Sentences with phrase «of modern historians»

It DOES matter who wrote the story down first because whoever does something first is the winner, the undisputed originator (in the eyes of modern historians).

This basic methodological insight was implemented by the results of detailed analysis: William Wrede demonstrated that Mark is not writing with the objectivity or even the interests of a modern historian, but rather as a theologian of the «Messianic secret».

Not exact matches

Historian, Alexandra Munroe, described the period as «undoubtedly the most creative outburst of anarchistic, subversive and riotous tendencies in the history of modern Japanese culture.»

Historian Paul Johnson commented on the advance of atheism in modern history:» Nietzsche wrote in 1886:» The greatest event of recent times — that God is dead, that the belief in the Christian God is no longer tenable — is beginning to cast its first shadows over Europe.»

So is religious faith, of course, but our nation's original faith had a uniquely Calvinist form — a kind of radically this - worldly Christianity which, to echo the historian Carlos Eire, paved the way for modern unbelief.

As a historian I do not want people downplaying horrific events for modern points - be it the early persecution of the church, the Crusades, the holocaust - whatever it might be.

Goldberg is a political journalist, not a historian, and readers more familiar with the ideological twists and turns of the modern era will be familiar with his thesis: While the left has long depicted the right as fascist, it is in fact the left — from Hegel to Hitler to Hillary and, yes, the politics of meaning, too — that follows the fascist formula most influentially articulated by Mussolini: «Everything within the state; nothing outside the state; nothing against the state.»

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

Historians of this period wrote works which are immensely valuable sources of information to scholars of modern times.

The great French historian Jacques Le Goff credited Dante with doing more than any theologian to make purgatory a meaningful part of Christian tradition, and, more recently, Jon M. Sweeney has argued that Dante practically invented the modern idea of hell.

One of the 20th century's greatest historians of Christian philosophy long ago suggested that it is time that the Church consider an ambitious approach to the challenge of modern science.

While the birth year of Jesus is estimated among modern historians to have been between 7 and 2 BC, the exact month and day of his birth are unknown.

Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed, [5][6][7][8] and biblical scholars and cla ssical historians regard theories of his non-existence as effectively refuted.

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of accu.mulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

A fascinating recent book by historian Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt To Sunbelt, shows how a vast migration of «plain - folk» religious migrants from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas flocked to Southern California during World War II, winning the region for Christ and the modern Republican right.

Its ideological presuppositions are difficult to specify: the author takes his theoretical framework from the radical historians Charles Beard and William Appleman Williams, but much of his cultural critique of modern American society carries echoes of Pat Buchanan.

Funny how most credible historians credit the Judeo / Christian value system as being a major factor in the foundation and success of modern Europe and the Americas.

According to Eliade, the historian of religion will include the entire religious history of humanity, from Paleolithic to modern period, in his / her field of investigation without any pre-judgement.

Yet the most popular modern guide in any language is Steven Runciman, a refined British private scholar of medieval Balkan and Byzantine history who insisted that he was «not a historian but a writer of literature» and argued that «Homer as well as Herodotus was a Father of History.»

He has been called by a modern English historian of Chinese culture «one of the most remarkable and brilliant men in history» (Joseph Needham, in Science and Civilization in China, 2 vols.

In When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary America.

When a modern historian sets about writing the history of the United States he feels it necessary of course to go back to the period of discovery and colonization; and to give some account of the European people, chiefly the English who colonized and came to rule the Continent.

Claiming authority primarily as a «historian,» Lindsell adduces a string of quotations to support his position and then devotes the larger and more controversial part of his book to detailing the supposedly modern declension from this stance in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, among the Southern Baptists, at Fuller Theological Seminary, in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and even among the members of the ETS (the Evangelical Theological Society, whose members are required to subscribe annually to a single statement — that «the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written, and therefore inerrant in the autographs»).

The historian may still question the soundness of southern leadership, but he will remember that men whose opportunity in the Modern World was one of producing its raw cotton did not deliberately choose to do so on plantations with Negro slavery.

For among historians of science it is most prominently Duhem and Jaki who have provided the documentation of the importance of theism and «metaphysical realism» not only for the origin and development of modern science, but also for the possibility of its coherent continuation and moral direction.

