Sentences with phrase «aspect of this tradition»

At a time when many Ukrainians are trapped between the failed promises of Marxist utopianism and the often harsh realities of Western materialism, the Orthodox Church is in a position to offer the best aspects of tradition.

For that we need also the life - giving, positive aspect of tradition that was much closer and more accessible to Hawthorne and Melville than it is to us.

We need to see as they did that the negative and the affirmative aspects of tradition are not ultimately separate.

He did not identify God with sheer infinity and absolute independence (as scholasticism did) and was emphatic in his rejection of that aspect of the tradition.

Take any traditional objection to accepting the old Platonic analogy of God as the World Soul and it can be shown that the objection stands or falls with aspects of a tradition which philosophy has been moving away from since the middle ages — for instance ideas of sheer infinity, sheer immutability, also what is usually meant by omnipotence.

The date of Christmas itself is one of the most fixed aspects of our tradition.

Certain aspects of that tradition remain vibrantly meaningful as psychological, ethical, social and historical insight, expressed often in irreplaceably poetic and mythical form.

Over the centuries, theological education itself has introduced generations to aspects of tradition or biblical history that manifest shifting accents, multiple meanings and constantly.

The religion faculty (many with degrees from top - flight Western universities) combines an inflexible affirmation of the perfection of Qur» anic revelation (and solidarity with global Muslim political grievances) with a very sophisticated interpretive attempt to moderate any aspect of the tradition that stands in the way of economic and technological advance.

Certainly not because fasting was in some sense peripheral to Catholicism, an inessential and minor aspect of the tradition that needed tidying away.

For this aspect of tradition — the dimension of symbolic distinctiveness preserved in the ancient patterns of the worship and ritual life of the Church — is at least as central to Catholic identity as many of the doctrinal positions worried about by those who conceive of tradition primarily as a body of authoritative teaching.

Several years ago, a Reformed scholar hoping to overturn some aspects of his tradition's doctrine of God wrote these words:

There is a long tradition based on various kinds of idealism that affected theological thinking in previous years and found its modern exponents in such men as William Temple and Paul Tillich, although these two men emphasized different aspects of this tradition.

They have included explanatory sections by the editors, sections written by contemporary Asian scholars, and both classical and contemporary writings covering political, social, and literary aspects of the traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, Neo-Confucianism, and Shinto.

In two recent works, The Uncertain Phoenix and Eros and Irony, David L. Hall presents a systematic and radical critique of the Western cultural and philosophical tradition, and (in The Uncertain Phoenix) a provocative vision of a future which might result front a movement away from certain aspects of that tradition.

Among the many discussions of this aspect of the tradition, perhaps the most interesting is Sacvan Bercovitch's The American Jeremiad (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1978).

They submit to knightly virtues, honor, courtly love, courtesy and less martial aspects of the tradition.

Significantly, Hammons insisted that L&M break with convention by issuing no press release, but the works themselves spoke eloquently enough about how an artist need neither to renounce nor adhere to any aspect of his tradition (including the by - now - traditional rejection of tradition) in order for «outrageously magical things» to happen.

Picasso's diverse body of original work on paper broke new ground, while also consciously incorporating aspects of the tradition from which it sprang.

Both entail an aspect of tradition.

It's helpful to temper this by keeping some aspects of the traditions that may be especially important.

Not exact matches

Eve Tushnet has written beautifully on a vision of friendship for gay Catholics, encouraging them to recover a fundamental aspect of the Catholic tradition of human ecology that has been missing in modern times.

Traditionists who regard the Reformation as normative are necessarily Meliorists with regard to important aspects of the pre-Reformation tradition.

In this way no major element will be omitted and the importance of each aspect can be judged in the light of the entire tradition,

Protestant Traditionists who regard the pre-Reformation tradition as normative are necessarily Meliorists with regard to certain aspects of post-Reformation Protestantism.

Contending that the empire option dramatically compromises the gospel vision of peace, Nelson - Pallmeyer jettisons just - war theory and advocates reclaiming Jesus» radical model of nonviolence, He challenges Christians to reject militarism and those aspects of their religious tradition that encourage or endorse violence, and he presents nonviolent alternatives that refuse to sanction violence as part of Cod's providential care of the world.

This vision seems to match other universalistic aspects of the Christian tradition, especially its claim to universal reason, and it constitutes the most important practical application of my theological project.

Parents and families need to be re-educated in Catholic family prayer and tradition, and in how to invite Christ into every aspect of their lives through prayer, penance and sacrifice — there is much to do.

In that «realist» tradition the intelligible actuality of a thing is not a projection from the mind of the observer — as in Kant and the subjective schools that come from him — but is an intrinsic aspect of the thing itself.

And I try to learn as much as I can about language, customs, traditions and other aspects that can lead to a better understanding of a text.

There are two aspects to the Sunnah: legislation given by the Prophet on matters not specifically detailed in the Qur» an, and traditions based on the actions and utterances of Muhammad as a human being.

14 That is a refreshing assertion, given the lack of central attention love as a key aspect of God's identity has typically been afforded in the tradition.

In all cases, these crimes have sprung from aspects of the teachings of these traditions that are rejected by its finest representatives.

Many who have abandoned all commitment to the tradition overlook the fact that many aspects of Christian civilization are also under threat in the post-Christian age.

The sky religions emphasize the paternal, hierarchical, legalistic and ascetic, whereas the earth tradition emphasizes the maternal, communal, expressive and joyful aspects of existence.

dissertation, Boston University, 1948, p. 10) Counseling is one aspect of a concern for healing which has been integral to the Hebrew - Christian tradition through the centuries.

It is conceivable that aspects of the biblical witness to the love of God have been obscured in the tradition, and that some of the traditional interpretations are no longer tenable.

Such a revitalization of biblical religion in America would find, I believe, an ally rather than an enemy in the highest aspect of the civil tradition.

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

Because of my own centering in soteriological questions, and my having allowed the broader theological tradition to define soteriology for me in purely anthropological terms, I had ignored aspects of what my own teachers had said.

In one of its aspects, this quality is the root of what the theological tradition has pointed to as hubris.

The final aspect of the New Testament Cahill takes up is the Johannine tradition.

First, since it is based in art, performance studies» rich tradition of creating, evaluating, and doing performances offers insights and strategies for intermingling verbal and literary aspects of the preaching event.

In a number of ways we live in alienation from very rich aspects of the Jewish tradition.

Let every decoration and tradition point to some aspect of Jesus Christ, who alone is the life of the party.

Modernism, he concedes, appeared to threaten a rich tradition, robbing congregations of a shared and easily understood aesthetic and ripping out the sensual aspects of worship.

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.

For that debate to be productive, however, certain other aspects of the common tradition must be brought into focus and made more conscious than now they are.

Yet he refuses to collapse biblical theology into the history of the religion of Israel, distinguishing the two this way: ««History of religion» is concerned with all the forms and aspects of all human religions, while theology tends to be concerned with the truth - claims of one religion and especially with its authoritative texts and traditions and their interpretations.»

The fearful aspect of the present situation is that those who have inherited the major tradition of the West now have an ethic without a religion, whereas they are challenged by millions who have a religion without an ethic.