Sentences with phrase «of academic interest in»

This impression may lurk behind the lack of academic interest in it.

Cohen's story is misguided on several levels, but the basic problem is that she claims to be writing about «the culture of poverty,» but instead writes about the revival of academic interest in the dysfunctional African - American family, the subject of a controversial 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan («The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,» which can be viewed here.).

When a developer or a department of transportation hires a cultural - resources management consultant, they're not doing it out of academic interest in historic sites; they want to make sure they're in compliance with the law.

And like Genesis, it is a story told not out of academic interest in recovering the distant past and retelling that past for its own sake alone, but because the subsequent scenes of that history, including every «present» scene, are given sense and meaning only when viewed against this formative, exciting, and in every way remarkable first scene of the Exodus events.

Not exact matches

If that hypothetical student borrowed using a federal direct loan for graduate school, which had a rate of 5.84 percent last academic year, she would have accrued $ 1,682 in interest during the grace period.

«This one is a bit more academic and psychological, especially the first few chapters, but all in all, a great book with lots of interesting insights and strong research.»

When that same idea comes up in academic circles, it's more likely the self - interest they are trying to preserve is their own interest in avoiding the hard work of figuring out which business behaviours are unethical, and why.

Even more worrisome, this lack of interest in academic effort appears to have started at home.

The Fiduciary Rule and PTEs followed an extensive public rulemaking process in which the Department evaluated a large body of academic and empirical work on conflicts of interest, and determined that conflicted advice was causing harm to retirement investors.

Coming back to the broader issue of data innovation, it is interesting to note that dataset merges have been behind a growing number of important academic studies and research findings in recent years.

Dec 14, 2015: In a November poll of academic and business economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal, 92 % said they expected the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in December, the first such hike in more than nine yearIn a November poll of academic and business economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal, 92 % said they expected the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in December, the first such hike in more than nine yearin December, the first such hike in more than nine yearin more than nine years.

Much of the academic work on agency theory in the decades since has focused on ensuring that managers seek to maximize shareholder returns — primarily by aligning their interests with those of shareholders.

Many employers are reluctant to suggest higher default contribution rates due to a concern that their workers might blindly accept what is not in their best interest, or that they might get intimidated and opt out of the plan altogether,» says Dr. Shlomo Benartzi, senior academic advisor to the Voya Behavioral Finance Institute for Innovation.

The nature of Start - Up Chile's creation and its subsequent achievements have resulted in domestic and international academic interest.

In addition to the normal representation of regional and linguistic interests, the commission included members from business, labour, the co-operative movement, the legal and academic communities, the public service and all 3 national political parties.

An interesting article, as a small business owner in the UK, I am aware of some of the factors discussed, it is interesting to consider the entrepreneur from an academic perspective.

By now you'll no doubt see the obvious correlations between them all as well, and the really interesting thing about it all is that in each and every one of them, both the ones I have reported on here as well as others we are yet to review, the lessons we take from them are not to be found in academic institutions.

According to the Times, Kogan insisted both in the fine print of the survey and to Facebook that his interest in the data was purely academic.

Instead, he presents his proposal in the terms of a labor - union manifesto: «It is long past time for faculty members to rise above narrow self - interest, give up the doctrine of academic exceptionalism, and agree to the same terms of employment as everyone else in the workforce.»

All of this information is not without a certain interest, but even someone like myself, unusually interested in the man, closes this book reflecting on Gadamer's epigraph to his own academic memoir of 1977, Philosophical Apprenticeships: «De nobis ipsis silemus»» about oneself one must keep silent.

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

Is there any way in which this school's particular way of «having to do with God» can honor and embrace academic disciplines precisely by employing them in its own interests «having to do with God»

Though he was trained as an academic with a strong background in philosophy, Sheen was able to sustain the interest of and communicate to a wide range of people of all faiths.

Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the past.

Rather, the proposal is that study of every subject matter that is selected for study (using whatever academic disciplines are appropriate) be shaped and guided by an interest in the question: What is that subject matter's bearing on, or role in, the practices that constitute actual enactments, in specific concrete circumstances, of various construals of the Christian thing in and as Christian congregations?

For anyone interested in what chic academic criticism looks and feels like today, Institutions of Modernism is as good a place to start as any.

Sometimes the most secular of scholars found that what Frei was doing, with his attention to narrative and his interest in the language that shapes a particular community, made more sense to them than the work of many theologians much more systematically concerned to address other academic disciplines.

