Sentences with phrase «because as a scholar»

I will do so in terms of the written word, because as a scholar of literature and a writer (an ichthyologist and a fish), my exploration of the medieval and the modern must proceed through an examination of texts.

Not exact matches

As media and technology scholar Zeynep Tufekci writes on Medium, «You are seeing fewer news items that you'd disagree with which are shared by your friends because the algorithm is not showing them to you.»

Gary wrong again, Gary wrong again: I was a guest before this on this blog: Even check out Martin Zender; The World's most outspoken bible scholar facebook; You will find me there; he knows me, and his crew knows of me; Father has others too that have been with me for years that are not in my city through their ministries also that have come up along side of me, but I do not want you to come against them as they have their own trials to overcome, therefore; no names given there, they also know me and my testimony: I am God's workmanship therefore, I was brought up in Christ along side witnesses as His testimony: Gary; this is going to be shocking, but because God does not inform you of a thing, means to me, that He has kept very much from you: Now why would that be?

i agree this guy who calls himself a scholar is a moron.if that was un islamic why do nt you see islam (muslims) publicly denouncing the rioters or the 9/11 hijackers or muslim terrorism as a whole?maybe thats because the so called moderate muslims just arent as extreme as the terrorists but still take their side.

What you claim is as silly as saying «when only a few learned scholars figured out the earth went around the sun, that was wrong because MOST people believed the sun went around the earth and claimed to see that motion every day.»

Some scholars believe this describes the fall of Jerusalem as the gods» punishment for the Jews having killed Jesus because they infer that Jesus must be «the wise king» referred to by Mara.

It certainly is not because she is female (despite what crap she makes up about that), as all one has to do is look at Mary Ann Tolbert, Elaine Pagels and Paula Fredriksen to know that female scholars are well respected based on the work that they do, just as male scholars are.

Age - old methods of education and the cultivation of established sciences went on as before because of the large endowments which learned scholars had received at the hands of the Mughal emperors.

I was surprised because I am trained as a scholar of the New Testament and early Christianity, and for thirty years I have written extensively on the historical Jesus, the Gospels, the early Christian movement, and the history of the church's first three hundred years.

Lord Zealous, it turns out, will talk to me because she sees me as a professor, a scholar, a relative neutral.

You crave punishment because it makes you feel somehow superior, or correct in your discovery of «God's Word» in a book which was written and edited and re-edited (as well as redacted) by countless rulers and scholars along the way, each wishing to have some stake in the claim of the Eternal.

Someone accused me of jumping through loops to avoid questioning my believes because I suggested 7 day = 7 ages as some Hebrew scholar said.

«Because some scholars have treated miracle claims in the Gospels and Acts as purely legendary on the premise that such events do not happen, I intended to challenge their instinctive dismissal of the possibility of such claims by referring to a few works that catalogued modern eyewitness claims of miracles.»

That's in part because the fortunes of the family in the West have largely ebbed and flowed with the fortunes of religious faith over the centuries, as scholars like Peter Berger, Robert Wuthnow, and Mary Eberstadt have noted.

The word «Christian» literally means «little Christ,» how does someone who acquires fame by bashing the belief of others (he may be a scholar but as the author noted, most people have only heard of him because of his uncouth mannerisms) come anywhere close to Jesus?

As I've said before, Enns is one of my favorite scholars because he somehow manages to be thorough, personable, and readable all at the same time.

Whilst these speeches are presumably Lukan compositions, many scholars believe that they include traces of the earliest Easter proclamation, preserved because they were remembered as being apostolic, and in spite of their «adoptionist» tone: that God has raised his pais (child) Jesus; that God has mode him both Lord and Christ.

Most people, however, understand me as asking which Bible translation they are using, and so they will launch off into an explanation of why they read the KJV (because it has the greatest tradition), or the NASB (because it is the most accurate), or the ESV (because some big name scholars endorse it), or the NIV (because it's the most understandable), or whatever.

«Earth life, as Mormons would put it, is just a tiny moment in eternity because Mormons believe that the spirit exists before there is life and that life is just one short episode in the total journey to becoming more like God,» said Richard Bushman, a Mormon scholar at Columbia University.

