Sentences with phrase «leading historians of»

Dr. Willis is one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography, and was named one -LSB-...]

Dr. Willis is one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography, and was named one of the «100 Most Important People in Photography» by American Photography magazine.

The exhibition is curated by Deborah Willis, Ph.D., one of the nation's leading historians of African - American photography.

He kept this emphasis when other leading historians of education, particularly Lawrence Cremin, turned their attention «to the many agencies that educate.»

At a time when leading historians of the family were concentrating on the English and French aristocracy, Lasch focused on marriage and family life among ordinary Americans.

Impelled by a need to find the roots of their form of Mormonism, leading historians of the Reorganization have embarked on an exercise in higher criticism, subjecting to close scrutiny Joseph Smith's story and Mormon scripture as well as the two official versions of church history.

Cornell University Professor William Provine, a leading historian of Darwinism, concluded from Gallup's figures that the American public simply does not understand what the scientists mean by evolution.

RM: You are known as a leading historian of political history and in particular the formation of ideas around human liberty.

Janssen, a leading historian of Einstein and relativity, has selected this book as one of the «most important books that have appeared in the last decade or so bearing on Einstein and general relativity».

Patricia Albjerg Graham is a leading historian of American education.

«America's leading historian of education» (New York Times) and a burr under Klein's saddle for most of his eight - year tenure, Ravitch is more restrained here than usual.

A leading historian of education and expert on education research, Lagemann led the Ed School through a period of transition and progress.

«After a span of more than a decade in a series of senior administrative roles at NYU, the Spencer Foundation, and most recently HGSE, Ellen has indicated her desire to devote her full - time efforts once again to her academic work as a leading historian of American education,» Summers added.

A leading historian of American education, Graham served as dean of the Ed School from 1982 through 1991.

In any case, according to Diane Ravitch, who is probably America's leading historian of education, vertical penmanship probably wasn't any worse than a lot of other panaceas offered since — particularly panaceas offered in recent times.

Not exact matches

So Khrushchev blamed the Terror on Stalin and his «cult of personality», and historians in the West followed his lead.

One of Canada's leading scholars on deindustrialization and the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969 — 1985, Concordia historian Steven High, assumes that deindustrialization did occur to some extent, but that nationalist worker activism forced politicians to legislate advance warnings of shutdowns, better packages and, in some cases, even slowed plant closures.

As a historian of trade, I thought it would be worth recalling some illuminating examples, each of which led to disastrous results.

As economic historian J.K. Galbraith wrote about the advance leading up to the 1929 crash, the market's gains «had an aspect of great reliability... Indeed the temporary breaks in the market which preceded the crash were a serious trial for those who had declined fantasy.

Increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages (including the birth of engineering, social benefits such as universities, hospitals and the beginnings of corporations and labor guilds, as well as science, (all under the Catholic Church) has led to the label being restricted in application or avoided by serious historians.

At that time, it seemed that advocates of the neopositivist «deductive - law» model of explanation, following the lead of Carl Hempel, had shown how ineptly historians went about the task of formulating cause - effect hypotheses in their accounts of the past.

With the death of Sydney Ahlstrom and the retirements of Robert Handy and Martin Marty from the classroom, Mark Noll has surely become our leading teacher - historian of American Christianity.

Though the lands at the heart of today's Europe were completely outside of the visual field of the ancient historian, the formation of the Hellenistic states and the Roman Empire led to the establishment of a «continent» that would be the basis for the later Europe.

David Curtis Steinmetz, one of the leading church historians of our time, died this past November at age 79 on Thanksgiving evening.

Historians of the French Revolution have debated the point as to whether or not it was the ideas of the philosophers concerning human rights, equality, justice, democracy, freedom or the interests of the ordinary people pinched in belly and pocketbook that led to the uprising of 1789.

This function of his on our behalf (his beneficia) is more important than the words and deeds discoverable by the historian, which lead only to imitation, not to discipleship».8

in which that leading member of the «Bultmann school» exclaimed that he had no choice, if he wished to remain a historian, but to accept the historicity of the tradition that Jesus was an exorcist.

