Sentences with phrase «of scholarly debate»

But I am also aware that every study is premised on modeling assumptions (such as which years to include), and those assumptions are often the subject of scholarly debate.

Not exact matches

McGill - Queen's University Press is a scholarly publisher of books that engage in public debate, current events, politics, contemporary thought, and the arts.»

The scholarly orgy of debunking has obscured the importance of the facts that such ideals were professed at all, and that debate about them helped to focus the attention of a large, diverse, professional community on the question of what kind of life a lawyer ought to try to live.

Recent scholarly studies such as by Stickler, Cholij and Cochini have reopened the debate about the origins of priestly celibacy, arguing that the Eastern practice is not ancient but an accommodation to lapses among married clergy.

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.

At the start of 2014 I wrote that this year would be «the year of the Bible», by which I meant that honest and important debate about the Bible would make its way from scholarly settings to the grass roots.

The sheer number of philological details, scholarly debates and historical speculations threatens to make the interpreter (and the reader) lose the true power of Paul's argument.

The Synoptic Jesus» focus on the urgency of human readiness to receive God's promised basileia on earth is a subject of much scholarly debate regarding the tension between the signs of its arrival — the blind see, the crippled walk, as proleptic manifestations of Jesus» mediation of God's rule here and now — and the promise of a fullness of that reign yet to be consummated.

Strong feelings also attend the scholarly debate over the role of Christianity in the abolition of slavery.

As the newspaper Haaretz explains, there is still some debate about the Bible's account of David within some scholarly communities: «Did King David even exist, let alone his fabled son, the wise King Solomon?

A Christian Natural Theology explains and defends Whitehead's thought philosophically, and it contributes to current scholarly debates on the interpretation of Whitehead, as we have already seen.125 Its main purpose though is to illustrate how Christian thinking is uniquely possible within the framework of process philosophy.

Apart from certain members of the Jesus Seminar (such as John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg), the person most visible in the Jesus debate on both sides of the Atlantic (on the BBC, on the lecture circuit, in print, at scholarly meetings and in church settings) has been Nicholas Thomas Wright, formerly of Oxford and now the dean of Lichfield Cathedral in England.

The atmosphere is not one of lively and amiable scholarly debate; it is hostile, with the intent to discredit Jesus.

This is new territory for me, doing a book - length study of Jesus and the origins of Christianity, but I have read everything I could get my hands on, weighed all the scholarly debates, and hope my book will be useful to the book - reading public in explaining what we can really know, historically, about Jesus.

In his Praise of Folly (1509) he showed up how remote ecclesiastical and scholarly debate was from pastoral concern.

According to Edward J. Larson's scholarly, informative, Pulitzer Prize - winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, the prosecution of young John Scopes for presumedly violating a state law restricting the teaching of evolution in the public schools need not have resulted in the now legendary high - pitched standoff between the atheistic radical Clarence Darrow and the robustly religious populist William Jennings Bryan.

While the publication of Luther's 95 theses was intended only for scholarly debate, his challenge to papal authority not only evoked a strong ecclesiastical charge of heresy, but found sympathetic support from the laity, anti-clericals, German nationalists, humanists and the poor and ordinary people who heard him preach, and culminated in his defense by his sovereign, Frederick the Elector of Saxony.

The first and most glaring assumption that «scholarly» people often make is that somehow their opinion is always the right one which begins a «philosophical» debate rather than actual «Theological» discussion, especially when it comes to matters of religion and biblical facts.

There is lots of debate in the commentaries and scholarly articles about whether it was really the apostles who doubted or someone else, and whether or not they really doubted, or it was just an inquisitive faith, or maybe they didn't really doubt Jesus, but they doubted that this person who appeared to them this time was really Jesus, and on and on it goes.

Virtually every verse in the book — including some of the most decisive ones — has been subjected to scholarly debate.

In addressing the subject of exit strategies, this book necessarily delves into and contributes to one of the most important unresolved scholarly debates of modern times: namely the characteristics and requirements of a sustainable peace.

Over the last decades, populism and technocracy have attracted a great deal of public attention and generated a lively scholarly debate.

The project aims to capture a sense of the debates, ideas, and culture of a period which has, until now, lacked scholarly attention.

The recommendations of the Council on Bioethics, though substantive and scholarly, have by and large not been put into practice by policymakers, and the group's prominence has faded as the debate about stem cell research has ground to a standoff.

Whether women's mate preferences shift at high fertility has been a source of debate since the late 1990s, when the first scholarly studies to hint at such a change appeared.

Weinstock's celebration of the vampire film's tendency to refer to its own corpus perhaps arrives too late into the scholarly debate on this highly attractive theme.

And, don't miss Ed Week «s special commentary package coming out next week (both in print and online) on the RHSU rankings — including a lively discussion of what happens when scholarly engagement in public debate ceases to be a good thing, how we can tell, and what can be done about it.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

A scholarly and historical perspective on educational planning is timely in light of recent debates about its shortcomings in the age of the Sustainable Development Goals.

In the open access debate, advocates for traditional, for - profit scholarly journals often claim that these journals add value to the papers they publish in the form of editorial services that improve their readability and clarity.

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art was a beautiful example of what we do best: organize a groundbreaking contemporary exhibition, publish an accompanying scholarly catalogue, attract diverse audiences with exciting programs, teach a new chapter of art history, feature global artists of color, and invite meaningful dialogue and debate.

Third, another core conclusion of the new study is largely being lost in the partisan and, to a lesser extent, scholarly, debates about its methods and quality.

I see him around a lot & he clearly still very much engaged in scholarly conversation about the interaction of science & politics — a topic that necessarily brings him into contact w / climate debate.

«Professor Tol's repeated, groundless attacks on this article, and on SEI for its association with the article, have violated the norms of civility and scholarly debate,» it said.

It supports research and scholarly debate on the causes and effects of climate change.

The journal also welcomes analyses of practical applications of environmental, energy technology, regional, and urban policies, as well as theoretically robust discussions of common arguments that appear throughout debates on environment and energy policy, either in the scholarly literature or in the broader civic sphere.

Yet the NY Times and WaPos of the world would like us to believe that such reporting * is * their forte... yet... they've really done little (if anything) to expose as false claims that there are two legitimate scholarly sides to the «climate debate», and at times add credibility to claims that indeed perhaps the climate science side is the side playing games (climategate coverage, etc) rather than the McI's, Wegman's, and RP [J / S] rs of the world.

Real Climate pointed to an interesting scholarly article on the hurricane debate: Curry, Webster, & Holland, «Mixing Politics and Science in Testing the Hypothesis That Greenhouse Warming Is Causing a Global Increase in Hurricane Intensity» in the current Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS).

For example, the American History Association, with 15,000 members, issued a statement on Scholarly Journal Publishing September 24, 2012 on that addresses the «debates over «open access» to research» that speaks on behalf of the humanities generally.

The court reconsidered its reasoning in Baures, noting that «the vigorous scholarly debate among social scientists who have studied the impact of relocation on children following divorce reveals that relocation may affect children in many different ways.»

ANZALS is a member - based not - for - profit organisation that encourages and supports the development of leisure research and teaching through scholarly debate, the exchange of ideas and the publication of new knowledge, and through enhancing the profile of leisure studies, particularly in Australia and New Zealand.

This report reviews the facts underlying the delinquency debate — the wealth of scholarly evidence on the causes and correlates of delinquency and existing research examining how well various approaches to crime succeed in practice.