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• Adolf Harnack and the Search for Missing Christianity
  ==The Method== ...e as face-value truth, the liberals saw those same words as reflecting the historical limitations and cultural conditioning of their [[authors]]. The truth was
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• Anecdote
  ...ters and generic human figures— but it is distinct from the parable in the historical specificity which it claims. ...] evidence, as evidence that cannot be investigated using the [[scientific method]]. The problem with arguing based on anecdotal evidence is that anecdotal e
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• Architecture
  *4: a [[method]] or style of building ...uildings, are often perceived as cultural [[symbols]] and as works of art. Historical [[civilizations]] are often identified with their surviving architectural a
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• Research
  ...tters of our world and the [[universe]]. Research can use the [[scientific method]], but need not do so. '''Scientific research''' relies on the application of the [[scientific method]], a harnessing of curiosity. This research provides [[science|scientific]]
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• Linguistics
  '''Linguistics''' is the [[scientific method|scientific]] study of [[language]], encompassing a number of sub-fields. An ...lutionary linguistics]] attempts to account for the origins of language; [[historical linguistics]] explores language change and [[sociolinguistics]] looks at th
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• Oral history
  '''Oral history''' is a method of historical documentation, using interviews with living survivors of the time being inv ...urviving witnesses of the American Civil War, [[Slavery]], and other major historical events. The [[Library of Congress]] also began recording traditional Amer
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• Etymology
  ...known as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_method comparative method], linguists can make [[inferences]] about their shared parent language and *The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_method comparative method]. By a systematic [[comparison]] of related languages, etymologists may oft
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• Philology
  ...describes the study of a language together with its [[literature]] and the historical and cultural contexts that are indispensable for an understanding of the [[ In its more restricted sense of "[[historical linguistics]]," philology was one of the 19th century's first scientific ap
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• Risk
  ==Historical background== ...ker disasters forced a more comprehensive [[foresight]]. The [[Scientific Method|scientific]] approach to risk entered [[finance]] in the 1980s when financi
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• Sigil
  A common [[method]] of creating the ''sigils'' of certain spirits was to use ''[https://en.wi ...e the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantra yantra]'' from Hindu tantra, historical [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_magic runic magic] among the Germanic
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• Archaeology
  ...but [[historic]], literate cultures as well, through the sub-discipline of historical archaeology. For many literate cultures, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/ ...c" and "anthropological", with [[hypothesis]] testing and the [[scientific method]] very important parts of what became known as processual archaeology.
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• History
  ...l that is remembered of the past and preserved in some form is seen as the historical record.[https://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn WordNet Search - 3.0], "Hi ...esearch is not limited merely to these sources. In general, the sources of historical knowledge can be separated into three categories: what is written, what is
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• Condescension
  The [[concept]] of accommodation is thus an [[alternative]] [[method]] of biblical [[interpretation]] to the [[tradition]] of [https://en.wikipe # McGrath, Alistair. 1998. Historical Theology, An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought. Oxford: Blac
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• Pseudo-science
  ...substantially deviates from other fundamental aspects of the [[scientific method]].[3][14][15][16][17][18] # See also, e.g., Gauch HG Jr. Scientific Method in Practice (2003)
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• Form
  *3 a : established [[method]] of [[expression]] or proceeding : procedure according to rule or rote; al *10 a (1) : orderly method of arrangement (as in the presentation of ideas) : manner of coordinating e
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• Tapestry
  ==Historical development== This method can be likened to [[pointillism]], a style of painting in which tiny dots o
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• Panorama
  ...intings]] and models became a very popular way to represent landscapes and historical events. [[Audience]]s of Europe in this period were thrilled by the aspect Panoramic photography soon came to displace painting as the most common [[method]] for [[creating]] wide views. Not long after the introduction of the [[Dag
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• Curriculum
  ...on of a profession or an [[academic discipline]] through the course of its historical experience). The formation of a group is seen as taking place reciprocally ...nlearned in the lore of the [[intellectual|rabbis]] and untrained in the [[method]]s of rabbinical [[interpretation]] of the [[Scripture]]s. They were lackin
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• Faith
  ...in the face of countervailing evidence. Parental instruction may be the ''historical'' foundation of future knowledge, but that does not necessarily make it a ' ...the outset. Polanyi argued that the scientific method is not an objective method removed from man's passion. On the contrary, scientific progress depends pr
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• Adolf von Harnack
  ...an academic standard for interpreting the [[Bible]] and understanding the historical [[Jesus]] (see [[Tübingen school]]). ...or_Missing_Christianity ''What is Christianity?''] 1901). One of his later historical works, ''Die Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums in den ersten drei Ja
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