Since the Bible is written in human words, the books it contains have many
human authors from many eras and cultures.
Not exact matches
The debut
from author Santi Balmes and illustrator Lyona tells the stories of two little girls — a
human named Martina and a monster named Anitram (get it?!)
Turkle is the
author of «Alone Together: Why We Expect More
from Technology and Less
from Each Other» and «Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,» among many other books on
human relationships to technology.
Evolution and the Fall is a collection of essays
from a multi-disciplinary and ecumenical group of
authors, which sets out to address «a set of problems that arise
from the encounter of traditional biblical views of
human origins with contemporary scientific theories» (p. xv)-- not, one might add, in general, to answer them.
The
author holds that the most unequivocal way in which Wesley was liberal was in his insistence on
human participation in the process of salvation A second respect in which Wesley was clearly liberal in his own time was his attitude toward those with views differing
from his own.
Murray observes in the last chapter that «
human beings acting in a private capacity if restrained
from the use of force have a remarkably good history» (
author's emphasis).
Finally, drawing mainly
from the thinking of contemporary Calvinist and Lutheran theologians, the
authors discuss the implications of recent scientific research on theological views about the
human being as a creature made in the image of God.
If there is any proposition upon which great minds have agreed throughout history,
from Plato to Einstein and Whitehead,
from Zoroaster, Ikhnaton, Moses, Isaiah, Jesus, Paul, the
authors of the Vedic hymns, Confucius, Lao Tse, to many recent Indian and Japanese writers, it is that
human life is not adequately interpretable in merely
human terms.
God Himself, of course, is always loving and just, but sometimes the
human authors of Scripture confused the true God as revealed in Jesus Christ with the actions of Satan in history, and referred to the actions of both as coming
from «Yahweh.»
He chaired the World Council Conference on Faith, Science, and the Future (at MIT in 1979) and is the
author of several books, including The
Human Presence: An Orthodox View of Nature, in which he addresses environmental problems
from an Orthodox perspective.
Though not directly stated anywhere, Peter Enns appears to be a proponent of the idea that the Bible is a library of books written by various
authors from various theological perspectives, who are in dialogue with each other over the nature of God and what the
human response to Him should be.
Gaudium et Spes, as the constitution is normally referred to, based many of its reflections upon the following insight: «The
human race is passing
from a rather static concept of the order of things to a more dynamic, evolutionary one» (n. 5) Its
authors, as well as Ronald Knox 20 years earlier and to some degree Rene Descartes 350 years earlier, recognised that such an understanding was invited by the method of the new sciences.
In Miscellany she wrote: «I should blush to write of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures as I have, were it of
human origin, and were I, apart
from God, its
author» (p. 115).
Homosexual activists like the playwright Larry Kramer and the writer Gabriel Rotello,
author of Sexual Ecology — an important weaving together of ecology theory, epidemiology, and sexual politics — have been ferociously attacked by their fellow gay activists for publicly acknowledging that AIDS results as much
from human behaviors as
from specific microbes.
This sounds good
from the perspective of modern Christianity David, but couldn't it also be the case that in the primitive polytheistic world of the
author, they felt that worshiping «their god», and «only their god» was of greater value than even
human life?
Whether they believe it was written by God / god or a
human author (let alone translated
from one language to another over many years and the interpretations of those words taught / passed down over many years with many different understandings which formed with even the best intentions by men and women who were products of their time and place?)
Interestingly, the two illustrations the
authors give of this — individualism and a dualistic view of
human nature — come
from the Enlightenment (cf 31 - 43).
But some may wonder whether it really is suitable for the Scriptures, whose
human authors were distant
from each other in time and space, and never gathered together in a television writers» room.
It concentrates on the four Gospels and again expresses the Incarnational Principle: the Gospels have a Divine
Author and
human authors; and they are formed
from, and can only be understood within, the community of faith.
Line muffin tins with prosciutto, then pour in this caveman - approved egg batter
from Michelle Tam,
author of Nom Nom Paleo, Food for
Humans, a New York Times bestselling cookbook.
Author: Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being
Human; Brainstorm, and The Developing Mind and Co-
Author, Parenting
from the Inside Out, The Whole - Brain Child, and No - Drama Discipline
«Contrary to the prevailing scientific opinion about the biological effects of nitrite and nitrate, our data support the view that
humans may require these dietary components
from birth —
from nature's most perfect food,» said Norman G. Hord, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., the study's lead
author and an associate professor of food science and
human nutrition at Michigan State University (MSU).
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.
Author: Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being
Human; Brainstorm, and The Developing Mind and Co-
Author, Parenting
from the Inside Out, The Whole - Brain Child, and No - Drama Discipline
NAMPA appears to imply that we should ignore advice such as this one issued on May 21st
from Harvard's School of Public Health: «With increasing evidence of the potential harmful effects of BPA in
humans, the
authors believe further research is needed on the effect of BPA on infants and on reproductive disorders and on breast cancer in adults.»
«Lexigrams were learned, as
human language is, during meaningful social interactions, not
from behavioral training,» said the study's lead
author, Kristen Gillespie - Lynch, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York and a former UCLA graduate student in Greenfield's laboratory.
