Sentences with phrase «of the academic discipline of»

I explain that it's taught from the vantage - point of the academic discipline of biblical scholarship.

One may still think that we can and should change the way the system works without challenging the theoretical assumptions of the academic discipline of economics.

Among these individuals were Josef Albers and Hans Hofmann who escaped Hitler's Reich and established themselves as influential art teachers and theorists in New York; Erwin Panofsky, a founding father of the academic discipline of Art History in its modern form, who taught at New York and Princeton Universities; prominent German Surrealist painter Max Ernst and the primary theorist of Surrealist movement André Breton, who fled the occupied city of Paris; and Piet Mondrian and Ferdinand Léger, who brought their unique pictorial modes as their only luggage.

L. Rev. 887, 924 — 25 (2002)(discussing the need for consistent legal - writing terminology, or «jargon,» to effectively communicate about writing and about the substance of the academic discipline of legal writing).

Not exact matches

Business ethics is a number of things — an academic discipline, a field of practical expertise and, increasingly, a central business function.

Summers, who is considered the academic architect of the strong dollar - weak gold policy implemented by the Clinton administration, has achieved notoriety because of the tough way in which the IMF has tried to discipline countries implementing lax fiscal policies.

In view of his approach to solving the problems facing higher education, it's not surprising that, although long a tenured professor at prestigious schools, Taylor evinces little respect for academic disciplines.

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.

Here there seem to be three options: to continue the pursuit of theology as though this change had not taken place, to engage in introspective analysis of theology's role amid the academic disciplines, or to identify theology with some social cause.

Our own historic errors have much responsibility for the errors of contemporary academic disciplines and humanistic culture generally.

But followers of Jesus who adopt Whitehead's vision can not stay within the bounds of any academic discipline.

I became convinced that one major reason for decline was that theology had become an academic discipline rather than the articulation of the faith of ordinary Christians.

There are whole disciplines of academic study on Greek, Asian, African, Mesoamerican, and Egyptian culture and mythology, and her work consistently ignores key aspects of each and every realm of study her work tries to touch.

He is one of a chorus of critics whose expertise ranges across the academic disciplines - philosophers, geologists, drama critics, literary men and women, students of law and of history, theologians, and so on.

Beginning in the sixties there have been waves of protest both against the transformation of the university into an economistic institution and against academic disciplines that are not geared to the urgent issues of our time.

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»

Our task as Whiteheadians is to oppose the hegemony of any academic discipline, and today that means particularly the hegemony of economics.

Nevertheless, during the twentieth century, practitioners of economics as an academic discipline, especially in the English - language world, have moved away from political economy.

From a Whiteheadian perspective all academic disciplines are involved in the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.

But all academic disciplines abstract from the actual world in such ways that they are not qualified to provide the overview for the formation of public policy.

The relations among the academic disciplines and the whole way we have been conditioned to see the world are also consistent consequences of the teaching of the Enlightenment.

Since conceptual capacities needed to understand God include capacities that are «existentially» significant while at the same time fully as rational and as rigorously disciplined as any other capacities to understand anything else, can academic schooling be understood adequately simply as the acquisition of capacities for disciplined accumulation and mastery of data and capacities for critical and self - critical theorizing (cf the «Berlin» model)?

It takes profound educational work and continuous discernment, which must involve all the academic community, promoting that synthesis between intellectual formation, moral discipline and religious commitment which Blessed John Henry Newman proposed in his «Idea of University.»

It is very unlikely that much of the knowledge and informtion needed in order to deal with the problem can be derived from within the academic discipline of theology.

The major resistance to the total victory of economism in higher education is commitment to academic disciplines.

Furthermore, in my view the refusal to study historical facts when they conflict with theory illustrates the worst features of academic disciplines.

This quest requires an internal renewal of theology and philosophy — not merely as academic disciplines, but as ways of life — and they need to be brought to bear on the governing assumptions, the unarticulated ontology of our culture.

Most of them recognize that economics as an academic discipline abstracts from the full concreteness of human beings and the natural world.

Theologians do not pretend to be engaged in value - free inquiry as do the practitioners of academic disciplines in general.

Intended to provide an overview of the state of the academic discipline known as Christian ethics, this book achieves its purpose with essays by eighteen veterans of that enterprise.

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?

Until quite recently it was a solid, slow moving «book - discipline,» an academic discipline in which most of the important material was published in hardcover books.

Nevertheless, I doubt that you agree with those that underlie economic theory or, for that matter, most of the other academic disciplines.

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.

Wood is not much troubled by the fact, which so disturbs Farley and Hough and Cobb, that the way in which academic disciplines are institutionalized in American higher education also dictates the structure of the curricula of theological schools.

A fierce focus on academic success among the young and career success for adults builds habits of discipline that can function reasonably well without old - fashioned moral rigorism.

The reason is that the idiom «tends to perpetuate the conventional dichotomy between so - called «theoretical» («wissenschaftlich,» «academic») and «practical» disciplines, and at the same time to promote a false impression of agreement on terms» (63).

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 theology.

Theology is both an academic discipline and a practical responsibility of the church.

Mission Study or Missiology (as we interchangeably use the two terms) as an academic discipline is closely related to the study of (other) living religions, and the discipline itself by definition is incomplete without its biblical - theological, historical, and practical - ethical dimensions and foundations.

The bulk of academic writing in my discipline is not really writing but a collection of marks on paper put down in response to similar marks put down in response to other marks put down in response to... The authors of these texts do not have a conception of writing as an art, or of the need for the imagery, inflection, and rhythm that hold open the mind of the reader so that the thought can slip past them into his soul.

Although I never practiced at the Bar, the discipline of legal thinking helped me to break away from the closed world of the academic seminar.

I had not come from a church background, and had little to no understanding of theology as a spiritual exercise or an academic discipline.

This isolates theological wisdom into «academic disciplines» which then seem irrelevant, and it empties practice (what ministers do as ministers) of theological understanding.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

At Vanderbilt the constituencies were reassured that the university was persisting in its primal Christian commitment because of high standards in academics, or a liberal or broad or thorough curriculum, or freedom from dogmatism, or the cultivation of moral character, or social conscience regarding racial integration or the relief of poverty, or decorum and discipline in fraternities and at football games.

But the general comments made thus far point toward other features of Enlightenment thought that are fully adopted by the academic discipline of economics, especially in its neo-liberal form.

The academic disciplines are children of the European Enlightenment.

Academic generalists are regarded with pity, condescension, or contempt and usually find it possible to survive in the academic scramble only by redeeming their generality through affiliation with one of the specialized discAcademic generalists are regarded with pity, condescension, or contempt and usually find it possible to survive in the academic scramble only by redeeming their generality through affiliation with one of the specialized discacademic scramble only by redeeming their generality through affiliation with one of the specialized disciplines.

Hence bits and pieces of the totality of things can become the subject of an academic discipline that can then develop suitable methods of study with little attention to what is happening in other disciplines.