Sentences with phrase «about historical works»

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Valerie enjoys exploring and writing about historical sights, hill towns and cuisine, and puts her on - the - ground expat experience to work as International Living's Italy correspondent.

Of course the tough part about historical concentration of capital circumstances is that no one rings a bell when the final investment dollar is put to work.

He moved beyond a recognition of the validity of much of Bultmann's position, to argue that since something can be known about the historical Jesus, we must concern ourselves with working it Out, if we do not wish ultimately to find ourselves committed to a mythological Lord.

Historical critics are not immune to this danger, as Luke T. Johnson observes about John Dominic Crossan's 1991 work, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant: «Does not Crossan's picture of a peasant cynic preaching inclusiveness and equality fit perfectly the idealized ethos of the late 20th - century academic?»

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It is also a historical fact that Jesus was a Jew who preached about God the Father, who claimed to be God, worked miracles, and was crucified during Pilate's reign.

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

In your work on the theology of scripture you have had negative things to say about historical criticism when it's regarded as the lone means of accessing truth about Jesus.

Unveiling a new work on the Second Vatican Council in Rome, Cardinal Walter Brandmuller, the retired president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, announced that Vatican II's decrees on non-Christian religions (Nostra Aetate) and Religious Freedom (Dignitatas Humanae) «do not have a binding doctrinal content, so one can dialogue about them.»

Although not about process thought but advocating a form of the relational vision is Carolyn Merchant's excellent and useful historical work in The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (San Francisco: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1980).

The procedures required to execute it are identical with those long since worked out in the quest of the historical Jesus — with the single, if crucial, difference that in this case there is no need to make any dubious inferences about Jesus himself, once the earliest stratum of Christian witness has been reconstructed.

However, if saving faith rests on what we observe about God's work in us to such an extent that we can be indifferent to historical claims about Jesus, do we not risk looking to ourselves rather than to Christ for our assurance?

This is Greek historical writing at its concise best, elaborating the facts simply whilst working in a wealth of information about all the characters involved.

The work of the Eternal Word of God, present in men spermatically, as Justin Martyr for example put it, offered this possibility of salvation, so that the historical accident of having lived after Jesus or having heard about Him was not the necessary condition of the salvation which God purposed for His human children.

On the other hand, if «historical» implies that we possess material that gives us an entirely accurate and completely reliable account of the life and work of Jesus, such as we might have about Julius Caesar or Napoleon, it is an inexact and misleading phrase.

Stackhouse calls historical work governed by these questions «postcritical theological reflection about the meaning of a text» (218).

The author must have gotten his research from historical works on the puritans or something, because, as a regular church going Bible believing Christian, I can say from experience that I have no clue what he's talking about.

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

@Mass Debater «I have read many works that study the history of the Jewish people and their culture as found apart from biblical sources, I have yet to find one that did not include supposition about the veracity of it's own work, with none claiming absolute truth as to who the authors of the bible or who the historical figure of Moses could have been.»

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

And the historical marginalisation of women has been about managing and ensuring the unstinting supply of that work, for free, for a long time.

From the historical significance of a dish to the scientific properties that make it work, we will dig in together to make new discoveries about the food we eat through classes, workshops, and community events.

But we can also look forward to a Red Tory riposte, as Mr Blond tweeted this about 3 pm today: «I will give a riposte to the rather sanguine and a historical stuff on next left - right after I have finished my speech for tonight...» I struggle with how the particular facts cited on eg working hours or racism can be «ahistorical», but look forward to finding out...

Heeding the maxim of his mentor and friend AJP Taylor that «every historian should write an autobiography», Ken decided that his should not be «grist to the mill of possible obituaries or the product of self - indulgence or vanity» but «an indication of how a working, writing historian went about his task at a time of sweeping historical change».

The result of all this painstaking work was a series of heart - stopping finds that added vivid detail to existing historical narratives about Sobibór.

And they'll be able to put questions, and to ask about [how] their working, having animations of the [instruments] working, reconstruction of the context, historical information about the moment in which we discovered, the makers» biography and many other things.

«In my ideal world as a program officer, what you would get is either individuals or groups of people who bring incredible strength in the historical depth and theoretical framework of social psychology together with what we know about how neurobiological systems and circuits work,» she says.

