Sentences with phrase «founded by historian»

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So, new peer - reviewed research by German economic historian Eckhard Höffner may find some eager Canadian students.

«I do find it a puzzling quality of liberal Christians that they tend to get excited when something that had been a cherished belief or practice of the Church is shown to have been false,» says Rod Dreher, commenting on a new book by a Notre Dame historian who says that the early Church's stories of martyrdom were false.

Short after Christ's ascension the world was flooded with copies (still found today by historians) of the gospels and St. Paul's letters, where the miracles of Jesus are recorded.

Impelled by a need to find the roots of their form of Mormonism, leading historians of the Reorganization have embarked on an exercise in higher criticism, subjecting to close scrutiny Joseph Smith's story and Mormon scripture as well as the two official versions of church history.

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.»

It would be hard to find more divisive, jabbing rhetoric on marriage than in these publications by self - described «marriage nut» David Blankenhorn, the founder and director of the Institute for American Values, and the late historian Elizabeth Fox - Genovese, well known for her testy rebuff of feminism.

The interpretation of the meaning of concepts, acts, and behavior given by devout individuals or groups may or may not agree with the findings of the historian, psychologist, or sociologist.

Contrary to what has been said by western historians, there is evidence to show, though very scanty and fragmentary, that Christianity found its way into South East and East Asian countries even before the coming of western missionaries, through the efforts of Nestorian merchants and missionaries from Persia or India or China or from all the three places.

They claim that reports of rebel barbarism are overblown (Laurent Dubois has said this repeatedly), although historian Jeremy Popkin has found that many eyewitness accounts «are corroborated by other documents.»

Because the Philippian letter is the most direct, personal, and uncomplicated of Paul's letters I resolved to preach straight through it, informing and correcting exegesis from the Greek text by the findings and insights of historians, exegetes and theologians.

Erikson remains worth reading, but his post-Freudian account of Luther was long ago demolished by historians who found his reading of sources to be biased.

The historian's detection of the kerygma at the centre of the Gospels found a formal analogy in the contemporary view of historiography as concerned with underlying meaning, and this correlation led to the view that the kind of quest of the historical Jesus envisaged by the nineteenth century not only can not succeed, but is hardly appropriate to the intention of the Gospels and the goal of modern historiography.

Since the twentieth century worked out its initial attitude toward the «historical Jesus» in terms of the only available reconstruction, that of the nineteenth century with all its glaring limitations, it is not surprising to find as a second consequence a tendency to disassociate the expression «the historical Jesus» from «Jesus of Nazareth as he actually was», and to reserve the expression for: «What can be known of Jesus of Nazareth by means of the scientific methods of the historian».

In fact the father of western philisophical skepticism, the Greek known as Pyrrho, went to India in the 3rd century BC with Alexander the Great and It is believed by historians that he founded his school of skepticism based on brushes with Madyamaka Buddhists.

The book is a brilliant presentation of the cognitive dissonance that results from a faulty education, especially for a historian who continues to be hounded by the models of harmony he found at Chartres Cathedral and in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Heffner, himself a historian, finds JFK filled with «not - quite - provable speculations about the end of Camelot,» but he is intrigued by the angry response to the film on the part of print media and television journalists.

The historian of religions finds himself in an analogous situation when he deals with archaic symbols that have been modified by cultural influences and events, for example, the World Tree, which in Central Asia and in Siberia received a new value by assimilating the Mesopotamian idea of the seven planetary heavens.

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.

Reimarus was a historian, but his work was published by a philosophically minded man of letters, Lessing, who thereafter found himself under attack from the orthodoxy of his day, especially that of Hauptpastor Goetze of the city of Hamburg.

Except for this one quote, which does not mention the dish by name, historians of heat can find no documented evidence of chili in Texas before 1880.

And it is far from unique — more intellectual versions can be found in the templates suggested by Gove and historian Niall Ferguson for secondary school history courses focus on how «the West» triumphed over «the rest».

Historians have been hard - pressed to find a mayor who, along with his administration and inner circle, was ever the subject of as many simultaneous investigations — five, at last count, conducted by as many different agencies — de Blasio now faces.

The Bristol group, led by Caroline Williams, a historian of Latin American studies, published its findings last fall, and she and her colleagues continue to ponder the question.

«I'm not at all surprised by the new findings,» says East Asian art historian Robin D.S. Yates of McGill University in Montreal.

And perhaps, deep within that record, those historians will find an online memorial built by a grieving widower to a woman who died too young, at the dawn of the digital age.

Located in the center of Baghdad just off Haifa Street — now one of the most dangerous spots on the planet — the museum was founded in the 1920s by Gertrude Bell, an extraordinary British historian who helped draw Iraq's borders, choose its first king, and negotiate a peace among Mesopotamia's many clashing tribes.

The findings from the synchrotron experiment, CT scan and other scientific analyses and studies of history conducted by the students will help researchers and historians better understand the context in which the Garrett mummy was excavated in 1911 as well as Roman - period mummification practices.

