Sentences with phrase «as a historian in»

Eire first made his mark as a historian in 1989 with The War Against the Idols, a study of Reformation iconoclasm and the theology that underlay it.

I wish Hugh had not deleted his account — he could have just stopped posting to it — as the historian in me likes to see things archived, rather than wiped - clean.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, as various pundits and historians across the globe debate if and how Trump's surprising political ascendancy will shift the overall tone of U.S. politics going forward, the candidate himself feels like only a win in November will make a difference.

Someday, racing historians will look back and see Dale's concussion — and, more importantly, that he chose to deal with it publicly — as a turning point in the way the sport treats head injuries.

«It seems that as long as President Trump is in the White House, it's certain the North Koreans will be far more cautious,» said Andrei Lankov, a historian at Kookmin University in Seoul who once studied in Pyongyang.

Modest about her own pioneering achievements, she is on record (in an interview with computer historian Janet Abbate) as saying that her biggest contribution was to be «the grandmother of the web».

As it turns out, the one - time haberdasher from Missouri was even more blunt in his private correspondence — a fact that Truman historian Monte Poen uncovers in his illuminating collection of the former president's letters.

As civil rights historian Taylor Branch wrote in a much - talked - about 2011 Atlantic article: «The tragedy at the heart of college sports is not that some college athletes are getting paid, but that more of them are not.»

Historian Antony Beevor's sweeping history of the final months on the eastern front, «The Fall of Berlin 1945,» captured the mood in the room as victors and vanquished gathered to bring their conflict to an end:

In focusing on the housing as the key to recovery, Clinton echoes a refrain among economists including Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and financial crisis historian Kenneth Rogoff.

Historian, Alexandra Munroe, described the period as «undoubtedly the most creative outburst of anarchistic, subversive and riotous tendencies in the history of modern Japanese culture.»

«Furthermore, in the main, historians educated as Keynesians and monetarists do not understand the economic history of money, let alone the difference between a gold standard and a gold - exchange standard.

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

Who would benefit from this book: Historians would benefit, as would those interested in trading.

In summary, a 23 - year period in which the US economy achieved the strongest real growth in its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on priceIn summary, a 23 - year period in which the US economy achieved the strongest real growth in its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on pricein which the US economy achieved the strongest real growth in its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on pricein its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on pricein some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on prices.

Perhaps not where anyone would expect him to be during the last weekend of the campaign, Liberal Party leader Raj Sherman was scheduled to spend today in the traditionally conservative voting Red Deer, where the Liberals nabbed prominent local historian Michael Dawe as their candidate in Red Deer - North.

As economic historian J.K. Galbraith wrote about the advance leading up to the 1929 crash, the market's gains «had an aspect of great reliability... Indeed the temporary breaks in the market which preceded the crash were a serious trial for those who had declined fantasy.

Watson, the porn historian, sees a continuum between Daniels» early (and continuing) work as a stripper, her porn career and her current role in the American body politic.

Jeff joined the organization as a market analyst and historian under the mentorship of his father in 1990 and became editor - in - chief some years later.

A 2011 Maclean's survey of historians on Canada's prime ministers ranked John A. Macdonald, of course, the top Conservative (in second spot, after Liberal Wilfrid Laurier) and pegged Borden as the next highest - rated Tory PM (in eighth position overall).

For as long as his story has been told — which, historians tell us, is longer than any other book in the Bible — Job has served as a patron saint of the downtrodden.

Increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages (including the birth of engineering, social benefits such as universities, hospitals and the beginnings of corporations and labor guilds, as well as science, (all under the Catholic Church) has led to the label being restricted in application or avoided by serious historians.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

Of the historian Hugh Trevor - Roper's well - earned reputation for flippancy, Epstein reports that on his application for a fellowship to All Souls College in Oxford, the cocky petitioner described Rousseau's Confessions as «a lucid journal of a life so utterly degraded that it has been a bestseller in France ever since.»

The historical evidence of Jesus Christ «Most critical historians agree that Jesus was a Galilean Jewish Rabbi who was regarded as a teacher and healer in Judaea, [18] that he was baptized by John the Baptist, and that he was crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman Prefect, Pontius Pilate, on the charge of sedition against the Roman Empire.

And a historian may well look at how the advances in infrastructure during the spread of Pax Romana during the 2nd and 3rd centuries enabled people to travel further and more efficiently as well as improving communications, or how the development of a Lingua Franca contributed to the communication of the Christian message.

Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America Edited by Mary Jo and R. Scott Appleby Indiana University Press, 416 pages, $ 18.95 Can it be true, as the historian James Hitchcock darkly suggests, that the conservative Catholic William F. Buckley «has sometimes been regarded as a less than....

