Word: topicalism
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...writing a thesis and taking a general exam. But there is a distinct difference between the research skills that a thesis requires and the breadth of knowledge that a general exam demands. They test two different aspects of the field: the thesis, one's ability to probe into a topic in depth and formulate an original argument, and the general exam, one's ability to synthesize three or four years of classes into cogent and intelligent essays...
...topic revolved around the influential book Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital by Robert D. Putnam, Dillon professor of international affairs and director of the Center for International Affairs...
Members of the panel also said that they enjoyed listening to different viewpoints on the topic...
...Stephen Mitchell, who deleted many of Jesus' sayings and most of the events in his life, noting, "We can't be sure of anything that Jesus actually said." Experts on all sides of the question are crisscrossing the country, debating before schools and congregations whose growing taste for the topic has surprised them. "You could be out there every week," marvels a circuit-riding scholar. Notes another: "There's an enormous appetite among ordinary churchgoers," who, he adds, "are very puzzled about what's going...
...anthology Jesus Under Fire, for which Blomberg wrote a chapter, represents academic Evangelicalism's commitment to greater theological engagement and subtlety. He sketches out a position that, at least by its wording, may be easier for many Americans to accept than the statements by some of the topic's higher-profile jousters...