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- noun The act of
descending .
Etymologies
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Even if it is true that hispanic immigrants commit more crimes than other etnicities, isn´t the percentage of hispanic that commit crimes still just a small part of the whole total of those immigrants and their descendence?
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Even if it is true that hispanic immigrants commit more crimes than other etnicities, isn´t the percentage of hispanic that commit crimes still just a small part of the whole total of those immigrants and their descendence?
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It is a radical return, or “trans-descendence,” to
The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006
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I think that the deafening solids in America's pulpits would certainly be, one, a major cause for the spiritual descendence (ph) of this country.
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When he comes to answer the objections to the evolution, or, as he commonly calls it, the descendence theory, he dismisses the objections derived from religion, as unworthy of notice, with the remark that all Glaube ist Aberglaube; all faith is superstition.
What is Darwinism? Charles Hodge 1837
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The Church defended itself against heretical teachings by appealing to the apostolic origins of Holy Tradition (proven by Apostolic Succession, i.e. the fact that the bishops and teachers of the Church can historically demonstrate their direct descendence from the Apostles), and by appealing to the universality of the Orthodox Faith (i.e. that the Orthodox faith is that same faith that Orthodox Christians have always accepted throughout its history and throughout the world).
Latest Articles Orthodox Christian Information Center 2010
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Nilton: @7amanito: If am not mistaken; Sagna is from France, I think he has some african descendence t ...
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“trans-descendence” necessary to move through and beyond the limits and problems of Western modernity.
The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006
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(An introduction to the central themes of Nishitani's thought, focusing on his topological phenomenology of a “trans-descendence” through nihilism to the
The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006
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