Sentences with phrase «than his contemporaries did»

By what right do we, who seem to disagree with him more strongly than his contemporaries did, now honor him?

He asserted rather grandly that physicists generations hence would value his efforts to look for unification more than his contemporaries did — even if he never succeeded.

Not exact matches

America is doing more than any other nation to spread the kind of political structures that can best prepare the globe for God's ultimate work of establishing the final kingdom, Webb contends, and he proceeds to quote from a variety of sources to support a role for providence in contemporary theological thinking while interpreting America's rise to world power as a divine blessing that comes with special responsibilities.

«For those old enough to remember, there were ways in which the Miami of 1992 more closely resembled the Havana of 1958 than did contemporary Havana,» notes Rieff.

This failure can be illustrated with the same example, for although Marxists on the whole have been less sexist in their attitudes than have psychoanalysts, they appear only a little less deficient when viewed in the light of contemporary feminist consciousness.37 Or, again, use of Marxist sociology by Latin American theologians of liberation has done little to free them from implicit anti-Judaism in their theological formulations.

I certainly did not fail to let the meeting be friendly, I did not treat him any more remissly than all his contemporaries who were in the habit of seeking me out about this time of day....

than merely applied science, contemporary medical men are nevertheless right to base themselves on it, and insofar as they do so, they can and must be objective in their profession in the sense described above.

In other words, Berger's characterization may have more to do with our own experience in contemporary Western society than it does with the way things have to be or the way things always have been.

If the evidence required us to assume that the earliest beings we call human did in fact embody this structure of existence, then we would have to posit exceedingly high levels of mentality in our prehuman ancestors, assuming that for hundreds of thousands of years they must have far more closely approximated our contemporary existence than does any now existing nonhuman member of the simian family.

He does not... destroy my faith, but he forces me to re-examine my faith and to re-discover its power in the contemporary scene which he seems to understand in clearer terms than I do... The real significance of the sermon lies in the fact that Bishop Pike is aiming to revive the new generation's lagging interest in religion and to have religion speak in terms modern man can understand.»

Indeed, he emphasizes the Eucharist, service to the poor, self - gift, and self - abandonment more than do other contemporary guides to the interior life.

And yet, I have counted no fewer than eleven church fathers prior to or contemporary with Eusebius who cite various passages from Josephus (including the Antiquities) but who do not mention the Testimonium.

But the effort is almost always worthwhile, for Maritain's true conversation partners were less his contemporary critics than the classics, whose intricate treasures he did not wish to muffle, encrust, or belittle by oversimplification.

Let us continue to examine the nature of the synoptic tradition by considering the results of the work of the scholar who has probably done more than any other to make available to contemporary scholarship historical knowledge of the teaching of Jesus, Joachim Jeremias of Gottingen, whom we are proud to acknowledge as our teacher.

Or perhaps we don't want to offend people, and we think that most of our contemporaries would be offended by the idea that some people really do lead more admirable lives than others.

The third alternative has already resulted in a modification of the principle of the independence of contemporaries, for DO (10), rather than DO (11), is construed as prehending the satisfaction of AE (10).

When you look at Scripture, God's justice is asking different questions than I think we do in the contemporary criminal justice system.

Frankly, I find more serious discussion of the problems of moral relativity and political ideology in the sociological writings of Karl Mannheim and Max Scheler, and even in the structuralism of Claude Levi - Strauss, than I do in the writings of many contemporary theologians.

At an age where most of his contemporaries are better known for what they did than what they're doing, Springsteen seems to have hit a ninth inning stride.

To his contemporaries he was certainly a man anointed by God with the Spirit and with power; a man who went about doing good; a chasid or Jewish saint; perhaps a prophet, «like one of the prophets of old,» or even «more than a prophet,» perhaps the prophet, «like unto Moses»; («Prof. David E. Adams» Man of God (1941) is a study of the Old Testament pattern used repeatedly in biographies and presupposed in stories of holy men in the Old Testament and in related literature.

Nor can we do much more than name Peter Lombard (c. 1110 - 1160), a younger contemporary of Abélard and a protégé of Bernard of Clairvaux who died as Bishop of Paris.

Obviously, given what has gone before, he offers a different explanation of how the genotype is altered (mutations) than do contemporary geneticists.

If my colleague Brad Gregory's historical assessment is true, and if Ephraim Radner's «Protestant version» of the Reformation's purported beneficial effects» that it «gave us back our consciences, granted us freedom, unleashed reason,» etc., and has given rise to modern secular institutions that have exercised caritas even better than have Christian institutions» are arguable if not actually overstated, what then are modern Christians (Protestant and Catholic) to do in the face of contemporary culture's relentless hostility to sacred things?

It does indeed mean that our contemporary ideals are not absolute and that no pattern of mores, however fine, can be anything other than one among many.

