Sentences with phrase «as tradition calls»

Instead of sticking with jasmine flowers twirled around your hair as tradition calls for, one can experiment with different types of flowers like fresh orchids, roses or frangipanis.

As tradition calls, I usually serve black - eyed peas and greens on New Year's Day.

Not exact matches

In business, we have a terrible tradition going back at least as far as Frederick Taylor (yes, the «Taylorism» Taylor) that jobs are things done by employees, but designed by their so - called superiors.

Universal to all faith traditions is the call to safeguard our personal health and the health of others as a moral obligation.

As Griffiths notes, Christ's work in overcoming the power of the devil is surely glorious, and calling it so «is deeply rooted in that tradition.»

In the best tradition of all religious «wisdom literature» or scriptures, as true believers like to call them, are widely common source or plagiarized as non-believers like to call it.

An entire people was mesmerized by the rupture of a culture and a tradition that were entitled to be called the best in Western civilization but that ended up as the worst ever in Western civilization.

Santmire quite proudly calls himself a «revisionist,» distinguishing his course from those he calls «apologists»» that is, «defenders of the classical Christian tradition,» chief among them this reviewer (I take the term as one of honor, fidei defensor).

While this isn't intended as a rallying call for the masses to embrace Jesus, it's actually fantastic theology it speaks of the sort of living faith that perhaps Brand doesn't realise is perfectly possible within the Christian tradition.

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).

So the tradition (described in various documents, finally compiled in the Codex Calixtinus) records James's preaching in Hispania (sometimes with little success, as when, discouraged, he implored help from Our Lady, who appeared to help him enthroned upon a pillar, in the city now called Zaragoza.)

Our «early traditions about Jesus» (to use the title of a little book by the late Professor Bethune - Baker) are not interested so much in what has been called the «biographical Jesus» as they are concerned with what Jesus did and said as he was remembered by those who believed him to be their Lord, the Risen Messiah, and who were therefore anxious to hand on to others what was remembered about him.

Aristotle had raised the fundamental question about being [on], and in the seventh book of the Metaphysics he makes it the question about «entity» [ousia] 2 — about «substance,» as it will be called in the Latin tradition.

Huffington Post: Mayans Protest «Twisting Of Truth» Over 2012 Doomsday Predictions As the so - called «Mayan doomsday» approaches, the Mayans of Guatemala are speaking out against what some are calling a government - and tour business - led effort to profit off misinterpretations of their traditions.

He consistently opposed what he called «nation - building» as an American responsibility and called for more «humility» in our relation to the rest of the world, striking an isolationist chord that has been perennial in our tradition.

I suspect because it is required to keep the belief going otherwise you would have to call in to question everything you believed in and that is a very deeply painful road — so most interpret it as a «test» rather than your brain working rationally because it is scary to go against tradition.

The moderates, called «liberals» by their opponents, see the conservative resurgence as an ecclesiastical coup d'état, a great power grab engineered by ruthless church politicians who neither understood nor cared about the great watchword of the Baptist tradition: freedom.

As a bishop in his so - called church, he is so steeped in those traditions that I think that he would bring too much of it to his decisions as a presidenAs a bishop in his so - called church, he is so steeped in those traditions that I think that he would bring too much of it to his decisions as a presidenas a president.

And my impression (as a nontheologian venturing beyond his competence and willing to be corrected) is that, despite ample encouragements from theologians in the liberal and neo-orthodox traditions, what we are calling liberal Protestantism has not exploited those resources within its own tradition that justify or even demand a positive theology on this point.

I can not pass over in silence the fact that In working at this task — I should like to call it a christological concentration — I have been led to a critical (in a better sense of the word) discussion of church tradition, and as well of the Reformers, and especially of Calvin.

Yet most of those same observers, when pressed for an opinion as to where the vital juices are flowing in contemporary American religion, will call our attention not only to born - again conservative evangelicalism, but also to movements and tendencies that stand in a direct line of succession to the liberal traditions.

Any attempt to break loose from the path set out by Schleiermacher and to find a way in which to make the transcendent God our subject, rather than some aspect of ourselves, could be called an apophantic theology, standing as it does in that tradition of paradox or dialectic that marked the Cappadocian theologians and has always been a part of the theological tradition.

Religious traditions understand themselves as presenting a truth revealed by a holy and almighty God who calls human beings from a self - centered focus to a life of serving God and neighbor.

Even in this «extreme» book, which attempts to call into question our ability both to know God's will and to predict our fate, we find two root affirmations common to the wisdom tradition, based as it is in creation: (I) God is sovereign, and (2) present life is to be lived in joy as God's gift.

Hence, when, as a Christian, I state my belief that God is calling us today to repent of those practices that are leading to the destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants, I find myself in a supportive tradition.

Buber calls his treatment of Biblical history «tradition criticism» as distinct from «source criticism.»

Only the countries of what westerners called the Far East — such as China, Tibet, Japan and Korea — were still bound by tradition and hardly touched by the waves of cultural change from the west.

Christians will always be cultural exiles insofar as Christian Tradition is not co-extensive with any single culture or any form of ecclesial existence and thus calls all forms of life into judgment in the light of Christ.

The Old Testament properly so called is the corpus of books, written and handed down in Hebrew (or in the kindred Aramaic), which were received as Scripture in the first century of our era by Hebrew - speaking Jews, representing the central tradition of Hebrew and Jewish religion.

State the editors, «Those who know and practice... truth must ever stand as guardians of what is essentially the Christian tradition, and call before the bar of human justice and public opinion those who traduce these truths of natural and special revelation.

Or, as Charles Peguy wrote, «A true revolution is a call from a less perfect tradition to a more perfect tradition.»

Later on, as the tradition and the teaching gradually developed and took on form, the different tendencies which had been present from the very beginning — let us call them the realistic and supernatural tendencies, although the difference in meaning would have been great — must inevitably have become unwieldy and thus incapable of being expressed through a unified terminology.

Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, emphasized the difference between the new and the old meanings of political theology depicting what had earlier been called political theology as the ideology of political religion, which is the symbolic integration of the beliefs of a people through which they sanction and sanctify their traditions and their ambitions.12 Moltmann strongly supports Peterson in his critique of political theology in this sense.13 It is the task of what is properly called political theology — in Metz's sense — to unmask the pretenses of political religions.

Washington (CNN)-- Employing faith, whether calling for nationwide prayer or healing the nation by quoting scripture, is a presidential tradition as old as the office itself.

consider yourself what you wish... doesn't make it so... a christian is one who adheres to whats stated in the creed as it was set forth by those that started the so called christian tradition... using your argument, if i consider myself a doctor does that make it so?

The first lecture calls for a balance between liberal critiques of received tradition and neo-orthodox recoveries, as well as a balance between the pragmatic tendency to locate the truth of theology in its consequences and the objectivist insistence that theology simply conveys knowledge of God.

This is natural, since the tradition had undergone considerable development before it was embodied in our canonical Gospels, and during this time it had been exposed to the influence of what we may call the «futurist eschatology,» as distinct from the» realized eschatology» which gives its character to the earliest preaching, as well as to the earliest tradition of the teaching of Jesus.

Writing at a time when the signs of globalization were not nearly as obvious as they are today, he foresaw a process he called «planetization», by which «peoples and civilizations reach such a degree either of frontier con - tact or economic interdependence or psychic communion that they can no longer develop save by the interpenetration of one another».3 Teilhard de Chardin wholly identified with the traditions of the Christian west, yet his visionary mind was able to lift the Christian themes and symbols out of their traditional usage and re-interpret them.

Here we propose a second criterion, which we will call «the criterion of coherence»: material from the earliest strata of the tradition may be accepted as authentic if it can be shown to cohere with material established as authentic by means of the criterion of dissimilarity.»

We shall return to Jeremias's work on the parables again and again, for it is epoch - making in several respects, but for the moment we want only to call attention to the consequences of this work so far as a general view of the nature of the synoptic tradition is concerned the success of Jeremias's work demands that we accept his starting - point, namely, that any parable as it now stands in the gospels represents the teaching of the early Church and the way back from the early Church to the historical Jesus is a long and arduous one.

Some of them still carry old denominational convictions; for instance, about continuity in the Anglican Church, the rejection of a set - aside ministry in parts of the Society of Friends, the parity of the ministry in the Reformed tradition, and no ordination without a call from a local church as in much of Lutheranism.

11 Cone acknowledged that, in fact, his position is «in company with all the classic theologies of the Christian tradition,» though, of course, with a different point of departure: the plight of the oppressed.12 Biblically, he focused on the redemptive suffering of Jesus (coupled with his resurrection as a defeat of suffering) and expressed the eschatological point that God has in fact defeated the powers of evil even though we still encounter them and are called to fight against them, «becoming God's suffering servants in the world.»

So far as our criterion of dissimilarity is concerned, the former tendency in these traditions will be very important, for it will help us to focus our attention on elements in the teaching of Jesus which were, in fact, new and startling to Jewish ears, and it is for this reason that we called attention to it in the formulation above.

In countries like Pakistan, there is a tradition called «vani» in which girls as young as 4 are forced into marriage.

Its main point, which comes only two sentences from the end, is expressed this way: «To those to whom truth has been revealed, who continue in the tradition of the Holy One's followers, the call is not only to offer words of praise, confessing that Jesus is Christ the Lord, but to offer our lives as the instruments of this Lord of peace and justice.»

I should now be willing to suggest that it is a willingness to take the axiological feature as ultimately determinative for the attribution of divinity that characterizes all modern forms of so - called ethical theism and distinguishes them from the classical tradition.

By no means do we have to reckon exclusively with oral tradition... Personally I have... tried to typologize the so - called «prophetical literature» in two main groups: «The liturgical type» («liturgy» taken as a purely form - literary term) to be found in Nah., Hab., Joel, «Deuter - Isa,» et al., with real «writers» behind them, and probably from the very beginning taken down in writing, and «the diwan type» (no very good term, I admit), e.g., Am., Proto - Isa., etc., primarily resting on oral transmission...

While there are undoubtedly many Christians, especially those in the free - church tradition, who would implicitly agree with Locke's definition, the mainstream of the Christian tradition has viewed the Church as the covenant community of those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ, who is its savior and head.

There is a long tradition of Christians - from priests to nuns to laypeople - who have chosen celibacy as a higher calling toward spiritual fulfillment.

In the Catholic tradition an ordained person is commonly known as a priest; in the Reformed communions he or she is called an elder or presbyter; in all Christian thought he or she has been known as a minister, with duties that are distinctively his or hers through having been «set apart» to act representatively for the wider ministry of all Christian people.