Sentences with phrase «ancient traditions of»

Maxime is dedicated to following the ancient traditions of the Stylites, or Pillar Saints: men of the Byzantine world who believed residing up pillars would remove them from temptation and provide ample opportunity for prayer and contemplation.

Celtic spirituality bridges ancient traditions of the British Isles and old Europe, early Celtic Christianity, revivals of written and visionary knowledge, and a living flow of mystical awareness and love of nature.

Our approach to ministry is designed to be understandable to anybody, relevant to modern life — but rooted in the ancient traditions of the Christian Church.

His title may come from ancient traditions of the kind any nation could cherish, as surely as we on our side of the pond should cherish the rights and Constitutions that bind us.

She is among a handful of contemporary artists working to revive the ancient traditions of Coast Salish design — an art form nearly lost after European contact.

Three Countries Textile Collaboration used a collaborative creative process to create cultural dialogues crossing local and international boundaries in a search for relevant ancient traditions of our world culture.

Our approach to ministry is designed to be understandable to anybody, relevant to modern life — but rooted in the ancient traditions of the Christian Church.

Join Mari Stecker, LAc and Katie Oberlin for a unique opportunity to experience the ancient traditions of acupuncture and shamanic healing blended into an evening of relaxation and renewal.

His theory of biocentrism is consistent with the most ancient traditions of the world which say that consciousness conceives, governs, and becomes a physical world.

But the earliest archaeological evidence for crop cultivation in China is 11,000 years old, suggesting that farming was slow to emerge from ancient traditions of plant use.

Makoto is a self - described «flower artist,» bringing ancient traditions of Japanese ikebana and bonsai into modern contexts.

Ryneldi Becenti, star of the Arizona State women's team, struggles to balance the demands of major college basketball with the ancient traditions of her tribe

«Inspired by the ancient traditions of Persia, Rooted in the modern expressions of California,» is our motto and you will find these words on the label of our wines.

I call this the task of covenant publicity, for which we can draw on the ancient traditions of covenant that underlie modern federalism as well as on the ideas of council, republic and ecclesia.

In the fifth century Theodore found a very favourable hearing in the East Syrian Church as his teachings were very congenial to those who were reared in the ancient traditions of Ephrem and Aphrahat.

At a time when both the pastoral counselor and the spiritual director are borrowing profusely from the psychiatrist, the social worker and the psychologist, Lifton is going in another direction and challenging the secular therapist to reclaim some of the wisdom of these more ancient traditions of the cure of souls.

It combines two ancient traditions of prayer: intercession and pilgrimage.

In his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern period.

Evangelical Catholicism is a liturgically centered form of Catholic life that embraces both the ancient traditions of Catholic worship and the authentic renewal of the liturgy according to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council.

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.

Alexander III, following the ancient tradition of the Church declared that «After a lawfully accorded consent affecting the present, it is allowed to one of the parties, even against the will of the other, to choose a monastery (just as certain saints have been called from marriage), provided that carnal intercourse shall not have taken place between them; and it is allowed to the one who is left to proceed to a second marriage» (III Decretal., xxxii, 2).

The artists draw on an ancient tradition of Mary as herself a voracious reader, stewed in holy Scriptures, and a notion, then commonplace, of the affinity between the intellectual and spiritual lives, of the «garden enclosed» where the God of truth meets the believer, set apart from the demands of the world.

He was able to be a part of the ancient tradition of Christian monasticism while being alert to ways in which that tradition could be enhanced, enlarged and made more available to today's world.

Yet it is this very process of rational justification that makes fundamentalism a very modern phenomenon, one that sets it at odds with the more ancient tradition of inerrancy found within the Church.»

For more than nine hundred years, the ancient tradition of the Dunmow Flitch has been honored in this corner of Essex, in which married couples appear before a counsel and jury to prove that they have honored their marital vows steadfastly and that they remain truly devoted to each other.

RELEVANT looks at the ancient tradition of Ash Wednesday, drawing lessons from the church calendar and exploring why the day still has meaning for the church today.

