Sentences with phrase «by modern studies»

In it, Enns focuses on three specific problems / questions raised by the modern study of the Old Testament and uses those specific problems / questions to engage in a broader conversation about the nature of Scripture.

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But the study also suggested that some antidepressants were more effective than others; several older antidepressants were found to be more effectivee than more modern ones, but the modern treatments (such as Prozac) were better tolerated by patients.

Lie4Him, Schweitzer, one of the first scientists to use the tools of modern cell biology to study dinosaurs, has upended the conventional wisdom by showing that some rock - hard fossils tens of millions of years old may have remnants of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors.

This is not something that we are able to study, so it is dismissed as a fantasy by modern scientists.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

The resumption of pilgrimage (often on foot) was matched by a revival in the historical and artistic studies relating to the pilgrimage, and the first modern society for this was the Société des Amis de St Jacques and Centre des Études Compostellanes, founded in Paris in 1950.

The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945 By George H. Nash Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 467 pages, $ 24.95 George Nash knows as much about the intellectual history of modern American conservatism as anybody, and it is a pleasure to have his classic 1976 study again available.

Of these five books, by far the most significant for the study of his doctrine of God are Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and Reality.

Eissfeldt, «The Prophetic Literature,» The Old Testament and Modern Study, edited by H. H. Rowley (New York: Oxford University Press, 1951), pp. 125ff.

The modern study of economics was started by Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher who emphasised the practical and gave almost no thought to men's higher purposes.

I am not sure of the significance of the word «modern» in Mr Hadas» contention that «the modern study of economics was started by Adam Smith».

The whole animistic approach to man, which in both religious thought and philosophical analysis can be traced back to man's earliest attempts to understand himself, has been destroyed by the modern sciences most closely related to the study of man.

One of the consequences of the focus on the role of interpretive communities has been a renewed appreciation for the forms of interpretation practiced by Jewish and Christian communities before the rise of modern biblical studies during the Enlightenment.

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).

It continues and gets worse when the reverse, the shaping of social factors, conditions, and orders by spiritual (religious) forces is overlooked or denied, as we find it in a legion of modern studies more or less dedicated to economic determinism.

(Martin Buber, Eclipse of God, Studies in the Relation between Religion and Philosophy [New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952], «Religion and Philosophy,» translated by Maurice S. Friedman, p. 58 f., «Religion and Modern Thought,» also my translation, p. 91 f.) Hence here too entering into relation precedes the elaboration of distance, I - Thou precedes I - It.

The revival of the study of the classics of the ancient world was destined to lead to the emergence of the modern world by reawakening that inquiring mind that marked at least some of the early Greeks.

A Study of the Roots of modern Secularism, Relativism, and de - Christianisation by Philip Trower, Family Publications,...

That pioneer work should be supplemented — not to say supplanted — by a study of the great modern researches of M. Rostovtzeff, The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire (1926; new ed., 1940), and his magnificent three - volume work, The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World (1940).

That book of thirty thousand couplets and his other mystical writings are widely studied in modern times by the intellectuals of Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.

The book's format, excerpts from a modern translation divided into short sections by commentary, would lend itself well to group study.

In his study of Goethe's epic Hermann und Dorothea Humboldt discusses the function of art as idealization by means of the imagination, the concept of artistic objectivity and artistic truth, the difference between classical and modern poetry, and finally, the epic as the genre of humanitas (Humanität).

This was, in fact, a form of faith that denied the relevance of the Judeo - Christian tradition for modern life by denying it any place in the study program.

With the passage of time and more mature study of the nature of scripture, as disclosed by the application of the modern historico - critical method of investigation, it is seen that the possible borrowing of Bible writers from another source in no way affected its intrinsic worth, or even the belief that these writers were inspired in their writing.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

Islam in Modern History, by Wilfred Cantwell Smith, is a study of what is happening to Islam in a time of rapid transition; it is a thoughtful, sometimes disturbing, book which should be read by anyone who is teaching about Islam.