As scholars such as Randall Stewart and Mark Van Doren pointed out nearly a half - century ago, Hawthorne disbelieved in the secular, progressive optimism of the nineteenth century because, in his own words, the progressive spirit «preposterously miscalculated the possibilities» of human lifAs scholars such as Randall Stewart and Mark Van Doren pointed out nearly a half - century ago, Hawthorne disbelieved in the secular, progressive optimism of the nineteenth century because, in his own words, the progressive spirit «preposterously miscalculated the possibilities» of human lifas Randall Stewart and Mark Van Doren pointed out nearly a half - century ago, Hawthorne disbelieved in the secular, progressive optimism of the nineteenth century because, in his own words, the progressive spirit «preposterously miscalculated the possibilities» of human life.

Yet because of the recognition that those who are filled with the Holy Spirit are empowered to testify about their experience of the Spirit, official Pentecostal leaders often view the involvement of Pentecostal scholars and theologians in the ecumenical arena as a legitimate form of witness.

I find it regrettable, uncharitable, and frankly disrespectful that Mr. Neuhaus should accuse me of «a serious disservice to the truth» because as a Jew I do not share a particular point of Catholic theological doctrine; worse still that he should imply that I was being deliberately «obtuse» in responding to Mr. Fisher» a scholar whom I respect» or in any way denigratory about Catholic beliefs.

As a scholar, you aren't allowed to purposly misquote someone an then post it for the public because it's considered a very manipulatory act.

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.»

You really don't comprehend the bible very well especially the part about the log in your eye, so you are not someone anyone should be taking seriously as a biblical scholar because you are not.

As long ago as the 1780's scholars recognized that chapters 40 - 66 could not be the work of Isaiah of Jerusalem because they deal with, and reflect an intimate knowledge of, events in the sixth century B.As long ago as the 1780's scholars recognized that chapters 40 - 66 could not be the work of Isaiah of Jerusalem because they deal with, and reflect an intimate knowledge of, events in the sixth century B.as the 1780's scholars recognized that chapters 40 - 66 could not be the work of Isaiah of Jerusalem because they deal with, and reflect an intimate knowledge of, events in the sixth century B.C.

That is because the answer is beyond their knowledge, and what makes this book of remembrance, the book that is most scrutinized, and wondered about to most scholars, and is in over 2500 languages, all over the world, and is why the zionist jews used it to reach their dominion, from 1897 of the Herzel Movement, Rothschild funded, next in 1904 gain allegiance with the monarch, to establish the Federal Reserve in 1913, next instigated both World Wars I, (1914) and then gained Israel in 1942, next instigated World Wars II, (1939 - 1945) then to the Bretton wood Agreement, 1945, to the fortune 500, ruling this world, now they were the smart ones, as YHWH made them to be, punishment for leaving Him, prophesied that their descendants would in Genesis 27, prophesy fulfilled.

Wright communicates cogently to the postmodern audience like Lewis did to the late modern audience, but the style and substance of their writing differs notably because of their respective vocations: the former as a New Testament scholar and the latter as a Medieval and Renaissance Literature scholar.

Yes, some of them do come off as feeling superior, and they feel that way because they are certain that they have managed to deduce the «correct» meanings to Bible verses with their cleverness over millions of other believers and the scholars who build their careers studying them,... and they accuse us of having inflated egos!

this is just my own personal theory, but I suspect the reason Jesus cursed the fig tree that He did, was because he was probably tired, and hungry to the point of low blood sugar or hypoglycemia, and it made Him irritable... naturally, He was walking around in a body like ours, as it is said, like us in every way but sin... everybody tries to read something woowoo theological into it but maybe He was just tired and hungry, and irritability is a symptom for a number of conditions, but especially blood glucose or migraine issues... maybe He had migraines... I get those myself... just my theory, so the two Bible scholars that keep coming on here shouldn't shoot bible verses at me... just sayin... Good «toon, David

The Dun Commission of Christian scholars in 1950 in their report on The Christian Conscience and Weapons of Mass Destruction stated that «to accept general war as inevitable is to treat ourselves as helpless objects carried by a fated tide of events rather than as responsible men,» and went on to say, «One reason why fascism and Naziism gained their dread power over great nations was because otherwise decent people bowed before what they regarded as «inevitable» and allowed a «wave of the future» to inundate them.»

