Sentences with phrase «great use to scholars»

It will no doubt be of great use to scholars, but it holds little interest for me.

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Among the criteria that scholars use, one of the most problematic is, paradoxically, also one of the best» the principle of embarrassment, which claims that those traditions about Jesus that would have been most embarrassing to the early Church have the greatest possibility of being true.

But many scholars believe that all mention of Jesus was interpolated centuries later, probably by Eusebius, a Church Father who once proudly argued that it was legitimate to use «fictions» — that is, lies — as a medicine to achieve a greater good.

Many centuries previous a great scholar, Anselm of Canterbury, had used the identical text as a basis for an elaborate and very intelligent discourse to prove the existence of God.

In the past decade, SFL, widely used as a theoretical foundation for language and literacy education in international settings, has gradually made its way into the American educational field, partially due to the great effort made by American scholars in the field of ESL education.