Sentences with phrase «young scholars write»

Young scholars write open letters condemning the popular celebration of Christmas as «forgetting one's roots.»

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In his book «Confessions,» written between A.D. 397 and A.D. 400, the classic scholar St. Augustine of Hippo wrote: «I saw with my own eyes and I observed carefully a young child devoured by jealousy.

Yet some of the most substantive theology being written by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the church.

The man who wrote the original work was a promising young scholar in his early thirties at All Soul's College at Oxford; the person who issues the new edition is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton, the most renowned student of Augustine in the world, and one of the most respected historians of the religious history of the later Roman Empire.

Wise mentors advise young scholars that there is the sort of writing «you don't put on your vita.»

The author quotes apologist Lee Strobel as saying, «It wasn't too many years ago that scholars were writing off apologetics because we live in a postmodern world where young people are not supposed to be interested in things like the historical Jesus... The biggest shock is that among people who communicated to me that they had found faith in Christ through apologetics, the single biggest group was 16 - to -24-year-olds.»

«Scholars such as Robert Lerman of American University, writing for the Progressive Policy Institute, are focusing on the virtues of work at a young age.

As in past years, we will bring together young scholars — untenured professors, postdoctoral scholars, and dissertation - writing doctoral students — to discuss primary sources from the founding era on the origins of the American understanding of church - state relations and religious freedom.

A Chinese sage wrote to an elderly scholar retired from official duties with two suggestions — to acquire a young concubine, or to learn how to paint dragons on red silk.

The young film scholar went on to write and direct prodigiously, some might say profligately, over the next four decades, manifesting his theories in his body of work in a way reminiscent of French New Wave cineastes.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is marking the approach of the U.S. Constitution's bicentennial with a program that will offer young scholars the opportunity to conduct research or undertake a writing project on the 198 - year - old document.

Smolik writes: «In Moscow at the time, a whole generation of young artists, poets, musicians and scholars was revolting against the Western model of linear progress and modernization.

Written by a mixture of seasoned scholars and younger researchers in African and African American studies, the essays aim to bring new scholarship to a wider audience.