Whitehead pointed out long ago, in Science and the Modern World, that the habits of medieval rationalism prepared the way for the scientific discoveries of the seventeenth century, an insight given far more documentation, depth, and scope in the writings of the historian and philosopher of science Stanley L. Jaki in our time.

Like the historian of religion, the biblical theologian ought never set out to update the sense of the Bible, bringing it into the modern world.

David Hume Scottish Empiricist Philosopher, Historian, and Economist, Founder of Modern Skepticism Church of Scotland (Presbyterian)

The modern historian, as Friedrich Gogarten has pointed out, sees history as a linear process of evolution, comparable to the flow of experience reflected in the consciousness of the unrelated I.

Virtually all art historians who have critiqued this painting see it as a rejection of religion (particularly the Bible) for the modern, joyous lifestyle of 19th - century France.

Luke was not like the modern secular historian, and therefore we should not think of him as such, nor should we tacitly assume that his writings were the outcome of modern methods.

I suppose this is a matter of being a responsible academic historian in the modern university, but I would rather Eire wrote history from an objective, Catholic perspective, instead of relativizing all the elements of faith to «what people believed.»

It is significant that from the second century to the nineteenth, when modern historical scholarship became current, theories about the Bible were held which no competent historian now accepts, such as that Moses wrote the entire Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) including the description of his own death.

The Israelites recognized, just as modern historians also, that as a nation they were highly composite; lineal descent from Abraham or from Jacob was a pleasant fiction to which some central reality was attached, but it was in no sense the test of membership in the commonwealth of Israel.

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of acc.umulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

Actually it does, see many of the ancient historians, that our modern historians except as factual, don't have nearly as many copies of their manuscripts as the Bible.

In the light of these continuities, we welcome a comprehensive account of this formative era from the peerless historian of American religion, Martin E. Marty: It is titled Modern American Religion (Vol.

Given that Solomon is not mentioned in any other known sources from ancient times, a modern historian also has to wonder about what to make of the Bible's description of his extensive empire, fabulous wealth and renowned wisdom.

[the Catholic historian Christopher Dawson argued that] both the Protestant north, with its austere religion of individual and interior faith, and a Catholic France, which had resisted the Counter-Reformation, were the seedbeds of modern secularity through their detaching of reason from both faith and imagination, thus liberating it for purely instrumental purposes... His was not a sentimental medievalism....

We historians of the ancient Greeks» democracy need to keep banging on not only about the virtues of their peculiar political form, but also about the key differences — theoretical, ideological, and pragmatic — between any modern versions of «democracy» and theirs.

The historian's detection of the kerygma at the centre of the Gospels found a formal analogy in the contemporary view of historiography as concerned with underlying meaning, and this correlation led to the view that the kind of quest of the historical Jesus envisaged by the nineteenth century not only can not succeed, but is hardly appropriate to the intention of the Gospels and the goal of modern historiography.

If by this one means that we can know very little about Jesus of Nazareth by means of the scientific methods of the historian, so that a modern biography of him is hardly possible, such a viewpoint need not trouble the believer, although it could be a topic of legitimate discussion among historians.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

In The Historian and the Believer, 57 Van A. Harvey uses the metaphor of judicial proceedings to illuminate the different relationships between evidence, warrants, and conclusions involved in the «field - encompassing» discipline practiced by the modern scientific hHistorian and the Believer, 57 Van A. Harvey uses the metaphor of judicial proceedings to illuminate the different relationships between evidence, warrants, and conclusions involved in the «field - encompassing» discipline practiced by the modern scientific historianhistorian.

The delicate balance he strikes between modern scientific knowledge and traditional Christian faith exemplifies his longtime vocation as a distinguished Mennonite scientist and historian of science.

Eire is one of America's most distinguished historians of early modern religion, and his absorption of the newer historiography is proclaimed in the fact that his book is entitled Reformations, in the plural.

Here he differs strikingly from another distinguished American Catholic historian of early modern religion, Brad Gregory.

This is not to say that he was always reliably informed, or that — any more than modern historians — he always presented a severely factual account of events.

Afficionados of modern poured - concrete design were in for a rude awakening last month when they heard NJIT Assistant Professor Matt Burgermaster's presentation at the 64th annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians.

«Historians including Lucien Febvre agree atheism in its modern sense did not exist before the end of the seventeenth century.