Study lead
author Dr Ryan Hossaini,
from the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, said: «Dichloromethane is a
human - made ozone - depleting chemical that has a range of industrial applications.
But the drive to create virtual characters that are indistinguishable
from human characters has also given rise to complex forensic and legal issues, such as the need to distinguish between computer - generated and photographic images of child pornography, says senior
author Hany Farid, a professor of computer science and a pioneering researcher in digital forensics at Dartmouth.
«Our work demonstrates that the generation of genome sequences
from a large number of archaic
human individuals is now technically feasible, and opens the possibility to study Neandertal populations across their temporal and geographical range,» says Janet Kelso, the senior
author of the new study.
Professor Adeeba Kamarulzaman, an
author on the study
from University of Malaya, Malaysia, said: «In recent years, compulsory drug detention centres in Malaysia and across Asia have come under scrutiny and question over their lack of effectiveness in treating addiction and their
human rights transgressions.
«The mistiming prevents older people
from being able to effectively hit the save button on new memories, leading to overnight forgetting rather than remembering,» said study senior
author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience and psychology and director of the campus's Center for
Human Sleep Science.
This opens the door to connecting
human microbiome samples between databases, which has the potential to expose sensitive subject information — for example, a sexually - transmitted infection, detectable
from the microbiome sample itself,» said lead
author Eric Franzosa, research fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard Chan.
Dr Tomi Pastinen, senior
author on the second study,
from McGill University said: «We have created an expansive, high - resolution atlas of variations that deepens our understanding of the interplay between the genetic and epigenetic machinery that drives the three primary cells of the
human immune system.
«Finding these similarities and studying the aspects of mouse biology that may reflect
human biology, allows us to approach the study of
human illnesses in a better way,» affirms Bing Ren, one of the principal
authors from the ENCODE Consortium and a lecturer in molecular and cellular medicine at the University of California — San Diego.
This week the
authors issued a note explaining the mistake in their October 2015 Science paper on the genome of a 4,500 - year - old man
from Ethiopia — the first complete ancient
human genome
from Africa.
«The
authors are not saying the
human landscape is protected
from climate extremes.»
In a survey intended for interested readers and introductory courses, the
authors examine historical episodes (
from the scientific revolution to «the emergence of the
human sciences») and then discuss selected themes (
from «organization of science» through «science and technology» to «science and gender»).
Babies are born with the ability to learn and use language, a feature of
human behavior that, like other behavioral capabilities, emerged
from eons of biological evolution — a scientific explanation that
author Tom Wolfe rejects in his new book, The Kingdom of Speech.
Researchers surveyed 66 head soccer and basketball coaches
from 15 Oregon high schools and found that only 21 percent of the coaches were using an injury prevention program, and less than 10 percent were using the program exactly as designed, said the study's lead
author, Marc Norcross, an assistant professor of exercise and sport science in OSU's College of Public Health and
Human Sciences.
Senior
author Madhav Dhodapkar, M.D., the Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, and chief of Hematology, said the study, using tissue and blood samples
from humans and mice, shows that chronic stimulation of the immune system by lipids made in the context of inflammation underlies the origins of at least a third of all myeloma cases.
The
authors could only infer
from the autopsy samples that a similar migration of neurons
from the SVZ to the prefrontal cortex had taken place in the
human infants.
On the Nature of
Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the
author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories
from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.
«It provides a unique vantage point
from which to consider the intricate interface between capacities inherent in the
human infant and the shaping force of experience,» said Sandra Waxman, senior
author of the study, director of the Project on Child Development, faculty fellow in Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology at Northwestern.
The
authors note, «The devastating loss of
human life
from the Ebola outbreak of 2014 must not be in vain.
The
authors of the study, an international team
from Portuguese, Spanish, Catalonian, German, Austrian and Italian research institutions, say their findings suggest that the process of modern
human populations absorbing Neanderthal populations through interbreeding was not a regular, gradual wave - of - advance but a «stop - and - go, punctuated, geographically uneven history.»
«It's one of the clearest examples of how
humans are actually changing the intensity of storm processes on Earth through the emission of particulates
from combustion,» said Joel Thornton, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle and lead
author of the new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
«These chemicals are just about everywhere,
from the blood in polar bears to eagles to
humans on every continent,» said Joseph Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science at Harvard Chan School and the study's lead
author.
«This pattern in brown bears covers even larger geographic areas than analogous findings
from humans, where the Y - chromosomal lineage of Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, was spread across much of Asia,» said Tobias Bidon and Frank Hailer, lead
authors of the study.
«It's taken years of trial and error, making educated guesses and taking baby steps to finally produce functioning
human muscle
from pluripotent stem cells,» said Lingjun Rao, a postdoctoral researcher in Bursac's laboratory and first
author of the study.
«This is the first genome - wide data on prehistoric
humans from the hot tropics, and was made possible by improved methods for preparing skeletal remains» says Ron Pinhasi at University College Dublin, a senior
author of the study.
Best - selling
author and science writer Ed Yong offered a whirlwind tour of the world of microbes
from their early dominance of Earth to their comfortable occupation of the
human body during an evening lecture on 4 October as part of the annual AAAS - Hitachi Lecture Series.