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Example sentences for "modern criticism"

  • To speak of the Laws of Moses is simply to use the title which was given to them before the rise of modern criticism and by which they are still most widely known.

  • The effect of modern criticism is to make us cautious in another direction.

  • Nevertheless we are sometimes assured that the discussions of the Jewish Rabbis embody all the most assured results of modern criticism.

  • But the effect of modern criticism, astral theory, comparative mythology, &c.

  • McFadyen, a believer in the methods and results of modern criticism, "that the Church to-day in all her branches is face to face with a crisis of the most serious kind.

  • There are, however, three questions which are worthy of serious consideration: (1) What is modern criticism?

  • Then it was that Lorenzo Valla brought to bear on biblical research, for the first time, the spirit of modern criticism.

  • The idea of the publisher and of the editor was to give as much scholarship and such results of modern criticism as should be compatible with a very judicious conservatism.

  • One cannot help wondering what the Bishop could have to urge in reply; for the ground is cut from under him by his own acceptance of so much of modern criticism.

  • Modern criticism claims, and claims with justice, that the Hexateuch, like so many of the other books, is composite in its origin, and has a long literary history.

  • With respect to these Epistles, the Britannica says: "The predominant opinion of modern criticism at present is that the genuineness of the First Epistle is certain, while that of the Second must be given up.

  • The latter instance, at least, has ordinarily been accepted as historical by modern criticism.

  • Above all, he will deliver himself from the jargon of modern criticism, and escape the danger of producing poetical works conceived in the spirit of the passing time, and which partake of its transitoriness.

  • If we are true to the spirit of that, we must wait patiently the complete result of modern criticism.

  • Englishmen are gradually finding out how much that method has done since the beginning of modern criticism by the hands of such writers as Baur.

  • To accuse them, as they have been sometimes accused, of a want of taste, would be to form a very narrow conception of art, to sin against both the method and the spirit of modern criticism.

  • No suspicion of its expressive power seems to have dawned on the Egyptian mind, which, so far as the plastic arts were concerned, never produced anything that in the language of modern criticism could be called a creation.

  • It requires all the subtle finesse of modern criticism to seek out and distinguish the obscure roots which attach these divinities to the naturalistic beliefs of earlier ages.

  • An epoch-making book, the starting-point of modern criticism.

  • Modern criticism acknowledges, then, its indebtedness to the Tuebingen school for a clearer definition of both its task and method, by concentrating attention upon the contrast between the Petrine and the Pauline conception of 'the gospel.

  • Modern criticism of the older genealogical methods will be found in J.


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