Sentences with phrase «modern literature rested»

The self - image of modern literature rested on an idea of progress that presumed the exchange of one style for another.

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Jesus» teaching was not «social,» in our modern sense of sociological utopianism; but it was something vastly profounder, a religious ethic which involved a social as well as a personal application, but within the framework of the beloved society of the Kingdom of God; and in its relations to the pagan world outside it was determined wholly from within that beloved society — as the rest of the New Testament and most of the other early Christian literature takes for granted.

Gordis rests his case for a dynamic halakhah on the findings of modern critical scholarship, the «past two centuries of brilliant and dedicated research in Jewish law, literature, and life.»