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.
Friends Diane (Diane Keaton, left), Sharon (Candice Bergen), Vivian (Jane Fonda) and Carol (Mary Steenburgen) talk about
more than literature in «Book Club.»
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.
Not exact matches
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.