Sentences with phrase «even as an historian»

Mark takes for granted the apostolic faith; for he writes as a Christian, a believer, not as an outsider or critic — not even as an historian or biographer.

(B.H. Branscomb, Commentary, p. xxii) He also takes for granted the apostolic faith; for he writes as a Christian, a believer, not as an outsider or critic — and not even as an historian or biographer.

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As it turns out, the one - time haberdasher from Missouri was even more blunt in his private correspondence — a fact that Truman historian Monte Poen uncovers in his illuminating collection of the former president's letters.

No contemporary historian of Jesus ever wrote a single word about him, even as he was supposedly walking across the country side performing miracles.

Some historians, such as Jonathan Phillips or Thomas Asbridge, have even written books for a general audience, seeking to bridge the gap between what historians know and what most people think about Christianity's holy wars.

To argue that historians might judge such and such to be a miracle because they believe antecedently in the religion that regards such miracles as signs of the intervention of its deity is to open the floodgates for all religious claims to miracles and, indeed, even to nonreligious «miracles» such as the widespread reports that people have seen Elvis Presley.

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.

When historians use the term in a narrow sense, «Christian humanism» refers exclusively to the Renaissance — often presented as a departure from Christianity, or even anti-Christian.

Interestingly, even secular non-believing historians have debunked the «never existed» myth... Jesus is still under attack today as He was two thousand years ago... Efforts to rid human history of His existence, and reason for coming here have failed, and continue to fail.

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.»

Claiming authority primarily as a «historian,» Lindsell adduces a string of quotations to support his position and then devotes the larger and more controversial part of his book to detailing the supposedly modern declension from this stance in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, among the Southern Baptists, at Fuller Theological Seminary, in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and even among the members of the ETS (the Evangelical Theological Society, whose members are required to subscribe annually to a single statement — that «the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written, and therefore inerrant in the autographs»).

But a constructive interest in the past («rational reconstruction,» as Richard Rorty calls it) adds something to the sober exercise of setting the record straight and may even, on occasion, alert the historian to patterns and pieces in the record that she had overlooked.

The Catholic historian, William Thomas Walsh, even placed Moses as the «first real inquisitor, as a Torquemada would have understood the word» and referred to the Prophet's first descent from Mount Sinai and the slaughter of 3,000 men who had indulged in idolatry around the Golden Calf.

Being attentive to detail, as behooves careful historians, we notice that the testimony is confusing and even inconsistent: the post-resurrection Jesus appears and vanishes like a spirit (Luke 24:31, 36 - 7; John 20:26), yet he can eat solid food (Luke 24:43); he can be touched (Matthew 28:9), and he can not be touched (John 20:17); it was indeed Jesus, but they do not recognize him at first (Luke 24:15 f; John 20:14, 21:4).

As a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economistAs a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economistas values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economists.

To draw this conclusion would be a kerygmatic theological Docetism, or even a denial of faith in God as Creator, under whose worldly rule even the historian does his service as a scholar.

But the memory with which the historian is concerned, in so far as it reproduces facts of the past in their purely worldly actuality, is of wholly different order, and memory in that sense can imperil and even destroy «historic» existence, as Nietzsche showed in Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben.

During the Ming dynasty Muslims continued in positions of power, some historians even going so far as to say that the Ming was a dynasty of Muslims.

This basic methodological insight was implemented by the results of detailed analysis: William Wrede demonstrated that Mark is not writing with the objectivity or even the interests of a modern historian, but rather as a theologian of the «Messianic secret».

Couldn't one just as logically argue that the Vatican's refusal to permit even discussion of changes in church order — despite a quasi-consensus among Catholic biblical scholars, historians and theologians for perhaps 15 years — is the more basic complicating factor?

Even historians who share the same faith disagree about many details, such as the time and place at which Jesus was born, the duration of his public ministry, his messianic or divine claims, his intent to establish a Church, the dates of his Last Supper and of the crucifixion.

• Even if one agrees with Mark Noll, who is perhaps the most distinguished Evangelical historian we have, Dale at least offers a helpful insight into the history and thought of a movement most other Christians in America tend to dismiss as rubes, fundamentalists, reactionaries, crazies (snake handling?

But he remains an «old friend» to political philosophers as well as to historians, and if a study is to make sense of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, the work that Tocqueville undertook must be understood in all its depth and breadth» beyond what the historian, or even the psychologist, may say.

Even non-religious, secular sources such as Roman writers and historians acknowledged that not only did Jesus exist, but that He did do miracles (which they tried to explain away as sorcery).

A third group, becoming ever more visible, thanks to historians like Timothy Smith and Donald Dayton, reminds us that much of the social, experiential and even theological background of today's evangelicalism never was Reformed scholastic, as in the Princeton school, but derives from Arminian, Wesleyan, holiness and Keswickian sources.

Karl Barth understood this well when he wrote: «Strange as it may seem, it is still true, that those who fail to understand other churches than their own are not the people who care intensely about theology, but the theological dilettantes, eclectics, and historians of all sorts; while those very men who have found themselves forced to confront a clear, thoroughgoing, logical sic et non find themselves allied to each other in spite of all contradictions, by an underlying fellowship and understanding, even in the cause which they handle so differently and approach from such painfully different angles.

