Sentences with phrase «palgrave historical studies»

«If the current bear does follow the average path in a broad sense, our historical study suggests 2011 could be a challenging year.

A colleague of mine, Stephen Zarlenga, has just published a historical study, The Lost Science of Money (2002), showing that public - sector fiat money has a much better record than privately created fiat money.

Never, so far as I can tell, has modern historical study made it impossible for a contemporary person concerned about intellectual integrity to believe what the Church (or the synagogue) has long taught as necessary for true faith.

Once historical studies have pointed us in the right direction, however, it is actually quite easy to sketch (in a very loose and general way) the epistemological absurdity of the attempt to found knowledge without the transcendental final cause that is God.

Historical studies may point us towards the source of modernity's collapse, but they do not prove it.

Without a doubt, the significance of historical study for a traditional Christian reading of the New Testament differs significantly from its influence on traditional Jewish reading of the Torah.

In his previous, more historical studies, Walsh explored overlooked sources, often outside the liberal canon, that made the value of personal experience central to modern political thought.

If Ehrman is right, it would seem that historical studies could never support the validity of miracle claims such as the resurrection.

These are questions worth asking, since the same issue of First Things included a glowing review of an integralist historical study that was «the hot beach read of the summer» («An Integralist Manifesto,» October).

There are now many aids for historical study of the Bible available, and there is probably very little responsible biblical scholarship in commentaries and the like that does not pay some attention to the matter of historical context.

Again, a barometer of the level of interest in the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins.

Indeed, as Harnack correctly observed of historical study itself, history (and, we can now add, social science) must have the first word in theology but can not have the last.

But perhaps we need a longer, more intensive period of interpenetration of systematic theological study and religious historical studies....

Glover moves between delineating a psychology of sympathy, dignity and moral identity and presenting detailed historical studies of the most heinous events of the past century.

August 27, 2012 at 2:13 pm Report abuse Mark By the way, historical studies have shown pretty conclusively that Jesus Christ was born bout 2018 years ago, not 2012.

After Our Likeness becomes more enigmatic when one recalls how carefully Volf has considered the historical studies of scholars such as Yves Congar, the theological insights of Reinhold Niebuhr and the ecclesial analyses of feminist and liberation thinkers.

In England the development of legal and historical studies (Henry Sumner Maine, Frederic William Maitland, Paul Vinogradoff, Ernest Barker) coalesced with anthropological (Edward Burnett Tylor, John Lubbock, Andrew Lang, James George Frazer) and psychological research (Robert Ranulph Marett, Graham Wallace, A. R. Radcliffe - Brown).

Answering that question is tantamount to the identification of metaphysics to the historical study of changing absolute presuppositions.

After 1936, however, Collingwood defined metaphysics as the historical study of absolute presuppositions, first in the manuscript The Function of Metaphysics in Civilization (1937), afterwards in An Autobiography and An Essay on Metaphysics.

In vain did the followers of the historical study of Scripture argue that the Bible nowhere says that it has no mistakes in it or that the usually accepted authors of the books of the Bible actually were such.

Only those who can engage in careful historical study can participate in it.

Historical studies have made clear that both under the Old and the New Covenants the people and the book were far more closely associated than was once thought to be the case.

Zaret's study is based on an extensive reexamination of sermons, lay memoirs, and historical studies of ecclesiastical debates and broader social conditions.

K.R. Hanumanthan, Untouchability: A Historical Study Up to 1500 AD.

At the same time, however, it is important for us to add that scientifically historical study of the tradition is an important and necessary corrective to the possible excesses of a more passionate approach.

This is because historical study tends to relativize everything it studies.

In each of these cases, a careful historical study of the origin and growth of the movement is helpful, even indispensable, but no one approach by itself provides the answers.

It may be pertinent to say that Bultmann, when he is speaking of myth, appears to be speaking solely within the context of classical philology and of the historical study of religions that has rested upon its research.

In many respects, Whitehead and Russell symbolize the deep division in professional temperament, style, and methodological stance that has subsequently come to dominate contemporary philosophy: analytic versus continental; logical and linguistic versus the systematic and metaphysical; conceptual elucidation and clarification versus historical study and phenomenological description.

To be mentioned also are the work of theologians such as Karl Rahuer in his Theological Investigations, and specialized historical studies, often by Catholics like Hubert Jedin, Otto Herman Pesch and Vinzeng Pfnür, on the Reformation period and the Council of Trent.

The historical study of the New Testament records has not confirmed the traditional view that the physical body of Jesus (either transformed or not) came forth from the tomb within thirty - six hours after it had been placed there, later to ascend into heaven.

A historical study of Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone should be dedicated to showing just how far the philosopher can go in the representation of the origin of regeneration.

The cornerstone of faith is the stumbling block for historical study.

It has sometimes been replaced now by the historical study of all religion as a human phenomenon.

Christus Victor: An Historical Study of the Three Main Types of the Idea of Atonement by Gustaf Aulen

To answer that question, the results of historical study of Christianity can be subjected to philosophical analysis to determine the essence of Christianity, that which defines it and yields criteria by which to assess any particular teaching, institution, or practice that claims to be «Christian.»

His historical study had convinced him that the most faithful bearer of the apostolic faith was the great tradition of thought and practice as expounded by the orthodox Church Fathers.»

As in all historical study, we deal with probabilities.

Reading the Bible this way does not rule out inspirational reading, but it does insist that we know what the writers wanted to say only by historical study.

The only reliable way of learning this is by using the accepted methods of historical study.

Here, we are concerned only to show the kinds of results historical study of the Bible sometimes has.

In any case, able historical studies have already set forth the story of revelation theology, and they require no duplication here.

The rest of this chapter will show briefly how historical study of the Bible proceeds and the kinds of questions it leads the Bible and its readers to ask one another.

Historical study alone can not solve all the problems we have with the Bible.

A first has been historical study of the phenomenon of reception, with regard especially to the reception of conciliar decrees in the course of Church history.

In the humanities historical study is often prominent.

Both faiths use historical study to keep from inflating themselves with religious fantasy or speculation.

In addition, historical study keeps attention focused on important questions about our own history, including that of the individual reader.

Thus, the character of the Bible itself and the communities for whom it is Scripture ask for historical study.

(b) The Bible itself requires historical study because it is pre-eminently concerned with history.