We have
developed traditions of rationality about these questions ¯ competing traditions, no doubt, but traditions of thought on these topics all the same.
And yet they survived, reconstructed their community, and handed down a continuous and
developing tradition which exerted a creative influence upon the whole of subsequent history.
He distinguishes four possible criteria: (1) multiple attestation; (2) discounting the tendencies of
the developing tradition; (3) attestation by multiple forms; (4) elimination of all material which may be derived either from Judaism or from primitive Christianity.
In the modern context the just war teachings of the Catholic Church lie alongside the contributions of these other spheres to
the developing tradition.
Elsewhere in
the developing tradition limits were set on how such justified force might be used: certain classes of persons were normally to be treated as noncombatants and not to be harmed directly and intentionally in their persons or property, and lists were made of weapons not to be used because of their indiscriminate or especially deadly effect.
One might have thought it a virtue rather than a flaw that the article was situated not in a single theory but in
a developing tradition.
We shall show in later chapters the role this verse may have played in
the developing tradition of the resurrection.
Since
a developing tradition does not sharpen and isolate metaphors but rather mixes and blunts them, we may assume that these two sayings have given nse to the tradition of faith «moving mountains» in the Church rather than vice versa, and there is good reason to accept their authenticity.
By its own accrued consensus of understanding, the Church
developed a tradition of what is permitted (or even required).
Liturgies, collections of prayers, theological statements, moral teaching, and much else are included in the general and
developing tradition of the Church.
Galen was one of the first experimenters we know of in biology; Vesalius
developed the tradition of accurate observation and experimentation from Galen.
None of
the developed traditions about immortality fosters self - absorption.
All of these sayings are testimony to
the developing tradition in the Church; they are not evidence for the teaching of Jesus.
The first two of these changes are characteristic of
a developing tradition in the Church, and since the early Christians spoke of the coming of the Son of man very much as Jesus had spoken of the Kingdom as a future hope, we can readily imagine that they could have taken the original and genuine saying of Jesus, Luke 17.20 f., and transformed it in this way to express their expectation.
■ Bishop Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1168 - 1253), Bishop of Lincoln and founder of the «Oxford School» known for
developing the tradition of experimental science.
During the past few years, I have
developed the tradition of taking a walk with my students every Friday morning, as soon as students arrive in class.
This system and methodology
developed the tradition of Pedagogy.
As time went on, we cat volunteers
developed a tradition of bringing her into the office during our shifts, where her personality began to shine.
Cultures and societies have
developed traditions and stories in attempts to explain the dualities of the world.
Ontario has over the past 17 years
developed a tradition of such bills, though «omnibus» got a bad reputation with Premier Harris's Bill 26 in 1995, since it was used to slash spending across a number of fronts and made a lot of legislative changes as it went.
As the first daily source of court information, we have
developed a tradition of integrity, independence and trust.
Looking for the challenging post of a school principal in a reputed school and thus to use my knowledge and skills in order to respect and
develop the traditions of the institution and contribute to the character building process of the institution.
Together you can
develop traditions and rituals that are unique to your family's personality.
Trivette and Dunst have dedicated their research careers to understanding social support of young families, and as a result have
developed the tradition of family - centeredness.
Not exact matches
LONDON — A rather cynical
tradition has
developed in recent years in which, in the final days and hours before MPs leave Parliament for their summer break, the government releases a deluge of embarrassing reports, statistics, and statements in an apparently deliberate attempt to bury them.
It is time for political leaders and their advisors to consider these and
develop other practical policies to deal with inequality and our economic problems in a way consonant with America's broad - based ownership
tradition.
Thanks to the generous support of our Platinum sponsors Vocalink and Worldpay, our Gold sponsor Paysafe and our Silver sponsor CMS (and with the help of our superb communication partner ccgroup) we will be continuing our
tradition of information discussion, expert comment and honest debate with a variety of leading - edge perspectives on topics ranging from W3C web payments and KYC in
developing markets to zero - knowledge proofs and PSD2.
Being aware of thinking through the basis and
traditions of what we believe was essential to
develop a framework for the situations that we knew that we were going to face as Christian leaders.
If thoughtful members of both communities become adequately aware of the moment they now occupy in history, and are prepared to reexamine their respective
traditions for the resources there to be
developed, then the Jewish - Christian relationship has a significant chance of becoming something more enriching than it has ever been before.
Lasch reminds us that the corrosion of our democratic way of life and especially our public discourse has its roots in widespread distrust of our institutions and the
traditions around which they have
developed and of which they are the expressions — whether the family, church, and local communities, or private enterprise and all the various levels of government.
In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems
developed from this western, Christian
tradition, he is free to insult people of faith as much as he wishes.
They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and
developed through the living
tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).
@RUReal, «In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems
developed from this western, Christian
tradition, he is free to insult people of faith as much as he wishes.»
The more I have tried to comprehend the nature of the Wesleyan
tradition and to
develop a theological method informed by its distinctive vision of Christianity, the more I have had difficulty understanding my own
tradition and myself within the outlines of what most people seem to mean by evangelicalism.
You cant debate God... you cant use logic to explain God... You cant use your small finite mind to try and explain away an infinite God... Man is flesh and blood but man has a spirit and some things can only be received and revealed thru spirit... And what you do nt see is actually more real than what you can observe with your five senses... And BTW I did nt say religion i said God... Religion is man made
tradition... God is real...
develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and gave you life... God has a purpose for your life...
The self - consciousness of the
developing nations has meant affirmation of their own cultural
traditions and identity.
It
develops a Christian marriage theology that takes seriously both the Christian marriage
traditions and the difficult challenges facing marriage today.
But any genuine recovery of a «particular language of faith» will entail
developing and appropriating a theological
tradition and embodying that
tradition in faithful living — a project that necessarily requires motivations and insights deriving from a quite different kind of authority than the sociologists possess.
The
tradition from which he
developed his own thought skipped from the Greek Fathers to the
tradition of the Church of England.
They re-founded the Jewish community among the ruins of Jerusalem, and by slow and painful degrees built up a civil and ecclesiastical polity through which the Jewish people maintained and
developed its national
traditions under the tolerant rule of the Persian Empire.
Both men and women need to
develop «joint models of caring and mutuality» that challenge those structures of power and religious
traditions that sanction the humiliation of others.
Will future relationships
develop in the context of this
tradition or in the direction of the conflict which has also been endemic between Ethiopia and neighbouring Muslim lands?
Protestants, particularly in seventeenth - century England,
developed their own
tradition, informed by John Donne, George Herbert, and Izaak Walton.
This party of warriors came to be known as the Hurs and
developed martial
traditions.
The
tradition of the flight into and return from Egypt may also have been
developed to match the experience of the people of Israel, whom God rescued from slavery under Pharaoh.
From here on I will be speaking of distinctive ways in which he has
developed that
tradition.
Their outer doctrine was based on
traditions developed in deep sin, ones that rendered God's law of no effect.
In fact, Dan and I spent a good part of the drive home time talking about the environment in which he grew up, the different ways in which his brothers and sisters have adopted, adapted, or changed some of those original
traditions as they
develop their own parenting styles, and how we planned to bring up our kids — should we ever get around to having them!
There are two main schools of thought on how to determine which variant is the right one, but both approaches use a
tradition that has
developed over time.
Speaking in cultural terms, M.M. Thomas argues that a «post-modern humanism which recognizes the integration of mechanical, organic and spiritual dimensions, can
develop creative reinterpretation of
traditions battling against fundamentalist traditionalism and actualize the potential modernity to create a dynamic fraternity of responsible persons and people».12