Sentences with phrase «ancient human tradition»

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Then there are the dangerous questions that challenge the tradition itself, like why can't women teach men, why can't I teach your children in Sunday school if I'm not straight, what's this head of the household crap, why can't we have marriage equality, why is the church so myopic, and isn't it possible that the whole human race is connected and one and that there is no separation illustrated by the ancient paradigm of heaven and hell.

Starting with Socrates, ancient philosophers in the Platonic - Aristotelian tradition contended that the human being is best understood as the subject of wonder.

We must remember that in Israelite tradition there was a long history of visionary experiences, commencing with the ancient theophanies in which God was thought to have «appeared» to men in human form.

Just as the ancients used the terms «wind» and «breath» metaphorically to refer to the invisible «spiritual» forces that operate in human societies and motivate their cultures, so we may need to draw upon such vague and indefinite terms in order to understand what is happening in this tradition.

Once human language had developed, ancient man was always the recipient of the heritage of oral tradition.

3) in Abraham all branches of the human family will be blessed (12:3) The first two promises were given the Yahwist in patriarchal tradition; but the third obviously has its origin in none of the ancient traditions but precisely in the authenticity (Vollmacht) of his prophetic inspiration.

If Christianity was the only viable synthesis of the traditions and cultures that remained at the end of the ancient world, then it is Christianity itself which represents the most interesting legacy of this era of human consciousness.

For those who follow the ancient Maya traditions, the belief in the influence of the cosmos on human lives and the necessity of paying homage to the gods through rituals continues to find expression in a modern hybrid Christian - Maya faith.

Michael Armstrong, author of several books on human capital and performance management, is quoted as saying, «The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.»

He says that ancient steppe culture had a well - known tradition of ritually butchering human bodies before burial.

Lance Esplund, art critic for the Wall Street Journal, writes of Joan Snyder: «The functions of Ms. Snyder's art, first and foremost, are to further the tradition of painting and to explore the most serious aspects of the human condition; to connect us not only to one another and to nature but to ancient rites and myths.

Genesis is an attempt to portray the beauty and the majesty of regions that are still in a pristine condition, areas where landscapes and wildlife are still unspoiled, places where human communities continue to live according to their ancient culture and traditions.