Sentences with phrase «only as scholars»

He was well received, not only as a scholar who had studied in Mecca but also because he was, according to tradition, a Sharif — a descendant of the Prophet.

Not exact matches

Translation scholar Peter Newmark explains that the translator has a duty to be faithful to the speaker or writer only in as far as their words do not conflict with material and moral facts as known - and they can express dissent if the text is likely to mislead the receiving audience.

What you claim is as silly as saying «when only a few learned scholars figured out the earth went around the sun, that was wrong because MOST people believed the sun went around the earth and claimed to see that motion every day.»

b) you seem unaware (despite your recent appeal to internet available scholarship) that most scholars take the opposite stance (namely: not only that Paul's teaching is in chorus with Christ, but as an ardent follower of Christ, his teaching * flows directly out * of what Jesus taught)

Although the book is best regarded more as a presentation of the Supreme Court's religious - freedom work than as a direct study of the questions underlying that work» the work of constitutional scholars, for example, is for the most part only referenced, not engaged» it is, nonetheless, recommended.

But just as with a doctor diagnosing a disease, the «expert opinions» of the Bible scholars are only needed about 1 % of the time, and even then, a person would be wise to get «a second opinion» or even a third or fourth.

I intend to articulate a consensus, increasingly evident but as yet unformulated, among such a diverse group of pastors and scholars as William Willimon and Laurence Stookey, Horace Allen and Arlo Duba, Doug Adams and Keith Watkins, to mention only a few pre-eminent leaders.

In his first address he says that some scholars have likened religion to the prescriptions of a doctor who does not create any properties in the medicines but only points to such as nature has putin them.

Oden proceeds here at a very deliberate pace, as no doubt a scholar must, and this often obliges him to illustrate a point by quoting some amusing passage from Kierkegaard's work only then to offer an inevitably ponderous explanation of the joke.

Where a less conscientious scholar might simply have dismissed this subculture as a realm of kooks, obsessives and the certifiably insane, worthy only of jeering ridicule, Barkun patiently discusses each book and Web site, tracing the elaboration of ever more fantastic theories.

The only issues I have are when Bible scholars and Churches are adamant in defending every biblical word as fact and try use it as a crystal ball similar to Nostrodamus disciples.

consider the opposite (as most scholars do): intentionally reading not only those with whom you agree, but familiarizing yourself with your opponents» best arguments.

The word «Christian» literally means «little Christ,» how does someone who acquires fame by bashing the belief of others (he may be a scholar but as the author noted, most people have only heard of him because of his uncouth mannerisms) come anywhere close to Jesus?

Too many idiots who are claimed as or self - proclaimed scholars... What does the Bible say, hello??? Knowing Jesus Christ and the Bilbe only comes by Spiritual Revelation, not by human logic or reasoning!!!

Not only would he spot the very same Stott quote, but in the same summaries he would also discover that all of the greatest Greek New Testament scholars of all time have uniformly viewed Rev. 3:10 (the most important «proof text» for pretribbers) as teaching «preservation through» and not «escaping beforehand»!

If you look up Marcus Borg — the principal source of information for this article — you will find that he is a leading member of the so - called Jesus Seminar that is not only been criticized within the Christian community, but also by scholars close to the Jesus Seminar such as Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School.

In the course of this time the position has changed from one in which only a few scholars questioned the historicity of the empty tomb to one in which this story is widely accepted as a legend.

Jesus» religion was suffused with radiance and the whole New Testament reflects it, so that when I read such things as one medieval scholar said — «A young girl should never play; she should weep much and meditate on her sins» — I am sure that that is not only psychological nonsense but also very bad Christianity.

The explanation of this distinctive conception, scholars have suggested, is that Mark, fully convinced that Jesus was the Messiah, could find no clear evidence that he had presented himself as such to the Jewish nation; and the reason for this silence, Mark decided, could only be that Jesus was not yet ready to claim his Messiahship publicly and did not want the fact divulged prematurely.

Regarded by many scholars as only a reformed Hindu sect, it is considered by its own followers as a separate faith.

For example, it is the opinion of not a few biblical scholars that the love commandments in the Fourth Gospel and the epistles of John, so often quoted to stress the universality of the Christian ethic, were originally understood as applying only within the Christian community, and as in the Old Testament «Love your neighbor» meant «Love your fellow Israelite,» so the corresponding «new commandment» was taken to mean, «Love your fellow Christian.

It goes unmentioned in the New — unless, as many scholars now believe, I Timothy 3:2, 12 and Titus 1:6 mean, as the Greek plainly reads, that bishops and deacons should have only one wife, referring not to divorce and remarriage (surely a widowed and remarried bishop was not disallowed) but to polygamy.

As has been indicated, the biblical scholars as a result of their studies still differ not only as to the interpretation but the accuracy of the records of the sayings of JesuAs has been indicated, the biblical scholars as a result of their studies still differ not only as to the interpretation but the accuracy of the records of the sayings of Jesuas a result of their studies still differ not only as to the interpretation but the accuracy of the records of the sayings of Jesuas to the interpretation but the accuracy of the records of the sayings of Jesus.