Modern Trends in World Religions, edited by Joseph M. Kitagawa, is not a systematic introduction to world religions but is useful as a general introduction for it is a collection of essays on current trends and problems in the study of world religions as seen by competent scholars who have been reflecting on the results of their research.

Tangible proof can be found by studying vestigial features, ebryonic development, biogeography, DNA sequencing, pseudogenes, endogenous retroviruses, labratory direct examination of natural selection in action in E-Coli bacteria, lactose intolerance in humans, the peppered moth's colour change in reaction to industrial pollution, radiotrophic fungi at Chernobyl... all of these things add to the modern evolutionary synthesis.

But the historicity of the «miracle» stories has now been severely undermined by modern Biblical study, which has shown that we have here no infallible historical records, but the testimony of Christian traditions which had been molded by two or more generations of oral transmission.

Since 1859, that great tree has been built up painstakingly by close study of fossils and modern organisms.

We really don't know what Bonhoeffer meant by religion, and our modern study of the problem of religionlessness must be carried on quite independent of the task, probably fruitless, of establishing just what Bonhoeffer meant.

So Altizer lays out the problems raised for him by the death of God in terms of the sacred and the profane, and this enables him to make interesting use of Eliade's studies of the meaning of the sacred in archaic and modern religion.

By contrast, studies show that, among those who practice modern methods of natural family planning, the divorce rate is somewhere between 1 and 4 %.

One of the problems with English studies today, brought about in part by English professors themselves and in part by the modern research university, is the separation between «specialists» and the public.

I am not against guns I am angst phones chritsians, bas theologians, flocks who believe whatever crap their priest tells them, people wh not not don't read the modern bible, edited by your priest, but who don't study the cannon, religions, who wrote the books or any theology.

They returned to their own country more or less influenced by the modern ideas acquired during their years of study in Egypt.

As one critic has said of the reliance of Wheelwright's diaphor on epiphor: «The net effect of diaphor is to increase the possibility of pluri - signification by forcing the reader to create a relationship or a number of relationships, more or less cognitive, without finally insisting on a particular version» (David M. Miller, The Net of Hephaestus: A Study of Modern Criticism and Metaphysical Metaphor [The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1971], p. 113).

As a modern day deist I accept the term creator but doubt that it has any resemblance to any of the man made creation myths and may be explained eventually by the study of nature and the universe.

When the Azusa Street Mission (generally considered the cradle of modern Pentecostalism)[1] was born in Los Angeles, a Methodist congregation in Valparaiso had already taken its first steps toward Pentecostalism by holding prayer groups and studying the book of Acts.

By studying their methods with modern science, someday we may be able to examine the preceding folk cures and to answer some of the following questions.

Ole Olsen, a researcher from the University of Copenhagen, recently examined several studies of planned homebirth backed up by a modern hospital system compared with planned hospital birth.

It was all about the way birth is dealt with by modern medicine and it would have been heart - breaking to read the case studies even if my partner hadn't been interviewed for it.

The non-economic reasons for the changes remain largely unanswered by the study, which hints that some modern - day fathers appear to want a bigger role in raising children.

A study focusing on the complex and changing role of fathers in the modern American family was released by the Boston College Center for Work & Family on June 18, 2010.

Scientific research and clinical studies in the modern era validate turmeric's traditional use, particularly looking at curcuminoids produced by the rhizome...

Their activities were transnational and unbounded by national frameworks, which is how most studies on the creation of modern democracies have been, and continue to be written.

Tom studied Ancient and Modern History at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where he stayed to do an MSt in US History, followed by his DPhil on social and political thought in revolutionary America.

Studies often consider physical activity and sitting individually; however, these behaviors are closely linked, with modern - day inactive lifestyles being characterised by both insufficient physical activity and excessive leisure time sitting.

For instance, a breakthrough 2013 study by Australian scientists compared modern dental calculus to that of a small set of European skeletons spanning some 8,000 years, from the Stone Age through the late medieval period.

2015 was the warmest year since modern record - keeping began in 1880, according to a new analysis by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.