According to the modern scholarly interpretation of Adams, he supported legal methods of resisting parliamentary taxation petitions, boycotts, and nonviolent demonstrations but he opposed mob violence, which he saw as illegal, dangerous, and counterproductive.
He was a prominent exponent of Wissenschaft des Judentums ("science of Judaism"), the analysis of Jewish literature and culture with the tools of modern scholarly research.
The translators' determination to use as many English words as possible sometimes results in versions that, by modern scholarly standards, can be somewhat free and inexact.
British philosopher Antony Flew's appraisal of Avicenna as "one of the greatest thinkers ever to write in Arabic" expresses the modern scholarly assessment of the man.
The group consisted of several historians who combined scholarly methods learned abroad with vivid and dramatic narration.
To draw a clear line between anthropology and sociology is difficult, and the two disciplines are divided more by tradition than by the scholarly methods they employ.
Geography, as a modern scholarly discipline, has its roots in the European Renaissance and Enlightenment rediscovery, and rethinking, of the ancient Greco-Roman classics.
Modern scholarly research on the historical Jesus thus focuses on identifying the most probable elements.
Modern scholarly reception has considered The Shortest Way in negative terms, as a failed satire, or as using irony so slight as to be undetectable.
In contrast to the Conquest of Mexico, the Conquest of Peru has received relatively little modern scholarly attention, perhaps due to some key similarities in style and structure.
