Sentences with phrase «along with the traditions»

That can be a good thing for missions if the Christian believers have the theological / spiritual formation to be discerning; but too often cultural custom becomes absolutized along with the Tradition's orthopraxis.

His knowledge of scripture, along with the tradition of Christian faith through literature, makes his work an invaluable preaching resource.

Maybe I am jusy playing along with the tradition?

Transforming our schools is not easy work but working with Milwaukee Succeeds to improve reading instruction in our schools along with our tradition of Catholic faith and care for our all students will drive us toward success.

This gallery provides a cross section of 2 - D and 3 - D works that express religious, social and cultural values of ancient civilizations along with some traditions that continue to this day.

Probably not a good idea to use that kind of language in the US given there are hundreds of millions of privately owned guns along with a tradition of using them to settle conflicts.

Not exact matches

Jimmy Fallon, host of the top - rated Tonight Show, still carries on the Carson tradition of evenhanded, softball one - liners, along with a Trump impression that even the Donald can laugh along with.

Beyond the special visit of Senator Collins, highlights included: • Intense and probing pre and post-dinner conversations about the economy and the world on the deck (along with wonderful wine and hors d'oeuvres — part of the tradition is that each participant ships several bottles of excellent wine to share with others) • Participation in a financial forecast survey of key factors for the upcoming 12 months as well as a review of the prior year's financial forecast survey — including distribution of funds that the prior year's attendees «bet» on the accuracy of the forecasts.

The reason is this: Christianity through the Catholic Church was evangelizing in the Andean region along with the new Spanish rulers brutally repressed the people and their traditions.

Too many lies along with Pagan traditions ad Greek mythology are taught in the churches today (Christmas, Easter, Eternal torment in Hell, etc.) This evil plague called religion must go.

The Catholic Church had retrieved lost elements of its own tradition, and learned some new things along the way, in coming to terms with religious freedom and political modernity.

The complete statement of the traditions, along with a discussion of them, is found in the book by Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve Ttraditions, along with a discussion of them, is found in the book by Bill W., Twelve Steps and Twelve TraditionsTraditions.

suffering, true sociality, as qualities of the divine, along with radical differences (as we shall see) in the meanings ascribed to creation, the universe, human freedom, and in the arguments for the existence of God, those inclined to think that any view that is intimately connected with theological traditions must have been disposed of by this time should also beware lest they commit a non sequitur.

Presumably this was intended by many of those opposing theological pluralism along with the full recognition of tradition, experience and reason as sources and guidelines for theology.

The anticipation of the end of the age, along with the hope for a new world to come, has had a long history in Judeo - Christian tradition.

Therefore, reason and experience, along with Scripture and tradition, deserve to be given formative roles in the church's life.

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

Along with sayings based on the gospels and on known Gnostic traditions, Thomas provides some highly mysterious materials which reflect his theology.

We may begin, for example, with a certain tradition within the Church of England, in which the minister or priest performed his liturgical, homiletical, and pastoral duties, and perhaps even did spots of reading about them, but in which his serious continuing intellectual work along some particular line might have little or nothing to do with theology.

Understanding Islam along with the authentic sources of the Quran and the accepted traditions of the Prophet Mohammed is the antidote to violent extremism.

The intellectual tradition of the Sophists (alike criticized by the loyal Erasmus and the exiled Luther), along with other elements of church tradition, had drifted so far that it no longer convincingly centered on that which was revealed.

Catholic art, along with the rich tradition of sacred music, continues to speak to people of differing cultural and religious backgrounds.

By excising the requirement that Christian marriage be a «a lifelong union between a man and a woman,» along with the Augustinian tradition's second good of marriage, offspring, from the list of «purposes for which it was instituted by God,» marriage would be defined as open to same - sex couples whose sexual unions are not biologically fruitful.

Thus the discovery of the empty tomb by the women, along with the first proclamation of the Easter message, were set down on the first day of the week to be consistent with the tradition of «the third day».

I think Pentecostals should understand the unique contours of their tradition and embrace the distinctions that go along with it.

Barth's doctrine of the threefold Word implied simultaneously the indissoluble unity of the Word with the texts, tradition and present life of the church, along with the necessity of always distinguishing between the Word and the text, the text and the community, and the present creeds and future possibilities.

These two types of process theology, along with the term «empirical process theology,» are discussed in my «Empirical Theology, A Revisable Tradition,» Process Studies 19 (1990).

