Sentences with phrase «in earlier literatures»

Here we have again, from a somewhat different point of view, that interpenetration of individual and corporate elements in religion which we noted in the earlier literature.

Given that there is a greater volume, variety and claimed importance on data and data use in schools, this study sought to find out what was meant by the key terms data and data use in the current literature; to make some initial analysis of such and to show one approach that has been successfully used that avoids repeating the limitations in the earlier literature.

The teachers» emphasis on hands - on instruction appeared to align with the kinesthetic and interactive properties of the IWB often touted in the early literature (Beeland, 2002).

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Realizing early on that the Catholic Church would be ill - served in the coming battles with secularism without an ability to draw on her own best treasures, Migne devised the scheme of publishing, in uniform format, the entire extant corpus of early Christian literature, much of which was still in manuscript.

Go in there and find a man by the name of «Onan» and you will find one of the earliest depictions of the «money shot» in literature...

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The latest piece of research into the neglected area of covert political literature in early modern England, Greg Walker's impressive Writing Under Tyranny, identifies the moment in 1534 when the humanist genre of «counsel to princes» was forced to adopt coded terms which, in my view, reached their most sophisticated form in the repressive 1590s.

Although, according to Grant, what characterizes the God of the gospels is «all - inclusive love,» the theme of love was one that philosophical theologians treated «only with difficulty»; after the New Testament, we encounter «relatively few references to God's love» in the early Christian literature.4 The subject of God's power, however, is an altogether different matter.

Klauck, professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago, has ideas about what to make of all this, but the value of the book is to be found in his brief summaries of the various topics, the judicious citation of primary sources, and the up - to - date bibliographies.

Is this simply a hold - over from an earlier day which the general conservatism of the educational world perpetuates because it has become a sacred tradition, or is there something in the study of literature which, regardless of the field of specialization into which one goes, makes it of vital importance?

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Melville was not a systematically educated man: though backward in his early schooling, he taught himself literature by devouring haphazard naval libraries during the four years of his sailing adventure.

I should say at the outset that none of this literature is written by scholars trained in New Testament or early Christian studies teaching at the major, or even the minor, accredited theological seminaries, divinity schools, universities, or colleges of North America or Europe (or anywhere else in the world).

Rhetorical expressions with literary flavor, the rhythm, the variations of meter etc. of the literature in the original language are not regained in the later translations.15 The translation of the opening formulas in the Gospels gives divergent renderings through modem translations.16 Almost all early Eastern and Western languages were lagging behind in interpreting Greek language.

Similarly, New Testament literary study has included a strong interest in the comparative analysis of Greco - Roman literary genres and techniques and those used in the Gospels, Acts and early noncanonical Christian literature.

There it was natural to begin with the history, for while some very early folksongs antedate any written history and the prophecy of Amos was the earliest complete book, an important part of the history found in the Old Testament was written before any other major type of literature emerged.

Nevertheless, there were certain historical dimensions to this early work in biblical literature.

Lentricchia, whose earlier work earned him the epithet «the Dirty Harry of literary theory, is the author of Criticism and Social Change (1983), which urges us to regard all literature as «the most devious of rhetorical discourses (writing with political designs upon us all), either in opposition to or in complicity with the power in place.»

Again Murray says, «The invocations to the Mother - spirit to descend on the candidate for baptism in the Acts of Judas Thomas are typical of early Syriac literature.»

On typological interpretation in early Christianity and the Middle Ages see the classic article of Erich Auerbach, «Figura,» first published in German in 1944 and available in English in Erich Auerbach, Scenes from the Drama of European Literature, Meridian Books, 1959, pp. 11 - 76.

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He belonged to the Christian church in that city — a church still meeting in the house of one of the great families, (See F. V. Filson, «The Significance of the Early House Churches,» Journal of Biblical Literature 58: 105 - 12.)

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

The modern study of the «forms» of literature, their origin and early development, has found an exceptionally rich field in the biblical literature, so varied as it is, and extending over so long a period of time.

In the current literature I detect not a rejection of those earlier slogans but rather an affirmation that, unless there is a church, there can not be a «church for others.»

Today a noted Hebrew University scholar, David Flusser, who has a profound knowledge of early Christian literature, in his book Jews and Christians Between Past and Future advocates the view that Judaism and Christianity are «one faith.»

