book exposing what he regards as some grave injustice of American society.
I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back
early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue
with long beard standing
with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints,
Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going
with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...
Here I side
with John Howard Yoder against the view prevalent among social ethicists today that the
early church found Jesus» sociopolitical ethics, including his teaching on peace, irrelevant and was interested in his life,
death, and resurrection only as the basis for justification by faith; that whatever ethics the church taught was drawn from Hellenistic culture, particularly Stoicism.
Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave
with the wicked and
with a rich man in his
death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the
early Christians as a prophecy of the
death of Jesus.
A large number of leading New Testament scholars have now rejected these traditions as unhistorical, leaving us
with two conclusions: the first, that none of the Gospels was written by an eye - witness of the events described in it, and the second, that the
earliest Gospel, that of Mark, was written thirty - five years or more after the
death of Jesus, and the other three Gospels were written nearly sixty years or more after the same point.
C. H. Dodd from the angle of realized eschatology and his conviction that Jesus believed the kingdom had already come in his own person interprets them as originally spoken by Jesus to refer to the crisis connected
with his own
death and resurrection.9 Others who believe that Jesus could not have said these things attribute them to the
early church and the error of the evangelists in presenting them as his words.
’32 If Jewish tradition, as we have
earlier seen, could reach the point of elevating Moses to a place in heaven even though the scriptures clearly referred to his
death and burial, then the disciples had only to com, to the conviction that Jesus was at least on a par
with Moses in order to draw the conclusion that the crucified Jesus too had been exalted to heaven.
When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his
death, within the life of the
early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal
with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.
We have already noted in the Fourth Gospel traces of the
earlier apocalyptic notion of a victorious conflict
with the powers of this world and now we are observing indications of the conception of Christ's
death as sacrifice for sin.
But soon it was realized — partly as a result of the remembrance of Jesus» own utter humility and denial of self, particularly as associated
with his awful suffering and his uncomplaining acceptance of it as the will of God; partly under the influence of a fresh reading of the Suffering Servant passages in Isaiah; (commented on
earlier) and, not least, as a consequence of the community's own experience of the forgiveness of sins — soon, I say, it was realized that the whole significance of Jesus» earthly life culminated in his
death.
As Marius lays out the crucial lectures, sermons, treatises and confrontations of these
early years, he aggressively sells his thesis, drawing the reader's attention again and again to Luther's obsession
with death — not hell, purgatory or even judgment, but annihilating
death — and the younger Luther's equation of this fear
with unbelief.
Did he remember his vision from that
earlier brush
with death, when he had been told by angel voices that all had been prepared and was awaiting him?
In
death, the body separates from the soul, and experiences disintegration and decay; the soul, as we saw
earlier, is no longer fit to be
with God forever, and all those loving relationships we have enjoyed in this life, and all the good that has come from them — these too collapse into nothingness.
We would undoubtedly stop short of longing for the
early death about which Paul speaks, but we share the same temptation, to retreat from the world into a churchly style of life which equates Jesus» presence
with the church and not the world and which unwittingly denies God sovereignty over the whole world of which he is creator and lord.
While the
early Hebrews, therefore, believed in existence after
death, it was so pallid and unreal, in an underworld so undesirable, that no hopes were associated
with it.