Sentences with phrase «as written traditions»

here's a baffling question... if it's good theology to believe that Paul was chosen after the others for a reason, then why is he the earliest NT writer... what wd be the purpose of all that seemingly more primitive understanding of the gospel (the synoptics) coming together as written traditions after the Pauline high water mark?

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... while Paul VI did write that it was his responsibility to sift the material he had been given by many advisers, including the papal commission on marriage and fertility that Pope John XXIII had established and that he, Paul, had expanded, he also made clear that the teaching of Humanae Vitae rested, not on the personal conscience of Giovanni Battista Montini, but on the mature conviction of Pope Paul VI as custodian and servant, not master, of the Catholic tradition.

An unbiased scientist would realize this oral tradition was put to writing 3,400 years ago as an teaching point to a chosen people not a lecture series at MIT.

G to T What makes the Bible divine is that a symbolic picture language in oral tradition as captured in writing transmitted the message over thousands of years and cultures that still reveals the absolute truth.

fred «What makes the Bible divine is that a symbolic picture language in oral tradition as captured in writing transmitted the message over thousands of years and cultures that still reveals the absolute truth»

Seems that maybe there was also a lot of translation that occured before the books even took written form, as these tribes had traditions of passing on information orally, before writing and scribing started to take hold.

Although the arrival of Christianity systemised and propagated a written language, a literary tradition had existed before it, as had various forms of art.

Writing in the Journal of Religious Ethics, they make clear enough, as it used to be said, where they are coming from: «Just war theory is properly understood as an expression of a tradition in Christian political thought that can broadly be described as Augustinian.

It only has authority and only makes sense as the written record of God's Word handed on through the Tradition of God's People in the Church.

«Motivated in large part by their religious traditions of protecting the vulnerable and serving «the least of these,» as Jesus instructed his followers to do in the Gospel of Matthew,» writes Eric Marrapodi, «World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army are stepping up efforts and working with law enforcement to stem the flow of human trafficking, which includes sex trafficking and labor trafficking.»

I write from the standpoint of a Church of England parish priest and many of my examples are from that tradition, but I recognize that the Church of England is one church amongst many churches, just as Christianity is one religion amongst many world religions which are slowly learning to share with each other their spiritual treasures and to work together for peace, the relief of human need and the preservation of the planet.

In this pioneer form - critical work the first attempt was made to write a history of the synoptic tradition and to isolate the influences at work in and on that tradition as it changed and developed.

As is often the case when I write about confronting doubt or questioning certain theological traditions, I got a message or two urging me to stop asking so many pesky questions and just enjoy the bliss of absolute certainty that should accompany true faith.

’25 Bloch believed that «the ultimate, enduring insight of Marx is that truth does not exist for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and meaning, providing a key in theory and leverage in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless truth «contains initiative for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.

From Ben: People outside the Reformed tradition often write about it as if it were synonymous with «Calvinism.»

For most of the interval between 30 A.D., when Jesus» career ended, and the date of the beginning, so far as we can know, of Gospel writing, the tradition about Jesus existed only as individual stories and sayings, circulating separately and orally among the scattered churches.

It's a bumper Christmas - y edition as Sam, Claire and Justin debate the best time to put up your tree and hear from funny man Paul Kerensa about why he's written a book about Christmas traditions.

In Jewish tradition, we frequently speak in terms of «Written Torah» (the text of the Hebrew Scriptures as they have come down to us) and «Oral Torah» (the ensuing centuries of conversations and interpretations of our sages and rabbis, which are also considered to be holy.)

«Respect for authority, tradition, station, and education eroded,» writes Hatch, and as a result, «American Protestantism has been skewed away from central ecclesiastical institutions and high culture; it has been pushed and pulled into its present shape by a democratic or populist orientation.»

Beside it is not clear if he wrote the book bases Islam & the Quran or basis the Muslims in Asia or Muslims in Europe or America since although Islam is one but the Branch of Islam, the Race, the Customs & Traditions play a tough role in shaping each nation of Islam to look & thinks different from each other... am sure you have the same thing in Christianity as wouldn't think Chinese Christian is exactly like European Christians or European Christians are all the same with out any differences whether Protestants or Catholics or between both branches??

In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).

It appears that some time in the third or fourth century of the Christian era an effort was made to bring together all the writings that remained, and to put into written form such oral traditions as were still retained concerning the lost parts of the book.

The stories were put to writing by — so tradition says — Moses (though his name doesn't appear as «inspired author»).

It was only ascribed as being written by him in later traditions... same with the other 4...

