Sentences with phrase «among other traditions»

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Among those gathered here in her modem voice (through scriptural images, verbal echoes, parallel situations) are women whose stories have been muffled in the Bible's tradition — Hagar, Bilhah, Zilpah, Mary, the Lord's «handmaiden,» Sarah, Rachel, Leah, Rebekkah, Ruth, Puah and Shiphrah (the Hebrew midwives in Egypt), Jael, Jephthah's daughter, the «Jezebel» of Revelation, and other, unnamed ancestresses, «missing persons without textual authority.

In other words, «liberalism» is used by these thinkers with a more inclusive meaning, according to which the tradition of political Liberalism dates back at least to the philosophy of John Locke and numbers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Milton Friedman, and Reinhold Niebuhr among its spokesmen.

In other traditions, the continuation of the apostolate is more diffused among the corporate body of Christians.

Among its other responsibilities, sanghas maintain tradition and oversee dharma transmission, i.e., make sure no one is reinterpreting the dharma in a way that ruins it for future generations.

An original goal of those traditions was, among other things, to overcome tribalism.

The tendency of some nations to establish ethical codes while other organizations (like the BBC) avoid them, developing, instead, a tradition of personal responsibility among communicators.

It means that the church must, among other things, be backward - looking; it has a special mission to preserve the past, to carry on a tradition.

Might it be time to find your place among followers of Jesus who concentrate on following Jesus, loving others, and helping those who need help rather than among those who spend their time worrying about «marital cultural traditions» and similar things?

Part of what is implied here is the importance of tradition as opposed to detached rationality — a theme that philosophers Hans - Georg Gadamer and Alasdair MacIntyre, among others, have asserted with particular force.

Each of these ecclesial traditions, among others, has enriched my life and calling to serve the Body of Christ.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

We have recognized the values of other religious traditions and accepted our place as one among others.

Still this approach differs from Moltmann's and mine in that the heretofore dominant tradition is acknowledged as simply one among others rather than as the place to begin.

The wording of the presbyter's remark leaves open the question of Mark's use of other sources than Peter, whose «interpreter» he was: sources, or traditions, in circulation among the Christians in Rome no doubt from the first founding of the church in that community, long before Paul's arrival and perhaps some time before Peter's coming; and also, no doubt, traditions that were added to the common stock by every believer who came to Rome from Palestine.

But now it is a tradition in its own right, a tradition (in the 19th - century U.S. alone) developed by Jefferson, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Whitman, Lincoln, Stanton, Anthony, Gilman, Rauschenbusch, Gladden, Debs, Dewey and James, among many others.

Patristic and medieval hymns are finding greater currency among some Evangelicals, while Catholics today praise God in the songs of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and others in the Evangelical tradition.

Unfortunately this tradition is also very strong among Christians, who — like Hellenists, Hindus, and Neoplatonists — believe that the soul alone is to be saved and that the body and other material objects, whether living or non-living, do not participate in or benefit from the redemption in Christ.

We must remember that by the beginning of the second century a wide rift had opened up between Jew and Christian, and Christianity was primarily spreading among the Gentiles, to whom the traditions of ancient Israel were foreign, and who, on the other hand, were mostly Greek - speaking and immersed in Hellenistic culture.

If this analysis is correct, Evangelicals and committed members of other religious traditions could find themselves united in the Republican Party facing Seculars and less committed members in other traditions among the Democrats.

In this pedagogical pursuit, however, Calvin adopted, in concert with church fathers such as Irenaeus and Chrysostom, the rhetorical tradition of accommodation embodied in, among other classical writers, Cicero and Quintillian.

In this aspect of alienness, Christianity does not fundamentally differ from other religious traditions — after all, Christianity is one religion among others, so this should neither surprise nor trouble Christians.

This massive shift has had a devastating effect on the once - deep cultural values that exerted their force upon most of society's institutions — values of truth, duty, discipline, reading, beauty, family, tradition, justice, among many others.

Appreciation for other religious traditions has grown dramatically among Christians, and this has already led to growing self - esteem among participants in these other traditions.

In the past two decades of biblical studies, whether in the work of Samuel Sandmel, Brevard Childs, Robert Alter, Rolf Rendtorff, Earhard Blum or even John Van Seters — and these are only a handful among many others — the interest has shifted away from discrete, historically unfolding «sources» toward an appreciation of the internal relationships of diverse traditions in their final canonical (received) form.

Our task is not to be judgmental in a manner of spiritual superiority but to dig beneath the traditions to recover the spirit that originally animated them, so that we too may share in the original dynamic that enlivened the telling and acting out of the Christ event in another time and another place or among other Christians who expressed their response to the Christ event in a way foreign to our experience.

In the case of living religions, an acceptable doctoral thesis would among other requirements, have to satisfy examiners representing each of the traditions concerned.

The Reformation was utterly dependent on what came before it, but it transformed the past by using parts of it against other parts, by taking key emphases already widely accepted among the faithful and showing that, if one saw this doctrine or that practice from a slightly different angle, everything was changed — all the while managing to maintain continuity with the deepest sources of the tradition.

If tradition may specify limits to community action within biblical norms, then tolerance should emerge among Christian groups whose group customs - say, the weekly day of worship - may oppose each other and yet lie within biblical standards.

Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, among others, are religious traditions, but they are also many other things.

Their wisdom and expertise would guide the ECT process as it moved forward to take up such controverted issues as justification by faith, Scripture and Tradition, the communion of saints, and the role of Mary in the life of the church, among others.

This means that among the people who gather to worship on Sunday morning some would call themselves Christian, but others might invoke some other faith or spirituality, and many would have no allegiance to any tradition.

Emphasis upon an «unbound» Christ already present among people of various religious faiths may sound as though it fits more congenially with traditional mission language; and emphasis upon the saving action of God's spirit with people of other faiths may sound more congenial to those of the dialogue tradition, who are concerned that the dialogue partners be affirmed in their own right.

Certainly there is a tradition that the defeated heretical monks held a rival council of ten thousand members, known as the Great Council, and drew up a different recension of the scriptures which among other things, according to the Dipavamsa, 1 «broke up the sense and doctrine in the five Nikayas,» and «rejecting some portions of the Sutta and the profound Vinaya, they made another counterfeit Sutta and Vinaya.»

In Tropical Traditions» own testing of organic grains so far, they found that barley has among the highest levels of glyphosate of the organic crops, and this corresponds to conventional crops where the EPA has raised the limits of glyphosate in barley to a higher level than other grains.

Among those shipyard workers from Belfast were men steeped in such traditions and others equally immersed in the Fenianism that provides a savage counterpoint in the Ulster capital.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

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No blog about kids and food can ignore Halloween, a holiday that can be quite polarizing among readers: Some parents think unfettered gorging on Halloween candy is a sacrosanct tradition, while others view Halloween in the context of the larger food environment and want to limit their kids» sugar consumption.

Among those traditions are the ones that refuse individuals — particularly women and children — their basic rights and force them into situations that relegate them to a life of vulnerability to poverty, disease and other unbearable hardships.

The republican tradition brings in to sharper focus than any other the problem of human freedom among human beings who are necessarily independent.

Cuomo announced he was breaking with the 94 - year tradition of verbally delivering a state of the state address in the Capitol complex after plans for a special session — which would have raised pay for lawmakers, among other things — fell apart when Flanagan broke off negotiations.

That was the voguish creed advanced by Lord Maurice Glasman and Jon Cruddas, among others, during the last parliament, seeking to anchor Labour in its earlier traditions of community, mutualism, localism and self - help, rejecting the excesses 1980s neo-liberalism and 1960s social liberalism alike.

He makes it a point to describe himself as philosophical theist — in the tradition, he says, of Plato and Kant, among others.

Though modern American shamans use many methods to do this — and draw on a variety of indigenous traditions from Tibet, Korea, North America, South America, or Africa, among others — most of them spend some time talking about and working with energy and soul.

In Tropical Traditions» own testing of organic grains so far, they found that barley has among the highest levels of glyphosate of the organic crops, and this corresponds to conventional crops where the EPA has raised the limits of glyphosate in barley to a higher level than other grains.

I had anorexia when I was 14, and then since then have been trying to be «healthy,» by doing at first doing high intensity, but eventually drifting into some sort of low intensity cardio everyday (b / c did not have the energy for high intensity stuff anymore) and learning everything I could about food and what to eat / what not to eat (obsessive might be a good word to use here haha)... Mainly following «Nourishing Traditions» wisdom, but also did GAPS for over a year — while living a high stress lifestyle, which I'm pretty sure tanked my adrenals among other things (think my thyroid was already pretty hypo at that point).

That movie was sort of an accidental family tradition — it got played every year on TV and my family always snuggled under some blankets and drank hot cocoa while watching this movie among many others like Home Alone and the Grinch.

There are so many things to love about this country, for instance, Mayan culture, traditions, volcanos, Guatemalan hospitality, gastronomy, colonial grandeur and nature, among others.

The funny thing is, this phenomenon reminded us something not so strange at all that's happened among a number of friends: Non-Jews joining JDate... myself from JDate (as I have from other online dating sites) because in the end, I... According to Jewish tradition, Jacob was the father of the tribes of Israel.

Among other things, the movie makes a convincing case that the Indian tradition was one explicitly drawn upon by Charlie Patton, one of the giants of Delta Blues.