Sentences with phrase «than that of any man writing»

George Eliot was such an incredible woman; I consider her a feminist icon for the way she proved, at a time when women's intellectual abilities and contributions weren't taken as seriously, that a woman could produce literary masterpieces that were just as compelling, if not more so, than that of any man writing at that time.

Not exact matches

In one, scholars were asked to read and rate research papers; unbeknown to them, the names had been changed to change the gender of the authors, and the scholars rated the papers «written» by men as better than the ones that appeared to be authored by women.

When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women raise 50 % less capital than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses on successful female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often, capital means success.»

None other than Charles Darwin wrote the first academic investigation into body language, his «The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,» published back in 1872.

Paying homage to the comics Other than cashing in on video games — the LEGO Batman games are leading Activision Blizzard's (Nasdaq: ATVI) The Amazing Spider - Man on the charts as of this writing — it isn't yet clear how Warner will make good on this freedom.

In a diary entry written in 1987, under the heading, «What, if I had my way, would be done in place of what is being done,» Kennan wrote: «Men having spawned more than two children will be compulsively sterilized.

Women use I - words more than men in all forms of written and verbal communication.

Jen @ PF Carny writes Steps to Determine If You Are Ready to Open Your Own Business — If you are working for «the man» at a 9 to 5 job, you may dream of nothing more than venturing out on your own and being your own boss.

More than 100 years ago, Dostoyevsky wrote: «Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom.

> What he did is no different than what the Council fo Nicea did when they created «The word of God»... no??? Men decided and wrote what they thought the word of god was... present christians faith is based on this..

Even more than the Constitution, which was written by a group of men over a span of months, the Bible, which was written by many different voices over millennia, is (to borrow from Souter) a «pantheon of values.»

Now men who know more than God [sarcasm] decide they don't like that saying, and it doesn't fit in their thinking, so off they go and write books and develope a following of other people who don't like the truth of what Jesus said.

When evidence outside of the stories we know men wrote, is presented I am more likely than you are to change my views.

A$ $ uming the bible is more than a collection of stories written by men is your first mistake.

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.

You miss the mystics of all traditions who are far closer to the teachings and path of Christ than anyone who simply follows a book written by man centuries after he lived.

And so the evidence that Christians continue to present as «proof» of their god is either the earliest fragments of these same man - written stories (proving nothing other than that someone wrote the stories down!)

Mr. Sullivan is a learned man and usually writes with a certain style, which no doubt explains why he gets a more serious hearing than most advocates of the gay cause (see Elizabeth Kristol's review of his Virtually Normal, FT, January).

Sadly, we know that the Bible was written with the idea of men being of higher station than women, so we see the book used against women (and by extension transgender men and women and non-heterosexuals).

Yes it was written by men 2000 years and above ago in a different culture but that doesn't mean that it supports patriarchal oppression any more than a book written by Germain Greer at the height of the feminist movement's popularity is sexist and supports matriarchal oppression.

You can not point to any one and say this is the right one (with any authority other than «what you want to believe») Every religious text I've ever read is clearly written via the various perceptions of man, not some divine being.

According to the Barna study, the percent of engagement people have with the Bible — from being engaged (reading the Bible at least four times a week), friendly (engaged with the Bible less than four times a week), neutral (read the Bible once a month or less and see the Bible as the inspired word of God, but acknowledge it can have some errors) and skeptical (see the Bible as «just another book of teachings written by men)-- has started to stabilize and return to its normal rates after the rate of skepticism increased by 4 percent to 14 percent and the rate of friendliness dropped 8 percent to 37 percent in 2011.

The educated modern man needs no reminder how It has been of the best to «just go along» with the evangelical and his beliefs rather than suffer the wrath that might be so ordained against him by those who have carved out their virtuous beliefs from an age old written scripture.

But the adulation that came Seeger's way in recent decades had less to do with his mastery of the five - string banjo and his song - writing than with his status in certain circles as a living martyr: the man who stiffed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), found himself blacklisted, and was reduced to performing on college campuses for a while.

Almost all Lutheran theological writing has been generated in European or North American academies — in part, the legacy of Luther's own concern for learning and education — and it has been done almost exclusively by European or (more recently) North American men among whom differences of race, economic and social class, and level of education are even less remarkable than their theological differences.

Too bad that there is not one single shred of proof that your god or any god exists, and there is not an ounce of proof that your bible is anything more than a book of fables written by bronze age men.

