Sentences with phrase «modern criticism»

His scientific and educational work has provided the foundation for modern criticism of psychiatric drugs and ECT, and leads the way in promoting more caring and effective therapies.

While section three takes up the majority of the book, Redford's positive bias in favour of the historicity of John's account is preceded in section one by a devastating critique of the philosophical scepticism behind modern criticism, and by a building up of the substantial historicity of the synoptic tradition with a «critical minimum» in section two in the light of the findings of N.T. Wright and others.

Confronting a variety of questions brought to the fore by modern criticism of John's Gospel (such as miracles, Jesus» claim to divinity, the «I AM» sayings, John's supposed anti-Semitism and the Resurrection), Redford consistently argues for the probable historical authenticity of John's account but always with the same tools of historical criticism.

This is not the place to dispute modern criticism's epistemological assumption that only impersonal cognitional methods are fully trustworthy.

Commenting on the role of the critic, Ashton said, «The mission of the contemporary critic is often construed as a purgative activity, aimed at ridding commentary of ornamental maunderings... But in the passionate effort to deal with essences, or things in themselves, much modern criticism has deleted a whole realm of experience... The first effort of the critic should be to see the unique quality inherent in a work, the quality that immediately attracts the receiver and moves him.

Incidentally, the delay in the prophecy, and the fact that it was Elisha who finally carried out the order given to Elijah, raises inevitably a problem for modern criticism.

On the contrary, if I may hazard a personal testimony, this «Multiple Source Hypothesis» of modern criticism, and especially of form criticism, seems to me definitely superior to the older view.

A modern criticism in the same vein argues that for higher forms to have evolved by chance is like the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard will assemble a Boeing 747 aircraft from the materials there.

Canon Redford in contrast maintains that modern criticism has not overturned the older tradition that John the Apostle was the author of the fourth Gospel.

An Oratory priest, Richard Simon (1638 - 1712), with his work Histoire critique du Vieux Testament (1678), began the era of modern criticism.

Time weakens the impact of innovation and exposes the subject to modern criticism, but it's still easier to see what Final Fantasy XII got right over where it went wrong.