Sentences with phrase «in most traditions»

Manziel, the best of a new breed of quarterbacks raised in the spread, and Texas A&M, the new kid on the block with in the most tradition - proud conference in college football, are the perfect marriage, Michael Schumacher and his Ferrari doing donuts in the grass on Mike Slive's lawn.

Not exact matches

«The ancient Romans had a tradition: Whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: He stood under the arch.»

He points out that British law is rooted in the protection of individual rights from the power of the state, while most law in continental Europe is derived from the Roman tradition of absolute state power.

With that tradition in mind, here's a list of the proposals Trump promises to pursue by April 29 that are most likely to affect business owners.

One theory (alluded to in the Clarkson report) has to do with managing for the long run: a company rooted in a family's history, tradition and reputation may well be less susceptible to the short - termism that is so notoriously a factor at most corporations today.

Only in Quebec, with its «pacifist tradition,» are most people opposed to the war, Harper said.

It would be a devastating blow to the historical 60 - vote threshold for advancing most bills in the Senate and an unacceptable step for senators who pride themselves on tradition and deliberation.

These media already give the news that the public needs and are much better about screening out lies, whether because of regulations (in the case of radio and newspapers) or traditions of responsibility (in the case of most print media).

Create unforgettable vacation memories in 2013 while experiencing the long - standing tradition of excellence at one of London's most prestigious addresses.

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

The fields of academia and education are one of the most conservative fields — there are centuries - old traditions and conventional that has remained in use to the detriment of new technology.

... Here was an African American running for president being hailed by anonymous Arab - African women, in their own tradition, in the most unlikely of locales, and he... reciprocated instinctively from the depth of his cosmopolitan soul.»

And it is the most promising attempt in American higher education to recover Christian traditions for our common intellectual life.

Third, they are ignoring the fact that most atheist grew up in a religious tradition.

Unless your passion and hobby and degrees are in Christian theology, I seriously doubt most agnostics have a clue about sacred tradition and scripture and the divine revelation.

In one of Ross's most effective chapters, she argues that low - church evangelical liturgy has taken many of its cues from the Gospel of John, while more high - church traditions have tended to look toward the synoptics.

Look up Santa Claus in Wikipedia: combined the afore mentioned w / Odin and Father X-mas and various other European traditions (thus probably most likely Caucasion.

I have a great respect for the Roman Catholic tradition in political and social thought, and believe that some of the most interesting and «provocative» contemporary commentators depend very heavily on that tradition.

Against those who hold humanity in contempt, I, too, want to declare myself a humanist and join in the most elevated and elevating tradition of a culture that celebrates man as «the crown of creation.»

For 1000 years or more, Roman Catholicism WAS Christianity in most of Europe, and pretty much all of Protestantism has its roots in the Catholic faith tradition.

According to The New Encyclopædia Britannica, the one called St.Augustine's «mind was the crucible in which the religion of the New Testament was most completely fused with the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy; and it was also the means by which the product of this fusion was transmitted to the Christendoms of medieval Roman Catholicism and Renaissance Protestantism.»

Most people celebrate this tradition, if so, then celebrate this day in the name of Jesus Christ.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

Over the next fourteen years the Braatens and the Jensons (both men's wives participated actively in the center's work) collaborated in activities» conferences, seminars, and, most notably, production of the journal Pro Ecclesia» that expanded from a Lutheran core to give ecumenical witness to the great tradition of catholic theology.

Most of what passes for Christmas traditions are in fact Pagan / Heathen, like the lighted and decorate tree, candles in the windows, wreath on the door, caroling from door to door, exchanging gifts, etc..

I agree when you are show casing narrow minded traditions in church, and I am all for that, but now you are removing one of the most clearly attested teachings of the NT.

I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.

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Some theologians in the Wesleyan tradition, especially those most under the influence of neo-evangelicalism, in the early years of the post-World War II Evangelical Theological Society attempted to work in the neo evangelical coalition.

