Sentences with phrase «judgment as a historian»

His conclusion about their reliability stems from his professional judgment as a historian.

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Martin might respond that my criticism is unfair because he is not asking for skepticism about those points on which historians agree; he is only asking that Christians suspend judgment about the resurrection taken as a physical, historical fact.

This would not be true if we went only so far as the «objective» historian can go and stopped with a recognition of the distinctiveness of the Christian community and of the historical ground of that distinctiveness in Christ, without any judgment of value or truth.

A 1920 recession turned into a 1921 depression, according to [Wesley Clair] Mitchell, whose judgment, as a historian, business - cycle theorist and contemporary observer, is probably as reliable as anyone's.