Sentences with phrase «how historical study»

The rest of this chapter will show briefly how historical study of the Bible proceeds and the kinds of questions it leads the Bible and its readers to ask one another.

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The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

For example, a study on Celtic Christianity includes historical background but also suggests a broad lesson:» «I don't understand you» can become «How can I learn from you?»

After Our Likeness becomes more enigmatic when one recalls how carefully Volf has considered the historical studies of scholars such as Yves Congar, the theological insights of Reinhold Niebuhr and the ecclesial analyses of feminist and liberation thinkers.

You will have to read the studies of contemporary historians and NT scholars to see how they decide the authenticity of historical events and passages.

One important tool that many good scholars use to help them understand how the words were used and understood by the original author and to the original audience is historical - cultural background studies.

However, as with everything else, there is a lot of wiggle room when it comes to how much historical and cultural background studies help us understand the text.

A historical study of Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone should be dedicated to showing just how far the philosopher can go in the representation of the origin of regeneration.

More significantly, these studies tended to focus on «how - to» concerns, or the application of what was taught in the «theoretical» fields of biblical, historical and theological - ethical studies (each also separate from the others and supported by its own professional associations, journals, degree programs and faculties).

This same rationalistic approach to the gospel was applied to the believer's knowledge of Jesus: «If the person of Jesus Christ stands at the centre of the gospel, how can the basis for a reliable and communal knowledge of this person be gained other than through critical historical study, if one is not to trade a dreamed - up Christ for the real one?

The illustration suggests that he should study the theological resources of Scripture, history, and doctrine; and study also, with equal seriousness, what he knows of the related meanings from his own authority of both traditional and contemporary experience; and how to recognize the authenticity of the dialogue, both historical and contemporary, be - tween God and man and the dependence of each on the other.

The method is historical and phenomenological: You can study and teach what all these people used to think (history) or how they now behave (the phenomenological account of ritual, ethical systems, kinship relations, etc.).

You will have to read the studies of contemporary historians and NT scholars to see how they decide the authenticity of historical events and passagess.

You'll find that if you study many of the practices we Catholics are criticized for by non-Catholic Christians, most of those things are spelled out right there in Scripture or derived from the earliest recorded Christian traditions... be careful though, because an honest, accurate, historical study of Catholicism by non-Catholic Christians often leads to conversion that's how I ended up Catholic.

I understand that the first part of the correlation (how divisive or aggressive the campaign is) is difficult to assess, so I would prefer references to studies that explain their methodology than just raw historical examples.

The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presents a historical view of how climate change and the resulting habitat loss can affect Earth's biodiversity.

In addition to simply helping linguists understand how people spoke in the past, studying ancient languages can perhaps answer historical questions.

In the GRL study, researchers used a statistical model based on historical climate data to separate how much of the extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey was due to natural influences and how much was due to human influences.

We have already started a project aiming to study how lake ecosystems are affected by historical climate changes.

Still, Jiang and Tan believe their study offers insights into how different species interact in new environments based on historical advantages.

Different kinds of historical events clearly have different effects on large - scale genetic relationships, and studies like the one by Ralph and Coop show us just how quickly a genetic landscape can be remodeled.

At any rate, it's important to note that this study wasn't truly controlled (they compared to some historical patient values), and was confounded by a low - fat dietary change, so we can't know how much was the diet change, the flax, or any other potential factors since it didn't have a true control group.

For the past year, a group of researchers with the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), has reviewed historical scientific literature funded by the Sugar Research Foundation since the 1960s, which gives us a great perspective on how the war on saturated fats became public policy.

A social studies teacher may participate in a moderated #sschat on historical thinking, use the #FergusonSyllabus hashtag to research how to talk with students about systemic race issues, exchange ideas with digital colleagues, challenge local or federal policy by contacting legislators or informing the public, or organize a face - to - face Edcamp unconference in the community (see Swanson, et al., 2014, and Carpenter, 2015b, for more).

Students then explore a historical case study, such as the Holocaust, and analyze how those patterns of human behavior may have influenced the choices individuals made in the past — to participate, stand by, or stand up — in the face of injustice and, eventually, mass murder.

Learn how to rephrase the performance objectives of college and career ready standards in history and social studies into into good questions that will challenge students to read, research, reflect upon, and respond to historical and social ideas, incidents, individuals, information, and issues.

Part of my rationale had to do with previous studies that examined how Historical Surviving Withdrawal Rates were related to (initial) dividend yields.

There are all kinds of charting tools to measure historical volatility, and it's good to study them to get a «feel» for how a market's prices will have regular peaks and valleys, especially more seasonal - based commodities like the grains (corn, wheat, soybeans, etc.) and for the most part the softs (coffee, sugar, cocoa, etc.).

Rob Bennett believes that by studying the historical return data we can advance our understanding of how stock investing really works.

We invite you to explore our many programs and resources for historical study, read our newsletters, get the stamp of the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, learn how you can volunteer or support the Museum, view historic Cannon Beach photos, or shop history in the online gift shop.

Historical Studies of Digital Entertainment Media How They Got Game Ah, neat game academia folks (Lowood, Bittanti) booting up this new academic journal for next year: «The theme for this first issue will be «Digital Games: Historical and Preservation Studies.»»

In a recent review of her work, Dan Fox comments: «Chetrit's photographic still life studies intersect with historical allusion and commentary on how photography's stylistic codes get absorbed into a mainstream of visual representation.»

The study, published in the journal Nature, refines previous estimates of how sensitive the climate is to carbon dioxide by considering the historical variability in global temperature.

Study of historical records to determine how sea levels could be affected by global warming and other climate change factors was detailed in the journal Science.

My definition of bold would begin with bringing in a historical perspective to understand how the study of law moved from trade and apprenticeship base to an academic base.

Stemming from his work over twenty years as Associate Editor of the Ontario Historical Studies Series, Peter knew just how important it was to have a publishing programme into which scholars could collaborate to build a library of integrated scholarshipAnd one that wasn't quite as dry as the Selden Society.

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