Sentences with phrase «field of the history of»

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.

In the American setting, it is our fond hope that there will develop several centers of learning in the field of the history of religions.

Unfortunately, from the standpoint of academic specialization the current teaching and research in the field of the history of religions appear to be ambiguous.

Unfortunately, the field of the history of religions is plagued by many such dangerous oversimplifications.

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.

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

Not exact matches

Elsewhere, digital photography is used to capture and analyze data in thousands of other fields as well, from nature photographers documenting never - before - seen flora and fauna to revolutionaries snapping and sending photos that will spark change, proving that digital photography truly is one of the most important advancements in the history of technology.

Currently, the Navy fields the Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System variant of the Mark 48 - the 7th major upgrade the torpedo has undergone over its service history.

The company we know today as Airbus can trace its history back to an agreement signed in July 1967 by the French, German, and British governments to strengthen their cooperation in the field of aviation technology.

The US Navy's submarine service is easily the most powerful ever fielded in the history of submarine warfare.

The Red Sox left fielder is one of the greatest players in baseball history, a 19 - time All Star and the last player to finish a season with a.400 batting average or higher.

Montgomery Ward in the mail - order field is non-Jewish while Sears, Roebuck has a Jewish history (Julius Rosenwald) but active management of Sears, Roebuck now is in the hands of General Robert Wood.

The result must rank among the most readable efforts at a history of the field.

Women are most likely to move away from education (by more than 1 percent share of women's enrollment if counting all education fields together), literature and language, sociology, psychology, and liberal arts and history.

This book breaks new ground in the fields of health care history, organizational studies, and American political economy.

If boiling down human behavior to binary histories sounds like the stuff that only those in the field of research or complex financial transactions can take advantage of, consider e-commerce.

Whether he's speaking to individual investors, professionals in the financial advisory field or even college students, Josh brings a wealth of interesting information about Wall Street history, current industry trends and investment methodology to his audience.

The first question was fielded to Carstens, who was asked to describe the innovative history of central banks and how that history affects the way they approach digital currency.

«There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.

The rich history of Franklin Templeton is also inspiring: through its history, Franklin Templeton has been a pioneer in multiple fields, be it international investing in the past or alternative investments today.

I don't know Boghossian's academic history, but I would be stunned if it included a degree of any sort in psychology, or even substantial reading in the field.

Thus while the herd of independent minds was having a field day condemning Benedict XVI for his 2006 Regensburg Lecture, Fouad understood that the Bavarian pope had correctly identified the two critical challenges that contemporary history posed to 21st - century Islam: the challenges of finding, within authoritative Islamic sources, Islamic warrants underwriting religious tolerance and distinguishing religious and political authority in public life.

In history, the field of «null» abstraction is the multiplicity of subjective interactions with indefinite spatial and temporal dimensions (i.e., the «experience of becoming»).

After 10 years of trying and failing to qualify for the Summer Olympics in track and field, Adeagbo was inspired by watching the Nigerian bobsled team to try a winter sport instead, intrigued by the possibility of «making history.»

In other fields of historical investigation (and notably in pre-history) it now appears that the earlier evolutionary reconstructions were over-simplified»; and so is the «liberal», evolutionary reconstruction of the biblical history.

The Bible has been proven in all fields of investigation such as; science, history, and archeology.

What we do know: (from the fields of astrophysics, nuclear physics, geology and the history of religion)

My field is history of Christianity.»

Neurobiology... anthropology... psychology... sociology... history... semiotics... nearly every field challenges the conventional packages of concepts that are associated with the word God, whoever is speaking it.

I wish everyone would read Singled Out: Why Celibacy Must Be Reinvented in Today's Church (Christine A. Colon & Bonnie E. Field) regardless of marital status and sexual history.

This is in a way the experience of the shepherds of the field, who are terrified at the realization that God is real, and his actions will not only change the course of history (as an abstraction), but their history.

«In the entire history of the modern Olympic games,» Glickman later said, «no fit American track and field performer has ever not competed in the Olympic games, except for Sam Stoller and me» the only two Jews on the 1936 team.»

Administrators worry that doctoral students increasingly will be trained in the history of religion or comparative religions rather than in Bible, theology, ethics, church history and practical studies — the traditional fields of theological education.

[35] He listed five fields of study with which missiology has to be related, namely Biblical Studies, Church history, Systematic Theology, Social Sciences, and World Religions.

According to Eliade, the historian of religion will include the entire religious history of humanity, from Paleolithic to modern period, in his / her field of investigation without any pre-judgement.

When the plane lands on the field of the analysis of the social system, we may find that both the Marxist analysis of history and Whitehead's metaphysics require modification in light of each other.

Mircea Eliade was born in Bucharest in 1907 and began teaching in the field the history of religions in 1946 at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Many — if not most — studies — such as literature, philosophy, history, religion, geography, and anthropology (to name only some of them)-- by their very nature draw upon a variety of other fields of study and thus are particularly suited to general education, provided they are not ruined for that purpose by professional zeal to make them into precise, technical, exclusive disciplines — as occurs even in such a naturally general field as literature, when its promoters restrict it to technical textual analysis.

To be sure, religion is also a field of intellectual inquiry and practical skill, and it is possible and desirable to give instruction in religious history, philosophy, beliefs, and institutions as well as to arrange for practical experience in religious affairs.

He clarifies his rather vague definition of the field by contrasting biblical theology with five other modes of study: doctrinal theology, nontheological biblical studies, history of religion, philosophical and natural theology, and «the interpretation of parts of the Bible as distinct from the longer complexes taken as wholes.»

Granted that religious forms and institutions, like other fields of human and cultural activity, are conditioned by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion of a social group and to the dynamics of its development and history?

One discussion of his ideas lists thirty - six reviews of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in journals whose fields range from philosophy and science to psychology and sociology.16 Many scientists feel at home in the volume because it gives frequent concrete examples from the history of science and seems to describe science as they know it.

The whole world is the field of divine operation; so is human experience and human history.

This historic topic, at any rate, is not overstudied; in 1963, Max Jammer noted that his history of concepts of space was the first he knew of, and the field has seen few others since then.

One can not understand the current conflicts apart from the history of the field's comparatively recent emergence as an academic subject.

It is, after all, a significant fact that some of the major contributions to the study of the history of religions has been made and still is being made by scholars who can not be called «specialists» in our field.

What we do know: (from the fields of astrophysics, biology, biochemistry, archeology, nuclear physics, geology and the history of religion)

The history of studies in our fields has been competently traced by E. Lehmann, E. Hardy, Jordan, H. Pinard de la Boullaye and G. Mensching, but these efforts cover only the first three periods since Max Mueller established.

There is no intention to provide a history of political theology or to introduce the reader to the whole field of recent developments within that movement.

No doubt the field of universal history will be very different in quality from place to place with some parts in contradiction, but it will form a unity in which all will historically interact.