Sentences with phrase «of academic debate»

Through the publication of case notes, critical methodologies, surveys and practice evaluation, these titles help to support the strength of academic debate between academia and the practice of law and criminal justice.
After such a raucous week, Dr. Soon seemed eager to return to the relatively quiet realm of academic debate.
Owing to these pressures and the gutter tactics of the academic debate on climate change, I recently resigned my tenured faculty position at Georgia Tech.»
Their highly sexualised appearance became the focus of academic debate and prompted the exploration of the fetishized image of women and the male gaze in general.
When judgment falls, it will be only a matter of academic debate whether it was the disunity of professing Christians, as ecumenists think, that frustrated the emergence of «the great world church,» or whether it was the doctrinal compromises of ecumenical pluralists or the shortsighted squabbling of evangelical independents that spurred the breakdown of Western technological civilization.
So it will go on, I suppose, till we find someone with enough courage, enough learning, enough public standing to undertake the synthesis; there is a battle royal, long overdue, which still has to be fought out at the level of academic debate (p13).
As a result, religious voices like those of philosophers Alastair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Paul Ricoeur, and John Milbank are closer to the heart of academic debate than they have been for several generations.
I feel commodities have offered a reasonable rate of return, but it seems there is a lot of academic debate as to why.
Turning to investment managers and their non-reaction to the threat he feels Fed action poses, Rodriguez then said they «do not appear particularly concerned with, [or] worried about, the finer nuances of an academic debate between two different schools of economic thought.

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And while the academic debate over patient outcomes is a heated one, a rough consensus does emerge when it comes to more complicated surgeries — such as radical prostatectomy, where the prostate gland and some of its surrounding tissue is removed, usually to treat prostate cancer.
What started as an arcane ideal debated a few years ago by techno - academics has become an issue that a good portion of the general public understands.
Academic research suggests the real impact of the laws is not nearly as dramatic as the debate suggests.
Researchers, tech companies, academics — both local and foreign — debate how these policies will affect the evolution of the business environment in China.
JDC West is a three - day competition that challenges students in the areas of academics, athletics, debate and social events.
The competition is a three - day event that showcases academics, athletics, debate, and an out - of - the - box social competition.
Cited thousands of times in the news media and academic literature, Dr. Morgan's work on the topic has helped to spark national policy debate regarding universal pharmacare in Canada.
how naive can you POSSIBLY be?!? Crash course in history — there are always academics arguing a variety of different sides in a debate.
Just to think that He debated with the academics of His day at this age.
Members of the Society were responding with full force saying they were ready for an academic debate, not childish hysterics and name calling.
At the beginning of Morrison's tenure, their most burning controversy involved the new higher criticism of the Bible, and much of the debate focused on Morrison's coeditor, Herbert L. Willett, an acknowledged champion of the new academic discipline.
with the bogeyman of «Reactionary Thomists» still latent in the minds of academic theologians who otherwise know little about the debates involved.
We are aware that there are those who will dismiss this whole debate as being of only academic interest, with little pastoral and social relevance.
A culture of bullying has taken over in this area, and the idea of academic freedom, wide enquiry, and genuine debate and analysis is no longer seen as essential in university life.
I thought of this recently as I re-read Harvard's report on the humanities «Mapping the Future» in light of the debate over academic freedom that Peter Lawler addressed.
It is in this context that academic freedom finds meaning — it supports a plurality of voices and traditions (past and present) when debating what vision of human life maximizes flourishing, which is the ongoing project of any society that seeks to perpetuate itself.
After all, if all these smarter - than - me theologians, theorists, academics, scholars, thinkers, and leaders on both sides of the issue haven't been able to put the debate to rest,...
It is interesting to note that National Statistics, reported by The Daily Telegraph, not long after the debate indicated that homosexual persons make up 1.5 \ % of the United Kingdom population; a figure consistent with Academic research over twenty five years.
You're not going to get scholarly debate or academic pursuit of positions, theses, and opinions, you're going to have two frustrated people calling each other names trying to win a fight that isn't even happening.
The hotly debated question as to whether this implies that the Kingdom is to be regarded as present, inbreaking, dawning, casting its shadows before it, or whatever, becomes academic when we realize that the claim of the saying is that certain events in the ministry of Jesus are nothing less than an experience of the Kingdom of God.
The most vital scientific need is the critical, adversarial edge provided by cognitive dissidents, most of whom enter academic debate with prior motives and agendas, including theological agendas.
Global science, by the way, is not unified and spends most of its time bickering back on forth over every issue, not to advance debate, but to justify academic publishing requirements.
Publication of The Black Book of Communism in November 1997 in France stirred up a major political and intellectual debate, propelling this academic study of the nature of tyranny onto the best - seller list.
By suggesting a correlation between how well a college actually succeeds in forming and shaping students» lives during their academic journey and well - being after graduation, the report offers an opportunity for further debate over how best to cultivate the life of the mind.
After all, if all these smarter - than - me theologians, theorists, academics, scholars, thinkers, and leaders on both sides of the issue haven't been able to put the debate to rest, what chance does a slim yellow book by a happy - clappy Canadian mama - writer have?
The issues discussed were broader than those now debated among practitioners of religious studies, since the early economists did not know that their task was to establish an academic discipline.
That the angelic spirits and the souls of the just know the very mind of God has not been subject to much academic disputation and debate.
That, if they would only listen to themselves more carefully, is what some advocates of academic freedom are asserting in current debates about Christian higher education.
With the rise of the evolution — creationism debate in the U.S., these academics, even if they did not subscribe to a religious faith themselves, were having to become more aware of ways in which faith and science interpenetrate, connect and harmonise.
Every generation, it seems, has its paradigm - defining Supreme Court case: a decision (or series of decisions) that determines the jurisprudential ethos and frames the judicial, political, and academic debate for the next quarter century or so.
Over the last several decades the academic study of religion has been marked by a debate that, put much too simply, pits a «Yale school» against a....
The debate about the symbolic dimension of expression, about the relation between literal and figurative uses of language, is an academic battleground.
Martin Luther's protest initially took the form of a public challenge to an academic debate on a swathe of theological niceties.
Recently I listened to a debate online between two biblical scholars — one a famous British academic who holds a more or less traditionally orthodox view of Christianity and the Bible, the other an American and well - known former fundamentalist turned aggressive agnostic.
At the risk of oversimplification, the incorporation debate has enlisted three warring factions, each supported by diverse academic armament.
Though bioethicists may continue their academic debates for decades to come, there is no need to cause unnecessary confusion among couples navigating a rocky enough road as it is, so I hope these sections may be amended in future editions of the book.
Within the real academic world untainted by the pollution of religion in their brain, there exists much debate as to whether Jesus ever existed.
However, when it comes to killing newborns, our academic culture thinks it a topic worthy of discussion and debate.
Wapshott moves from biographical sketches of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek to a detailed yet accessible account of their early academic debates on the causes of and remedies for the business cycle's boom and bust, the nature of money, inflation, unemployment, and more.
After acrimonious arguments about the judges and about the reporting of the debate; after a tedious procession to church, a new twelve - part Mass, and a long droned out and largely inaudible introduction by a local academic, the debate finally got under way on 27 July between Eck and Karlstadt in the great hall of the Pleissenburg Castle.
For those not familiar with academic debates, the impression could be given that West's work contains serious errors, when, in fact, his books have received imprimaturs and the endorsement of trusted figures.
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