Sentence examples for Recent scholar from inspiring English sources

One more recent scholar counted no fewer than 27 different factors that are said to promote democracy.

These "Arians" were aggressively denounced by Athanasius, who argued (in the summary of a recent scholar) that their "appeal to reason is sophistic, their appeal to Scripture a pretence, and their appeal to tradition an insult" (Wiles 1996, 9).

This declaration, of course, is precisely the kind of assertion that has been challenged by recent scholars.

A number of recent scholars who have focussed on Milton's knowledge of Hebrew see echoes in his literary strategy of rabbinic Midrash, human stories that helped embody divine meaning and in the process became divine themselves.

Along with other recent scholars, Jasanoff also seeks to challenge the idea that the British maintained two distinct empires — one primarily for trade, the other primarily for settlement and extracting resources.

His new book also builds on the work of recent scholars, many of them British conservatives, who take a dim view of Churchill, seeing the roots of Britain's post-war diminishment in his failed leadership.

On my first day at Butler Library I climbed the familiar grand staircase under the portrait gaze of Dwight D. Eisenhower and entered the stacks to select books by recent scholars on my subject.

Sample footnotes, taken at random from Deuteronomy: Some recent scholars have accepted Jacob Milgrom's proposal that here the verb q-r-b ("approach") is used in a political extension of its cultic meaning, "to encroach upon," though there is no compelling necessity to see that sense of the word in this verse.

His views on mercy draw upon — or are informed by — writings on the subject by Aquinas, Merton and more recent scholars, like Cardinal Walter Kasper (the author of another book on mercy, who has proposed that the church create a "penitential path" to bring divorced Catholics back into communion with the church).

Sample footnotes, taken at random from Deuteronomy: *{:.break one} ** Some recent scholars have accepted Jacob Milgrom's proposal that here the verb q-r-b ("approach") is used in a political extension of its cultic meaning, "to encroach upon," though there is no compelling necessity to see that sense of the word in this verse.

Recent scholars have proposed different interpretations of the term endoxos.