One of the most significant essays in the volume, the concluding Christian reflection by George Lindbeck, helps us see precisely how the recognition of analogies and shared metaphors can in fact empower a community to live its own tradition more faithfully.

Most nations have such symbolic events in their tradition.

We all «pick and choose» but most of us try to do so for good reasons, grounded in thoughtful hermeneutics and guided by tradition.)

My favorite form of Buddhism (radically different then most — and certainly in the sweet, safe Western version) is the Vajra Tradition of Tibet.

I joked last year that 33 was «My Jesus Year» (because in most church traditions, Jesus did the whole «Death and Resurrection Thing» in his thirty - third year and so people try to make their 33rd year very meaningful).

A faithful church will find that it already has enormous resources, most obviously in a deep tradition of teaching on sexual ethics that already exists.

At the most recent General Assembly of the World Council of Churches, in Vancouver in 1983, the theological significance of other religious traditions still remained a controversial issue.

Most Likely to Make You Cry (in a good way): Jan Johnson with «Weeping Prayer» [found this over at Elizabeth Esther's blog] «In Christian spiritual tradition, certain kinds of weeping are a charism, or gift of the Spirit.&raquin a good way): Jan Johnson with «Weeping Prayer» [found this over at Elizabeth Esther's blog] «In Christian spiritual tradition, certain kinds of weeping are a charism, or gift of the Spirit.&raquIn Christian spiritual tradition, certain kinds of weeping are a charism, or gift of the Spirit.»

Religion News Service: Obama extols a biblical vision of equality for all in second inaugural A presidential inauguration is by tradition the grandest ritual of America's civil religion, but President Obama took the oath of office on Monday (Jan. 21) in a ceremony that was explicit in joining theology to the nation's destiny and setting out a biblical vision of equality that includes race, gender, class, and, most controversially, sexual orientation.

It is a fact that I have spent my life, for the most part willingly, under the influence of the Bible, particularly the Gospels, and of the Christian tradition in literature and the other arts.

The compilation of the Traditions took final form at the hands of Bukhari and Muslim in the third century (ninth century A.D.), and today most Muslims recognize their work as the two correct books on Traditions.

If I had to guess, I would guess that most of the spiritual abuse that you guys talk about occurs in the reformed and pentecostal traditions.

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

One of the most important steps in the development of primitive Christian doctrine, and by far the most important for the tradition embodied in Mark and the Synoptics, took place when Jesus was identified with this celestial figure of apocalyptic expectation.

All this is basic to contemporary work on the theology of the synoptic evangelists and their tradition; indeed, this contemporary work is consciously built upon the foundations laid by Bultmann in this most important book.

Richard Steel, an evangelical church pastor in Stratford - upon - Avon, believes the shroud stands above Protestant concerns about the veneration of relics in the Catholic tradition, saying: «If it is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, it's one of the most important relics that the Christian Church has.»

His argument, part of which appeared in these pages («Leading Children Beyond Good and Evil,» May 2000), is that moral education as presently conceived almost inevitably ends up by thinning out moral content, removing the sharp edges of judgment, avoiding normative traditions of moral experience, and thus stifling the factors most crucial to the formation of character.

And while «deep reasonings» of the three Abrahamic traditions are hardly a secret (most mosques, synagogues and churches admit guests, and most religion scholars publish their work in journals), Adams notes that «the quality of public debate between members of different traditions is dangerously low.

I suspect because it is required to keep the belief going otherwise you would have to call in to question everything you believed in and that is a very deeply painful road — so most interpret it as a «test» rather than your brain working rationally because it is scary to go against tradition.

But, most importantly, I'd ask that of your (and my) tradition — are we producing disciples in the next generation?

He was speaking of that which he saw articulated in the Catholic tradition of Eucharistic worship, as he understood it; yet his words unconsciously echoed a great deal that is most deeply characteristic of Dr. Karl Barth's criticism of what he regards as the very heart and centre of Catholic dogmatics, namely the doctrine of the analogy of being.