Sentences with phrase «of scholars whose»

«It is a great opportunity to honor the dedication and work of Joe Zins, and to join such an illustrious group of scholars whose efforts are so central to supporting the highest quality research, practice, and policymaking in social - emotional learning.»

«It is a great opportunity to honor the dedication and work of Joe Zins, and to join such an illustrious group of scholars whose efforts are so central to...

The following month, replying to the condemnation of some of his writings by the University of Louvain, Luther referred to Valla in a long list of scholars whose writings were unjustly condemned including Erasmus and Reuchlin — Valla, who was charged, he said, «with the crime of ignorance by those who are quite unworthy to hand him a piss pot.»

The introduction, afterword, translation, appendices and critical apparatus are all stellar work by a dedicated team of scholars whose contribution to future study is enormous.

He was known to order the killing of scholars whose ideas he disagreed with and the burning of «critical» books.

Not exact matches

Great scholars may have studied the Bible, but that does not change the fact that it was written by men whose understanding of the universe was less than that of today's average third grader.

As for today's Magi, well, German Catholic leaders might well reflect, this Weinacht, on the lessons in intellectual humility taught by the scholars whose relics are venerated in one of Germany's great cathedrals.

The authors of individual chapters are seasoned scholars whose prose has been edited into a mellow whole.

The neo-conservatives» quest for U.S. domination of the oil fields in the Middle East and of military and economic geopolitics in that region aligns neatly with the views of Harvard scholar Samuel P. Huntington, whose «clash of civilizations» theory divides the world into the West vs. the Rest.

Rudolf Bultmann, the German New Testament scholar whose program for the «demythologization» of the Gospel provoked a storm of controversy in the years after World War II, wrote in his seminal essay: «It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of....

There were several Sindhi Muslim scholars of note in this period, men whose influence extended to Iraq where the people thought highly of their learning.

He bases this assertion on the work of the Italian patristic scholar Giovanni Cereti, whose research is now over 30 years old.

[17][18][19][20][21] Although scholars differ on the reconstruction of the specific episodes of the life of Jesus, the two events whose historicity is subject to «almost universal as sent» are that he was baptized by John the Baptist and was crucified by the order of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate.

Historical criticism is the process by which modern scholars examine the text of ancient documents and try to determine when they were truly written and whether or not they were authored by the person whose name is on the document.

In giving him the award, the Vatican recognized an Anglican scholar who pioneered a distinctive understanding of the gospels, the implications of whose work still need unpacking.

Bat Ye'or is an Egyptian scholar now living in France and whose earlier book The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam opened up for scholars a relatively neglected area of research.

[15][16][17][18][19] Although scholars differ on the reconstruction of the specific episodes of the life of Jesus, the two events whose historicity is subject to «almost universal assent» are that he was baptized by John the Baptist and was crucified by the order of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate

Josephus, (Antiquities, 20, 9,1) in a text whose authenticity has been questioned by some scholars, tells of the stoning at Jerusalem in A.D. 60 of James «the brother of Jesus who was called Christ» and some others «as breakers of the Law», an act that aroused the displeasure of the more fair - minded of the Jews.

In his long career as a philosopher at the University of Southern California, he earned a reputation for being perhaps the foremost scholar on Edmund Husserl, whose direct realism argues, counter to the constructivism of Immanuel Kant, that there is indeed an objective reality that is at least partially knowable via the mind.

Occasionally Barr mentions a scholar who breaks out of fundamentalism into a genuinely critical stance (though usually extremely conservative)-- but only to call into question the honesty of such shifts without frank recognition of the break and even apology to critics whose work had been dismissed and motives impugned.

Fitzgerald's detailed account of Jacques Maritain's Gauss seminar at Princeton (whose intellectual community included Catholic writers such as Allen Tate, John Berryman, Américo Castro, and Frederick Morgan, the co-founder of the Hudson Review, as well as the Dante scholars Charles Singleton and Francis Fergusson) suggests the quality and intensity of these human networks.

The following fascinating information is based off the writings of world - renown biblical scholar (and my amazing New Testament professor this past semester) Craig Keener, whose The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament has sold more than half a million copies.

To draw this conclusion would be a kerygmatic theological Docetism, or even a denial of faith in God as Creator, under whose worldly rule even the historian does his service as a scholar.

Professor Anthony Esolen is a bright jewel in the crown of Catholic higher education in the United States, a scholar whose brilliant translation of, and commentary on, Dante's Divine Comedy is appreciated far beyond the boundaries of Catholic literary and intellectual life.

I look forward to the lifting of the damnatio memoriae on this brilliant scholar and convert, whose writings have been unavailable for half a century.

The German scholar Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 — 1900) was an intellectual prodigy whose career in teaching and writing was foreshortened by the severe onset of mental illness, the cause of which has been debated ever since.

Justin notes that «searches through several reference books taught me that «homosexual offenders» was a translation of the Greek word arsenokoitai,» a word whose meaning is hotly debated among scholars.

