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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Higher criticism"”.
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A poetics of Jesus: a/christology in the early fiction of George Eliot
… eighteenth and nineteenth century Anglo-German Higher Criticism and Victorian novelists and situate George Eliot as a writer who seeks to transfigure poetics as that which recovers what John Hick has termed a 'language of love'. This is a language that comes before the systemic formalism found …
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The Reconciliation of Science and Religion in Symbolo-Fideism
… Biology, anthropology, archeology, the "higher criticism" united in an attack on Christian premises, while "applied science" — technology-provided, the materialistic comforts which made Christian promises utopian and unnecessary. The reaction of some Protestant and Catholic leaders to …
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Detection of sparse mixtures: fundamental limits and algorithms
… We show that unlike existing tests such as the Higher Criticism test, our adaptive test construction offers tight control of the rate of decay for the false alarm probability under mild assumptions on the quantizers and noise distribution. We show our proposed test construction is adaptive …
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Dispossession, Adoption, and (Dis)Inheritance: The Sympathetic Sublime in George Eliot’s Fiction
… the scholar Marian Evans, translator of German higher criticism, including Feuerbach, to George Eliot, the novelist of the sympathetic sublime. Within this survey of Eliot’s multifaceted writing career, the analysis of The Lifted Veil explores Eliot’s initial hopes and fears surrounding her use …