Burtchaell writes out of a Roman Catholic tradition that sees Christ as a supernatural fulfillment of the aspirations of culture, in the same way that grace is seen as perfecting nature and theology as perfecting philosophy.

Taking as his source the Mishnah, the book of Jewish oral traditions, Edersheim writes that specific passages «lead us to infer that these flocks lay out all the year round».

For example, when Dennis Hirota writes that Shinran «avoids a voluntaristic... view of reality, with such concomitant problems as predestination, the need for a theodicy, and a substantialist understanding of reality or of self», I applaud Shinran and hope that the Christian tradition to which I belong succeeds equally well in these respects.

As we stated the Acts was written at the beginning of the third century, reflecting a tradition that existed earlier.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

Hence we conclude that the presbyter is reporting a genuine tradition, namely of «Mark's» association with Peter and his recollection and writing down of certain things Peter had said in his preaching; and this is all the more probable in that (a) the presbyter uses the tradition to meet a current objection, and (b) he presses it a little too far — though not so far as Papias does — in meeting the objection.

Most, perhaps all, cultures and religious traditions have some version of the problem of evil, but as C. S. Lewis wrote in The Problem of Pain, this problem becomes scandalous in Christianity, which traditionally has held that the universe is governed by a loving and omnipotent God.

What form criticism undertakes is to get back behind the written Gospels and their sources to the oral tradition as it circulated prior to the writing down of any account of the «mighty works,» the sayings, the parables, or the discourses of Jesus.

It used the incident, as it used everything else that was given it in the oral tradition about Jesus which preceded the setting - down in written texts the story of Jesus, as a way in which the importance of the originating event was declared.

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.

Now that the existence of sources underlying the Gospels is fairly assured, and also their extent and contents — whether as written documents or as cycles of tradition — the next step is to investigate the quality and character of the traditions they contain, and the value of these traditions for historical purposes.

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

She traces the line of a tradition of writing specifically relative to, and interpreted in the light of Christian revelation, encompassing authors as disparate as Bede and Beckett, Plato and Pushkin.

Those traditions have been written down in the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles (which are older than most gospels), and other writings that, while did not make it to the Canon (Bible), serve as important historical references.

Susan Galloway, as a Jew, time to stop listening to the traditions of men and start your education on His truth written in Psalms 22:1 - 31, Matthew 4:23, His gospel must be about the kingdom of God.

At this point, however, it must be clearly stated that most New Testament scholars still accept the tomb pericope as part of the oral tradition already in circulation at the time Mark wrote his Gospel.

They were doubtless told again and again in the early church, as today one remembers the illustrations in a sermon, and thus found their way into not only the oral tradition of the church but the earlier written sources of the Gospels.

We have already seen in Chapter 3 that there are grounds for thinking that the burial pericope was originally transmitted as an independent piece of tradition, and that the account of the women's discovery of the empty tomb was added to the burial story at a later stage, around about the time of the writing of the Gospel of Mark.

A large number of leading New Testament scholars have now rejected these traditions as unhistorical, leaving us with two conclusions: the first, that none of the Gospels was written by an eye - witness of the events described in it, and the second, that the earliest Gospel, that of Mark, was written thirty - five years or more after the death of Jesus, and the other three Gospels were written nearly sixty years or more after the same point.

By the time Luke was writing, the story of the empty tomb had come to be regarded as an established fact, and this is the reason why he felt free to describe the risen Jesus in clearly physical terms when he came to report a tradition that Jesus had appeared to the eleven in Jerusalem.

@fred — the book of numbers is indeed referred as one of the books of moses, it wasn't written by him — there is actually (at least in the bible) 5 books of moses — in reality there is i think 25 books of moses — he didn't write them... oral traditions... they were write down in parts, then added together later.

«It is only because human beings have an end toward which they are directed by reason of their specific nature,» he writes, «that practices, traditions, and the like are able to function as they do.»

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.

Still, if his purpose was, as he writes, to provide «an understanding of the vital religious component of the American tradition,» it might have been helpful to give readers a greater sense of the variation, and even the conflict, within that tradition.

As Timothy George wrote in his introduction to «The Gift of Salvation» in the December 1997 issue of Christianity Today: «We rejoice that our Roman Catholic interlocutors have been able to agree with us that the doctrine of justification set forth in this document agrees with what the Reformers meant by justification by faith alone (sola fide)... [But] this still does not resolve all the differences between our two traditions on this crucial matter.»

Just as Paul wrote that the Law was given to lead people to Jesus (Gal 3:24), so also, other religions and pagan traditions and ideas about creation and the afterlife and defeating evil were given to lead people to Jesus.