Patrick D. Miller, Jr., in The Divine Warrior in Early Israel31 compares divine warfare in Israel with divine warfare in the literature of Syria - Palestine.

Jack T. Sanders, The New Testament Christological Hymns (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 197 1) offers a valuable discussion of the hymn in the context of other hymns of the canonical literature of the early church.

Jesus» teaching was not «social,» in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God; and in its relations to the pagan world outside it was determined wholly from within that beloved society — as the rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes for granted.

No doubt this is one reason why the knowledge of God is always conjoined with the love of God in early Christian literature.

Not only is this duality to be found in the recorded words of Jesus, as we have noted, but with or without the use of the term «Kingdom,» its presuppositions appear throughout the literature of the early Church.

This study of the contribution of Hebraic and early Christian realism to world literature in effect draws out the corollaries of the Incarnation for the aesthetic order.

This body of literature never enjoyed so important a role in the early Church as the Apostolic Fathers; nonetheless, it shows the great variety of literature produced by the early Church.

Some of us are not aware of the fact that apart from the New Testament, which is the Church's Book, written by Churchmen in the early days of our religion, there are only three or four references to Christ in secular literature.

Only with the rise of the research university in Germany early in the nineteenth century and in America toward the end of that century was the focus on the classical Western languages and literatures gradually replaced by departmental specialization and the abandonment of required courses in favor of electives.

(Early Christian literature not included in our New Testament has fallen into two categories.

The Jews were suffering because of Satan (invented for this purpose and appearing nowhere in earlier Jewish literature) but God would return and defeat Satan in an epic battle.

The funerary literature, of which the pyramid texts are simply the earliest phase, was a constant element in Egyptian literature from the time of the pyramid texts until very late in the pre-Christian era.

There are many literary echoes of the swamp image in early medieval literature.

In his Life, then, Boniface proclaimed victory over spaces considered by a good deal of early medieval literature to be inhospitable to Christian civilization.

See also Donald W. Riddle, Early Christian Life as Reflected in Its Literature (1936) and «Early Christian Hospitality: a Factor in the Gospel Transmission,» Journal of Biblical Literature, 57:141 - 154.)

On the importance of the teacher in the early church — distinct from the preacher — see B. S. Easton, «The First Evangelic Tradition,» Journal of Biblical Literature, 50:148 - 55; F. V. Filson, «The Christian Teacher in the First Century,» ibid., 60:317 - 28.)

Such moments were staging posts in the early life of CS Lewis as he struggled to make his atheism fit with his experience of «joy» when he encountered poetry, literature, music and beauty that seemed to belong to another world, a process he describes in Surprised by Joy.

However, the modern scholarship has demonstrated that the origin of Wisdom Tradition in Israel goes back to the period much earlier than Solomon and that the OT Wisdom Literature was composed much later than Solomon's period.

«In traditional thought and literature, there has been virtually no interest in foreign countries, societies, cultures or religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «dialogue» with Christian - European, or any other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» HinduisIn traditional thought and literature, there has been virtually no interest in foreign countries, societies, cultures or religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «dialogue» with Christian - European, or any other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduisin foreign countries, societies, cultures or religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «dialogue» with Christian - European, or any other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduisin the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduism.

Just as importantly, he reminds us that the later gnostic literature, none of which is historical in form or content, «presupposes the earlier existence and widespread usage of the New Testament documents» (44).

Robinson, in his address as outgoing president of the Society of Biblical Literature in December 1981, presented a detailed case for the argument that the earliest resurrection traditions were luminous appearances of Jesus, while stories of physical resurrection were secondary.

I learned (and should have known much earlier) that the books of the Bible grew from the soil of fervent Christian activity in a real though long - ago world, that literature is a centrifugal spin - off of history.

He continues the story by examining the period of the second temple in Jewish thought, the rise of apocalypticism and millenarianism, sectarian life in New Testament times, New Testament views of afterlife, pseudepigraphic literature, the Church fathers, the early rabbis, and Muslim views of the afterlife..

As we saw earlier the very oldest preserved literature of Israel was in poetry, and the Hebrews continued to produce poetry of a high order all during their history.