Sentences with phrase «more than any literature»

The marriage of form and content at the abovementioned colleges, which neither specialize nor departmentalize nor ignore mathematics and science any more than literature and philosophy, is a promising alternative to the research university.

Friends Diane (Diane Keaton, left), Sharon (Candice Bergen), Vivian (Jane Fonda) and Carol (Mary Steenburgen) talk about more than literature in «Book Club.»

But there is more than literature: the archi - star Santiago Calatrava attracts visitors to his Valencia and the surreal visions of Salvador Dalì are a magnet for hoards of art fans in the streets of Barcelona, while the bright colours and decisive brushstrokes of Vincent Van Gogh are Amsterdam's fortune.

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Meanwhile, the body of literature analyzing and measuring happiness is growing and increasingly popular: from 1991 to 1995, Buchholtz writes, there were just four economics papers published on the topic; between 2001 and 2005, more than 100 appeared.

Women are most likely to move away from education (by more than 1 percent share of women's enrollment if counting all education fields together), literature and language, sociology, psychology, and liberal arts and history.

China Literature is akin to Amazon's Kindle service, with 8.4 million pieces of content from more than five million writers.

The latest contribution to the literature, Race and Bankruptcy, by Ed Morrison (Columbia), Belisa Pang (Columbia), and Antoine Uettwiller (Imperial College Business School), tests an alternative hypothesis that pivots on a selection effect: «Financially distressed African Americans may be more likely to benefit from Chapter 13 than other consumers.»

At MaRS, we believe this approach makes more sense than the more comprehensive plans typically described in management literature.

An extensive literature in economics and finance has documented «home bias,» the tendency that transactions are more likely to occur between parties in the same country or state, rather than outside.

Shares in China Literature — the country's biggest player in the business, comparable to Amazon's Kindle Store — shot up more than 60 percent on their debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange last week, after raising $ 1.1 billion in an IPO.

The economic literature has generally found that rather than increasing homeownership, the mortgage interest deduction encourages people to buy bigger homes and by taking on more debt.

For example, François's new right - wing colleague, Godefroy Lempereur, introduces him to a nativist literature heavy on demographic studies purporting to show that «belief in a transcendent being conveys a genetic advantage: that couples who follow one of the three religions of the Book and maintain patriarchal values have more children than atheists or agnostics.

The faith has «tried» to stay the same for 2000 years, but, just as Galileo and heliocentrism struggled to show that reality was clearly different than what bare faith could handle, this same scene will be repeated a hundred thousand times more, as real life overtakes 2000 - year - old literature.

You are no more a scientist than The Three Little Pigs is a work of great literature.

I mean, it's okay & even lovely in a few passages, but not more so than other poetry & literature.

But it is always more than composition; it always requires a substantial amount of reading in English and American literature.

As a result I have been more than usually dependent on the critical assistance of persons who know the literature better than I.

This vision of childhood, in which the role of parents is to trust children and the role of children is to keep that trust, to be honest and good and, above all, not duffers, is to me a purer, sweeter, and infinitely more potent vision than any other a child is likely to encounter in literature.

But we really don't have any more proof at all to believe that Paul, the self - proclaimed «apostle» was anything more than an ordinary man who needed to make up religious «sales literature» to survive and spread his own personal beliefs.

Thus the Old Testament is literature, history, and theology, and more than these three.

Although it has become part of the conventional wisdom in much of contemporary anti-colonialist literature, both Eastern and Western, it is an oversimplification to dismiss the missions as nothing more than a cloak for white imperialism.

Nothing Paul wrote shows his great gifts as a pastor more clearly than these letters, and his words on spiritual gifts in I Corinthians 12 and 13 and his ode to immortality in I Corinthians 15 are among the finest things in all literature.

More than any other single work it has helped shape the English language, inspired great music, literature and art etc..

When Christian diet literature underwent its initial boom in the 1970s, Charlie Shedd again led the way: his 1972 book The Fat Is in Your Head remained on the national religious best - seller list for 23 months and sold more than 110,000 copies by 1976.

Despite its considerable currency, the idea of religion as sacred canopy seems not to have been grasped in more than a superficial way in much of the literature.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.

But what makes Wright more than just another crusty professor debating doctrine from an ivory tower is his ability to translate complicated theology into accessible literature for ordinary Christians.

In reading great literature, as in worship, the participant - reader becomes a thousand men and yet remains himself while transcending himself, and never more himself than when he does.

Here, and in other egalitarian literature, principle is given priority over application; admonition is given preference over description.34 What is dangerous in such a procedure, though it admittedly works in many cases, is the implied epistemological claim that objective, impersonal statements are of a somehow higher order of trustworthiness than the more personal and relational aspects of Scripture.

He would be the Caesar of a Jewish empire no less universal than the Roman; though it would be fair to say that the program drawn up for the «Son of David» in literature not far in date from the time of Jesus has more about justice and moral reformation than about bread and circuses.

His influence was felt in both contemporary criticism and creative literature, but his presence was there more often «in the nuances of stress and intonation than in the form of documented reference.

You can look to the scientific literature or the deaths of numerous children whose parents believed their faith was more powerful than insulin or antibiotics (they were wrong, just like you are now).

The Bible is nothing more than a fictional piece of literature used to control people and to justify one's particular prejudice.

Nonetheless, I should like to suggest that the form of the holy scriptures of Himayana, conforming to the more introverted nature of Himayana piety, is significantly more «subjective» than that of the Mahayana writings — a religious literature that constructs a monstrously rich, manifold, variegated, and complicated «objective» world.

In the end, he would contribute more than 20 books and 200 articles to the academic literature.

It is likely that not all four gospel accounts fit in the same way the requirements needed for a Greco - Roman biography (Luke, for instance, is more Hellenistic than Matthew, and John can not be understood without the Jewish Second Temple literature).

This literature contains some stimulating intellectual responses as well as several ad hominem pieces which are more concerned with rhetorical flourish and pietisms than critical reflection.1 There are some who want to rid the church of process theology because it is too philosophical, hence unappreciative of things which are distinctively religious.

He pervades the Gospels much more than in other literature of the...

Real literature, including the Bible, rather than just the latest thing, could nurture them in much more useful ways.

There is no magic or specialness to the present sanctified Hebrew anthology than to other anthologies: be it the Qu» ran, The Mahabharata, The Writings of Chuang Tsu, The Panchatantra and many many more ancient pieces of literature.

And one searches far to find in any literature a more moving passage than his plea to the wronged brother whom he does not recognize.

Certainly it assumed definitive form more quickly after Mohammed's death than did any other of the sacred literatures after the passing of the founder of any of the other religions.

In the twentieth century, though we are more biblically illiterate than in any previous day, the Bible still makes its impact upon our literature.

Nowhere in literature has the intoxicant been more lyrically described and exalted than in this ninth book.

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

Nowadays, we have access to more and varied literature than perhaps ever before, but make use of it less.

We might expect that the Jewish literature would provide a closer parallel to the gospel narratives, and, indeed, exorcism stories are more common here than they are in the Hellenistic literature.

But as a type of canonical literature, Israelite wisdom remained relatively peripheral and always more personal than communal in character; and the Psalter, to which occasional reference has been made, is self - evidently in a faith - to - faith category of expression.

Of course, folly in the tradition of ancient wisdom literature involves something more tragic than wasting energy trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records.

For more than a thousand years after Islam came to China there was no translation of the Qur» an or the Hadith, nor were there books which touched on Islam's philosophy, history, science, and literature.