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As a religious teacher, literary critic, historian and jurist, Harrison took a prominent part in the life of his time, and his writings, though often violently controversial on political, religious and social subjects, and in their judgment and historical perspective characterized by a modern Radical point of view, are those of an accomplished scholar, and of one whose wide knowledge of literature was combined with independence of thought and admirable vigour of style.
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My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
Yahya ibn Umar was killed in a battle in 1057, but Abdullah ibn Yasin, whose influence as a religious teacher was paramount, named his brother Abu Bakr ibn Umar as chief.
In the United States, public school teacher unions, most notably the National Education Association ( the largest labor union in the USA ), argue against the idea of school vouchers for concern that it would erode educational standards and reduce funding, and that giving money to parents who choose to send their child to a religious or other school is unconstitutional ; however, the latter issue has been struck down by the Supreme Court case Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, which upheld Ohio's voucher plan in a 5-4 ruling.
Subsets of Haredi Judaism include: Hasidic Judaism, which is rooted in the Kabbalah and distinguished by reliance on a Rebbe or religious teacher ; and Sephardic Haredi Judaism, which emerged among Sephardic ( Asian and North African ) Jews in Israel.
** John the Baptist, Jewish religious teacher
Knowledge had for him no purpose of its own ; it existed only for the service of moral and religious education, and so the teacher of Germany prepared the way for the religious thoughts of the Reformation.
* Charles Gobinet, religious writer and teacher, early principal of the Collège du Plessis
A teacher of the 3rd century, Rabbi Simlai, traces the development of Jewish religious principles from Moses with his 613 mitzvot of prohibition and injunction, through David, who, according to this rabbi, enumerates eleven ; through Isaiah, with six ; Micah, with three ; to Habakkuk who simply but impressively sums up all religious faith in the single phrase, " The pious lives in his faith " ( Talmud, Mak., toward end ).
They named him the new religious teacher.
In 1816 he settled in Cologne, where he became established as a teacher, giving lessons in singing, violin, flute and guitar, and composing both religious and secular music.
At Naples, he was a teacher of Greek and Roman literature who attracted many pupils who were destined for religious offices in Rome.
Dirck Vorenkamp, a professor of religious studies, argued in his paper " B-Series Temporal Order in Dogen's Theory of Time " that the Zen Buddhist teacher Dōgen presented views on time that contained all the main elements of McTaggart's B-series view of time ( which denies any objective present ), although he noted that some of Dōgen reasoning also contained A-Series notions, which Vorenkamp argued may indicated some inconsistency in Dōgen's thinking.
In the south, in Strawberry Hill, lies St Mary's University College, Twickenham ( the oldest Catholic college in the United Kingdom ), historically specialising in sports studies, teacher training, religious studies and the humanities Drama studies and English literature.
Long went to Hawaii in 1917 to work as an elementary school teacher, and became interested in the religious beliefs and practices of the kahunas, but none talked to him so he was unable to penetrate to the inner workings of this religion.
A marabout ( marbūṭ or murābiṭ, " one who is attached / garrisoned ") is a Muslim religious leader and teacher in West Africa, and ( historically ) in the Maghreb.
The marabout is often a scholar of the Qur ' an, or religious teacher.
The Jewish community in Maassluis had its own synagogue for their religious duties ; a teacher, a singer and a ritual butcher.
This could be someone who's a teacher, instructor, religious leader, prophet, or a group or community leader of some kind.
His ability as a teacher, and his talents as a religious and political leader, soon made the college the largest institution of higher education in North America.
The Hindu guru-shishya tradition is the oral tradition or religious doctrine transmitted from teacher to student.
* Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche a lama ( Tibetan Buddhist religious teacher ).
On 30 September 1985, Osho denied that he was a religious teacher.
Still feeling too much under the domination of the church, he reluctantly ended the last of his associations with religious life and entered M. Crouzet's school for boys as a teacher.
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And Hamilton, who felt it `` a religious duty '' to oppose Aaron Burr's political ambitions, would have been a better actuarial risk had he shown more literary restraint.