In his review of Jean Grondin's recently translated biography of Gadamer, historian of philosophy Richard Wolin asked «how hermeneutics, as personified by Gadamer, fares under real - world conditions.»

To traffic in such guilt by association between Arendt and the Cold War is ludicrous; it is forgivable in journalistic rhetoric but hardly from a respected historian such as Wasserstein.

Of particular importance in this regard, though little noted by historians or popular piety, are Nuechterlein's telling observations on the Lincoln who prosecuted the war through to its conclusion despite its frightful costs» whatever the popular and, in some sense, real perception of Lincoln as tenderhearted.

As Protestant historians Thomas Albert Howard and Mark A. Noll have written: «In the light of 2017, it seems to us that Protestants are duty - bound to try to understand the tragic dimensions of the Reformation....

Faust, a noted historian, said: «The «black Mass» had its historical origins as a means of denigrating the Catholic Church; it mocks a deeply sacred event in Catholicism, and is highly offensive to many in the Church and beyond.»

Same here Joey — I can't say that Luke has stood out as a historian of any merit in the classes I've taken...

And while part of the evangelical dilemma can be ascribed to the «scandal» of our noninvolvement in intellectual culture, as one historian has argued, this is only part of the story.

Goldberg is a political journalist, not a historian, and readers more familiar with the ideological twists and turns of the modern era will be familiar with his thesis: While the left has long depicted the right as fascist, it is in fact the left — from Hegel to Hitler to Hillary and, yes, the politics of meaning, too — that follows the fascist formula most influentially articulated by Mussolini: «Everything within the state; nothing outside the state; nothing against the state.»

historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with other historians writing about the life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving evidence of Jesus's life in an historical context... there is no existence of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...

After all, John Wesley was perhaps the major figure in what came to be known as the «Evangelical Revival,» and the heyday of the evangelical experience in American life is often described by American church historians as the «Age of Methodism in America.»

As a historian, Marxsen rejects the physical resurrection not because he does not believe in miracles, but because the earliest tradition simply doesn't identify resurrection with a resuscitated body.

In fact, as one historian (who wasn't a Christian) described the early Christians, «Every one of them who has anything gives ungrudgingly to the one who has nothing.

This is NOT to say the resurrection did or did not happen, it is to say with Troeltsch, that the resurrection is not a «historical» fact in the sense that it is not possible for historians to consider it — just as a supernova would not be a biological or sociological «fact» because it is outside their scope, don't mean novae don't happen!

To argue that historians might judge such and such to be a miracle because they believe antecedently in the religion that regards such miracles as signs of the intervention of its deity is to open the floodgates for all religious claims to miracles and, indeed, even to nonreligious «miracles» such as the widespread reports that people have seen Elvis Presley.

A few historians of Christianity in Africa claim that some Africans from the colonial era to the present, professed Christianity in order to gain access to the benefits (such as education and health care) that accompanied the colonists and their religion.

In the book's final pages Martin delineates what he regards as the only three possible solutions: «Only Faith,» in which the believer is dismissive of the expert opinions of the historians; «Only Reason,» in which the believer is «totally submissive to the historians»; and «Faith Seeking Understanding,» in which some sort of compromise is worked out between the historian and faitIn the book's final pages Martin delineates what he regards as the only three possible solutions: «Only Faith,» in which the believer is dismissive of the expert opinions of the historians; «Only Reason,» in which the believer is «totally submissive to the historians»; and «Faith Seeking Understanding,» in which some sort of compromise is worked out between the historian and faitin which the believer is dismissive of the expert opinions of the historians; «Only Reason,» in which the believer is «totally submissive to the historians»; and «Faith Seeking Understanding,» in which some sort of compromise is worked out between the historian and faitin which the believer is «totally submissive to the historians»; and «Faith Seeking Understanding,» in which some sort of compromise is worked out between the historian and faitin which some sort of compromise is worked out between the historian and faith.

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Third, the description of conditions is buttressed by the historian's hindsight, masquerading as the foresight of clever contemporaries: «the future held little in store for these fragments...» and «it would gain in strength and in its prospects for the future.»

However, many of the women in the women's group have expressed their support and care for me, and many church members have expressed gratitude for the job I'm doing as historian.

Today, no responsible historian considers Tet anything other than a colossal military defeat for North Vietnam and the end of the Vietcong as a major force in the struggle for Vietnam's future.

Historians have shown the possibilities of tracing the development of ideals such as «progress» or «freedom» (as Whitehead himself attempted in Adventures of Ideas).

Martin delineates what he regards as the only three possible solutions: «Only Faith,» «Only Reason,» and «Faith Seeking Understanding,» in which some sort of compromise is worked out between the historian and faith.

(I am an active volunteer in the church's library, as the church archivist / historian and with a major mission fundraiser.