Sentences with phrase «more historical work»

«The past is present at Frieze New York... [The] fair «opens the door» to more historical work but maintains its commitment to contemporary».

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What is more, he did his work as someone whose academic credentials made him acutely aware of the historical moment he was capturing, in attempting to create a whole new category of knowledge around the way organizations are run.

In the end Gallienus decides to pay for the celebrations using direct theft (by confiscating and then selling the estates of his enemies and those of their families), but the final sentence of the above excerpt from a work of historical fiction reveals more knowledge of how monetary inflation works than is found in the writings of most Keynesian economists.

Research looks broadly at the market, theorizing investment strategies and looking at large historical datasets to find trends that work more often than not.

The historical wisdom suggests that if you are young, with many working years ahead, you are more risk tolerant.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

Even so, what is needed for a present - day reading of Kierkegaard is something more important than the crutches professors typically offer to the reader of the works of a genius: an historical introduction that would focus not so much on the circumstances of the inception, but rather on the conditions of the appropriation, of his works.

The biblical hermeneutic of Christian Zionism distorts biblical texts by reading them out of their canonical and historical context, making them seem more like such fictional works as the «Left Behind» series than the whole Word of God.

Professor Wayne Gruhem - His work and life rely on the Pentecost but was the Pentecost even a historical event or simply more myth concocted by Luke to gain members to the newest cu - lt in town??

Professor Wayne Grudem - His work and life rely on the Pentecost but was the Pentecost even a historical event or simply more myth concocted by Luke to gain members to the newest cu - lt in town??

The very arrangement of the biblical books in the Hebrew canon of scripture presupposes this definition of prophetism.1 Between the first division of the Law and the third division of the Writings, the central category of the Prophets embraces not only the books of the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve prophets from Hosea to Malachi (all together termed «Latter Prophets») but also the historical writings of Joshua, Judges, and the books of Samuel and Kings («Former Prophets») In this way the Hebrew Bible formally and appropriately acknowledges that prophetism is more than the prophet and his work, that it is also a way of looking at, understanding, and interpreting history.

The bible is in fact one of the most accurate ancient historical texts, much more so than the often accepted works of Homer.

Buber's work would have been more generally acceptable if he had more fully permitted objective historical reconstruction to perform an adequate critical function.

Perhaps I ought to be more surprised at his omission of historical fiction, including that of Madeleine Polland, written from a deeply Christian perspective; she wrote such works as Beorn the Proud, now available in reprint, and my personal favorite, The Queen's Blessing, set in the time of Saint Margaret of Scotland.

I leave aside for the time being the no less crucial question of the role played by the historical critical method in justifying the domination of the rising bourgeoisie over the more fundamentalistic working class and over the texts themselves.

It is more an act of self - expression on Endō's part than a work of historical reconstruction; less a work of imagination than projection.

Let us continue to examine the nature of the synoptic tradition by considering the results of the work of the scholar who has probably done more than any other to make available to contemporary scholarship historical knowledge of the teaching of Jesus, Joachim Jeremias of Gottingen, whom we are proud to acknowledge as our teacher.

I would agree that the clarity with which I find myself seeing the world when I look at it through the lens of the Gospels counts more for the Gospels» «truth» than the available historical evidence does — though that mysterious power we can only call the work of the Holy Spirit may count most of all.

Not only are graduate theological schools producing more theses and dissertations on Wesleyan subjects, but Methodist periodicals (Quarterly Review, Methodist History, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society) are increasingly printing their articles, and new publishing enterprises are emerging to take up their longer monographic works (among these are Zondervan's Francis Asbury Press imprint, Abingdon's Kingswood Books imprint, and Asbury Theological Seminary's new series in Pietist and Wesleyan Studies) These scholars are quite likely to be found in the Wesley Studies Working Group of the American Academy of Religion.

Schweitzer's first published work to deal with this theme was The Secret of Jesus» Messiahship and Passion, now more commonly known as The Mystery of the Kingdom of God, which appeared in 1901.2 However, his far more influential work appeared in 1906, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, 3 which is still read and quoted.

It is clear that neither of the most striking conclusions of Schweitzer's work was such as to explain why the quest of the historical Jesus came largely to an end a generation or more ago.

After a long period of literary, historical, and form - critical study of the New Testament, along with more recent work on the «redaction» of its several books in the light of the motives that led their authors to select and arrange the material then available to them, it is clear that any claim to «simple historicity» is false.

[39] Regarding chronology, Timothy Barnes, in Tertullian, op cit., points out that this treatise, which comes from the period before Tertullian became a Montanist, does not yield more precise information when the criteria regarding historical allusions, references to other works, doctrinal progression and style, are applied.

Let me give an example of» how this more complex analysis might work with respect to one historical case with which I am most familiar, the history of fundamentalism and post-fundamentalist evangelicalism in twentieth - century America.

This exquisite historical building is thoughtfully updated to give the works of Picasso a more modern backdrop.

