Word: scholares
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book's human characters. But since they regard the entire book as the saga of God putting humanity on trial rather than the reverse, these imperfections will not challenge faith. Nor would they have perturbed the work's original audience, maintains Southern Baptist professor Kenneth Mathews, an Old Testament scholar at Alabama's Samford University who has just published his own commentary, Genesis 1-11. "Moses' Israel would come to read the opening chapters through their eyes of faith and experience," he says. "If one is disinclined to surrender to God, one is inclined to read the text...
...knowledge because they have pretensions of divinity. "Your eyes will be opened," the serpent promises, "and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." Thus the original sin is often described as a kind of hubris--"the pride which sprang from [our] likeness to God," as one scholar put it. By the lights of evolutionary psychology, an essential human weakness is indeed a tendency to be seduced by our seemingly godlike rationality into thinking we can readily know good and evil; our downfall is a lack of philosophical humility, a smug assumption that our "moral" intuitions can be trusted...
...which would make any God-fearing rotarian cum in his pants, I found myself repeatedly drawn back to a single question. Why have you been allowed to live?... You should have been tossed to the wolves the second you thought of mentioning your distinction as an (drumroll please) AP SCHOLAR WITH HONORS." The assault continued for dozens of lines, and was signed, "With Love from The Harvard Of the Midwest, Adam Bonislawski...
...demands for women of color on the faculty may be satisfied if noted black legal scholar and University of Pennsylvania professor C. Lani Guinier '71 accepts her outstanding offer from the Law School, Friedman said...
...paper, Pressler should be having an easy time. He has a dream resume that combines big-league prestige (Rhodes scholar, Harvard Law School graduate) and heartland values (Vietnam veteran, family farmer). He became chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee when the Republicans took over Congress, giving him bragging rights to this year's landmark telecommunications law and helping him raise as much as $5 million for his re-election bid. And he is running in a state where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats 49% to 41%. South Dakota hasn't given its three electoral votes to a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson...