Sentences with phrase «new century scholars»

The proposed New Century Scholars program, which would require approval by the legislature, would provide $ 2,000 in state aid to students who maintain a B average in high school, perform well on standardized tests, and attend a public or private college or university in Virginia.

The New Century Scholars Program funds a 3 - month exchange with research devoted to the program's current theme.

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This is why I don't understand that «the team of scholars puts the papyrus piece coming out of the middle of the second century» automatically make it as being too new to be real.

In an interesting new study, Melville's City (Cambridge University Press, 312 pages, $ 59.95), however, a scholar at MIT named Wyn Kelley demonstrates Melville's surprising distance from the rest of nineteenth - century thought about the city.

Steve... I think we're floggin» a dead horse here, but for what it's worth, understand that I'm not trying to convince you to think like I do, rather I wd hope that room wd be made for many theological differences.To think discuss and debate theology is well supported by the New Testament and history, and is perfectly within the bounds of what it means to engage our minds with the subject at hand.Theologians and biblical scholars have done this very thing for centuries, revealing a plethora of opinion on the evolving world of biblical studies.Many capable authors have written and debated the common themes as well as the differences between Paul, John, Jesus, the synoptics, etc..

In the middle of the last century, the German New Testament scholar Rudolf Bultmann opined that people who had learned to use an electric light switch could no longer believe that God makes things happen.

In the last half - century a whole new understanding of the Bible has emerged from Biblical scholars.

The scholars at the forefront of the revolution — E.P. Sanders, James D.G. Dunn, N.T. Wright, and others — have been pioneering a new approach to the letters of the first - century apostle to the Gentiles, Paul of Tarsus.»

A Lutheran, he was one of the great New Testament scholars and ecumenical spirits of the century.

In the following century Hosea was still trying to convince Israel that it was not Baal but their own God YHWH «who gave her corn, new wine, and oil... who lavished upon her silver and gold which they spent on the Baal».2 Many scholars have noted the disguised reference to Adonis made by Isaiah, and which the New English Bible has rendernew wine, and oil... who lavished upon her silver and gold which they spent on the Baal».2 Many scholars have noted the disguised reference to Adonis made by Isaiah, and which the New English Bible has renderNew English Bible has rendered,

Last century this set many scholars busy searching the New Testament for the reliable human memories of Jesus it preserved, in order to reconstruct the historical picture of Jesus.

For this short sketch we have chosen some reasonably representative New Testament scholars, and the words we have quoted from them clearly illustrate how much the understanding of the resurrection of Jesus has changed in the last century.

By the beginning of this century a great change had taken place and James Orr prefaced his defense of the traditional position by sketching the widespread questioning and rejection of «bodily resurrection» by Christian scholars.10 In 1907 Kirsopp Lake published the first study of the resurrection, in English, which rested upon a thorough application of historical criticism to the New Testament records and he concluded that «The empty tomb is for us doctrinally indefensible and is historically insufficiently accredited.

Bultmann himself, certainly the most influential New Testament scholar of this century, shifted the focus of attention somewhat.

C.H. Dodd is recognized as one of the great New Testament scholars of the twentieth century.

From Father Raymond Brown's book, An Introduction to the New Testament, -80-90 % of the critical scholars believe the letter was written by a pse - udo Paul toward the end of the first century, early second century.

In the fourth century, St. Jerome, one of the first true scholars of the church and translator of the Old and New Testaments into what became the Vulgate Bible, asserted that everything written in the Bible is literally true.

Dr. Robert W. Funk, New Testament scholar and organizer of the Jesus Seminar, points out that all four New Testament gospels were written forty years or more after Jesus» crucifixion, and though church tradition says that the disciples Matthew and John both wrote gospels, Bible scholars for more than a century have believed that none of the gospel writers actually knew Jesus during his lifetime.

Rudolf Bultmann, arguably the greatest New Testament scholar of the twentieth century, and in many ways the logical successor of Kähler, blamed this failure on the outmoded mythological language of the New Testament.

The essays gathered in The Twilight of the Intellectuals, most of which were first published in the New Criterion, constitute a mordant retrospective on what Julien Benda early in the twentieth century called la trahison des clercs — the treason committed by modern intellectuals (who were mostly middle - class writers, scholars, and artists) against the principles and institutions that had nurtured them.

No one puts it more pointedly than Rudolf Bultmann, perhaps the most prominent New Testament scholar of the 20th century:

With so many attempts to recast the first - century Jew, how do we tell him apart from the other incarnations that lay claim to his name, and what lies behind the recent drive by certain scholars to give Jesus a new identity?

