Sentences with phrase «academic elite»

Polling by American Solutions, a citizen action network I founded in 2007, shows that on issues such as producing more American energy, cutting taxes to create jobs, balancing the budget by cutting spending, English as the language of government, and more, Americans oppose the views of academic elites by 75 to 85 percent.

Ironically, while black theology theoretically relies heavily upon expressions of the people, such as freedom and sorrow songs and sermons, the more academic elites of black theology — those who have the luxury of tenure and endowed professorships in prestigious white seminaries and universities — seem to have little respect for the modern black church.

As Wacker points out, «some members of the journalistic and academic elite regarded Graham as regressive» in his approach to issues of racial and social justice.

Lamenting the marginalization of an increasingly cloistered academic elite has once again become de rigueur among the chattering classes.

He often uses language which is highly unusual in the house of representatives (e.g. calling people crazy), which not only draws a lot of attention from the media, but is also a way to communicate clearly with his voters («look at me speaking plain language among these out - of - touch academic elites»).

Davos, Switzerland, is where the world's business and academic elites gather each year for the World Economic Forum.

His research and eventual film work will explore how the influence of these committed intellectuals reverberated widely in the post-war cultural arena, eventually giving rise to an emerging discipline of «cultural studies», that, in its focus on popular art forms and vernacular traditions, posed considerable challenges to the established academic elite of that time.

Nor is it surprising that theology, cut off from communities of practice, has become the esoteric discourse of academic elites.

If you click on the link to «academic elites», you get sent to this post of mine here on WCI.

Let's not assume that the academic elite's hostility to evangelicals is shared by the general populace.

Its meaning became decipherable only to an academic elite.

The academic elite typically found the answer in the humane tradition of the West.

Any attempt to demystify the field of Scriptural studies and to widen participation in the important questions surrounding Holy Scripture from an academic elite to a more widespread readership must ultimately be of benefit to the Church and so is to be commended.

Their authors, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, and their adherents expect to be criticized or snubbed by mainline ecclesial institutions and academic elites.

A diocesan seminarian sent to Rome to study theology (and not canon law); the exhortation from such a consequential thinker as Lonergan to continue studies elsewhere; a university climate that would conceive reading great books as a way to understand the other; a university with aspirations to join the academic elite that hires conservatives like Ernest Fortin, let alone allows them to lead curriculum revisions: Could any of it happen today?

Ako Mitchell and his fellow 28 graduates of William B. Ogden Elementary School's 1985 International Baccalaureate program are among the academic elite in a school in one of...

The professor's views come directly from the ivory towers of the academic elite — far outside the mainstream views of 19th district voters.

As that small number suggests, these institutions educate India's academic elite; more than 300,000 students vie for this small number of entry - level seats.

In part, they don't view themselves as the academic elite.

The National Board of Review, that elusive group of academic elites and film enthusiasts that have been around as long as the Oscars, has revealed their winners for 2017.

It's the self - selecting way of testing into New Jersey's academic elite.

At the high school level, Advanced Placement courses — once reserved for the academic elite — have now been democratized through open - admissions policies.

He is also the president of the British Academy, an invitation - only society reserved for the academic elite.