Word: antiquarianism
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...Marburg Disciples' interest in reinterpreting the scriptural message, says Robinson, stems from two landmarks in 20th century theology. One was Karl Barth's famous Epistle to the Romans of 1921, which rejected the rationalist, antiquarian approach of Protestant liberalism to scriptural texts and dramatically hurled at the church a modern interpretation of Paul that tried to capture the spirit instead of the letter of his message. A more immediate source is Bultmann's demand that the Bible must be demythologized-that is, stripped of its fictional heaven-above, hell-below framework, and its message restated in ideas...
From the welter of facts, with the passion of a born antiquarian and the insights of a self-made sociologist, Powell has reconstructed the intense pulling and hauling of an early American community that was, "in a real sense, a little commonwealth," able to create "as much of an ideal state as its leaders could conceive and find agreement on." Such fine-grained history is certainly more for the scholar than for most general readers. Yet Powell's style is clear, if sometimes too sugary, and the people and events can be absorbing...
Does this greatest of tragic dramas, grand though it is, sound to us as being of merely antiquarian interest? A brochure, first printed in England in 1901, republished in New York in 1903, is now fairly well known to have been written by Mr. G. Lowes Dickinson, the distinguished Hellenist, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Purporting to be Letters From a Chinese Official,on its seventeenth page is this...
...London." But he could poke fun at himself as well; asked if he would not start if he saw a ghost, he answered, "I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." But if the tour aroused Johnson's antic side, it aroused his antiquarian side even more. On the islands - Raasay and Skye and Mull - there were still feudal forms of life, clans and chieftains, Macdonalds and MacLeods and Macleans. There were ruins and grottoes, homely customs, and high ritualized hospitality. Johnson per ambulated, gazed and pontificated. He could also be playful as well as sententious...
...noted for his seven-volume text and delightful translation in the Loeb Classical Library of the works of Athenaeums, a Greek antiquarian of the second century A.D. valued especially as a source of quotations from lost authors of the Greek past. His revision of the standard Greek grammar of his teacher continues in use as the Goodwin-Gulick Greek Grammar...