Sentences with phrase «worked as historian»

She holds a MA degree in economic and social history from the University of Amsterdam and worked as historian at the International Institute for Social History, during which she published her book on plantations in the Dutch East Indies.

Jeanette has worked as a historian for over 20 years, in the BC Archives and the Campbell River Museum.

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Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

Watson, the porn historian, sees a continuum between Daniels» early (and continuing) work as a stripper, her porn career and her current role in the American body politic.

YOUR HISTORIANS tell us you killed another 13,000,000 (YES, not a typo, thats THIRTEEN MILLION) africans AFTER KIDNAPPING THEM from Southern Africa, all 20,000,000 of them and herding them like FARM ANIMALS to work as cattle on your farms.

The first century historian, Josephus wrote about him and expressed «Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.

Science Works We have traced the evolution of salads and food historians tell us salads (generally defined as mixed greens with dressing) were enjoyed by ancient Romans and Greeks.

In the book's final pages Martin delineates what he regards as the only three possible solutions: «Only Faith,» in which the believer is dismissive of the expert opinions of the historians; «Only Reason,» in which the believer is «totally submissive to the historians»; and «Faith Seeking Understanding,» in which some sort of compromise is worked out between the historian and faith.

Martin delineates what he regards as the only three possible solutions: «Only Faith,» «Only Reason,» and «Faith Seeking Understanding,» in which some sort of compromise is worked out between the historian and faith.

In her work as a church historian Roberta C.Bondi has sought to make the wisdom of the early church and the insights of monastic spirituality available to contemporary Christians.

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This is the balance I try to find in my work as a Christian historian.

Richard Burridge has set an agenda that will provide decades of work for biblical scholars, historians, and practical theologians, and for theologians who recognize their primary vocation as a service to the Church.

Le Goff's body of work, then, stands as a challenge to historians who argue for the Italian Renaissance and Reformation as a break that unleashed a series of forces, intended or not, ultimately leading to the current social imaginary.

My concern is to draw a connection between the broader situation Gioia describes and the dealer's observation, which cuts to the heart of who I am, as a Christian, and the work I do as an art critic, curator, and art historian.

We have some hearsay «historians» of the day like Josephus, but, as it turns out, there is much contention among scholars about his works and how much they may have been tampered with.

This is the written work of a highly articulate, gifted, and informed historian who shared as colleague and participant the days of David's mature years.

I was a historian of Christianity when I came to this work, and I have always have been intrigued by the dynamics of continuity and change in the Christian church and in how we live as Christian people.

Let it be acknowledged then that Josephus is not a first - class historian; but the failure to recognize the validity of his facts, especially in that part of his work which lay largely within his own experience and recollection, and the truth of his interpretations, as far as they go — he is never exhaustive — is surely responsible for the neglect of his writings by too many interpreters of the New Testament at the present time, and for the rise of theories which leave not only Josephus but likewise the New Testament out of the reckoning.

Medical historian Robert Jay Lifton has identified the 1920 book Permitting the Destruction of Life Not Worthy of Life (Die Freigabe der Vernichtung Lebensunwerten Lebens), written by law professor Karl Binding and physician Alfred Hoche, as «the crucial work» promoting the agenda of death.

Since 1960 over two hundred books and countless reports have examined either single congregations or their species, and any new work such as mine gratefully follows the tracks that many sorts of explorers — consultants, management specialists, sociologists, psychologists, ethnographers, historians, and others — have already laid down.1 Prior to 1960 the investigation of the local church was more occasional, and except for a few books written to enliven parish programs2 and the pioneering sociology of H. Paul Douglass, 3 the analysis occurred primarily in Europe.4

Since the twentieth century worked out its initial attitude toward the «historical Jesus» in terms of the only available reconstruction, that of the nineteenth century with all its glaring limitations, it is not surprising to find as a second consequence a tendency to disassociate the expression «the historical Jesus» from «Jesus of Nazareth as he actually was», and to reserve the expression for: «What can be known of Jesus of Nazareth by means of the scientific methods of the historian».

On positivist grounds many historians have written off the Gospels as unreliable, insofar as they portrayed Jesus as an utterly unique figure, conscious of a special relationship to God, and working miracles by divine power.

The distinguished historian of philosophy Emil Fackenheim, whose work as a post-Holocaust theologian led him to care deeply about Jewish peoplehood, writes bitterly of Spinoza's slander of Judaism as a betrayal of his celebrated disinterestedness and nobility.

