The contemporary ecclesiastics recorded with wonder many instances of the Visigoths ' clemency: Christian churches saved from ravage ; protection granted to vast multitudes both of pagans and Christians who took refuge therein ; vessels of gold and silver which were found in a private dwelling, spared because they " belonged to St. Peter "; at least one case in which a beautiful Roman matron appealed, not in vain, to the better feelings of the Gothic soldier who attempted her dishonor.

As of 2009, Grant remains the best-selling contemporary Christian music singer ever, having sold over 30 million units worldwide.

Her goal was to become the first Christian singer-songwriter who was also successful as a contemporary pop singer.

It approved the state's blue law restricting commercial activities on Sunday, noting that while such laws originated to encourage attendance at Christian churches, the contemporary Maryland laws were intended to serve " to provide a uniform day of rest for all citizens " on a secular basis and to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest.

Other contemporary Christian writers do not describe monarchial bishops-either continuing to equate them with the presbyters or speaking of episkopoi ( bishops, plural ) in a city.

The Press music division, SoundForth, produces Christian musical arrangements and recordings in more traditional styles than do most contemporary music sources.

The Christian concept of the Messiah differs significantly from the contemporary Jewish concept.

Hegel, in his Elements of the Philosophy of Right ( 1820 ), gave it a philosophical justification that concurred with evolving contemporary political theory and the Protestant Christian view of natural law.

* WAIR ( 104. 9 FM ) – contemporary Christian " Smile-FM "

Within contemporary Christianity, the appropriateness of describing Christian narratives as “ myth ” is a matter of disagreement.

According to Christian theologian Alister McGrath, the Jewish Christians affirmed every aspect of then contemporary Second Temple Judaism with the addition of the belief that Jesus was the messiah, with Isaiah 49: 6, " an explicit parallel to 42: 6 " quoted by Paul in Acts 13: 47 and reinterpreted by Justin the Martyr.

He married Bertha, the Christian daughter of Charibert, king of the Franks, thus building an alliance with the most powerful state in contemporary Western Europe ; the marriage probably took place before Æthelberht came to the throne.

Contemporary Christian worship, as often found in Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, may include the use of contemporary worship music played with electric guitars and the drum kit, sharing many elements with rock music.

Isidore was one of the last of the ancient Christian philosophers ; he was the last of the great Latin Church Fathers and was contemporary with Maximus the Confessor.

In 364, Libanius stated that Julian was assassinated by a Christian who was one of his own soldiers ; this charge is not corroborated by Ammianus Marcellinus or other contemporary historians.

His advances must be attributed mainly to the influence of his contemporary Rasmus Christian Rask.

Yet a contemporary atmosphere of Spanish convivencia is evoked by the inclusion nobility, rogues, vagrants, young and old, men, women, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish characters.

A passage in the book also influenced the name of contemporary Christian Texan Grammy-nominated pop / rock group Sixpence None the Richer.

The highest-profile contemporary advocates of conversion therapy tend to be fundamentalist Christian groups and other right-wing religious organizations.

In McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), the Supreme Court of the United States held that contemporary Maryland blue laws ( typically, Sunday rest laws ) were intended to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest, and that this day coinciding with majority Christian Sabbath neither reduces its effectiveness for secular purposes nor prevents adherents of other religions from observing their own holy days.

Some churches in North America have a contemporary Christian music style, whereas other churches enjoy more traditional hymns including those found in the Adventist Hymnal.

Modern scholars regard this claim as mistaken, as the contemporary historians of science David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers write: " there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge sphericity and even know its approximate circumference.

However, it appears that some contemporary and later writers, such as the Christian author Lactantius, and Sextus Aurelius Victor ( who wrote about fifty years later and from uncertain sources ), misunderstood the Tetrarchic system in this respect, believing it to have involved a stricter division of territories between the four emperors.

Esoteric values in Buddhism have made it at odds with the values of Christian missionary activity, for example in contemporary Mongolia.

The contemporary documentary sources upon which modern knowledge is based therefore consist mostly of texts written in Christian and Islamic communities overseas, that had often been negatively affected by Viking activity.

For example, some contemporary writing tends to fuse the `` good guys '' and the `` bad guys '', to portray the weak people as heroes and weakness as a virtue, and to explain ( or even justify ) asocial behavior by attributing it to deterministic psychological, familial, and social experiences.

