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Dinosaurs
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WE ARE TOLD that dinosaurs are extinct. However, they are alive and well in our popular culture. Mainstream scientists also get a lot of mileage out of dinosaurs. And now dinosaurs have a new career as a popular metaphor.
I started noticing dinosaur metaphors back in the early and mid-1990s, particularly in the technology field. With everything changing so fast, could the dinosaurs of "old media" adapt? Or would the telephone companies, the TV networks, and the cable companies become extinct?
Dinosaur metaphors really took off in 1993 with the release of the film Jurassic Park. The movie's ...
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August Hermann Francke und die Westhimalaya-Mission der Herrnhuter Brudergemeine.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...decades preceding the First World War. Francke (1870-1930), indeed, followed not...philosophical faculty in Berlin (1925), where Francke taught Tibetan and collaborated with von...besides the usual bibliographical listing of Francke's work (mostly unpublished: translations...
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The legacy of Christian Friedrich Schwartz.(18th century missionary to India)
Magazine article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research
; ...in India, and by the writings of Professor August Hermann Francke, under whom she herself had studied. Entering...the Franckesche Stiftungen, Gotthilf August Francke (son of August Hermann Francke), readily agreed, and in due course, Schwartz...
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Begeisterung und Ernuchterung in christlicher Vollkommenheit. Pietistiche Selbst- und Weltwahrnehmungen im ausgehenden 17. Jahrhundert.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...been treated as part of the early history of August Hermann Francke and Francke's Pietist foundations in Halle. Drawing...s understanding of the collegia pietatis, August Hermann Francke and others instituted small devotional groups...
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Problems and promises of Pietism research.
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...Leipzig disturbances around August Hermann Francke, that it gained wider currency...Philipp Jacob Spener and August Hermann Francke. Almost from the start...Philipp Jacob Spener and August Hermann Francke. It also provides a way...
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Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...by the Halle Pietist leader, August Hermann Francke (1663-1727), to inculcate...they opposed the Halle group of Francke and favoured the orthodox party...1694. His Saxon disciple, August Hermann Francke, was then appointed to one...
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Bach, Hitler, and the people called German.(The public square: a continuing survey of religion, culture, and public life)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; ...between religion and the public order. Lutheran leaders of Pietism such as Johann Arndt, Philip Jakob Spener, and August Hermann Francke very deliberately put Christianity into the service of state and society. While maintaining a link with Luther...
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The Protestant Evangelical Awakening.
Magazine article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research
; ...persecuted emigrants from that scene had throughout the Continent and along the eastern seaboard of North America. August Hermann Francke and Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf appear as the principal characters in this history because they were...
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The Reception of English Puritan Literature in Germany.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...Philipp Harsdorffer and Martin Kempe and which had been used by leading Pietists such as Philipp Jacob Spener and August Hermann Francke--so much so, that contemporary witnesses complained about the excessive popularity of British writings in...
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EXPLORATIONS AND RESPONSES THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE UNION CHURCH [*].(Lutheran and Reformed Churches in America)(Transcript)
Magazine article from: Journal of Ecumenical Studies
; ...found few financial resources and few qualified pastors. Their appeals to the church leaders in Holland and to August Hermann Francke at Halle for financial assistance and pastoral leadership [2] went unanswered for some time, in part because...
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Entstehung und Entfaltung der theologischen Enzyklopadie
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...Jean Gerson, Erasmus, Bullinger, and Melanchthon are followed by the Ratio studiorum of the Jesuits, by August Hermann Francke and Jean Mabillion. Into this history come the preliminary stages of the more philosophical encyclopedic form...
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