Sentences with phrase «what is a tradition»

What is a tradition if not the persuasive claims of an individual, repeated?

What is your tradition every Christmas?

What are the traditions and structures that created and maintained these patterns?

What is the relationship between artistic practice and institution - building, and what are the traditions and case studies of artists as creators of durable social contexts that we can look to?

Not exact matches

«A lot of the traditions and quirks of what we do are about fostering a sense of humor and individuality, so that we aren't taking ourselves too seriously, so that we can have frank conversations.»

What's more, while Middleton is British, Prince Harry broke with tradition in some ways by choosing to spend his life with an American.

Funeral potatoes are what they sound like — the dish originally comes from the Mormon tradition of bringing the well - liked comfort food to people at gatherings after a funeral.

Because of this, the suit says that Coors Light marketing statements such as «Proudly brewed in the Rocky Mountain tradition,» «When the Mountains Turn Blue It's as Cold as the Rockies,» «What would we be without our mountains?

He wanted to recover what was best in tradition — and render it fresh.

Here Shakespeare's a faithful example of our western tradition, which does not honor what is merely inherited.

We are not true to our own tradition unless we seek what is new.

«As they struggled to figure out what made a team successful, Rozovsky and her colleagues kept coming across research by psychologists and sociologists that focused on what are known as «group norms» - the traditions, behavioral standards, and unwritten rules that govern how teams function when they gather... Norms can be unspoken or openly acknowledged, but their influence is often profound.»

With Chinese growth slowing, a paramount issue for President Obama and American business will be learning what the direction of Chinese policy will be — toward greater opening of its market in the tradition of Deng Xiaoping, or much less welcome alternatives.

«The experience of the broad oriental tradition of a married clergy could also be drawn upon,» he writes, without specificying what that means in the context of the debate over married clergy in non-Eastern traditions.

That time period in ancient China, by the way, corresponds with what is called the Spring and Autumn Period (about 771 to 476 B.C.), which tradition associates with the Chinese teacher and philosopher Confucius, one of the first to espouse the principle:

But some brave souls are predicting a «Get Out» upset, and what if the Academy's tradition - minded voters swing for «Dunkirk»?

On Christmas morning, they eagerly open their presents from their grandmother in what is now a very special family tradition.

Swahili is influenced by the confluence of what the late African studies professor Ali Mazrui called the «triple heritage,» namely the indigenous Bantu languages and identity, Islamic religion, and Western traditions.

But in fairness, Harper has only been following a long tradition of administering what one wag has called the «taskless thanks.»

«We understand Hong Kong may not want to change its tradition for one company, but we firmly believe that Hong Kong must consider what is needed in order to adapt to future trends and changes,» wrote Joe Tsai, an executive vice chairman at Alibaba, the biggest name in Chinese e-commerce.

What I find so incredibly offensive about this is that the LDS community is not only taking liberty with sacred traditions that do not belong to them, but actually prohibiting real Jews from buying the real wine they need for their authentic, Jewish seders.

What I meant by cognitive dissonance, though, is that whole thing about the «institutional» church, throwing a whole tradition, a whole world - wide confession, millions of individual believers into some sort of barrel.

What Wesley said is that reason, experience, tradition, and scripture all must exist within a sort of «holy» tension.

But, we also criticize people who adhere to the dogma — of Christianity, of Islam, of Hindu tradition — when the actions are far removed from what the «policies» of the respective texts dictate (e.g. love thy neighbor, but act badly to others, specifically non-Christians *), or when the «policies» are adhered to VERY closely and make no sense in today's day and age (e.g. homosexuality is a sin).

And not go deeper in new ways of praying, but actually return to old historic practices that are rooted in our historic Christian contemplative tradition and my sense here, in the Sacred Enneagram is that as we come to terms with what our type is, that actually gives us a clue of what it looks like to nurture a deep, contemplative spirituality.

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.

Isn't this what so many of us don't like about people who use religious tradition as a means for explaining their behavior... they're not CONSISTENT?

Not only is that a patronizing claim about what Muslims can and can not achieve within their own tradition, it is a dead - end position.

Because those of us who see these things for what they are (unconst.itutional, unethical, sometimes immoral) are too «respectful» of these traditions.

«They value the tradition, but what they often tell me is that they were not learning as much about the Bible and how it relates to their life today.»

What is really fascinating is the theory that the Hebrew and Muslim deity figure derive from a war god in an ancient Semitic pantheon whose association with the other gods was lost in the confusion that time and oral tradition bring.

Maybe when we give ourselves to ancient words and sacred texts, and embrace routines and traditions, we can remember that we are not here for what we can get out of worship; we are here to give ourselves away in worship.

But traditions (e.g., sacraments not found in the Bible) gained force only as explications of what was implicit in Scripture.

And if we are allowed to pursue our «liberal» studies undistracted by what does not belong to them, we may thank the survival of an ancient tradition of education for our good fortune.

If all thinking, then, is conducted within the context of a cultural tradition, it would seem to be done more consistently and more fruitfully when it is explicit about its own contextual limitations and does not pretend to be what it is not and can not be.

Commenting on criticism surround the Virgin Birth, Very Rev Michael Sadgrove said: «He wasn't deconstructing the meaning of the Gospel, he wasn't in any way devaluing what the tradition has to say about faith.

anyhoots to understand what Jesus meant when he said those things you have to read it in context to the time and traditions of the day, although the spiritual truths are still relevant.

I can't speak for James Kugel, who as I observed in my essay tends to overdraw the contrast between what we can reliably know historically (as opposed to the often agenda - driven projects of modern critics) and the ways in which the Bible was read in the earlier traditions.

As Evangelicals and Catholics we are agreed on what we have said together in the statement «The Gift of Salvation» and on what we have been able to say together in the present statement on Scripture and tradition.

@ lionlylamb: per rightly dividing the word... the video below is what Paul was talking about (focusing on Christ), not philosophical abstractions... «See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»

Once the traditional one man, one woman union is open to question, then there is no reason for the government to continue to interfere in what has always been a social and religious tradition.

G to T What makes the Bible divine is that a symbolic picture language in oral tradition as captured in writing transmitted the message over thousands of years and cultures that still reveals the absolute truth.

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»).

fred «What makes the Bible divine is that a symbolic picture language in oral tradition as captured in writing transmitted the message over thousands of years and cultures that still reveals the absolute truth»

Either way, what is required of us is not a drive to change an entire educational culture but a patient, self - assured carrying on of the tradition that has been handed down to us by our mentors.

Indeed, over the years, Georgetown has been perhaps the clearest example of what many such schools practice: the whipsaw of «Catholic tradition,» in which the strongest declarations of Catholic identity come from the fund - raisers, the alumni association, and the public - relations office ¯ all the people trying to sell the university in a tight economic situation that requires a good bit of niche marketing.

You go ahead and keep the tradition of intolerance and lack of community, I am going to vote for the man or woman who can make a difference because they know what they are doing and not because they have a belief I don't agree with.

But I think I get what The Rationale means that those feelings aren't dictated by religion so much as comfort levels, self - esteem, tradition etc etc..

By thus counterposing an active, «dynamic» (which is what he means by «temporal») subject to the static, substantial» subject of recent metaphysical tradition, Mason may have taken care of real concerns, but not those that trouble Heidegger.