That Jesus died nobly or showed confidence in God are historical statements, subject to the vicissitudes of historical research, but that his death fulfilled the purpose of God in regard to «my sins» is certainly not such a statement, and it lies beyond the power of the historian even to consider it, even though, as a Christian, he might believe it.

In fact, she served as her school's NHS historian, but had her sights set even higher: on the NHS historian position for the entire county.

Going back to the era of the Tatler and Spectator, of David Steele and Joseph Addison, pioneers of British journalism (18th century), which by the way shaped journalism as we know it today, he insisted that journalism — news, features and even the column — constituted invaluable sources to the historian, as (s) he thrives to capture the true spirit of the epoch.

Mostow: Yeah, I mean, I believe that 1,000 years from now, historians will look back at the time we are living in right now, and in distance like this, this decade or maybe even these couple of years as a turning point in the history of mankind; not [unlike the way] we look back on primitive man, when they discovered fire and how that world is changing society.

As our challenges become more complex, even strictly scientific problems require a broader perspective, akin to that embraced by historians, philosophers, and other humanist scholars.

Top - ranked programs attract more funding as well as high - quality faculty and students, while «low rankings can shrink or even kill off a program,» notes Vanderbilt University historian Hugh Graham, author of a well - regarded 1997 book on the history of U.S. research universities.

As a historian, Coubertin knew that an even greater precedent lay in the distant past; in the quadrennial Games held in ancient Olympia.

«I find Diana's arguments convincing and even energizing, as they open up a new avenue for research,» says Megan Cifarelli, an art historian at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York.

Scientists from many disciplines, such as biologists, chemists, physicists, medical physicists, materials scientists, and even art historians, use our research reactor BER II to find answers to their questions.

As James Hargrove said, «We all teach this unit, and nobody knows where it came from, not even the historians of nutrition.»

She might be a childhood friend or a high school friend, or if you're in your 30s, even a college friend counts as historian.

It's hard to think of a major filmmaker who came so close to being ruined by technology, just as it's hard to believe that anyone except film historians will be watching Beowulf, The Polar Express or A Christmas Carol even a decade hence.

That's the only way reviews have ever worked for a mainstream audience, be it as part of the captive audience for weekly reviews as part of a newscast, as a column in a popular magazine or newspaper, on its own as in shows like Siskel & Ebert At The Movies, or even in print — Leonard Maltin, another beloved film critic and film historian, established his name writing a book of capsule reviews.

The idea that the fate of this little racehorse that could (and ultimately, even the idea that the horse is an underdog is a bit of a cheat, since Seabiscuit's lineage was sterling — less «underdog» than «underachiever») galvanized a nation reeling under the Great Depression is the only idea that remains in the film, seized by Ross as an opportunity to insert archive stills of the period — complete with voice - over from historian David McCullough — to lend his horse opera the sort of gravitas he's not able to provide through narrative.

It hasn't been clear sailing all the way, mind: popular historian Stephen Marche recently took to the NEW YORK TIMES to debunk such «prophets of truthiness» — Emmerich and Orloff are but a new, high - profile strain of Oxfordians, a group who name nobleman Edward de Vere as the true author of Shakespeare's texts, even the ones dated after his death — for advancing a lunatic conspiracy theory based on little more than class snobbery.

So undefined and eccentricity - free are these men and women that their pre-film status as art historian and university lecturers is implausible, even unthinkable: When Blanchett's curator offers Damon the mother lode of archival keys, a little journal with index numbers matched to stolen artifacts, he seems surprised by the very idea of librarianship.

It would've even been better as a Waking Life, where the talking heads were film historians and critics who could go on at length while animated versions of the paintings unspooled behind and around them.

These resources promise to spark children's creativity and nurture a love of writing, as pupils are inspired to become journalists, statisticians, historians, explorers and even musicians in their quest to write their very own World Cup Football School lesson.»

Befitting his daytime job as a labor historian at Cornell University, Salvatore even manages to provide a strong look at how unions such as the United Auto Workers often discriminated, both internally and in municipal politics, against the black workers whose interests they purported to represent.

In a relatively short time, a stunning number of accountability - based leaders have been forced from office on a tide of voter resentment even while, as documented by historian Diane Ravitch, the likes of Gates, Broad, and hedge fund billionaires continue their corporate - style push toward school closures, choice, data - driven student and teacher evaluation, and high - tech innovation.

The Mind Trust was honored to welcome historian David McCullough as the evening's keynote speaker.

Kadish's novel weaves a web of connections between Ester Velasquez, a Portuguese Jewish female scribe and philosopher living in London in the 1660s, and Helen Watt, a present - day aging historian who's trying to preserve Ester's voice even as she revisits her own repressed romantic plot.

As a result, she's too often been dismissed by historians, who variously describe her as shy and reclusive, a saint, a homebody and even a victiAs a result, she's too often been dismissed by historians, who variously describe her as shy and reclusive, a saint, a homebody and even a victias shy and reclusive, a saint, a homebody and even a victim.

Making a Far Cry game set during the Stone Age has been a bold task for Ubisoft Montreal, and it was through the combined effort of the directors, animators, programmers, but also experts such as historians, anthropologists and linguistics, and even movement coaches, that allowed Ubisoft Montreal to give life to the Stone Age.