Apart from academic specialists, American interest in Islam has been limited largely to people concerned about the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East, or to friends of Israel who want to understand their enemy.

In the meantime, Wood appears to be sanguine that if the leading question of theological inquiry is kept explicitly in view, it is powerful enough not only to subsume the leading interest of each of the relevant academic disciplines but also to resist distortions that the institutionalization of the academic disciplines might tend to impose on theologIn the meantime, Wood appears to be sanguine that if the leading question of theological inquiry is kept explicitly in view, it is powerful enough not only to subsume the leading interest of each of the relevant academic disciplines but also to resist distortions that the institutionalization of the academic disciplines might tend to impose on theologin view, it is powerful enough not only to subsume the leading interest of each of the relevant academic disciplines but also to resist distortions that the institutionalization of the academic disciplines might tend to impose on theology.

Friedrich Delitzsch, the German Assyriologist gave an interesting series of lectures on the subject as far back as 1902 in front of Kaiser Wilhelm II and a select audience of German theologians and leading academics that caused a scandal at the time.

While seminaries and churches have shown a burgeoning interest in the arts, the academic study of religion and the arts has come under fire in some quarters.

If this model of self - interested behavior oriented to material gain were used only in one academic discipline and successfully countered by models used in other disciplines, the consequences might not be culturally serious.

He was not an academic, never having been given the opportunity to study at a postgraduate level, but he was an intellectual, a man who was passionately interested in the meaning of reality and possessed of an immense ability to see to the heart of a matter.

Hiring Royce is a moment of hope for people like me interested in teaching the academic foundations of community.

Beyond this narrow academic interest, however, intellectuals and policy - makers generally dismiss the phenomenon as marginal to the major currents of political change in South Africa.

I am a scholar / practitioner who is often torn between my academic interest in ritual performance and my responsibilities as a member of the Christian clergy and am myself ordained to perform Christian rites and rituals.

This interpretation of the election fits nicely with the conventional view of American politics, held by academics and journalists alike, that party coalitions and electoral outcomes are rooted in economic self - interest.

Of the kernel of history which transcends the myth, Bultmann can speak only in negative terms: «Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the pasOf the kernel of history which transcends the myth, Bultmann can speak only in negative terms: «Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the pasof history which transcends the myth, Bultmann can speak only in negative terms: «Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the pasof his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the pasof the past.

The judge added: «Universities also have a wide range of interests in and responsibilities for their students - academic social and pastoral.

«you are not interested in reading about and rationalizing the real story of your Jesus» is a silly claim bearing in mind the academic robustness required of me in studying theology at honours level and biblical interpretation at masters, validated by the secular Aberdeen University in Scotland.

It also bears mentioning, in closing, that the gains from thinking about religion from a broader global perspective accrue not only to the academic researcher in pursuit of recondite problems to study but also to the practitioner of religion and to those whose interest in world affairs resides simply at the level of informed citizen.

Otherwise, the work of the school will be academic in the bad sense of the word — remote, abstract, dull, tedious, with no likelihood of attracting the students» interest.

Abingdon has opened a new office in Atlanta, specifically for editing academic books; Westminster / John Knox has affirmed its interest in serious theological publishing; and Augsburg Fortress has sought to reassure those concerned about the future of the Fortress tradition.

It might be a community of quasi-clergy related to Christian congregations in the way in which clergy are supposed to be related to the congregations they lead, yet distinct because it is constituted by academic interests of special interest to clergy rather than constituted as a church.

I am less interested here to press my description of the particular values that inhere in academic life than I am to insist that, whatever their identity, they are built into the institution's spatial and temporal forms, its patterns of behavior, and its ideological set; and that value, both systemic and sentient, has a profound socializing effect.

In the seminaries and theological faculties it is treated on the one hand as of purely academic interest and on the other, as portrayed to many of us when training to be priests, of no significance at all.

Other symptoms of this new spirit are to be found in the increased interest in the common worship of the academic community, though this is by no means universally evident; in the widespread and intensive discussions of faculties about the purpose and organization of the course of study; in the experiments that are being carried on to relate the work of the seminary more intimately to the work of other church agencies, particularly to the local churches.

The author of this book, a professor of history at the University of Delaware, is an academic of diverse interests, having published volumes on the maritime communities of colonial Massachusetts and the origins of fervent Protestantism in the American South.

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

Since 1973 there has been unprecedented academic interest in the subject and a spate of books on different aspects of it.»