Sentences with phrase «down with tradition»

London's Tate Britain is a brilliantly forward - thinking institution but the building in which it's housed and the permanent collection it contains are weighed down with tradition and unavoidable associations with the illustrious history of British art — all of which can be quite daunting to artists and sometimes overwhelm our appreciation of their work.

Not exact matches

Maritime tradition has long held that «the captain goes down with the ship.»

At a synagogue just a mile from where she had been gunned down, Meadow Pollack, 18, lay in a plain wooden coffin, closed in accordance with Jewish tradition.

And, to be fair to Jim Prentice, there is a maritime tradition that the captain should go down with his sinking ship.

McKay contrasts the proud investigative journalism tradition that brought down the Standard Oil monopoly at the turn of the last century and the Nixon presidency in the 1970s with a form of business reporting that has been «notorious for failing to detect bubbles before they burst with calamitous consequences.»

Otherwise, LDS, please take note that Passover traditions are deeply, deeply meaningful to Jews; they were not passed down to you, and they are not yours to take liberty with.

did it occur to anyone that «stories» passed down via oral tradition, and done so with great care to preserve actual meaning and intent, may be true (i.e. humanity prior to the past century).

For example, François Hollande's infidelity to his girlfriend Valérie Trierweiler continued an aboriginal tradition of French heads of state, beginning with the Catholic kings and continuing with rare breaks down to his immediate predecessor.

Even If the due - process provision calls on the court to protect rights recognized by tradition or widespread consensus, there is a problem with Roe: it involved neither Antiabortion laws were decades old, and although a few states had partly decriminalized abortion, Roe went much further and struck down laws in virtually every state.

Best Reflection: Peter Enns with «Tradition is not an anchor to weigh you down, but a sail to move you forward»

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

Down through the socialist tradition, the argument repeatedly has been made that capitalism results in gross inequities, and that socialism can do away with such foolishness.

Were such consequences to be accepted, then a process metaphysics could indeed dispense with Whitehead's God, although not with that singular function of «total affirmation» which Whitehead — the weight of ontotheological tradition bearing down upon him — valiantly attempts to grant Him.

It probably took no more than an instant for Cervantes to have the simple, fruitful idea that produced Don Quixote: take a middle - aged, down - at - the - heels landowner, fill his brain with the entire tradition of chivalric romance, and then have him ride forth into the world as a knight errant.

After lunch, Father Ed settles down to talk to me about his remarkable spiritual journey to the Ordinariate — the structure set up by Pope Benedict to allow former Anglicans to become Catholics, bringing with them some of their Anglican traditions — and about what he sees as its particular mission, to revive authentic, English spirituality in the Catholic Church.

The saying itself is part of the tradition about John the Baptist and, as such, it is part of a tradition with a very special history, a history of a continuous «playing down» of the role of the Baptist («This was convincingly demonstrated by M. Dibelius,, Die urchristliche Ûberlieferung von Johannes dem Taufer; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1915.

This may represent an early tradition of that event, handed down in the Christian community, perhaps at Jerusalem, rather than Paul's own account of the matter; but it is consistent with what Paul says himself in his own letters.

Such a defense seems to come down to this: the local church is preserved from suffocating provincialism when it intentionally engages in dialogue with other churches and when it remains steadfast in appropriating and witnessing to the «apostolic tradition.»

Nor is that parallel nothing more than an interesting accident; I believe that it is a parallel so profound and so revealing that it gives us insight into the nature of the Eucharist as the chief piece of Christian worship while it also provides us with the clue as to how the gospel which is proclaimed can become the life - giving reality of the Christian tradition down the ages to the present day.

Hence we conclude that the presbyter is reporting a genuine tradition, namely of «Mark's» association with Peter and his recollection and writing down of certain things Peter had said in his preaching; and this is all the more probable in that (a) the presbyter uses the tradition to meet a current objection, and (b) he presses it a little too far — though not so far as Papias does — in meeting the objection.

The fact may be explained by saying that everything goes back to, or rests upon, the Gospel of Mark; but I think we can not assume that this Gospel would have been accepted if upon any major point its general outline had been found to be faulty or inaccurate by those who were in touch with the primitive tradition handed down in the churches in Palestine.

It was maintained by some critics, a decade ago, that form criticism had nothing to do with the historicity of events whose purported records had been handed down orally, but only with the outward form of the tradition; but this was an impossible view.

Gerber named its 2018 Spokesbaby on Wednesday and aside from maintaining the long - standing tradition of being adorable, Lucas Warren is also making history for being the first spokesbaby with Down syndrome.

Thus the discovery of the empty tomb by the women, along with the first proclamation of the Easter message, were set down on the first day of the week to be consistent with the tradition of «the third day».

There is one Tradition at least which says that Mohammed discouraged writing such things down, lest this record be confused with the Koran itself.

Matthew 27:3 - 10 cites a tradition that says Judas repented of his act, brought back the 30 pieces of silver and flung them down before the chief priests and elders, and they in turn bought a field with it for burying the poor.

This argument breaks down on the fact that the contemporary form critic does not deal with a nebulous entity, «the community», to which he ascribes all kinds of powers; he deals with specific groups, individuals and traditions which he isolates, identifies and delineates.

