Sentences with phrase «field of history»

In his own field of the history of the Holocaust he demonstrates all the qualities we expect from a reputed academic, supporting his theses with references to the best authorities.

It is for this reason that the simple affirmation about our Lord as Messiah and Son of God was expanded to include the assertions of His birth, His death, His resurrection — sheer historical data to show that man's Salvation had been won m terms of our common humanity and on the open field of history.

The justification of that interpretation is that it makes sense of the traditions about him, that it is true to the living experience of his presence and power, that it illuminates the whole field of history, and that it throws light on all nature and life.

Hey Tonyb, I surely don't know what «common» people understand — but people who go by the dictionary definition would say that a historian is a historian whether they are a historian of science, a sports historian, a military historian, or expert in any other field of history.

Whenever we talk about the relationship of God with the scene of human history, we move out of the field of history, as it is commonly understood, and enter the medium of myth.

It opens on exactly the right note, rarely sounded today, even from many pulpits: Christian moral teachings have always been controversial, in every field of history where Christianity ever took root — from ancient Rome to the French Revolution to the Soviet Union and other Communist bloc nations, on through to campuses, progressive Twitter feeds, and other circuits of secular righteousness today.

In fact, at the heart of the historical - critical method lies the effort to establish in the field of history a level of methodological precision which would yield conclusions of the same certainty as in the field of the natural sciences.

Ibn - Khaldun had not only been well established as the father of the field of sociology, but he had also been well recognized in the field of history, as the following passage from Arnold Toynbee indicates:

I see it in my field of history with its incessant resorting to economic bean counting as the key to understanding people and events.

But neither can the language of faith lead to conclusions which properly belong to the fields of history or philosophy.

Mircea Eliade, Wach's successor as chairman of the field of the history of religions in the theological faculty of the University of Chicago, continues in his own unique way the concern that the discipline develop and exhibit a method adequate to its own content, problems, and materials.

However, Thoreau had left the seclusion of Walden Pond in order to pace the fields of history, sorting out the artifacts that people had dropped along the way.

At a time when many scholars, especially in the field of history, are overly provincial, Judt sees it as the «responsibility of the intellectual» to do more than excel in his or her (narrowly) defined field, a notion lost on contemporary scholars (cf. Judt's The Burden of Responsibility).

Drawing from his new book Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus (Prometheus, 2012), Dr. Carrier will explain what Bayes» Theorem is (in terms anyone can understand), how it underlies all valid historical methods even when we don't realize it, and why knowing this can improve historical reasoning and argument in all fields of history.

Needing advice, I recently sought out Jim Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association and a giant in the fields of history and history education.

A preponderance of research in the field of history education has demonstrated that effective teaching of the subject relies on active student learning of the reading, writing and analytical skills involved in historical inquiry.

I want to think that all the peasants in the fields of history dreamed in flight, that all the slaves and all indentured souls whose dust still gathers on this Earth had wings at night, and aspirations swift enough for uplift.

Her non-fiction Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War won the Duff Cooper Prize for outstanding literary work in the field of history, biography or politics; the Hessell - Tiltman Prize for History; the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in the United Kingdom and the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award in Canada.

His writing, he believed, would turn the field of history on its head.

Beil publishes general trade books in the fields of history, biography, and fiction.

It is most usually found in the fields of history and philosophy though has on frequent occasion appeared outside these areas.

Our current strength is in the fields of history, anthropology, politics and current affairs, Indo - Persian studies, media and culture studies, literature, administration, governance and management.

Additionally, he decided to make a serious attempt at life as an artist, and enrolled the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Nice, just to move on to the field of history at the École du Louvre, completing his studies in the archaeology and oriental art in 1949.

Dr. Birch has published widely in the fields of the history of planning and contemporary planning and housing.