By basing the Archive on primary materials, the user assumes the role of historian / researcher, finding materials according to his / her own preferences and drawing inferences based on their own synthesis.

Like kale, cauliflower, modern cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, and broccoli, collards are considered by many plant historians to be descendents of wild cabbage that was found in many parts of Europe over 2,000 years ago.

This release offers commentary by film historian Lem Dobbs with in - house historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman (who also founded the label), a trio that has done more than a few commentary tracks together, and their ease gives the track an easy - going quality as they dig into the film and offer historical and critical perspective.

The final extra is found inside the case: the disc is joined by an illustrated 8 - page booklet, boasting yet another rewarding and informative essay by Twilight Time historian Julie Kirgo.

«Negro History Week» was founded by Carter G. Woodson, a black historian and public school teacher, in February 1926, when little (if any) black history was acknowledged in schools.

NPE is a national group dedicated to fighting for local public education, and was founded just a few years ago by education luminaries like historian Diane Ravitch and teacher / writer Anthony Cody.

It was found in 1991 by legendary Corvette historian and restoration specialist Kevin Mackay, owner of Corvette Repair in Valley Stream, Long Island.

A historian in Denmark has found a previously unknown fairy tale by Andersen that is thought to be the first story he ever wrote.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring for $ 2.99.

Akumal was founded for scuba divers by Pablo Bush Romero, a Mexican businessman, diver, writer, historian, and archaeologist.

But one would like to find out more about similar precocious qualifiers for art academies who then went on to achieve nothing but mediocrity or failure — in whom, of course, art historians are uninterested — or to study in greater detail the role played by Picasso's art - professor father in the pictorial precocity of his son.

Founded in 2004 by renowned historian and curator, RoseLee Goldberg, Performa influenced the direction of museums and biennials by incorporating historical and newly commissioned live art within a network of public and private venues.

Performa Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa is the leading organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth - century art and encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty - first century.

Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa is dedicated to commissioning and presenting performance art, and exploring its critical role throughout art history.

B.A., Amherst College; creates An Image of Salomé for his senior thesis project, which is published by the artist and printed at Apiary Press, run by Baskin's students at Smith College; meets and becomes good friends with Baskin's assistant George Lockwood, who would later found Impressions Workshop in Boston; marries Gail Beckwith (later, the poet Gail Mazur), who was then a student at Smith College; begins graduate study at School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, New Haven; studies with Gabor Peterdi, Bernard Chaet, William Bailey, Rico Lebrun, Sewell Sillman, Neil Welliver, art historian Egbert Haverkamp - Begemann, and Asian - art historian Nelson Wu, as well as with visiting artists Fairfield Porter and John Scheuler; makes regular Thursday trips with other students to Peterdi's home / studio; works as a teaching assistant for both Peterdi and Bailey.

Founded by Dr. Carole Sirovich, Chair of Pratt's Math and Science Department; with Dr. Cindie Kehlet, Professor in the Math and Science Department; art historian Banner; and conservator Sarah Nunberg, the Licio Isolani Study Archive at Pratt Institute makes available the collection of sculptures, drawings, sketchbooks and other creations by Isolani for study and research at Pratt.

Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa is the leading international organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of 20th century art and to generating new directions for the 21st century, engaging artists and audiences through experimentation, innovation, and collaboration.

Founded in 1977 as a radical gesture by art historian and curator Marcia Tucker, the New Museum began as an alternative model of museum practice.

Exhibitions during the anniversary celebration include Opener 29: Arturo Herrera (through August 23, 2015), featuring new works from the Berlin - based artist's recent body of abstract paintings for which he manipulated small books found at flea markets; Machine Project — The Platinum Collection (Live by Special Request), (September 19, 2015 — January 3, 2016), which will feature a series of interventions, performances, and happenings created for the Tang by Skidmore alumnus Mark Allen in collaboration with his Los Angeles - based collective Machine Project; Affinity Atlas (September 5, 2015 — January 3, 2016), inspired by the work of pioneering cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg, charts an exploratory path built upon idiosyncratic treasures and contemporary art culled from the Tang's and Skidmore's collections; and Alma Thomas: A Retrospective (February 6 — June 5, 2016), which will explore the work of this influential but sometimes overlooked artist in the first museum survey of her work since 2001.

Perhaps among the artists in exhibition, we will find the «original perfume» or art beyond classification by today's art historians (Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit by Dalia Judovitz, 1995).

Founded in December 2004 by art historian and curator Dr. Ziba Ardalan, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is a not - for - profit art institution that operates purely for the public benefit.

The Rencontres d'Arles is a Summer photography festival founded in 1970 by Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, author Michel Tournier and historian Jean - Maurice...

In New York the loan issue affected the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's major Futurism exhibition, but the museum's Zero Group show, as well as the founding of the Center for Italian Modern Art by art historian and collector Laura Mattioli, ensured increased attention for modern Italian art.