Sentences with phrase «what historical traditions»

What historical traditions determine the particularity of this school's culture and ethos?

Not exact matches

What makes Wasserstein's formulation eccentric is his insistence on Arendt's tendencies to accept at face value, without explanation, neo-Nazi historical formulations of the Jewish question and plain old Leninist approaches to the imperial tradition.

; geography and ethnicity («if he's from Galilee, it isn't valid); government authorities (the temple police don't know what to do with him); religious and spiritual authorities (the chief priests rule him out); legal authorities (Pharisees); and tradition or historical authority («No one's ever talked like this before»).

Professor Branscomb truly says: «Fact and theology had already been combined in this tradition, and what is often described as Mark's theology is really the early Christian belief as to the historical facts.»

Not only is it true that the idea of the consequent nature of God is metaphysically dependent upon a particular historical tradition, but I would also suggest the possibility that it is directed wholly and without remainder to what the Christian, and only the Christian, has known as the total and final presence of God in Christ.

It is important in this connection to distinguish very clearly within each tradition between its fundamental unity and the unity of harmonization, fruit of the «Biblical» spirit, «between saga produced near the historical occurrences, the character of which is enthusiastic report, and saga which is further away from the historical event, and which derives from the tendency to complete and round off what is already given.»

On the other hand there is an interpretation which not only gives due weight to the old tradition underlying the presbyter's words, but also maintains full contact with historical probability: it is the interpretation made possible by what is called form criticism.

What I didn't get round to doing when I set out: lots of exegesis, lots of historical theology, mastering the big texts of the traditions of the church.

Now, this idea must be used by us to encourage once again the conception of a «historical Jesus» to be found by clearing away later «accretions and perversions» and then to be contrasted with the whole Christian tradition... We thus distract men's minds from Who He is, and what He did.

What I was coming face to face with, however, was no shadow, no «indirect witness to Jesus Christ,» but a fully historical (certainly «warts and all») living tradition, constituting a quite direct witness to the God of Israel.

Study of any particular congregation thus inescapably is study of it in its own tradition, in its likeness to other congregations in previous historical periods who share its basic construal of what the Christian thing is all about, what it is to understand God, and so forth (see chapter 2).

’10 Elsewhere he identifies the evolutionary thought which he opposes as «a basic acceptance of technical rationality».11 He speaks of Wolfhart Pannenberg's «extremely valuable attempt to develop a universally historical hermeneutics», complaining only that his «anticipation of a total meaning in history as... too little interrupted or irritated by what is described in the apocalyptic tradition as a universal catastrophe, in other words, the reign of the Antichrist».12 Metz is more open to an Overview than some of his statements imply.

What is preserved in this tradition - and it is as firm, as concrete, a historical datum of the event as is the role of Moses - is the fact of the faith of the participants.

This is why there must be freedom for the scholar to inquire into the historical problem of Christian origins, for example; why there must be freedom to think through once again what in the Christian tradition is «central» and what is «peripheral» (to use Professor Burnaby's words which I quoted in an earlier lecture); why there must be freedom to reconceive and restate what is then seen to be of the essence of the faith.

In the synoptic tradition, on the other hand, although the same mythological overlay and parenetic application is there, the fact remains that we do have what we would call historical material and historicizing tendencies in a way we do not have elsewhere in the New Testament.

What conspicuous historical events may have provided occasions for the writing down of the oral tradition?

A tradition of revolutions exists and can be identified very precisely, in any place, in any historical period, from where it constantly emerges in its popular form — for what is universal about this collective treasure is that it is owned by no particular region in the world, nor did any single intellectual tradition create it.

Without testament or, to resolve the metaphor, without tradition — which selects and names, which hands down and preserves, which indicates where the treasures are and what their worth is — there seems to be no willed continuity in time and hence, humanly speaking, neither past nor future... Thus the treasure was lost, not because of historical circumstances and the adversity of reality, but because no tradition had foreseen its appearance or its reality, because no testament had willed it for the future.

Show the citizens of Steelport what tradition means with the historical presidential outfit or a female historical costume.

BAL: What is your relationship to the art historical tradition of Land Art?

What / Why: «Painter RJ Grady transforms the historical tradition of still life painting, subtly playing with perspective and reflection, pushing the edges of perception to create an unexpected narrative between object and ground.

The ground being contested was not merely that of cultural value, but of how value was to be defined: as contingent upon historical tradition, and therefore concentric and centripetal, or as linear, directional, conforming to measure; invested in the dynamic of supercession by what Eliot called «the supervention of novelty».

Exposing the curatorial decisions made to navigate strong cultural traditions and deconstructed historical narratives, Miralles will reflect on the complexities in conveying what is «Cuban» beyond the political or national qualities of the project.

What they share here — apart from the very strong painting that pervades the show — is a consciousness of the art historical tradition of painting within which each artist creates his or her work.

The exhibition surveys historical narratives through investigations into artists like Lucas Samaras and Gerhard Richter «who were manipulating the photograph before digital -LSB-...] and I started wondering what that tradition looked like over time.»

What their painting holds in common is their obvious love for the physicality of paint, their desire to create worlds that the viewer can enter, and their commitment to work forward in the historical tradition of abstraction, drawing on the past with the intention of developing a new visual vocabulary.

In the West African culture, historical tradition is passed down orally through what are known in the Western world as griots.