Historical Society President Diana Kenny said volunteers have raised and spent more than $ 100,000, and the 70 - member society has another $ 50,000 to continue its work.

It can be read at two levels: either in great depth which demonstrates his grasp of the historical aspects of the work, or more superficially, if that is the mood that is upon you.

My experience and reading of «pre-figurative forms,» of moments when communist behaviour appeared in my life, or in historical records, strongly indicates that there's more genius in the working class as a whole, than in any particular worker.

«My time with the College Corps program has made me a more competitive player in today's job market,» said Garrett Wyckoff of Clinton who worked at the Clinton Historical Society.

Poland, a historical British ally, said Cameron would struggle to win support during the renegotiations for his more modest proposals to restrict access to in - work benefits such as tax credits and housing benefit.

More than 500 seismologists and geologists worked for 6 years, using satellite measurements, field surveys, historical records of earthquakes, and geologic evidence of ancient ground motions to document the hazards for all land areas on Earth, says the project's director, Domenico Giardini of the Swiss Seismological Service in Zürich.

In 1873 the president of the Philological Society of London declared that linguists «shall do more by tracing the historical growth of one single work - a-day tongue, than by filling wastepaper baskets with reams of paper covered with speculations on the origin of all tongues.»

Compared with the control group, all school classes which worked with oral history accounts in whatever form performed better: They exhibited a higher historical competence and had more factual knowledge.

Her work includes analysis of pond sediments, soils, and more collecting to document plant diversity... We're also hoping to cast a broader net across Providence with an analysis of historical specimens of Plantago [plantain] in an attempt to match terrestrial trends in heavy metal concentration with measurements taken from nearby marine sediments in Narragansett Bay [south of Providence].»

It often is more akin to historical detective work than to climatology and can involve long searches in dusty archives, the ability to read archaic scripts and handwriting, and even Latin translations (for instance, when going through the archives of the Paris Observatory)(sounds like a recent bestseller, only less lucrative, no?).

Sept 27, 2007 New England Journal of Medicine - Genetics Detective Work Confirms MEN 2 - related Pheochromocytoma In a fascinating medico - historical reconstruction published in the September 27th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., Chair, Genomic Medicine Institute, and collaborators tracked down the original autopsy report of a German woman diagnosed more than 120 years ago, who had the first described case of what is now known as pheochromocytoma.

There are some excellent works that act sort of like a materia medica, Pole, Caldecott, or for more traditional or historical, the works by C.P. Khare.

Discover the historical buildings and those men, women and children who worked in them over a 950 year period as you get to take a step back in time to learn more about what life was like in rural West Sussex.

After substantial parts in two high - profile box - office disappointments, Terms of Endearment sequel The Evening Star (1996) and the Sandra Bullock - Chris O'Donnell historical romance In Love and War (1996), Astin focused on work in more idiosyncratic independent films.

To wit: in just the past four months, Spielberg has released one Best Picture nominee, the historical drama The Post, and is now back in theaters with one of the more complicated and ambitious works of his career, the long - awaited virtual - reality sci - fi adventure Ready Player One.

His filmography is one of the most diverse of any living filmmaker — he's made everything from futuristic sci - fi epics to historical dramas and romantic comedies — and he's won more than a fair share of awards for his work.

The authors admit that «Local Hollywood» is more difficult to describe than Global Hollywood as a concept; not least because there are different historical, cultural, political and economic forces at work in each location.

Not only was the section quick to identify the merits of work by Andrew Bujalski, Matt Porterfield, Joe Swanberg, Josephine Decker, Alex Ross Perry and J.P. Sniadecki, among others; it has also placed their work in the historical company of more established U.S. filmmakers and artists like Jem Cohen, James Benning, Frederick Wiseman and Amie Siegel or the Canadian Forum alum Guy Maddin.

Like Gibson's other works, Apocalypto is a violent, testosterone - laden treatment of historical events that concentrates more on the personal journey and hardships therein than it does in teaching anything about people as they really existed.

Think of this more of an action movie with depth than a historical drama or political comment on the state of civilization's decline and you'll come a long way to appreciating Gibson's work for some gutsy in - your - face entertainment.

And instead of the scandalous love triangle of historical record, the film plays out more as a drama about a young woman working out a complex escape from male - dominated society.

There are other directors you mention whose work I admire more than Ivory's (Lynch, Herzog, Cronenberg), but they are all still working at the top of their game and have a shot at a regular nomination, whereas Ivory's contribution is historical and absolutely worthy of recognition.

This work reinforces previous assessments of ECE's impact on student progress, placement, and completion, but it covers a wider age range, reflects a mix of historical and contemporary research, and uses more rigorous criteria in designing its research parameters.

Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award - winning author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and nonfiction.

For more than 40 years, Facing History and Ourselves has worked in middle school and high school classrooms, providing tools for teachers and students to think critically about the impact of significant historical events.