Here he writes, in connection with the question of reconstructing authentic teaching of Jesus, «we have reasonably secure ground under our feet only in one particular instance, namely, when there is some way of showing that a piece of tradition has not been derived from Judaism and may not be ascribed to early Christianity, and this is particularly the case when Jewish Christianity has regarded this tradition as too bold and has toned it down or modified it in some way».

At the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century, for example, there was no real theological deepening of the notion of revelation because the main concern was with safeguarding the deposit of faith that the council fathers held to have been passed down in Church tradition under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Often I've seen people grow up with «religion» which is really tradition shoved down their throat (myself included) not given a chance to decide from themselves.

By no means do we have to reckon exclusively with oral tradition... Personally I have... tried to typologize the so - called «prophetical literature» in two main groups: «The liturgical type» («liturgy» taken as a purely form - literary term) to be found in Nah., Hab., Joel, «Deuter - Isa,» et al., with real «writers» behind them, and probably from the very beginning taken down in writing, and «the diwan type» (no very good term, I admit), e.g., Am., Proto - Isa., etc., primarily resting on oral transmission...

I think a major problem with many churches nowadays is that they are so stuck in their ways that they fail to even desire to start thinking about the Bible with as much objectivity as they can muster — such an approach might lead them down a path that doesn't follow age - old traditions.

(Professor Gilkey has listed five marks of the death of God tradition, and they should perhaps be set down: (1) the problematic character of God and of man's relation to him today, (2) the acceptance of the secular world as normative intellectually and ethically good, (3) the restriction of theological statements to what one can actually affirm oneself, and with this the rejection of certain traditional ideas of tradition and authority, (4) the centrality of Jesus as one who calls us into the world to serve him there, (5) uneasiness with mythological, super-historical, eschatological, supernatural entities or categories.

With such a moral heritage, combining both high value and narrow limitation, the tribes of Israel entered Palestine and, after a long conflict with the previous inhabitants, settled down to adjust and synthesize their cultural traditions in the midst of the much more complicated agricultural and urban society which they had conqueWith such a moral heritage, combining both high value and narrow limitation, the tribes of Israel entered Palestine and, after a long conflict with the previous inhabitants, settled down to adjust and synthesize their cultural traditions in the midst of the much more complicated agricultural and urban society which they had conquewith the previous inhabitants, settled down to adjust and synthesize their cultural traditions in the midst of the much more complicated agricultural and urban society which they had conquered.

This capacity in Yahweh for prolonged and violent hatred of Israel's foes is set down in the record with unashamed emphasis, whether in the traditions of the wilderness, where «Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation,» (Exodus 17:16) or in the early days of the kingdom in Palestine, when Yahweh commanded Saul to «go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.»

He, more than anyone else in Christian history, dug back very deep into the Old Testament Sabbath day tradition with all of its restrictions, its admonitions to rest, and, taking them out of the Jewish tradition, he dropped them down on the Christian Sunday.

The Christian message interwove with the local religious traditions so as to give the people a deeper sense of local identity (a sense of rootedness), while, at the same time, breaking down the psycho - sociological barriers that kept nationalities separate and apart from each other so as to allow for a truly universal fellowship (a sense of universality).

It should also be pointed out that, in the areas to which Islam spread, the termination of one chapter of existence and the beginning of the new Islamic culture, with all that this change entailed in the forming of new relationships and acceptance of basic ideas, restored the vigor and revived the energies of nations which had been weighed down by age and tradition.

The more christians who do not identify with their dying tradition join us and abandon the effort to patch holes down below the water line while they stroll the decks in all their decadent finery, the faster the whole thing will slide beneath the waves.

So far we have been dealing with the tradition of the sayings of Jesus, our aim being to deduce from the character of this tradition how far those texts that were handed down originally without any biographical context are historically trustworthy and worthy to serve as sources for a historical picture of Jesus.

Not wanting to pass on tradition, I came up with a Roasted Vegetable Penne that was so full of rich flavors and down right good that we only had a cup left over from a whole pound of pasta!

Write it down girls because someday you'll begin the tradition with your daughters, granddaughters and their friends.

In café's and Bäckereien up and down the Vaterland, whether in a sleepy country village after a hike in the hills (with hiking poles, naturally) or street - side in the leafy green city of Berlin, people are honoring this tradition of «Kaffee und Kuchen» by eating cake.

I'm down in Georgia celebrating Thanksgiving with my immediate family and our best family friends — It's our tradition to come down here this time of year.

Time to buckle down and knock out your holiday shopping so you can just sit back, relax, and take part in your holiday traditions with the people that matter most!

Dinucci will be fine with this offense and can lead us to big wins if he's put in beneficial down / distance situations or throwing on tradition running situations.

Uniforms were expensive, so tradition became athletic tape striped down blue helmets with no logos.

Both jobs have been down for a while, but Nebraska is the easier sell with its tradition.

Is there a set tradition, like Santa coming down the chimney with a bag of presents?

Filled with parenting tales (and dilemmas) from around the globe, it is a reminder that we bring our children into worlds filled with traditions, some of which we don't even realize have been passed down to us until we, in turn, find ourselves passing them down to others.»