[9] When this is so, then, it is in search, not so much of answers, but rather of a better understanding and appreciation of «the truth that scientific study of the ancient tradition of the Church is indispensable to success in comprehending the roots of differences and in discerning the centre of Christian theology,» [10] that we ought to approach the texts produced by the early church.

Each of these delicious flatbreads is hand stretched in Liguria, following the ancient tradition of the Mastri Fornai (master baker) and using extra virgin olive oil.How else could they taste so authentically delicious!Perfect for nibbling or dipping.

The ancient tradition of smoking has long been used to add taste to a range of meat produce, and there are many ways to do this.

Aran constitutes in Catalonia a national reality with its own personality and differentiated, based in the fact that the Aranese community has a common, shared and common language and culture with the rest of Occitania, and, at the same time, an ancient tradition of self - government firmly defended by the Aranese over time.

And you may not like it, but there is an ancient tradition of free speech in this nation.

And the story we tell about ourselves reflects the ancient tradition of «once upon a time things were bad, and now they're good thanks to our party» or «once upon a time things were good, but now they're bad thanks to the other party.»

Master Zink developed his style of Yin yoga from the ancient tradition of Taoist yoga that is indigenous to China.

On top of these healthy grains, we add our own unique herbal combination which has been used for centuries in the ancient tradition of Ayurveda: Ashwagandha, Shatavari, and Brahmi.

Her mixture of anatomical knowledge and eastern philosophy make her classes modern and playful, but always steeped in reverence for the ancient tradition of yoga that they stem from.

The ancient tradition of yoga and meditation began in India as a system of mental, physical and spiritual exercises.

Using the ancient tradition of lost wax casting, Miller sculpts each style in molten wax and hand - hammers them into intimately organic forms.

For some reason, reaching back to the ancient tradition of cartoons about people crawling through the desert, thirst is always a successful subject for animation.

Paintings and prints frequently carry particular meaning within Petzold's films, as examples of the ancient tradition of ekphrasis, probably none more so than in Phoenix's immediate predecessor Barbara (2012) with its conspicuous Rembrandt print, but likewise in much earlier works like Die Beischlafdiebin (The Sex Thief, 1998) with a Gerard Richter on the wall — another artist conspicuously engaged with multiple forms of peculiarly German afterness.4

Do you think the ancient tradition of sheep herding is extinct?

Having first launched cruises on India's Ganges River in 2016, Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection is now enhancing those sailings with a new wellness program centered around the destination's ancient tradition of yoga.

Aman Tokyo's birds - eye perch above the city centre offers a serene window onto urban dynamism, while the ancient tradition of thermal springs is embraced by Amanemu, set within Ise Shima National Park near ancient pilgrimage routes and Japan's most sacred Shinto shrines.

Help them achieve the unimaginable goal of building a rocket, so they can return the deceased to their cosmic homeland through the ancient tradition of space burials.

He works in the ancient tradition of woodblock printing using as many as 15 colors in a single print.

Kabbalah instructor and scholar Chaim Solomon will discuss the concepts and themes of Kabbalah, the ancient tradition of mystical interpretations of the Bible, found in the work of artist Anselm Kiefer.

The piece also includes two large ovals, a homage to the ancient tradition of terrestrial and celestial mapping, the planisphere, and to the sockets of our eyes, optical tools that convey images to our head / world.

Obviously, this idea of healing is very strong in the work of Joseph Beuys, and a part of an ancient tradition of art making.

And finally in that grouping there is a major Lenore Tawney piece, a black thread weaving, in remarkably good condition, a forbidding minimalist work in an ancient tradition of craft.

The New York Times reports how two new aviaries for vultures, brought to the brink of extinction by exposure to veterinary drugs, are being built, so that the ancient tradition of leaving corpses in so - called Towers of Silence to be picked apart by the giant scavenging birds can resume.

Dr. Luskin's work combines lecture with a hands - on approach to the ancient tradition of forgiveness.