You're using a book that is not factual, has no proof other than itself, and was written by men 100's of years after the fact.

This book the Holy Bible which is much more than a book, but is in fact the Spoken & Written Word of God, God Breathed & Inspired given not «by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

The idea of writing a story about a man who had no faith and then suddenly was faced with accepting something more powerful than myself, followed by miracle after miracle — should certainly help someone else.

«What knowledge could be of greater importance to the men of our age, and to the various communities of our time,» wrote Buber in 1947, than that «the use of unrighteousness as a means to a righteous end makes the end itself unrighteous?»

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

A Man wrote pages based off the influence and guidance of God, but i am more than certain that women played there part!

I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love of God in a way that I could receive it more than probably any other writer — was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one of his last books before he died: «All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about what this battle has cost him, even as he experienced the unending and unconditional love of God in the midst of it, how he experienced regret and pain and loss alongside of the love and tenderness of God in this dependency.

Some people feel as though there is more to the universe than a random scientific reaction, but do not agree with the idea of taking rules and ideas that were written down by MEN thousands of years ago as the word of GOD.

After all, he's a man who has published more than 50 novels including that evergreen high - school requirement Fahrenheit 451, and written hundreds of short stories and a host of screenplays, including the adaptation of Moby Dick for legendary director John Huston.

«In this crisis of belief and disbelief, the antagonism between faith and antifaith is less important than their common challenge: the construction of a. world in which man chooses between God or himself — and chooses freely,» he writes in The Accidental Century.

However, the people that wrote the Bible or even interpreted it from the greek I would take as men of God, Servants mind you, and, if God had meant or wanted it to read «two» rather than «two men,» don't you think he would have influenced the interpreters and the original writers to write and print it as such?

On the basis of what Paul writes in this chapter we are justified in saying that if someone had offered to show Paul where the decayed corpse of Jesus could be found, Paul would have shown no interest, for the dead body would have been to him no more than the dead seed, the man of dust, the earthly frame, and Paul himself had seen the risen Jesus in his glorified form, and that was all that mattered.

One modern Moslem writer seems to think it involved no more than simply having the Koran, as it was already in existence in the memories of living men, copied down in written form.

Advancement in most universities depends less on teaching ability than on what a man publishes.3 Writing for professional journals is of great value, of course, because only experts in the same field are able to judge a man's contribution and benefit from it.

It was hastened by the tenacity of Christian traditionalism, which appeared to leave churchmen with no alternative than one between worship of the letter and worship of the men who wrote the letters.

This is very likely since the New Testament was written in a time when upper - class members of Greek culture considered a homosexual love to be a «higher» love than that of a man for a woman.

Throughout our known history (includes the birth of christianity) we know that there have been religions much older than the bible, Men wrote the bible and if you believe that all men are flawed then QED the bible is also flawMen wrote the bible and if you believe that all men are flawed then QED the bible is also flawmen are flawed then QED the bible is also flawed.

It was written by men... Stonehenge is older than your bible, as are the pyramids yet they did not get a mention in the bible... why... the folks that wrote it were not aware of it?

Ralph Waldo Emerson exposed the ultimate effect of self examination when he wrote, «I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.»

Why should a tale of a man living in the digestive tract of an aquatic creature for three days and exiting unscathed be thought of as more valid than the story of a man who translated ancient writing with magic seer stones?

«The sin of Sodom,» writes Matthew, «had far more to do with a lack of hospitality and a bent toward violence than with any sexual designs the men had on Lot's visitors.»

An interesting study of christological models has been written by John McIntyre.4 The «two - natures model» (which he takes as a single complex model involving both divine and human natures) has dominated Christian thought, but it has a number of limitations; it is tied to the Aristotelian categories of substance and attribute, and it tends to view the incarnation as the assumption of an abstract human nature rather than the personal individuality of a particular man.

There is even evidence that joseph smith thought the moon had people living on it — in 1892 a mormon article was written which says: «The Inhabitants of the Moon,» recorded Huntington: «As far back as 1837, I know that he [Smith] said the moon was inhabited by men and women the same as this earth, and that they live to a greater age than we do — that they live generally to near the age of a 1000 years.

Cq «Why consider the opinions of one man concerning another's divinity as more valid than, say, the people who wrote of the Roman Emperors» divinity?»