Bishop Lightfoot of Durham, the noted nineteenth - century New Testament scholar, once remarked that in his judgment «there is nothing so dangerous as the desire to make everything right and tight.»

She is not the first to question that; earlier this year, I read an intriguing essay by legal scholar Katherine Franke in the anthology, Marriage at the Crossroads Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty - First - Century Families, comparing the experience of African - American slaves who, once freed after the Civil War, also became free to marry — but «free» is a relative word.

Scholars from Rice University, University College London and the Field Museum have found the first direct evidence that glass was produced in sub-Saharan Africa centuries before the arrival of Europeans, a finding that the researchers said represents a «new chapter in the history of glass technology.»

The 1965 novel revolves around a dirt - poor Missouri boy whose life in the first half of the 20th century finds him embracing a scholar's life, marrying into a «proper» family, becoming estranged from his own family, finding new love, and encountering scandal.

The day - long meeting, sponsored by Harvard's Reimagining Integration program, the National Coalition on School Diversity, and The Century Foundation (where I work), brought together 50 scholars, civil - rights activists, and educators to plot out new strategies for school diversity in the age of Trump.

Across the country, the number of charter schools that are diverse by design has been steadily rising in recent years, in cities including New York, Denver, and Washington D.C. Scholars at the Century Foundation in Washington D.C., a nonpartisan research organization, estimate that about two dozen such charters have opened in recent years although they still comprise only a tiny fraction of charter schools.

Century Foundation Summer Scholars Program Each year, The Century Foundation welcomes six brilliant college students, recent graduates, or graduate students to their New York City office as part of the Summer Scholars program.

The paperback has a new cover by illustrator Dadu Shin, an introduction by Austen scholar Juliette Wells, maps of England, a glossary of 18th - century words and other materials to provide context for today's readers.

The exhibition catalogue includes essays by James Rondeau; Douglas Druick; Mark Pascale, associate curator, prints and drawings, Art Institute of Chicago; Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, University of Texas - Austin; Barbara Rose, noted Johns scholar; and Kelly Keegan, assistant painting conservator, and Kristin Lister, conservator of paintings, Art Institute of Chicago; as well as an interview with the artist by Nan Rosenthal, senior consultant, Department of 19th - Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Center's first program, «Clyfford Still: The View From The 21st Century,» in October 2013 at Sotheby's in New York City, featured presentations from distinguished scholars with expertise surrounding the artist as well as a roundtable discussion with all participants.

Both exhibitions offer new insights and never - before - seen works, providing even the most dedicated Wright fans and scholars fresh interpretations of the work of arguably the most famous American architect of the last century and a half.

Another force was the founding of the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1968 and pioneering exhibitions that began to change the conversation, like one Mr. Gaither organized at the Museum of Fine Arts in 1970, «Afro - American Artists: New York and Boston»; and «Two Centuries of Black American Art,» curated by the scholar David C. Driskell in 1976 for the Los Angeles County Museum.

Five essays by prominent scholars of American art offer new insights into Chase's multi-faceted artistic practice and his position in the international cultural climate at the turn of the 20th century.

As a radical re-evaluation of art history from the early twentieth century to the late 1960s, this brilliant new account of American modernism is a must - read for students and scholars of art as well as all those interested in modernism and its wider cultural history.

On the occasion of Irving Sandler's new publication, From Avant - Garde to Pluralism: An On - The - Spot History, a selection of seminal writings from half a century ago to the present, Rail publisher Phong Bui and Art Editor John Yau paid a visit one sunny Saturday to the author's home / office which he shares with his wife Lucy Freeman Sandler, scholar of Medieval art, to talk about his life and work.

With masterpieces by important European painters such as Gauguin, Van Gogh, Modigliani, Picasso and Joan Miro, as well as American modernists like Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky and the sculptor Louise Nevelson, its no wonder that art scholar Thomas Hoving, a former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, describes the Albright - Knox as a must - see art museum - a small and intimate place, with one of the most arresting collections of 20th century art in the world.

It has also been able to maintain one of his most cherished projects, the new research center as well as its annual scholar - in - residence program led by figures such as Jonathan Brown, Salvatore Settis of the Scuola Normale Superiore de Pisa, and Manuela Mena, chief curator of 18th - century painting and Goya at the Prado.

«From its earliest days, science has been associated with institutions — the Accademia del Lincei, founded in 1609, the Royal Society of Britian, founded in 1660, the Académie des Sciences in France, founded in 1666 — because scholars (savants and natural philosophers as they were variously called before the 19th century invention of the word «scientist») understood that to create new knowledge they needed a means to test each other's claims.