The emergence of a large body of secular Jews who can only be classified religiously as theists raises anew a question that Jewish scholars have been debating for thousands of years.

Sallie McFague has written in her helpful book Speaking in Parables that the most significant parts of the New Testament consists of various parables:»... as New Testament scholars agree, the parables not only are Jesus» most characteristic form of teaching but are among the most authentic strata in the New Testament.»

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

Troeltsch, followed by Coakley, makes the security of faith rest, albeit only in part, on what the biblical scholars can reconstruct behind the Gospel picture of Jesus Christ, whereas I take the picture itself, as transmitted in the church, to be the actual medium that evokes faith; and I believe Troeltsch did, too, in his clearer moments.

China scholar Orville Schell says, «Tibet is going to enter Western popular culture as something can only when Hollywood does the entertainment injection into the world system.

It is not in defense of Barthian theology, therefore, or because we believe that «only one religion provides divine revelation and others have nothing of it, «28 or because we regard the Christian religion as unique, 29 that we hold that ours can not be the way which this Indian scholar suggests.

And again, through the work of other scholars like Bultmann and Buri, with their frank recognition of the mythological element in the biblical story, we have come to see that the affirmations of Scripture have their abiding significance, not in spite of, but precisely because of their being stated in language which can only be described as highly metaphorical.

As a professor of History, and a scholar in comparative religion in the Arab World, I agree that St Mark converted the descendant of Pharaohs into Christianity and Islam showed up in Egypt ONLY in the seventh Century.

Thus the Western scholar is slowly coming to have not only an Asian (or African) informant as his source, an Asian critic as his audience, an Asian scholar as his teacher, but, perhaps most significantly of all, an Asian colleague as his collaborator.

While this final indicator can be criticized as being subjective (at least on the part of the legal scholar, if not on the part of those who appended the labels on each country's legal system), it is worth pointing out that as only one of eight indicators, this one influences the index very little.

And as the great Anglo - German scholar of religion, Max Müller, unceasingly proclaimed: «There is only one eternal and universal religion standing above, beneath, and beyond all religions to which they all belong or can belong.»

For this «scholar» to propose such an interpretation is as intelligent as a chemist who choses to only examine part of a balanced equation because if he considers the whole equation... it might tell him something he does nt want to know or may prove him to be wrong for his «conclusions»....

Scholars have often pointed out that in first - century Judaism there was no one «doctrine of the Messiah», but this fact means only that Jews differed as to details.

Without significant dissent scholars have long regarded it not only as the oldest extant poem of any considerable length in the Old Testament, but also as the work of, if not an eye - witness, then one who was nevertheless close to the event and intimately informed about it.

13:30) or, as some scholars think, to the Transfiguration which follows almost at once in the Marcan narrative; it is only the editorial juxtaposition of the two sayings, falsifying their original contexts, which turns the whole passage into a prophecy of the return of the Son of man within a generation.

One bishop reported that he had to entertain three hundred guests on a single day, not to mention sixty or eighty beggars.34 Then, too, there were scholars whose educational expenses could be defrayed only through a church living, and when the average vicarage comprised, as in England, four thousand acres, 35 why should it not support more than the vicar?

Fresh off winning the FA Youth Cup in his first season as a scholar in 2015 - 16, he made overtures to head out on loan with just a single Under - 21 appearance to his name, whilst still only 17 years of age.

Colin, you are not only an excellent blogger, craftsman, artisan and dare I say, poet, but you are also a scholar of pop culture as demonstrated by your reference of probably one of the lamest blips of fame from this decade or the last (I can't remember which, but if my life was on the line, I'd guess the 90's).

Such diagrams can not only help you build your own theories but are perfect as well for outlining the often complicated and maybe elusive arguments scholars may make.

He notes, for example, that only about one - third of the stories that Tehrani included in his analysis are classified by folklore scholars as belonging to the Little Red Riding Hood tradition.

Yet many modern scholars view his final battle — Clontarf in 1014 — as mostly a civil war between Irish factions, with the Vikings playing only a small role.

As Harvard University scholar Cass Sunstein has written, liberals and conservatives who deliberate questions openly only with people of the same political stripe become more confident and extreme in their views.

More recently, Gaby has drawn the attention of scholars and government officials as an unconventional yet practical example of how climate - change - related measures are not only necessary, but also can be economically convenient.

As independently funded scholars, postdoctoral fellows were guaranteed only basic health coverage.

This broad - based curriculum encompasses the graduate level as well, allowing students with undergraduate degrees not only in geology and related fields but in biology, chemistry, engineering, and physics the chance to excel as researchers and as scholars within GPS.

A graduate of Calvin College, his success provided hope that artists and scholars could escape the Christian bubble and be taken seriously in their own right rather than only as part of the chorus in the newly developing «Christian» art subculture.

Even more, hers is the only death to occur offscreen; we are not made to revel in her death, as some scholars would argue the genre typically necessitates.