At least until our own century ministers were generally regarded as the
most learned men in town.
The Spirit may blow when and where it will, but on the whole — it seems to them — it is more likely to blow (probably in German or English) through the studies and seminars
of learned men of the North, than to blow elsewhere or otherwise.
The Kennel Club was created in Victorian England in 1873, at a time when new theories about genetics were being promulgated by
learned men who did not yet have a very good idea of what was going on in the natural world.
Cat lovers
on learning man who threw kitty has bipolar disorder: He's still responsible Gerald Goh
Smith explained that the idea came from a former fire chief in San Ramon, California who
once learned a man died of cardiac arrest when he was merely feet away.
And some words from Thomas Jefferson, not a contemporary NT scholar, but indeed a
very learned man:
The great majority of Muslim
learned men hold, with good reason, that the Prophet's teachings follow either the directive of divine, though nontextual, inspiration or, if it was a personal, purely human effort, he applied the very essence or spirit of the law of the Qur» an.
«Strictly speaking» that is, Spinozistically speaking» several of them are false (which is not surprising, given that Scripture's authors were
not learned men).
The historian Otto Hiltbrunner describes the event laconically: «The last...
learned men emigrated... to Italy and passed on their knowledge of the original Greek texts to the Renaissance humanists; but the East was overcome by the absence of culture.»
While claiming to follow a traditionally learned vocation, they had in fact ceased to be
truly learned men.
The brevity of expression, the conciseness, attains such a striking clearness that the
least learned man can understand the Qur» an without difficulty.
When steam - driven locomotives were first proposed for the Liverpool - Manchester Railway,
learned men testified that they never could go more than twelve miles an hour, and the Edinburgh Review pleaded that Thomas Gray be put in a strait jacket because he maintained that railroads could be made practical.
He wrote to prelates about the matter, and «I published my theses,
inviting learned men and them alone to discuss them with me... By a miracle which astounded me more than anyone, these theses were spread through almost the entire world», even though, being academic theses, the text was dense and summary.
It was during the Renaissance that creativity was first seen, not as a matter of divine inspiration, but as a gift of a
great learned man to imitate God's ability to create.
In the last few months I've heard two stories of midlife
women learning the man they were dating had an addiction.
As the third side of the triangle, Nivola's performance is similarly impressive, a decent,
learned man trapped between the opposite poles of duty and tradition and conscience and love.
After taking him in and nursing him back to health,
Ann learns the man is named John, a scientist who was underground when the cataclysm occurred; John couldn't stand to live beneath the surface for the rest of his life, so he one day made the fateful decision to venture out.
Faced with the failure of the human order,
learned men sought permanence within the natural world, retreating into the mountains to find a sanctuary from the chaos of dynastic collapse.
So, why is it that with permission from the Bible and advice
from learned men, I still can not and will not spank my children?
Hajj Ali, the most
learned man in our village, traveled to Isfahan to fetch a copy of the chief astronomer's almanac so we would know what calamities to expect.
And some final words from Thomas Jefferson, not a contemporary NT scholar, but indeed a
very learned man:
In brief, Albert the Great, the
most learned man of his time, saw in his pupil the new master of the Christian inheritance to that time.
Only those Traditions are accepted which were revealed to the family of Muhammad and interpreted by Imams and
learned men who follow the authority of the family of the Prophet.
He called them «
learned men» and exhorted the students to «read the Fathers.»
They were
learned men, who watched when Christianity got involved with politics.
Mr. Sullivan is
a learned man and usually writes with a certain style, which no doubt explains why he gets a more serious hearing than most advocates of the gay cause (see Elizabeth Kristol's review of his Virtually Normal, FT, January).
Your bio indicates that you are
a learned man.
This is not only the hallmark of
a learned man but also an experienced one.
At his Requiem Mass (he died in 1988 at age eighty - three), Cardinal Ratzinger declared von Balthasar the most
learned man in Europe, and it would be as believable if he had said the most learned man in the world.
When she found Him in the Temple she saw the demonstration of divine wisdom made flesh as
the learned men were astounded at his words.
In his time the Caliph was Ma» mun, the son of Harun al - Rashid,
a learned man and a good statesman who in many discussions proved the sublime position of Ali and his right to be the immediate successor of Muhammad.
Without understanding it all, maybe we can see how he would have been drawn to the temple's portals and
its learned men.