The increasingly sensed irrelevance of doctrine in the contemporary world, something that has contributed to the disdain of theology in the larger academy, has less to do with the actual value of such doctrine than with the integrity of its purveyors.

Although the packaging is clean, contemporary and factual, it is also clinical, cold and does more to position the product as a modern version of the functional meal replacement drinks the unwell and undernourished rely on, rather than a truly desirable «food» proposition in line with other contemporary food brands.

McIlroy did not play his most dominant round, but it was clear early on that he was in much better form than Spieth and threatening to run away from his contemporary.

Just so we're straight on this, though... If you routinely drink yourself into a stupor and show up for work half - drunk, you've got more integrity and character than if you do whatever you can to play as well as you can, within the established norms of your contemporary colleagues?

In a study published in the journal Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, more than 70 percent of mothers report that they played outdoors every day as a child, but just 30 percent say their children do the same.

It doesn't get anymore contemporary than this.

At a time when many scholars, especially in the field of history, are overly provincial, Judt sees it as the «responsibility of the intellectual» to do more than excel in his or her (narrowly) defined field, a notion lost on contemporary scholars (cf. Judt's The Burden of Responsibility).

But did Zwicky give people a harder time than his contemporaries could stomach?

«Based on our results, I would predict that other contemporary hunter - gatherers also show better odor naming than non-hunter-gatherers do,» Majid says.

They only studied one cheek - padded male (to study more, they'd have to have observed more than one group of orangutans) but he did father more offspring than any of his non-padded contemporaries.

Perhaps in the early 1930s when the film is set, things were not so radically different for women than they were in the early, pre-suffragette 1890s when Oscar Wilde wrote his play — but, without wishing to suggest that the battle of the sexes is now definitely over, things have certainly moved on, and the film's preoccupations with womanly virtue and womanly repute is of more historical interest than contemporary relevance, leaving the distinct impression that this «updating» of Wilde has been done only by half measures.

So rousingly well done that it seems to come from a different solar system than most contemporary episodic television shows, and yet too many rapturous panegyrics could spoil some of the fun.

Disney tries a few new tricks with an African American cast of characters (the first time since 1947's Song of the South), a contemporary setting (New Orleans in the 20's), and a «princess» in the form of a working class girl with a dream, but more than that, an actual willingness to roll up her sleeves and do something about it.

As an author of a film which doesn't rely on effects and attention - grabbing action, would you say contemporary Hollywood production offers enough to satisfy the more demanding viewers, who are looking for more than simply brief entertainment in movies they watch?

Johnson remains the closest contemporary films have to a throwback action hero and he can do no wrong even with a movie that fails to tap into his larger than the big screen charisma.

So long as you don't come into The Kingdom expecting to get realistic depictions of contemporary and realistic post-9 / 11 scenarios, this thriller by Berg and Carnahan gives more than enough fire - power and food for thought to merit the time and money spent.

Jones does more than just report on that interview, he also includes contemporary filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Richard Linklater, and David Fincher discussing the influence that the book had on them as cinematic artists in their own right.

Well, Noah Baumbach does, and if you consider that his «Frances Ha» lavishes its gorgeous monochromes on contemporary New York and the luminous countenance of Greta Gerwig (his star, current g.f. and co-writer), you might suspect that Baumbach's latest owes more than a tiny debt to Woody Allen's «Manhattan.»

Paul believes he was born too late and would have flourished even more than he did had he been a contemporary of Sinatra and Dean Martin.

More than just a portrait of contemporary black society, it's a story of cultural differences between parents and children of how individuals learn (or don't learn) from experience, and of how there should be no place for those who cause violence and strife.»

Look no further than the work of contemporary and mumblecore comrade Joe Swanberg to get not just one but many examples of this exact story done, quite frankly, far better.

The many MTV or similar video program clips that follow tell us more about Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl (who doesn't appear in a contemporary interview) than they do about Cobain's internal life.

But the director is surely one of the best in America today, and producer Megan Ellison — a billionaire heiress herself, no stranger to passion projects, though more fruitful ones than du Pont's — is creating a proud track record of supporting many of contemporary cinema's most vital talents, including Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Jonze and Bennett Miller.

The films of Nicholas Ray, more than any other contemporary American director's, were singled out by the up - and - coming Cahiers du Cinéma crowd (on the cusp of their own splashy Nouvelle Vague) as justification for their politique des auteurs — more a personal stance on critical practice than dogmatic superstructure, and long since codified and ossified by academic film criticism into hierarchy - happy «auteur theory.»

In many ways, Fulci's work has more to do with the visceral manipulation of materials favored by postwar Italian painters than it does with the narrative fantasies of his predecessors (Mario Bava) and contemporaries (Dario Argento).

, The Man with Two Brains, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, and Pennies from Heaven, all have their fans too and enough to give them more esteem than many of their more commercially successfully contemporaries.