When these fields are surveyed together, important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence, a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions, primarily literary, religious, and philosophical, but frequently including contact with the fine arts and even, to some extent, with science.
Spencer stated that he trusted no organization of any kind, “ political, religious, literary, philanthropic ”, and believed that as they expanded in influence so too did its regulations expand.
Yet, as Lemke and O ’ Connor point out, The Book of Lamentations, while adapting several traditional literary, historical, and cultural Near Eastern elements, is a unique literary composition, scripted to a specific historical situation, in response to an historical catastrophe, addressing the survivors of this catastrophe in a distinctive religious context.
Cotton Mather wrote more than 450 books and pamphlets, and his ubiquitous literary works made him one of the most influential religious leaders in America.
The literary amplification reveals a confused religious background: different Artemis were conflated under the epithet.
Of the 33 works dedicated to him, thirteen were original or translated works of literature, which May says suggest he was more sought out for patronage by literary writers, as opposed to authors of religious or scientific works, than other patrons of similar means.
His residence at Leuven, where he lectured at the Catholic University, exposed Erasmus to much criticism from those ascetics, academics and clerics hostile to the principles of literary and religious reform and the loose norms of the Renaissance adherents to which he was devoting his life.
The term Halakha may refer to a single law, to the literary corpus of rabbinic legal texts, or to the overall system of religious law.
Other important landmarks include the replacement of Hebrew by Aramaic as the everyday language of Judah ( although it continued to be used for religious and literary purposes ), and Darius's reform of the administrative arrangements of the empire, which may lie behind the redaction of the Jewish Torah.
A Middle High German version was described as " Perhaps the flower of religious literary creativity in the German Middle Ages " by Heinrich Heine.
Over 30, 000 clay tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal have been discovered at Nineveh, providing modern scholars with an amazing wealth of Mesopotamian literary, religious and administrative work.
Lykaion, its religious significance, and its quadrennial athletic games appear with some frequency in the ancient literary sources.
Akkadian, came to be the dominant language during the Akkadian Empire and the Assyrian empires, but Sumerian was retained for administration, religious, literary, and scientific purposes.
After his death, Gosse was portrayed as a despotic father of uncompromising religious views in Father and Son ( 1907 ), the literary masterpiece of his son, poet and critic Edmund Gosse.
The word Prakrit itself has a flexible definition, being defined sometimes as " original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual ", or " vernacular ", in contrast to the literary and religious orthodoxy of Sanskrit.
A structuralist approach may study activities as diverse as food-preparation and serving-rituals, religious rites, games, literary and non-literary texts, and other forms of entertainment to discover the deep structures by which meaning is produced and reproduced within the culture.
Most of the early Uyghur literary works were translations of Buddhist and Manichean religious texts, but there were also narrative, poetic, and epic works apparently original to the Uyghurs.
His most notable literary works were his Fables and Parables ( 1779 ), Satires ( 1779 ), and poetic letters and religious lyrics, in which the artistry of his poetic language reached its summit.
Lemures is the more common literary term but even this is rare: it is used by the Augustan poets Horace and Ovid, the latter in his Fasti, the six-book calendar poem on Roman holidays and religious customs.
Inspired when the progressive ideas which D. I. Pisarev, the most eminent of the Russian literary critics of the 1860s and I. M. Sechenov, the father of Russian physiology, were spreading, Pavlov abandoned his religious career and decided to devote his life to science.
It has been planned as " a major scriptural repository and research facility dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the rich literary, cultural and religious heritage " of Bhutan.
Meindert Dykstra suggests that " the reticence of OT scholarship to take account of the text may be attributable to its damaged state, the difficulty of reconstructing and reading it, and the many questions it raises of script, language, literary form and religious content.
" Gregory S. Jackson argued that Alcott's use of realism belongs to the American Protestant pedagogical tradition that includes a range of religious literary traditions with which Alcott was familiar.
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