The mainline Protestant tradition had inherited the establishmentarian mentality of New England Puritanism, along with Puritanism's urgent moralism.

The artists became illustrators, embellishers, and decorators, and thereby lost I their authority to be involved along with speech, tradition, and doctrine in the shaping of Christian religious experience.

The annual event attracts thousands of devotees and is a mix of rich Catholic tradition along with Filipinos» penchant for year - round festivities.

Thus, along with the element of universality mentioned above, the doctrine of the unsurpassability of Christ as the final revelation of God has come to be a crucial point of controversy in inter-religious discussion involving Christians and other traditions.

In an alliance with Christian conservatives against the atheism that has made a sick and paltry joke of each of their respective and joint traditions and that has begun like a swarm of termites to eat away the underpinnings of this democratic republic, the new Jewish conservatives have come to understand that any alienation they felt as children in Christian America is as nothing compared with the danger they sense to themselves and their progeny, along with their uncomprehending coreligionists, in atheist America.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

Thus I begin my admission or confession of the approach, the materials, and the methods which I believe to be necessary in the indispensable job of re-conceiving the last things, along with re-conceiving the totality of the Christian theological tradition.

This is another Jewish tradition that Jesus may or may not have kept, but along with this and some other considerations, I ended up rejecting this particular view.

Instead of seeing in the Gospels numerous layers of literary strata, Wright sees traditions that have been passed along relatively intact, with some editing done by the transmitters and then by the Gospel writers.

One who is not a Christian (especially the modern nondualist Hindu and perhaps a Mahayana Buddhist) might ultimately agree to go along with the idea, from the Christian point of view, of an invisible» church of a Christ not tied to any one religious or cultural tradition.

Along with this, the philosophical notions about soul, about immortality, about a realm above and beyond the hurly - burly of this world, present in the tradition of Greek philosophy and variations on that philosophy in the early Christian era, had become so much part of the atmosphere of thought that inevitably these two affected Christian thinkers.

Granted the need to recognise legitimate doctrinal development in the Church, along with the important contributions of Vatican II, the Church does provide the security of a tradition that rests upon unchanging, divinely revealed truths.

For the 17th - century Roman Catholic Richard Simon, the Jahwist was simply proof of the Bible's inner inconsistency; because he existed along with other «authors,» disagreeing and diverging superintending hand of church tradition was vindicated.

Jesus» resurrection, and upon the message, (a) the expectation of the coming judgment, with Christ as judge, and (b) the promise of salvation of those who repented and trusted in him, taken along with (c) the purely subsidiary and qualifying or evidential reference to Jesus» earthly life and ministry — this very relation between hope, proof, and historic fact is the relation which prevailed in the period of the oral tradition of the sayings and deeds of Jesus, and eventually fashioned the structure of the Synoptic Gospels.

This much at least may be conceded, that along with the academic tradition of detached secular study of religion, there is growing in both Christendom and elsewhere a religiously related scholarship of religious diversity.30 To some extent in the future these studies, it would seem, are to be carried out by religious people for religious people.

We, along with the recorders of ancient Israel's tradition, may well understand that Israel's escape from Egypt followed immediately upon and indeed in consequence of an uncommon series of «natural» disasters.

The persistent criticisms made by thinkers within the church along with a growing body of adverse research is creating an increasing questioning of paid - time programming, even from people within similar theological traditions as the broadcasters themselves.

A political system, along with such supportive traditions as the rule of law and loyal opposition, is supposed to be a durable fixture on the political landscape and ought not to be changed lightly.

When faculty realized that this course would include the Judeo - Christian tradition as a source of religious and moral values along with other perspectives, many grew suspicious.

One was McIntyre's insistence on total abstinence from alcohol, an issue the Machen group considered a matter of Christian liberty, while the Holiness and pietist traditions had long emphasized the importance of a Christian life separated from the world» no alcohol, tobacco, dancing, cards, or theater, along with no short skirts or bobbed hair for women.

They are now tradition for us to serve with our Valentine «brinner» (breakfast for dinner) along with heart shaped cinnamon rolls and bacon.

I tried soaking and dehydrating the almonds first, as one poster recommended per Nourishing Traditions, but after an hour and a half of processing AND adding raw almond oil to coax it along all I ended up with was a kind of oily almond dough (albeit tasty).

That way we could have a slice for dessert on Thanksgiving after the big meal and then for breakfast the next day along with a slice of Lemon Meringue... it's a tradition in our home.