Sentences with phrase «as some historians make»

The historian as a historian makes no prediction.

Perhaps artists are as prophetic as some historians make them sound.

Diamond is a very enjoyable writer, but as a historian he makes far too many assumptions and «leaps of faith».

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.

In her work as a church historian Roberta C.Bondi has sought to make the wisdom of the early church and the insights of monastic spirituality available to contemporary Christians.

not long enough time to make legends... according to mosthistorians... and that goes for secular historians on secular works as wellnot Bible alone

Eliade, as a fine Historian of Religion, has made us see the wider spectrum of religious experience within which and against which NT can be read.

Art historians have long been intrigued by Rembrandt's appropriation of certain Rubensian themes and pictorial types, but Schama makes this the centerpiece of his argument, as if the primary motivating force of Rembrandt's career was to imitate, emulate and eventually get the better of Rubens.

thats notproof... you have to look in the text as HISTORIANS look at it... being «mythological» sounding doe snot make it legendary... second..

So the ascension becomes for Luke not a literal event that baffles scientists and historians, but a symbolic event lifted out of the Old Testament and told to open the eyes of faith, to behold this Jesus as he really is — God of God, light of light, begotten not made.

The book made Lively's career as an anti-LGBT activist, and though actual historians have dismissed it and refuted it, the anti-LGBT right continues to peddle it and its ideas.

It was not a mere act of cleansing; the Jewish historian Josephus, who understands it in this way, is in error at this point, just as he is in making completely innocuous the Baptist and the Baptist movement in general.

The traditional view is further defective in that, as many contemporary scholars have pointed out, it makes the truth of the Christian faith appear to rest upon the findings of the historian and so gives to Christianity a vulnerability which does not properly belong to it.

Thus when one of his disciples, the future Cardinal, Baronius, proved incapable of preaching on any subject other than the pains of hell, Philip refused to allow him to preach on spiritual subjects at all, and made him teach Church History instead (Baronius went on to become one of the greatest Catholic historians ever, as well as a candidate for Beatification).

Now if someone were to make the observation as a sociologist or historian that Jesus is the Christ, they would be making the objective (and basically indisputable) statement that he is the one whom Christians claim to follow.

Tom Wright explains why, as an ancient historian, the resurrection of Jesus from death makes historical sense.

8 Cf. the striking remark of intellectual historian C. C. Gillispie: «Lamarck's theory of evolution was the last attempt to make a science out of the instinct, as old as Heraclitos and deeply hostile to Aristotelian formalization, that the world is flux and process, and that science is to study, not the configurations of matter, nor the categories of form, but the manifestations of that activity which is ontologically fundamental as bodies in motion and species of being are not.

If my argument has been made good, then just how much we know of the Jesus of history can be left to the early church historians as an open question.

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.

Gil you have asked some very good questions why does bad things happen in the world i personally do nt know God did nt explain to Job either why he had to suffer.What i do know is that God desires that none of us should perish but that all would have eternal life in him through Jesus Christ.This world will one day pass away and the real world will be reborn so our focus as christians is on whats to come and being a witness in the here and now.Both good and bad happens to either the righteous or the sinner so what are we to make of that.What we do know is that God will set all things right at the appointed time the wicked will be judged and the righteous will be rewarded for there faith isnt that enough reason for us to believe.Free will is only a reality if we can choose between good and bad but our hearts are deceitfully wicked we naturally are inclined toward sin that is another reason whyt we need to be saved from ourselves so what are we to do.For me Christ died and rose again that is a fact witnessed by over 500 people that were alive at the time and was recorded by historians how many other religious leaders do you know that did that or did the miracles that Jesus did.As far as the bible is concerned much of the archelogical evidence has proven to be correct and many of prophetic words spoken many hundreds of years ago have come to pass including both the birth and the death of Jesus.Interested in what philosophy you are believing in if other than a faith in Jesus Christ so how does that philosophy give you the assurance that you are saved.Its really simple with christianity we just have to believe in Jesus Christ.brentnz

One can, of course, differ with the thesis of Donald Kagan's Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, but to suggest (as the April editorial, «How Democracy Came About and How It Might Be Sustained,» does) that the work has anything in common with «deconstructionism»» «made up,» «fabricated,» the product of «myths» and «creative misinterpretations»» is totally unwarranted and patently unjust to Kagan, who is a distinguished historian in the classic, traditional mode.

But he remains an «old friend» to political philosophers as well as to historians, and if a study is to make sense of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, the work that Tocqueville undertook must be understood in all its depth and breadth» beyond what the historian, or even the psychologist, may say.

Eusebius, the great Church historian, made in the fourth century an investigation of what might be called the status of the books which the Church used, and as a result classified them as those which were universally accepted and those which were disputed.

As Marxist historians and fictional American gumshoes know, you just have to follow the money to make sense of it all.

Insofar as one can formulate general considerations on the religious behavior of man, this task rightly belongs to the historian of religions, provided, of course, that he master and integrate the results of the researches made in all the important areas of his discipline.

