Sentences with phrase «past tradition constitutes»

Gordis states: «Past tradition constitutes the thesis, contemporary life the antithesis, and the resultant of these two factors becomes the new synthesis.

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Just as the self is a momentary experiencing subject that constitutes itself by creatively synthesizing data from the past and responding to the possibilities of the future, so a tradition, as it responds to the challenges of the present and the possibilities of the future, reappropriates its past and reconstitutes itself.
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