And in telling me I am wrong, you are also suggesting that you know more than the world's foremost expert on this subject, and more than the dozens of scholars (both secular and religious) whose works I have read over a period of more than three decades.

But try as I might, I just can't believe that the Five Books of Moses were written by J, E, P and D — the four main authors whose oral traditions, biblical scholars say, were cobbled together to make the Torah.

While Brock found images of redemption in Scripture, New Testament scholar Gail Paterson Corrington found hers in pre-Christian figures such as Isis and Sophia, ancient female divinities whose legacy lives on in apocryphal literature in the figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

This collection of fifteen essays - with such distinguished contributors as Alister McGrath, John R. W. Stott, Mark A. Noll, James M. Houston, Colin Brown, Kenneth Kantzer, Bruce Waltke, and Roger Nicole - is published in honor of Packer's seventieth birthday and pays due honor to an exemplary scholar whose distinguished career has had such wide influence.

Scholars such as John B. Cobb and David R. Griffin have developed the Christological implications of Whiteheadian process - relational thought in a number of widely read works in recent years.1 «Evangelical» Christians, holding the Christian scriptures to be the uniquely inspired and authoritative charter documents of their faith, and finding in these scriptures a Christ whose divine humanity defies explanation in terms of any general metaphysical scheme, have had for the most part little interest in or even contact with these process - relational Christologies.2 That revelation presents to us this Christ is sufficient warrant for believing him; his being is, at any rate, incommensurate with ours.

Houlden goes on to tell us that there is diversity in the reporting of how this impact occurred: yet he rejects the claim, sometimes made by highly skeptical scholars, «that no intelligible picture can emerge and no statement, of greater or lesser probability, concerning the Jesus whose impact those who gave the early witness experienced, can be made» (p. 134).

In any event, and with all respect to a distinguished scholar - cardinal who has been kind enough to praise my own work on John Paul II and from whose books I have profited over the years, it does seem to me that Cardinal Kasper's analogy between his proposal on Holy Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried, and the development of Catholic self - understanding that led to Vatican II's affirmation of religious freedom, just doesn't work.

Christianity began with one whose public career was so short, whose teachings were seemingly so casual and so conditioned by a particular view of history, and whose death was apparently due to such impractical idealism, that some scholars have held his connection with it to have been only a minor, even though possibly an essential, cause of its existence.

The comparative study of religions has never been merely an academic concern for the great Hindu scholar to whose philosophy this volume is dedicated.

A scholar whose work I admire contributed an eloquent expostulation invoking the Holy Innocents, praising our glorious privilege (not shared by the angels) of bearing scars like those of Christ, and advancing the venerable homiletic conceit that our salvation from sin will result in a greater good than could have evolved from an innocence untouched by death.

It does remind me of a public lecture in which Harvard biblical scholar Jon Levenson, who is Jewish, once defined anti-Semitism as «hating Jews more than is necessary», obviously the kind of remark whose success as comedy turns on the context in which it is spoken and the one who speaks it.

Although scholars differ on the reconstruction of the specific episodes of the life of Jesus, the two events whose historicity is subject to almost universal assent are that he was baptized by John the Baptist and was crucified by the order of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate.

In presenting a reasoned defense of Solzhenitsyn, Mahoney joins a distinguished group of scholars, including Edward Ericson and Alexis Klimoff, whose mission is to rehabilitate Solzhenitsyn in Western eyes.

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

As such, I doff my cap in the direction of my illustrious forebears... Suffice to say that a perusal of the bibliography at the end of this volume will identify those scholars upon whose shoulders I have stood in order to gain the perspective contained herein.

How could the great scholar, whose Greek text of the New Testament had opened up the original words of the Word, be so superficial when it came to theology, indeed to a true understanding of the text?

The liberal ecumenists spoke of the «reunion» of Christendom, even though most scholars say earliest Christianity was itself divided and complex, an intricate web whose essences and outlines can not be retrieved.

In anchoring Jesus firmly in the religion of first - century Judaism, Vermes is part of a growing circle of Jewish scholars whose work makes it possible for modern Judaism to reclaim Jesus as one of its own.

Scholars, both conservative and liberal, are agreed that Luke was the author of both books, though there is no indication in either as to whose pen it was that wrote it.

Youth team goalkeeper Tony Aghayere, the one second year scholar whose future is still to be determined, has today extended his stay with North West Counties club Colne until the end of the season.

Credit is also attributed to researchers and scholars whose works on name meanings are referenced, especially Leslie Dunkling and William Gosling, authors of «The Facts on File Dictionary of First Names», Alfred J. Kolatch, author of «Dictionary of First Names», and E. G. Withycombe, author of «The Oxford Dictionary of Early English Christian Names».

An interdisciplinary field dedicated to the study of geographical regions to expand understanding of the world as a whole, area studies has long been associated with the prominence of Sovietologists, scholars whose lives were devoted to study of the USSR.

The 12th in the series, the «Kronti Ne Akwamu» lecture would feature prominent scholars and practitioners of international and local stature, whose interests and works focus on promotion of democracy, good governance and inclusive development.