Sentences with phrase «by comparative study»

Only from the weight of evidence provided by comparative study of many information sources, can one hope to reach a convincing conclusion.

This symposium will bring together a roster of international scholars to examine challenges and opportunities presented by the comparative study of cities across the globe from the sixteenth century to the present.

The dates of non-dated papyri can be determined within a margin of about fifty years by comparative study of the styles of writing used in them.

Indeed, it is by comparative study of congregations that one can see how different construals of the Christian thing make real differences in the ways persons» lives are shaped and empowered.

It would need to attend to the more broadly shared features of a congregation's practice of worship by comparative study of congregations in the same culture and cross-culturally (synchronically) and through history (diachronically).

Or, at least, this might be the disclosure evoked by comparative study.

The present task of New Testament criticism is to explore, by a comparative study of the several writings, the common faith which evoked them, and which they aimed at interpreting to an ever - widening public.

There are new methods of Gospel - criticism, and there is an almost bewildering mass of material supplied by the comparative study of religion in and about the New Testament period, from Jewish, Hellenistic, and Oriental sources.

We have to explore, by a comparative study of the several writings, the common faith which evoked them, and which they aimed at interpreting to an ever - widening public.

Although Tillich does not give examples of what this theology renewed by the comparative study of religion might be like, we can venture to imagine what it might produce.

Not exact matches

Veall provides an international comparative perspective on poverty among the elderly by comparing Canadian data with data from the other 24 countries that participate in the Luxemburg Income Study (LIS) over the period from 1970 to 2000.

Our comparative study of renters insurance premiums in Utah was done by gathering and analyzing quotes from five major carriers across 32 cities in the state.

Our comparative study of renters insurance premiums in South Dakota was done by gathering and analyzing quotes from three major carriers across 32 cities in the state.

Our comparative study of renters insurance premiums in New Mexico was done by gathering and analyzing quotes from five major carriers across 33 cities in the state.

It was Harnack who, in 190l, addressed this very issue by asserting that Christian theology had no need of the history or comparative study of religions because, through its own long and varied history.

On the other hand, the studies in «comparative religion,» stimulated by the untiring efforts of Max Mueller, were cultivated at Oxford and Cambridge in close contact with continental archeological, philological, and historical investigations (Ernest Crawley, Gilbert Murray, Jane Harrison, Frank Byron Jevons, E. O. James).

More comparative study of the foundation upon which authority is supposed to rest, the forms which it may take, the methods by which it works, its execution and its delegation, are necessary.

Those whose interest in the religions of Asia has been aroused to the point that they want to consider some of the comparative problems raised by the study of religions other than one's own will find thoughtful and searching discussions in two books recently published: World Religions and World Community, by Robert Lawson Slater, and The Meaning and End of Religion, by Wilfred Cantwell Smith.

The Religion of Java deserves careful reading, not only for what it tells about Islam in Java, but for its insights into the comparative problems raised by the study of religion as it is followed in distant parts of the world.

The second approach to comparative religion at Chicago was advocated by George Burman Foster (d. 1918), who accepted a widely held three - layered scheme: (1) a narrow history of religions — conceived to be the simple historical study of «raw» religious data, often colored by an evolutionary ideology — toward (2) «comparative religion,» which aims to classify religious data and culminates in (3) a philosophy of religion (or a theology) that provides a meaning for the comparative religion enterprise as a whole.

Third, he championed comparative religion, understood by him as an umbrella term for objective studies, by specialists, of the historic religious traditions, no more and no less.

It is precisely by raising these controversies in the context of the comparative study of congregations that the full meaning and importance of contested theological views are best grasped.

No formal comparative study has ever broken down child sexual abuse by denomination, and only the Catholic Church has released detailed data about its own.

On a more detailed and comparative study, some of the conclusions made by earlier scholars were challenged and modifiedxxxii.

Philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who formerly were fascinated by the comparative approach to the study of world religions have begun to question the validity of such an approach.

Undoubtedly, the widespread acceptance of the study of comparative religion or the history of religions in American universities and seminaries from the turn of the century was greatly aided by religious liberalism.

