Sentences with phrase «by studying text»

But, the truth is, you can only learn a limited amount by studying text books and completing in - class assignments.

I'll be the first to admit girls can be confusing, but you can learn a lot by studying the texts they sends you.

Our writers are well - versed in all kinds of academic work, and by studying their texts you will quickly learn to do the same amazing job!

Not exact matches

The ones in english are of course translations that have varying problems of translation, all of which are clearly understood at this point (as the bible is the most studied text on the face of the earth, by orders of magnitude).

The documentation is detailed throughout and is in effect a study guide for those who will be stimulated by the text to pursue further an immensely complex subject.

She may not have been indoctrinated / brainwashed by someone within her household, but she didn't form these beliefs about Christianity in a vacuum where no one around her was attempting to convince her to believe, and she was just studying various religious texts until she happened on the bible and other apologetics.

Learning by rote is no more useful in Bible study than in other fields, and it is often the Bible's anomalous, even contradictory texts that lead us to deeper thought and strong faith.

These same essays do go on to offer conscious conceptual accounts of some of the possibilities presented by the texts they study, construing the texts as expressions of «propositions.»

The second sort of argument, designed to show that certain process doctrines are compatible with certain Biblical texts, was warranted by interpretations of certain Biblical texts that were hacked by exegetical studies.

(2) Boomershine sees historical criticism as the biblical method of this era, where the truth of the text is achieved by personal study of the text in silence on your own.

In the end, the author believes that the Enlightenment thinkers developed a «theological» model, even though he completes this exhaustive study by citing a grim text from one of Nietzsche's «Letters» that sounds anything but theological: ««The family will be slowly ground into a random collection of individuals,» haphazardly bound together «in the common pursuit of selfish ends.

After earning his degree, he studied Spanish, mathematics, physics and the real estate business through mail - order texts paid for by family members.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

It allowed me to reconceptualize the study of «women in the Bible,» by moving from what men have said about women to a feminist historical reconstruction of early Christian origins as well as by articulating a feminist critical process for reading and evaluating androcentric biblical texts.

Text: A recent study sponsored by the Ford Foundation reports that female enrollment in the seminaries of nine leading Protestant denominations has jumped dramatically in the past decade.

We can measure this achievement by studying individual texts and gauging their cumulative effect, but a simple statistic can indicate what I am pointing to.

To the student who has perhaps come to these writings from studies in folklore or fairy tales and who is now «disillusioned» by their long - windedness, we might say that no religious text is easy and entertaining reading.

Father White's brilliant reading of one of the foundational texts of Western civilization is well - introduced by series editor R. R. Reno, in a preface that should be required reading for anyone doing serious study of the Bible.

Ken Olson, «Eusebius of Caesarea Tradition and Innovations», Center for Hellenic Studies, distributed by Harvard University Press (2013), wrote «Both the language and the content have close parallels in the work of Eusebius of Caesarea, who is the first author to show any knowledge of the text.

LOL, I can't think of a more foolish exercise than studying texts written by slope - headed cavemen that thought the earth was flat.

The story of the flight into Egypt by Joseph, Mary and the infant Jesus may have originated as a midrash inspired from the text by Hosea, «1 called my son out of Egypt».11 If the story of the burial by Joseph of Arimathea owes anything at all to the influence of such a verse as Isaiah 53:9, then it would be a further example of the midrashic study of the Bible as a method of answering current problems.

Join us as we study preassigned readings from classic Western Civilization texts in small - group seminars limited to 15 participants per group, with discussion facilitated by faculty members from Northeast Catholic College.

In the first place, the route from exegesis to preaching is made unnecessarily difficult in traditional practice by a radical reversal of the mental processes in the transition from the study of the text to the structuring of the sermon itself.

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

Because it is education that must proceed indirectly by way of the examination of texts and practices whose study is believed to lead to understanding God and all else in relation to God, and because those texts and practices employ ordinary languages belonging to widely shared cultures and do themselves have cultural locations, such education is inescapably a public undertaking, understandable to anyone who understands the relevant languages and cultures.