His influence spilled over into many other branches of mathematics, for example the contemporary theory of D-modules.

For example, the installations of the contemporary artist Thomas Hirschhorn deliberately eschew technical virtuosity.

One of the most famous contemporary buildings by an anthroposophical architect is ING House, an ING Bank building in Amsterdam, which has received several awards for its ecological design and approach to a self-sustaining ecology as an autonomous building and example of sustainable architecture.

* Monuments and records of other contemporary civilizations ; for example, representations of alien peoples in Egyptian frescoes ; imitation of Aegean fabrics and style in non-Aegean lands ; allusions to Mediterranean peoples in Egyptian, Semitic or Babylonian records.

For example, the behavior of Job's comforters, who kept silence until he spoke to them, is the source for a norm applicable to contemporary traditional Jewish practice, that visitors to a house of mourning should not speak to the mourner until they are spoken to.

The informal content of this naive set theory supports both the aspects of mathematical sets familiar in discrete mathematics ( for example Venn diagrams and symbolic reasoning about their Boolean algebra ), and the everyday usage of set theory concepts in most contemporary mathematics.

In this context, it is more readily construed as meaning " school of thought ", since it is also used to construct the names of philosophical schools contemporary with Confucianism: for example, the Chinese names for Legalism and Mohism end in jiā.

An example is fusion cuisine, which combines elements of various culinary traditions while not being categorized per any one cuisine style, and generally refers to the innovations in many contemporary restaurant cuisines since the 1970s.

By the mid-20th century many rhyming slang expressions used the names of contemporary personalities, especially actors and performers: for example " Gregory Peck " meaning " neck " and also " cheque "; " Ruby Murray " meaning " curry "; " Alans ", meaning " knickers " from Alan Whicker ; " Max Miller " meaning " pillow " when pronounced / ˈpilə / and " Henry Halls ".

Falls of Clyde is a well-preserved example of a more conservatively designed, slower contemporary of the clippers, which was built for general freight in 1878.

For example, Eliade says, the portrayal of Nebuchadnezzar as a dragon in Jeremiah 51: 34 is a case in which the Hebrews " interpreted contemporary events by means of the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a hero and a dragon.

In addition, those German prepositions that require the genitive in formal language, tend to be used with the dative in contemporary colloquial German ; for example, " because of the weather " is often expressed as " wegen dem Wetter " instead of the formally correct " wegen des Wetters ".

In contemporary society, doctors and scientists, for example, are considered to be experts in that they hold a body of dominant knowledge that is, on the whole, inaccessible to the layman ( Fuller: 2005: 141 ).

An example of English embroidery in silk and metal threads, contemporary Art Institute of Chicago textile collection.

For example, the Grammy Award previously used " traditional music " for folk music that is not contemporary folk music.

Professor Forker for example has explored the " historically documentable sexual preferences " of both King James and Bacon – and concluded they were all oriented to " masculine love ", a contemporary term that " seems to have been used exclusively to refer to the sexual preference of men for members of their own gender.

For example, contemporary mutualist Kevin Carson argues in favor of " free market anti-capitalism.

Features of the ' Brahms style ' were absorbed in a more complex synthesis with other contemporary ( chiefly Wagnerian ) trends by Hans Rott, Wilhelm Berger, Max Reger and Franz Schmidt, whereas the British composers Hubert Parry and Edward Elgar and the Swede Wilhelm Stenhammar all testified to learning much from Brahms's example.

Maniera artists held their elder contemporary Michelangelo as their prime example ; theirs was an art imitating art, rather than an art imitating nature.

Initially, the event was referred as the October coup ( Октябрьский переворот ) or the Uprising of 25th, as seen in contemporary documents ( for example, in the first editions of Lenin's complete works ).

# Many Poles living in emigrant communities ( for example in the USA ), whose families left Poland just after World War II, retain a number of minor features of Polish vocabulary as spoken in the first half of the 20th century that now sound archaic, however, to contemporary visitors from Poland.

Another contemporary example involves the municipalities of Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake, Florida.

For example are sixth-century objectives, like blending in with contemporary dress or providing service to visitors, better served or compromised by retaining sixth-century clothing or by insisting that service excludes formal educational enterprises?

Despite being contemporary with true Neolithic henges and stone circles, Stonehenge is in many ways atypical – for example, at over tall, its extant trilithons supporting lintels held in place with mortise and tenon joints, make it unique.