Towards the beginning of this century there was great enthusiasm for the comparative study of religions; it was often conducted by scholars who believed that when they had discovered parallels to early Christian expressions, ideas, institutions or rites in other religions they had shown that the Christian phenomena were derived from these other religions and also that their meaning within Christianity was essentially the same as it was within the other religion or religions.

Using the payslips, critical study and comparative analysis clearly shows that teachers with their monthly income (net salaries) can now afford to buy or own appreciably much more than they could 7 yrs ago on the same pay level or rank CONTRARY to what we are mischievously made to believe currently by the NPP and their media cohorts as well as others who get opportunity to share their opinions on both the print and electronic media.

NASUWT has commented on the publication of the comparative study, commissioned by the DfE, on baseline assessments used by primary schools.

A comparative performance analysis of governors in Nigeria carried out by Lagos - based Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies, CIAPS, has rated Governors Udom Emmanuel (Akwa...

This hypothesis is supported by studies of comparative morphological and functional anatomy, which are based on the recognition of structural similarities between the basic body plans of the various animal groups.

Therefore, during the visit I discussed with people the comparative studies of the Eastern and Western cultures and the theories and principles advanced by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, and others.

«They've made the first comparative study using nonhuman primates of the cerebral processing of voices, and they've done it with a noninvasive technique by training dogs to lie in a scanner.»

Professor Gary England, Foundation Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science and Professor of Comparative Veterinary Reproduction, who oversaw the collection of semen said: «The strength of the study is that all samples were processed and analysed by the same laboratory using the same protocols during that time and consequently the data generated is robust.»

Diamond acknowledges that many other factors are involved in the long history of this island but that the comparative method, he writes, consists of comparing — preferably quantitatively and aided by statistical analyses — different systems that are similar in many respects but that differ with respect to the factors whose influence one wishes to study.

A new study, led by Assistant Professor Vijay Dhanasekaran and Associate Professor Gavin Smith from Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke - NUS), has presented the largest comparative analysis of human influenza B viruses undertaken to date.

The comparative study, by University of Cambridge researchers Dieter Lukas and Tim Clutton - Brock, shows that the ancestral system for all mammalian groups is of females living in separate ranges with males defending overlapping territories, and that monogamy evolved where males were unable to monopolise and defend multiple females.

With this room, we can prepare everything side - by - side and perform a true comparative study between the two radiation modalities.»

The early study of fossil bones was dominated by the 19th - century French comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier.

The team wanted to determine if the investigated ancient populations were affected at the genetic level by foreign conquest and domination during the time period under study, and compared these populations to modern Egyptian comparative populations.

This is what an international team of researchers headed by the cardiologist Prof. Heribert Schunkert, medical director of the German Heart Center at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), discovered in a broad comparative study.

In addition, they have identified the growth mechanism of the actin network by comparative in vivo and in vitro studies in order to ensure the validity of the process.

The comparative study is based on a comprehensive proteome analysis of isolated Cnidarian nematocysts by the Heidelberg researchers.

A comparative study with a Rembrandt van Rijn painting as its subject found that the combined use of three imaging techniques provides valuable complementary information about what lies behind this artwork's complex step - by - step creation.

According to Biotechnology in Europe: 2005 Comparative Studies, a report written by Critical I Limited for EuropaBio, 60 % of the biotech companies in the United States were in the human health care sector in 2003, and 51 % in Europe.

Founded in 1976, ISDCI serves to bring together research workers worldwide by fostering and maintaining international scientific cooperation and communication between individual scientists, regional groups and / or national societies interested in the study of developmental and comparative immunology.

Capture of lipopolysaccharide (endotoxin) by the blood clot: a comparative study.

The lab's goal is to develop computational approaches to study phenotype - genotype associations using the power of comparative and evolutionary genomics, followed by experimental verifications.

In a comparative case study, Plow et al (2011) attempted to standardize a protocol for promoting visual rehabilitative outcomes in post-stroke hemianopia by combining occipital cortical tDCS with vision restoration therapy (VRT).

«The results of the comparative study with [the desert monitor lizard] Varanus griseus griseus were by far the most convincing,» says Honoré.