The question of how many men wrote the Book of Isaiah can not be answered by quoting doctrines about the Bible but only by detailed study of the text.

The study of these texts, written as they were by pagan, pre-Christian authors, led to such a new appreciation of the creative capabilities of humankind in its unredeemed state that it has been called a revolution of consciousness.

While Ricoeur believes that I situate myself in being by appropriating its «signs» in texts such as those also studied by counter-disciplines, Heidegger takes a short cut.

[9] When this is so, then, it is in search, not so much of answers, but rather of a better understanding and appreciation of «the truth that scientific study of the ancient tradition of the Church is indispensable to success in comprehending the roots of differences and in discerning the centre of Christian theology,» [10] that we ought to approach the texts produced by the early church.

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.

«67 This essay is centrally important because it ties the theme of freedom, so basic to Ricoeur's early studies of the will, directly to the imagery of hope contained in and inspired by the Resurrection texts.

They're guided by senior rabbinical scholars, but the scholars themselves become, as they walk around the study hall, part of the learning dialogue and expand their own understanding of the sacred text.

For it can be shown, by a close comparison of the two sets of texts, that the basic metaphysical ideas to be conveyed by that study were already very much in Whitehead's mind when he was writing on the philosophy of nature?

By refining its focus on «performance» as both cultural and aesthetic phenomena, the discipline formerly named «oral interpretation» has employed dramatistic and theatrical metaphors to broaden definitions of «texts,» «speakers,» «audiences,» and «events» (or sites) in the study of performance activity.

Of course, they can talk about what is said about God by those people or texts they study.

Again, coming from a religious studies department at a secular university; if the Bible is not inspired by God, I can't trust it more than any other religious text (even if it has truth in it).

Study the Bible against its cultural and linguistic background by making connections between the Bible and ancient texts.

The text book in question is the official one for the Religious Studies GCSE set by EdExcel, the country's largest examination board.

Aristotle also supplied the essential basis for the logical studies; the first text book on logic had been written by Luther's own lecturer Trutvetter, who was also Rector of the University.

If you use a Study Bible as your main Bible, it is too easy, when wrestling with a troublesome text, to simply look down at the notes on the bottom of the page, and in so doing, miss out on the absolute thrill of the «self - discovery» that comes by sweating through the text and praying for understanding.

Unembarrassed by any official fixing of the text by their churches, Protestant scholarship is free to take every advantage of new discoveries in the field of textual study, and to issue new translations whenever they seem to be called for.

A 2015 study published in the journal Muscle & Nerve found that by the time kids enter college, those who've used smartphones for years have already experienced impaired hand function, thumb pain and other repetitive strains from all of that texting, swiping and scrolling.

The study involved 10,000 civilian volunteers in Stockholm County who were alerted by mobile phone text message to the cardiac arrest in order to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation if they were within a range of 500 metres.

When they analyzed the results of the experiment, the LMU researchers discovered that their study population found articles actually or putatively written by humans to be more readable than computer - generated texts.

Each participant in the study was then given a sports text and a business text to read, together with a note stating whether they had been written by a journalist or a computer program.

An experimental study carried out by Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich media researchers has found that readers rate texts generated by algorithms more credible than texts written by real journalists.

The study by The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also found that while almost all teens — 91 percent — use the regular text messaging tool on their mobile phones, 40 percent of teens also use messaging applications like Kik, WhatsApp, or Line on a smartphone.

Participants were provided with texts, which they were led to believe was written by their study partners.

«It appears that text messages acted as an implicit reminder for patients to take their medicine and by the end of the study, the kids were more in tune with their illness,» said study leader Rosa Arriaga, senior research scientist in the College of Computing's School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.

In a study by the Georgia Institute of Technology, pediatric patients who were asked questions about their symptoms and provided information about asthma via SMS text messages showed improved pulmonary function and a better understanding of their condition within four months, compared to other groups.