Sentences with phrase «historical scholarship»

How much of the traditional story survives the acid of historical scholarship?

Featuring scholarly essays and stunning photography, the book extends the art historical scholarship on one of the leading women artists of our generation.

I am all for historical scholarship, even if I disagree with some of the conclusions.

Both eyes are kept in focus by the use of the glasses provided by tradition, by historical scholarship, and by theological inquiry.

Thanks to Facing History, I have had on - going exposure to new historical scholarship and cutting edge developments in teaching and learning.

It is an expression of ideology, not historical scholarship.

The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology.

A remarkable development in the nineteenth century was in the field of historical scholarship.

It's worth noting that today is also the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth especially since the two have enjoyed, or suffered, very different fates at the hands of modern historical scholarship and the popular consciousness it helps fashion.

If Jesus was God - incarnate, then the effort to understand him as a historical figure — that is, in terms of standard historical scholarship — was misplaced.

The aims of the Jesus Seminar are generally consonant with the work of historical scholarship since the Enlightenment: the participants seek to reconstruct the history of earliest Christianity.

A balanced account of what can be known about St. Peter based on recent historical scholarship without reference to religious and theological questions.

Other notable exhibitions that range from historical scholarship to pushing the conceived boundaries of what defines a museum exhibition are Technicolor: New Works by Jaime Hayon (2017); Dream Cars: Innovative Design, Visionary Ideas (2014), which is the tenth most - attended show at the High Museum; Earl Pardon's Portable Art: Jewelry & Design (2015); and Bangles to Benches: Contemporary Jewelry and Design (2013).

Whereas Luther and Calvin participated in the best historical scholarship of their day, some of their followers put the emphasis on doctrines of divine inspiration that turned the scriptures into supernatural writings.

Furthermore, excellent historical scholarship since the 1970s by researchers such as Ronald Numbers and David Lindberg has shown that the «inevitable warfare of religion and science» is not only a poor framing of the actual historical reality but is in fact an ideology pushed by anti - Christian activists starting in the late nineteenth century.

But it has gained steam in recent years, fueled by growing historical scholarship about the details of slavery, an increased worldwide readiness to call societies to account for their pasts, and an eloquent and passionate debate within the African - American community.

For example, when Berger points out that the puzzles of historical scholarship often lead Biblical theologians to crises of faith he expresses it this way: «I have sometimes asked myself how a gynecologist could manage to have sexual intercourse; by the same token, one could ask how a New Testament scholar could be a Christian.»

It is significant that from the second century to the nineteenth, when modern historical scholarship became current, theories about the Bible were held which no competent historian now accepts, such as that Moses wrote the entire Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) including the description of his own death.

The book is an all too rare instance of employing historical scholarship and critical methodology in a way that enhances, rather than deflates, the rich symbolic connections cultivated and sustained by living tradition.

By the time Duke Divinity School was established, the major battles of fundamentalism had been fought, and modern critical historical scholarship had won an untrammeled right in the university.

This raises questions about Ravitch's earlier historical scholarship.

The authors, who include Muslim academics, also say that the plans ignore modern historical scholarship which stresses the interconnectedness of civilisations and nations.

1 We discussed the necessity of being open to changing developments in art historical scholarship and reexaminations of pioneering achievements by women artists — in which case it seemed unthinkable and even irresponsible not to include Frankenthaler.

When we bring standard historical scholarship to bear in the interpretation of the Bible, this means that a priori we exclude the activity of God as an explanation of any historical occurrence reported there.

With penetrating insight into new historical scholarship and with wondrous narrative skill, Naslund offers an intimate, fresh, and dramatic re-creation of this compelling woman that goes beyond popular myth.

All three forms of alleged certainty have been considerably weakened by the modern human sciences — the certainty of the institution by historical scholarship and the social sciences, the certainty of the text by the findings of biblical criticism, and the certainty of inner experience by psychology and the sociology of knowledge.

Thus, because we can not know the historical Jesus, faith must be independent of the results of historical scholarship.

Tending to rely on an older scholarship reflecting the polarities of the fundamentalist / modernist controversy, he shows little awareness of the blurring of these lines (in both biblical and historical scholarship) since that struggle.

I will pick up from my discussion of how liberalism has been radically open to the sciences and to historical scholarship.

It seems to me that we have enough integrity in our historical scholarship, even if we rely on the secular canons of historicity, to be clear that much of what the Bible records is history or is based on reminiscence of actual events.

For instance, historical scholarship has shown that the portrayal of the Jewish people and their leaders in much of the Gospel material is highly tendentious.

This is a skilled and disciplined task and applies the methods of textual and historical scholarship to the Bible.

It is an authoritative and remarkable compendium, often framed in the words of the participants and informed by a voluminous array of historical scholarship.

This book is balanced and fair, filled with wisdom, and informed by a voluminous array of historical scholarship.

Historical scholarship, if it erects itself into a purely positive discipline independent of philosophy and faith, can only widen the gap.

In a theological sense, the very fact that it is «scientific» means that historical scholarship is Faustian, for to «know» scientifically means to dissolve the ground of faith, and thus to will the death of God.

This strategy has not been adopted universally by Catholic universities, and some departments (under whatever name) are excellent as centers of both theological reflection and historical scholarship.

They could not compete with the German apologetic tradition in depth of thought or rigor of historical scholarship.

This interpretation owes much to the modern achievement of the historical interpretation of the Bible which is one of the outstanding results of historical scholarship.

But of course the work of historical scholarship may bring me face to face with what will awaken faith in me.

The techniques of historical scholarship can not establish that God lived in man, but only that certain things were done and certain words were said.