But whether one prefers the Old or the New Mass, Father Langlois, as a church historian, made it a point to underscore that «liturgical reform — including major liturgical reform — has always been part of Catholic tradition.

Second, American historians of religions must articulate their unique tradition of scholarship so as to make significant contributions to the world - wide co-operative inquiry in the religio - scientific study of religions.

Food historians can't document the start of sausage making but we know that the process began as...

Food historians can't document the start of sausage making but we know that the process began as a way to preserve meat that couldn't be immediately eaten.

(Most historians agree that what happened on the Boyne was engineered for his own devious purposes by Louis XIV of France, and it is certain that James II, asked to face 35,000 troops with 21,000, was not so much routed as obliged to make a quick getaway.)

It was a way to make sure property could be passed to heirs, alliances could be forged (often to avoid wars), children could be reared, society could be assured that caregiving would be taken care of and a lot of other practical matters, as historian and Marriage, a History author Stephanie Coontz has extensively detailed.

As the historian for the Chicago Park District, Julia Bachrach has made a point to visit every park in the city.

OSV Collectors» Forum speakers will include Colleen Callahan, Independent Historian: Put the Manly Breeches On: Boys» Clothing as Symbols of Manhood in the 19th Century; Laura E. Johnson, PhD., Associate Curator at Historic New England: From Stays to Skeleton Suits: Dressing Children in Early America; Chris Bates, Old Sturbridge Village Costume Coordinator: Making A Portrait Come Alive: Creating Reproduction Clothing at Old Sturbridge Village, presented with Rebecca Beall, Old Sturbridge Village Collections Manager, and Jean Contino, Old Sturbridge Village Coordinator of Households and Women's Crafts.

As he was grilled on the Today programme, Grayling instead repeatedly claimed that Johnson was making a «historian's comment».

Fifth, he tried: «As I said, Boris Johnson was making a historian's comment about history.

Through the plastics industry, we had an ever - growing ability to synthesize what we wanted or needed, which made reality itself seem infinitely more open to possibility, profoundly more malleable, as historian Meikle observed.

Columbia University art historian James Beck retorts, «As sure as the moon is not made of green cheese, this is not da Vinci in drag.&raquAs sure as the moon is not made of green cheese, this is not da Vinci in drag.&raquas the moon is not made of green cheese, this is not da Vinci in drag.»

Yet, as Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes has documented, vested - interest groups have long understood the fact that people make (or fail to make) decisions based on consensus - information.

A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer Photographs of UK mines and quarries for explorers, historians and industrial archaeologists

July 24, 2013 • In a live arena show that trades in a well - schooled range of summertime - friendly pop, the hit - making machine known as Bruno Mars is one of our moment's most valuable historians of popular music.

Join Pixar's Pete Docter and Disney historian and author J.B. Kaufman as they explore artwork recently discovered in Disney's animation research library revealing some of the attractions, gags and games, which Disney animators created for this iconic location of the film, that never made it on screen.

It gains insight from a host of experts, including famous admirers like directors Martin Scorsese, Joe Dante, and Wes Craven and make - up artist Rick Baker, friends of director Andre de Toth such as animated 98 - year - old actor Norman Lloyd, Vincent Price's daughter Victoria, and 3D historian Eric Kurland.

The main attraction, of course, is another film - specific essay from in - house historian Julie Kirgo, who does not disappoint as she celebrates the film while trying to make sense of its mix of critical acclaim and commercial disappointment.

Historians may scoff, but taken as a pure piece of entertainment, Kingdom of Heaven strikes all the right notes to make this one of the better epics to come out in the post-Lord of the Rings environment.

As has become Criterion's habit, included are a number of features geared toward the cinephiles who make up its fan base, things like film historian Bruce Eder's audio commentary, experts from Francois Truffaut's 1962 audio interview with Hitchcock, and a gallery of production stills.

More extra features in this handsome package include a new feature - length audio commentary by film historian Stephen Prince, author of The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa and a documentary from 2003 on the making of the film, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create.

Paxton is the viewer's guide to this unique exploration, as he accompanies a crew of leading scientists and historians on the largest ship of its kind to make this unique mission.

Extras include an isolated score track in 2.0 mono DTS - HD; an audio commentary with film historians Eddy Friedfeld, Paul Scrabo, and Lee Pfeiffer, which is quite good and provides plenty of insight into the making of the film and its status as a New Hollywood film that's been forgotten and worth rediscovery (I concur); the film's original theatrical trailer, presented in HD; a scroll - through of the current Twilight Time catalogue; and as always, an excellent 8 - page insert booklet with an essay by the great Julie Kirgo.

In those lessons, students take on the role of historian as they use primary sources — historical photographs, maps, and other documents — to make sense of the past.

In a Closing Keynote address to some 500 attendees, education historian and NYU professor Diane Ravitch, an NPE founder and Board President, accused current education policies mandated by the federal government, such as President Barack Obama's Race to the Top, of making high - stakes standardized testing «the purpose of education, rather than a measure of education.»