They and their allies and supporters (such as the 300 + self - identified LGBT and allied scholars, lawyers, journalists, and activists who published the manifesto «Beyond Same - Sex Marriage» — a group that includes respected mainstream figures such as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino) would, I have no doubt, sharply react against the claim that polyamory «is attractive because monogamy is hard.»

It is not in defense of Barthian theology, therefore, or because we believe that «only one religion provides divine revelation and others have nothing of it, «28 or because we regard the Christian religion as unique, 29 that we hold that ours can not be the way which this Indian scholar suggests.

And again, through the work of other scholars like Bultmann and Buri, with their frank recognition of the mythological element in the biblical story, we have come to see that the affirmations of Scripture have their abiding significance, not in spite of, but precisely because of their being stated in language which can only be described as highly metaphorical.

Sometimes Canon Redford's arguments suffer a loss of vigour because their presentation is complicated by a perhaps laudable but ultimately distracting attempt to reference as many other scholars as possible.

You read it that way because you want to, but many historical scholars argue that the phrase was specifically chosen so as to include all people of all faiths regardless of who they believed their creator to be.

For this «scholar» to propose such an interpretation is as intelligent as a chemist who choses to only examine part of a balanced equation because if he considers the whole equation... it might tell him something he does nt want to know or may prove him to be wrong for his «conclusions»....

On the other hand, Luther was quite unable to understand the authenticity of the quiet though often acid scholar dedicated to a policy of neutrality, of attempting as far as possible to stand outside polarising polemic — Erasmus came eventually to wonder whether it might have been better not to have written In Praise of Folly, because it had led to just such polarisation.

He was well received, not only as a scholar who had studied in Mecca but also because he was, according to tradition, a Sharif — a descendant of the Prophet.

I applied to be a scholar at the 2016 «Waste Not, Want Not» conference because I was passionate about the topic of food waste, an issue I saw as «low - hanging fruit» in terms of our ability to eliminate it.

«Because UB's collection is the largest and most distinguished in the world, it has drawn Joyce scholars and students from around the world to Buffalo as a cultural destination.»

In some countries, scholars are also subject to violence not specifically for their individual views or actions but simply because of their connection to a higher education institution, which may be viewed as an easy target with predictable schedules, «a proxy for state authority or... a symbol of a modern, education - based society,» the report says.

«This is a paradigm shift, in a lot of ways, because most people think of privacy as being individualistic, but privacy is no longer just about the individual, it's also a collaborative and coordinated process,» said Haiyan Jia, a postdoctoral scholar in information sciences and technology.

The scholar was visiting his department to give a talk in an area with seemingly very little connection to Reddi's expertise, but he cornered him nonetheless, because «as a doctoral student I had made it an issue to attend talks in areas other than mine and to cultivate learning from people who didn't speak the same language as I do,» he recalls.

Because of what they have found, scholars can no longer regard ancient Central Asia as a wasteland notable primarily as the origin of nomads like Genghis Khan.

In 1603 Prince Federico Cesi, a botanist, founded the Accademia dei Lincei, or the Academy of Lynxes, named because its members — renowned Italian scholars like Galileo and Fabio Colonna — needed eyes as sharp as lynxes» in order to pursue scientific discovery.

And Leslie Kay, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago in Illinois who chimed into the Twitter discussion, also considers GPA when she evaluates applicants because she believes that being a good scholar is as important a qualification as being a good researcher.

The scholars conducted the research in part because there had never been a comprehensive study to examine whether humans» «spatial localization» ability — that is, whether we can immediately and accurately perceive where an object is located — is as well - honed as we believe it to be.

Because the University recognizes that proposal preparation is an important aspect of most postdoctoral training, campuses may permit Postdoctoral Scholars to serve as principal investigators on such applications that are restricted to Postdoctoral Scholars, or in other circumstances approved by the University.

Hitchcock scholars will spin themselves into a fine powder spotting everything that's tonally or factually wrong about the piece (the movie implies that Psycho was shot on the Paramount lot, something that will come as some surprise to visitors of the Universal Studios tour); others will avoid it because it looks exactly like the kind of populist, elder - sploitative happy horseshit that it is.