About Site - Queensland's premier visual arts institution, the Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), connects people and art through a dynamic program of Australian and international exhibitions that showcase works from a diverse range of historical and contemporary artists.

Discover the historical buildings and those men, women and children who worked in them over a 950 year period as you get to take a step back in time to learn more about what life was like in rural West Sussex.

Charlotte, NC About Blog A blog by the author of The Jesus Dynasty consisting of religion matters from the Bible to the Modern World.Tabor has combined his historical work on ancient texts with extensive field work in archaeology in Israel and Jordan.

Its hard to talk about oneself, but here goes... I love to cook desserts, read historical novels, paint watercolours (not very well but I'm trying), I do some volunteer work, for a couple of different organisations during the year.

I am passionate about the QHHT work because I see its importance in healing others as well as a tool to gather lost historical knowledge.

No surprise, perhaps, as Denis's film is the sort of thing usually discussed as a «minor,» the appellation usually applied to movies about love and intimacy, topics of almost universal relevance, as opposed to «major» works that indulge in the overblown oversimplification of barely understood historical periods, interminable «sculpting with time,» or the espousal of revolutionary creeds to well - heeled film festival audiences who know in their secret hearts that they will never in their lives participate in a violent uprising of any kind.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Historical Epic about Birth of the IRA Out on DVD It is Ireland in 1920, a time when freedom was in the air, and the working class was agitating for independence.

Looking back I actually started thinking about some sort of career in film when I accepted my first «Film Extra» job in Chicago working on the film, The Express, (2007) a true historical film centered on Ernie Davis the first African - American to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961.

Left with little to work with in the historical record, they instead turn their villains» bodies into grotesques: Spall's pathetic moustache tells us all we'll ever know about Shakespeare's fraudulence, while Thewlis is dumped under a pound of old - man makeup and parked in a rickety wheelchair, so you know he's bad news.

Like Gibson's other works, Apocalypto is a violent, testosterone - laden treatment of historical events that concentrates more on the personal journey and hardships therein than it does in teaching anything about people as they really existed.

Paris 36 (PG - 13 for violence, sexuality, nudity and brief profanity) Historical drama, set in Paris in 1936, about a stage manager (Gerard Jugnot), a union organizer (Clovis Cornillac) and an impressionist (Kad Merad) who enlist the help of recently - unemployed friends in staging a show at a boarded - up theatre where they had all worked just a few months earlier.

Framing the unfinished work as a radical narration about race in America, Peck matches Baldwin's lyrical rhetoric with rich archival footage of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and connects these historical struggles for justice and equality to the present - day movements that have taken shape in response to the killings of young African - American men including Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, and Amir Brooks.

And instead of the scandalous love triangle of historical record, the film plays out more as a drama about a young woman working out a complex escape from male - dominated society.

And yet, The Danish Girl — a historical melodrama about one of the first male - to - female sex reassignment surgeries — is a relatively restrained and sensitive piece of work.

However, in 1930 Upton Sinclair expressed an interest in his work and offered financial support for Eisenstein's historical film about Mexico.

Hard - working genre chameleon François Ozon follows up his bland, black - and - white historical drama Frantz with this juicy erotic thriller about a -LSB-...]

In the words of Dwight Schrute [from TV's The Office], I can change one thing about education today, and I will work to change the historical inequities that are played out in our educational system.

Edward M. Davey, right, works with his PLC colleagues, from left, Kathryn Harper, Ramille Romulus, and David Vincent, to devise the best ways to teach students about reading and understanding historical texts.

A special Unit of work in Art & design with lesson plans This pack provides teachers with a unique and readily accessible toolkit to engage students in the historical and cultural links between Jamaica and Britain; it can also be used as a relevant blue print for teaching about other cultures in context.

Use these images as a starting point for learning about some of the literary and historical materials that inspired Shakespeare and helped to shape his work.

A team work task with information about the legal and historical changes of the role of women in society is delivered through peer - to - peer «experts» from each team sharing specific knowledge for students to fill in a worksheet.

What McKinney discovered is that work in which the teacher, researcher, or curriculum developer selects materials and listens closely, and allows questions to come from the students (and not from a teacher's guide or the all - to - common «list of questions to ask about a historical document») is extremely rare.

Paul Revere, American Patriot Submitted by Steven Vetter Students learn about Paul Revere by examining first - person accounts, works of historical fiction, a popular narrative poem, and other resources.