One can, of course, differ with the thesis of Donald Kagan's Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, but to suggest (as the April editorial, «How Democracy Came About and How It Might Be Sustained,» does) that the work has anything in common with «deconstructionism»» «made up,» «fabricated,» the product of «myths» and «creative misinterpretations»» is totally unwarranted and patently unjust to Kagan, who is a distinguished historian in the classic, traditional mode.

But he remains an «old friend» to political philosophers as well as to historians, and if a study is to make sense of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, the work that Tocqueville undertook must be understood in all its depth and breadth» beyond what the historian, or even the psychologist, may say.

This appears as one of the essential results of the modern study of religion and of the convergence of the work of the historians of religions with the Jungian psychoanalysts and phenomenologists like Scheler.

But this amounts to saying that the historian of religions hesitates to complete his preparatory work as a philologist and as a historian through an effort of understanding, which, to be sure, presupposes an act of thinking.

I am honored to have been asked to speak this morning on the topic of ecumenism from a Reformed perspective shaped by my work as a church historian and by my engagement with the work of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

Flavius Josephus, Ancient Jewish Historian, The Complete Works — The Antiquities of the Jews: pg.576, 18.3.3, «Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works — a teacher of such men as received the truth with pleaWorks — The Antiquities of the Jews: pg.576, 18.3.3, «Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works — a teacher of such men as received the truth with pleaworks — a teacher of such men as received the truth with pleasure.

Social historians proceed in the same way as 19th - century novelists, and both differ from historians who base their work on the social sciences.

In other words, he foils the very work which he is expected to do as a historian of religions: to keep himself informed about the research of his colleagues, specialists in other areas, assimilating and confronting their findings, and finally integrating them in order to better understand his Greek documents.

The total DH work, Deuteronomy - I I Kings, is probably a sixth - century product as it stands; but Kings may well have been formulated before the fall of the South in 587, since a number of passages suggest the historians» ignorance of that enormous catastrophe.

I'm not sure if Neil Warnock is a big history buff, but if he was he would certainly be interested by the work of people who are known as revisionist historians.

As a source for historians working in this period they are invaluable and, eventually, when they are put online, they will be readily accessed by school and university students.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

The relationship between the Conservative party and Europe requires the work of psychiatrists as much as political journalists and historians.

The work began when HRPT hired historian and architect John Reddick as the project's art consultant and Studio Hip Landscape Architecture, a three - person Manhattan firm, according to records obtained by Gay City News under the state Freedom of Information Law from the Cuomo administration, the state parks department, and the Hudson River Park Trust (HRPT), which operates the park that extends from West 59th Street to Battery Park.

Conservative historians point to the 1950s and early 1960s, and then the 1980s when «Essex man» dominated Thatcher's thinking, as periods when the Tories benefited from working class support.

Leroi's Aristotle is a fit hero for the biological century, and The Lagoon is a work as important to a historian and philosopher of science as it is informative to a biologist and entertaining to the general reader.

In her work, Rothschild finds that the impetus for cooperating across the Iron Curtain on air pollution monitoring came not from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, as other historians have argued, but from a group of scientists and environmental officials in Norway working on acid rain in the early - to - mid-1970s.

As problems become bigger, especially in the case of natural disasters, we have to work more and more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences — psychologists, disaster managers, historians — and statisticians.

As problems become bigger, especially in the case of natural disasters, we have to work more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences — psychologists, disaster managers, historians — and statisticians.

Arnold's thesis puts me in mind of the debate among historians of science as to whether science at its most glorious (for example, the work of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, or Einstein) is a revolution or whether it emerges incrementally as evolution.

As the field's go - to intrepid reporter and informal historian, John Weeks» strong editorial voice has consistently recognized the important work of others, constructively challenging, championing and chronicling what today is commonly referred to as the integrative health and medicine movemenAs the field's go - to intrepid reporter and informal historian, John Weeks» strong editorial voice has consistently recognized the important work of others, constructively challenging, championing and chronicling what today is commonly referred to as the integrative health and medicine movemenas the integrative health and medicine movement.

I love to do things outdoors, and plan on moving to long neach and fulfill my dream of working on the Queen Mary as a historian.

I have been educated as a historian, but now i work in telecommunication company.

«The Grand Old Man of Westerns,» as film historian William K. Everson called him, retired in the early»40s after more than three decades of yeoman work opposite every cowboy hero on the Hollywood range, from Franklyn Farnum to Gary Cooper.

For Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda's widow and children as well as three of Stewart's children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men — in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together.

Long before the populism of Kincade, Turner was known as «the painter of light,» with landscape works that many art historians point to as a vital forerunner of Impressionism.