Some historians have traced the roots of The Controversy to the early 1960s, when conflict over historical «critical study of the Bible produced a major crisis in the SBC leading to the dismissal of Ralph Elliott, a professor of Old Testament at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri.

(3) Like many of our contemporaries, Schweitzer read the great Asian religious texts not as a historian only, but as one whose profound sense of the failure of Christianity led him into a genuine religious quest.

Most of us now find bizarre those 19th - century Whig historians like Macaulay with their sublime confidence that true history means what leads up to and finds its glorious culmination in us, the «modems.»

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

Le Goff's body of work, then, stands as a challenge to historians who argue for the Italian Renaissance and Reformation as a break that unleashed a series of forces, intended or not, ultimately leading to the current social imaginary.

That there were men in Palestine in Jesus» day and later who claimed the gift of prophecy and led many astray is shown not only by the Gospels (cf. Mk 13:22; Mt 24:24) but also by the works of the historian Josephus.

One of our leading historians, whose studies of Victorian England are acclaimed as definitive, here applies her talents to an exercise in «contemporary history.»

Sacred Causes by Michael Burleigh HarperCollins, 557 pages, $ 27.95 One of Britain's leading and most popular historians, Michael Burleigh made his mark producing award - winning documentaries and books on Nazi euthanasia.

One of Britain's leading and most popular historians, Michael Burleigh made his mark producing award - winning documentaries and books on Nazi euthanasia.

According to Henry Kamen, the leading revisionist historian of the Inquisition:

As a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economists.

When British historian Martin Gilbert died earlier this year at the age of seventy - eight, the world lost one of its leading scholars and a man of exceptional integrity.

, historians help us understand that the Judaism of Jesus» time was more diverse, interesting and grace - filled than the Gospels would lead us to think, and that the crucifixion can not be understood as simply the result of a religious plot against Jesus carried out by the Jewish people or their leaders.

One leading member of that revisionist school, the American historian Harry Elmer Barnes (of Smith, Columbia, and the New School for Social Research), went on to oppose American intervention in the thirties and to justify German policies even after the war.

This naturally, even unconsciously, influences them, and can lead to the situation where a historian carefully disentangles the original Jesus of history from the Christ of faith of the first - century Church only to reidentify him with the Christ of his own faith and so reinterpret the teaching all over again.

Thus, whether we are historians studying the history of Christianity or Christians seeking to understand our own personal religious experience, we are led back ineluctably to him.

The historian's detection of the kerygma at the centre of the Gospels found a formal analogy in the contemporary view of historiography as concerned with underlying meaning, and this correlation led to the view that the kind of quest of the historical Jesus envisaged by the nineteenth century not only can not succeed, but is hardly appropriate to the intention of the Gospels and the goal of modern historiography.

The ambition to present a synoptic account of the multiple sixteenth - century movements for religious «reform,» Catholic and Protestant, has led some historians to search for a single interpretative framework for the reform impulse, to suggest that fundamental similarities underlay sixteenth - century religious reform wherever it occurred.

The seminar's faculty are leading scholars of American religious freedom: Daniel Dreisbach, constitutional scholar at American University and co-editor of the main text; Thomas S. Kidd, historian of American religion at Baylor University; and Gerald R. McDermott, theologian and scholar of religious history at Roanoke College.

The distinguished historian of philosophy Emil Fackenheim, whose work as a post-Holocaust theologian led him to care deeply about Jewish peoplehood, writes bitterly of Spinoza's slander of Judaism as a betrayal of his celebrated disinterestedness and nobility.

This is why the historian's job is never completely finished and why new insight into historical events is continually leading to the writing of new «history».

Carter's fascination with the West leads him on to learned discussion of Frederick Jackson Turner's «frontier thesis» (which, despite flaws, Carter holds to be the most influential statement ever by an historian of America), along with the views of Russian ecologists, American social scientists, and a wide variety of conservationists.

Only a small minority of Roman Catholics, led by an eminent historian, Johann Josef Ignaz von Dollinger (1799 - 1890), declared that the Vatican decrees were untrue to history and, excommunicated by the Pope, constituted themselves the Old Catholic Church.