Sentences with phrase «most modern historians»
We may suggest that Luke, as astute as most modern historians, observed that the materials in Mark 6:45 - 8:26 add little or nothing to what he could obtain either from other passages in Mark or from other materials available to him; he therefore chose to omit them.
http://www.religion-online.org/ Not exact matches
Historian, Alexandra Munroe, described the period as «undoubtedly the most creative outburst of anarchistic, subversive and riotous tendencies in the history of modern Japanese culture.»
Goldberg is a political journalist, not a historian, and readers more familiar with the ideological twists and turns of the modern era will be familiar with his thesis: While the left has long depicted the right as fascist, it is in fact the left — from Hegel to Hitler to Hillary and, yes, the politics of meaning, too — that follows the fascist formula most influentially articulated by Mussolini: «Everything within the state; nothing outside the state; nothing against the state.»
In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of accu.mulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.
Funny how most credible historians credit the Judeo / Christian value system as being a major factor in the foundation and success of modern Europe and the Americas.
Yet the most popular modern guide in any language is Steven Runciman, a refined British private scholar of medieval Balkan and Byzantine history who insisted that he was «not a historian but a writer of literature» and argued that «Homer as well as Herodotus was a Father of History.»
He has been called by a modern English historian of Chinese culture «one of the most remarkable and brilliant men in history» (Joseph Needham, in Science and Civilization in China, 2 vols.
For among historians of science it is most prominently Duhem and Jaki who have provided the documentation of the importance of theism and «metaphysical realism» not only for the origin and development of modern science, but also for the possibility of its coherent continuation and moral direction.
In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of acc.umulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.
Eire is one of America's most distinguished historians of early modern religion, and his absorption of the newer historiography is proclaimed in the fact that his book is entitled Reformations, in the plural.
According to Old Sturbridge Village historians, most rural New England children had far fewer toys than a modern child.
Newman noted that Blake was born in 1757 and that Yeats died in 1939: «They reflected a creative interest in alchemy that spanned the late 18th to the early 20th century — exactly the «rational» period of the Enlightenment and of modern science — at the same time that most historians were branding alchemy delusional.»
He was one of the most prominent historians of the 20th century and a founder of modern social history in Germany.
Most modern college presidents adhere to the school of thought that says institutions should only take a stance on public issues that could impact the core mission of the university, says Julie Reuben, a historian at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In 1974, Harold Rosenberg, one of Saul Steinberg's earliest and most eloquent supporters, wrote that «Cubism... which in the canon of the American art historian is the nucleus of twentieth - century formal development in painting, sculpture and drawing, is to Steinberg merely another detail in the pattern of modern mannerisms; in a landscape, he finds no difficulty in combining Cubist and Constructivist elements with an imitation van Gogh «self - portrait.
But its most valuable contribution is in its implicit proposition to art historians that more attention must be paid to this pivotal moment in modern New York art history.
Modern Art Stories in the OC American Mosaic: Picturing Modern Art through the Eye of Duncan Phillips By Evan Senn Through December 4 As an art historian, the most interesting aspect of a work of art from a time before my own is the story it tells.