Sentences with phrase «modern historical study»

To continue to believe a literalist theory of scriptural inspiration seems no longer an option to anyone who has investigated the results of modern historical study of the scriptures.»

Never, so far as I can tell, has modern historical study made it impossible for a contemporary person concerned about intellectual integrity to believe what the Church (or the synagogue) has long taught as necessary for true faith.

Not exact matches

But I think Pedersen overestimates the significance of modern historical - critical study of the Bible.

The resumption of pilgrimage (often on foot) was matched by a revival in the historical and artistic studies relating to the pilgrimage, and the first modern society for this was the Société des Amis de St Jacques and Centre des Études Compostellanes, founded in Paris in 1950.

In his previous, more historical studies, Walsh explored overlooked sources, often outside the liberal canon, that made the value of personal experience central to modern political thought.

The use of historical - critical method within modern historiography has met with opposition on theological grounds: would not two methods of studying history necessarily involve two classes of historical reality?

In this second conclusion, Schweitzer boldly demands a moratorium on all further efforts to achieve a scholarly, historical reconstruction of the life of Jesus; He claims that his research has proved the futility of all such attempts, and in any case, such studies are not what the modern world or Christianity needs.

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).

An introduction to Jesus Studies,» in Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus M. J. Wilkins and J. P. Moreland, gen. eds., (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995), pp. 52 - 72.

The modern study of the New Testament, which seems to have undermined the historical foundations for the traditional view, has at the same time brought to light that in any case this was not actually the way in which the first apostles understood the resurrection of Jesus.

One of UCLA's own faculty members has written a historical study of civic life in early modern Philadelphia that is directly germane to my own analysis of his and others» academic lives at UCLA.

But in the nineteenth century this widespread confidence in the Bible was badly shaken, as biblical scholars began to study it with the modern tools of literary and historical criticism.

But the historicity of the «miracle» stories has now been severely undermined by modern Biblical study, which has shown that we have here no infallible historical records, but the testimony of Christian traditions which had been molded by two or more generations of oral transmission.

Fruitful as this work may be, however, Collins makes the unwarranted assumption that modern biblical study is intrinsically antithetical to theological exegesis when in fact only the historical - critical claim to final interpretive authority contradicts a theological approach.

In The Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age, the Old Testament scholar John Collins observes that the rules for historical study are academic rather than confessional, based on modern canons of historical analysis rather than classical principlesHistorical Criticism in a Postmodern Age, the Old Testament scholar John Collins observes that the rules for historical study are academic rather than confessional, based on modern canons of historical analysis rather than classical principleshistorical study are academic rather than confessional, based on modern canons of historical analysis rather than classical principleshistorical analysis rather than classical principles of faith.

Whereas McCormack advances an historical study of Barth's early writings that emphasizes its dialectical transformation of the modern theology that preceded it, my own study of Barth's mature writings inquires into what his theology might contribute to a postmodern, nonfoundational theology that is yet to come.

And this has been especially the case through the period of rationalism and the Enlightenment up to the modern day, during which we have seen the birth of critical studies and the historical - critical method.

Like many other old liberal Protestant ideas, Dibelius's view passed into wide circulation in the Catholic world when biblical studies engaged with modern historical criticism at the time of the Second Vatican Council.

Harnack set out to show from his penetrating studies of early Christianity that the relevance of Christianity to the modern world lay not in theological dogmatism but in the understanding of Christianity as an historical, changing, evolving process.

While the earlier is well studied instrumentally with few historic records, the latter has an extensive record of historical earthquakes but few available modern fault - zone investigations.

The researchers note that the study provides historical context for what is happening today and what may happen in the future and demonstrates that there is need for further investigation into the effects of climate change on modern societies worldwide.

They were able to use the data gathered to test previous hypotheses drawn from archaeological and historical data, and from studies of modern DNA.

With this study, Severinghaus and colleagues have shown that measurements of noble gases in the atmosphere provide the historical record long sought by the scientific community, and can be further optimized to gain insights into modern ocean temperature changes as well.

Triphala's historical use as a digestive cleanser and tonifier has been backed up with numerous modern scientific studies demonstrating the positive effects of its component herbs on the gastrointestinal tract.

Dissecting the Criminal Corpse: Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England (Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife)

Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine (Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife)

The 2012 study found that modern breeds only emerged in the 19th century and that claims of their antiquity are based on little or no historical or empirical evidence.

Originally studying English Literature at Cambridge University, Perret works against an extensive backdrop of art historical and literary inspirations and drawing from this vast catalogue of influences, Perret addresses sustained narratives which revolve around ideas of feminism, modern utopias and the consumption of art and literature.

Historical connections between the two, commonly ascribed to the work of such artists as Gaugin and Picasso, were extensively studied in 1938 by Robert Goldwater, and were the subject of a 1984 exhibition curated by William Rubin at the Museum of Modern Art, entitled «Primitivism» in Modern Art.

Studying the initial Westernization of the Ottoman Empire through to the early Republican period, Repertoire reveals the reverberations of historic processes in today's artistic productions and provides the historical backdrop to the Modern and contemporary artworks in the exhibition — from the musical tones of the abstract art of the 1950s to the popularized content of the 1980s.

We have been studying it seriously, with modern tools like sattelites and historical proxies, for perhaps 30 years.

We have no idea when the Modern Warming will end, or whether it already ended a decade ago, but ice core studies suggest several hundred years of warming, followed by several hundred years of cooling, are typical of historical climate cycles between the ice ages..

But, he added, more study is needed, looking back at historical data and making it more compatible with modern reporting techniques.