Do I set tradition above Scripture or even
alongside of Scripture?
Not exact matches
Patrick was immersed in the language and thought
of Scripture, and Moore provides
alongside the text the biblical references, as well as unobtrusive footnotes explaining historical obscurities.
As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence
of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source
of revelation
alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and
Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life
of the community
of faith.
It is
Scripture, the Word
of God itself, which addresses us»; but the ex-Abbot's own frame
of reference reveals,
alongside a profound regard for
Scripture, a broad culture with homage paid in these pages to the likes
of Rilke, Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn.
Alongside commentary on
scripture, Origen formulated the subject matter
of Christian paideia in a second way.
Admittedly, David, it took me a while to get past the idea
of the
scriptures being free
of error or myth, but perhaps what I find true about the lot
of it was that it was important to some people to pass it down through an oral tradition and then through written tradition (
alongside the oral).
This way
of attending to
Scripture in theology follows a process theory
of texts as proposals
of how events, or reality, might be viewed,
alongside of which alternative proposals might be set.
For us, we gather to discuss
Scripture, to encourage each other, to hear each others stories
of where we saw Jesus working, to work
alongside each other as we serve the community in Jesus» name Then we each depart to follow Jesus in our everyday day lives, to find opportunities daily to love our neighbors.
That forum remains strong, but
alongside it is a solid menu
of the main dishes
of Christian faith and learning:
scripture, theology, spiritual life and practices, and ethics.
While we respect church history, church tradition is not an independent or equal source
of authority
alongside Scripture.
So my children lead worship right
alongside of the grown - ups, and their mama reads
Scripture right
alongside of the men, and their dad is the one who willingly gave up his own time in the lead, for the joy
of giving his most - loved - ones a chance to worship out loud, too.
As with the storyboard dedicated to Barney's film Cremaster 2 (1999), press clippings
of murderer Gary Gilmore sit
alongside Mormon
scripture, Houdini - related ephemera and the artist's heavily annotated copy
of Mailer's epic Gilmore exposé, The Executioner's Song (1979).
Our approach to Christian counseling is integrative using a variety
of techniques
alongside of Christian values and
scripture.