Sentences with phrase «by historians as»

The Hawkesbury Region (Richmond & Windsor) is recognized by historians as one of Australia's third settlements.

The geographical area that today is Iraq is regarded by historians as the site of some of the earliest human civilizations, including the Sumerians (who lived between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia, a Greek word meaning land between the two rivers).

Indeed, «Creation» drily and darkly notes the irony of Darwin's faith in science, which so clumsily and stupidly dealt with his daughter's condition (not specified, but diagnosed by historians as scarlet fever or tuberculosis).

Well, if Mannix set the twentieth - century pattern for Catholic prelates Down Under, George Pell will be regarded by historians as the man who set the pattern for the twenty - first century.

They were second - class citizens — a category which is regarded by historians as having been injurious to the first - class citizens as well.

The Sabaeans are recognised by historians as a civilised and cultured people.

I don't know if Friday, Oct. 10th will be heralded by historians as the bottom of this bear market, a day on which the Dow hit an intra-day low below 8,000, but I think it might be close.

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As a historian by background who has written quite a bit on the Great War, it's always nice to see the media cover things that otherwise have been long forgotten outside the ranks of historians and buffs.

«That much may indeed be true, but it was one of many of the tall tales that further evolved into a truism of sorts, that was basically «accepted» as such by historians, press and mafia history aficionados,» Cipollini said.

Women's suffrage — or the political fight to enfranchise women — is widely considered to have begun with the Seneca Fall convention, as chronicled by this U.S. House's Office of the Historian.

Roberts cites an observation by labour historian Jan Kainer: «Women's labour organizing contributed significantly to the building and sustaining of rank - and - file participation, developing new democratic structures such as women's caucuses, organizing the unorganized, and forging political alliances with non-labour groups.»

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.

As explained by Murray Rothbard (America's greatest economics historian), these pre-Fed financial panics ``

As explained by Murray Rothbard (America's greatest economics historian), these pre-Fed financial panics «were a result of the arbitrary credit creation powers of the banking system.»

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.

The first Christians were never systematically persecuted by the Romans, and most martyrdom stories - with the exception of a handful such as Perpetua's - were exaggerated and invented, several scholars and historians say.

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 yet you are guided by the ramblings of five authors from the 1st century CE who basically are regurgitating local myths and embellishments and have no supporting backgrounds as trained historians.

This program gives Wilson many opponents: anti-functionalists among theorists and historians of religion (it's no accident that among theorists of religion Wilson chooses arch-functionalist Émile Durkheim as his hero); evolutionary theorists who don't think that such theory is usefully applicable to social groups; those who think it is applicable to social groups, but conclude that religious groups are maladaptive; and theological realists, who think the whole enterprise vitiated by its procedural naturalism.

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.

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.»

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.»

The Jesuit Alessandro Valignano (1539 - 1606) was among the first to articulate missionary policies, not only emphasizing the importance of «accommodation and adaptation to Chinese culture,» as historian Daniel H. Bays writes, but also «indirect evangelism by means of science and technology to convince the elite of the high level of European civilization.»

Science Works We have traced the evolution of salads and food historians tell us salads (generally defined as mixed greens with dressing) were enjoyed by ancient Romans and Greeks.

Later, when pressured to present evidence, some historians tried to justify the forgery by suggesting that Leo XII had perhaps said something of the sort as Cardinal, and thus before his election, but could again not produce the actual source of the statement.

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.»

These latter are easily recognised by accolades such as «the revered historian...» (p. 21); «the distinguished...» (pp. 63, 139, 174) or «the prolific...» (p. 139).

Nowadays, though no one doubts that the dramatic detail of the Flight of Helen, the Wrath of Achilles, and the rest, is imaginary, the poems are treated as valuable sources of evidence for the history of Greece and neighbouring lands shortly before 1000 BC Even our own Arthurian legends, I observe, are now treated seriously by quite serious historians, when they are seeking for light upon the dark age of Britain.

This is now being properly researched by historians like Dr Foa, who insists that, as a result, we can be sure that the «more recent image of the aid given to Jews by the Church arises not from pro-Catholicideological positions, but above all from thorough research into the lives of Jews during the occupation, from the reconstruction of the stories of families or individuals.

But to preclude the imposition of a priori evolutionary categories on the nature of religious belief, let us accept the definition of religion as given by the historians and sociologists of religion.

The process by which this happened - by which concepts such as personal freedom, human rights and equality have been slowly distorted to mean something quite other than they did when Christian Europe gave birth to them - has been laboriously traced by historians of ideas such as Charles Taylor and Alastair Maclntyre.

Years later, Constantine told his friend Bishop Eusebius (c.260 - 340), the most eminent of early church historians, that in the early afternoon, as he was praying, he had a vision of a cross of light in the heavens bearing the inscription «Conquer by this».

While the historian Jonathan Sarna may be right that the split between the Jews as a people and Judaism as a religion came about as a result of the mass forced conversion of Jews during the medieval Spanish expulsion, historically, for the most part, Jews saw themselves as not just an amalgam of individuals thrown together by the whims of history but as a unique people chosen to follow God's word.

Historian Daniel Howe observes that the Unitarian clergy fomented considerable dissent in Massachusetts against the U. S. annexation of Texas by portraying the Texans as irresponsible speculators who had entered Mexico at their own risk.

Again, what Miola calls «a simplistic notion of religious identity» in a muddled age may itself be called simplistic, in view of the formidable arguments brought forward by such «revisionist» historians as Eamon Duffy, who show that traditional Catholicism was strong in the hearts of the people till well on into Elizabeth's reign.

Historians of the Roman liturgy generally reckon the restorations of the Easter Vigil (by Pius XII) and the adult catechumenate (by Vatican II) as two of the signal accomplishments of the twentieth - century liturgical movement.

But to debate the explosive growth of Christianity in the first century and pass it off as an argument and not recognized it as historical fact recognized by any historian....

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.

Impelled by a need to find the roots of their form of Mormonism, leading historians of the Reorganization have embarked on an exercise in higher criticism, subjecting to close scrutiny Joseph Smith's story and Mormon scripture as well as the two official versions of church history.

An article in the Moral Majority Report by a young historian, Edward Hindson, cites Wilberforce and Finney as precursors of Falwell, and spells out their social achievements.

In short, as one Pentecostal historian puts it privately, large segments of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements were «captured» by fundamentalism.

This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»

In addition their is a great book called the 7 Truths of the Bible that have nothing to do with proving religion but the historical facts as agreed upon by archaelogist / historians / anthropologists, many of whom are nonbelievers / skeptics / atheists

Such a beginning for a student of history is not unnatural, but if ever that boy is to become a real historian — as well may be the case — little by little the consciousness of what is excluded by his study will grow dim.

While Eusebius can be regarded as a serious, though by no means always an accurate historian, the numerous Christian Acts of various apostles, none of them earlier than the middle of the second century, are for the most part fictional romances, full of pious legend, but of little or no use as history.

Historian David Ramsay wrote to South Carolinians to «consider the - people of all the thirteen states, as a band of brethren, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, inhabiting one undivided country, and designed by heaven to be one people,» but the religion is unspecified.