Stretched across 25 miles of beach along Banderas Bay, here you can experience «old - world Mexico» and
the authentic traditions of a typical Mexican town it holds.
Located at the Emirates Palace Ballroom Terrace, the Pavilion's unique setting combines
the authentic traditions of Ramadan with the luxurious comfort of Emirates Palace.
The following is based on islamic sources (quran and
authentic traditions of prophet, based on a very detailed science of authenticating reports) and also on experience of muslim exhorsists.
In our earlier sections, we have noted that F.C. Burkitt, Arthur Voobus and several other historians have shown that the emphasis on celibacy and abstinence from marriage belonged to
an authentic tradition of the Syrian church till the fourth century.
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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.
No such
authentic relationship can arise out
of the positing
of some new neutral position that will allow both sides to transcend restrictive and commonly resented
traditions.
To suggest that evangelical Protestantism points the way to «classical spirituality» is to blithely disregard fifteen centuries
of authentic «classical Christian spirituality» and obscure the desperately needed benefits
of this rich
tradition from evangelical view.
Contemporary romantics are given to disdaining the etiquette
tradition of their own modern culture, while waxing sentimental over similar practices in what they regard as more
authentic cultures.
Traditions and rituals bond people together in a common, shared experience and offer a sense
of familiarity and security, but discovering vashti said they seem to be more
authentic.
But it is arrogant to suggest that the only
authentic condition
of congregational life is one
of perpetual — especially artificially engineered — change and to think that one can measure a congregation's faithfulness by its capacity to leave its
tradition behind.
Many
of us, myself included, are finding ourselves increasingly drawn to high church
traditions - Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Episcopal Church, etc. - precisely because the ancient forms
of liturgy seem so unpretentious, so unconcerned with being «cool,» and we find that refreshingly
authentic.
For although it can not lead to a suspension
of that method, it does draw our attention to the basic problem which it presents: «According to our historical method employed thus far, we have before us apparently
authentic material about Jesus in the
tradition of the sayings
of the Lord, only when the material can be understood neither [as derived] from primitive Christian preaching nor from Judaism.
It also requires the
authentic and authoritative
tradition and teaching
of the Church, for if the word
of God was inspired by the Holy Spirit, then it can only be authentically interpreted by the same Holy Spirit.
He insists that by attentively listening to the Jesus
of the Gospels and through a collective listening with the disciples
of every age, that is, through the
authentic witness
of Scripture and
Tradition, one «can indeed attain to sure knowledge
of the real historical figure
of Jesus» (p. xvii).
Using Cardinal Newman's «diagnostic tools»
of discernment, she is keen to differentiate
authentic development and deviation from Church
tradition.
After lunch, Father Ed settles down to talk to me about his remarkable spiritual journey to the Ordinariate — the structure set up by Pope Benedict to allow former Anglicans to become Catholics, bringing with them some
of their Anglican
traditions — and about what he sees as its particular mission, to revive
authentic, English spirituality in the Catholic Church.
In these ways an
authentic reappropriation is the direct opposite
of the nostalgic, sentimental, and uncritical presentation
of tradition in the mass media.
A sixth dimension, closely related to the first, third, and fourth dimensions, is grounding the theological position historically, showing the new features to be
authentic developments
of the Holy - Spirit - inspired trajectory
of the human spirit that is recorded in the biblical
tradition.
Understanding Islam along with the
authentic sources
of the Quran and the accepted
traditions of the Prophet Mohammed is the antidote to violent extremism.
And that is the crucial significance
of Käsemann's remark: «There are after all pieces in the synoptic
tradition which the historian must simply acknowledge as
authentic, if he wishes to remain a historian» This kind
of quest
of the historical Jesus is possible
It is impossible to say how far such passages as that quoted above axe
authentic utterances
of Jesus, and how far the imagery has seeped into the gospel
tradition from the environment.
The tale
of Lilith originates in a medieval work called «the Alphabet
of Ben - Sira, The story
of Lilith is not actually found in any
authentic Rabbinic
tradition.
It is my contention that a theology
of Black liberation also must embrace an organic worldview, not only because it is consistent with the
authentic roots
of Black Americans but because it also represents something fundamental in the Biblical
tradition.
Six orthodox collections
of Traditions are generally recognized as
authentic, though there are several others
of which use is frequently made by Moslems.
It is related that one
of the Companions had as many as eight hundred disciples to whom he imparted the
Traditions which he regarded as
authentic.
He undertook a systematic sifting
of a great mass
of Traditions, said to number 600,000, but ended up with selecting something less than 9,000 as
authentic.
Its method likewise emphasised continuity with Scripture,
Tradition and magisterial pronouncements since all these sources
of revelation and
authentic teaching were listed and learned.This allowed priests readily to answer questions from believers and respond to criticism from Protestants and non-believers.
«An
authentic updating
of sacred music can take place only in the lineage
of the great
tradition of the past,
of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony.»
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.»
Although we can not, today, reconstruct a single
authentic healing or exorcism narrative from the
tradition we have, we are none the less entitled to claim that the emphasis upon the faith
of the patient, or his friends, in that
tradition is
authentic.
This is perhaps the most radical statement in the whole
of the Jesus
tradition, and, as such, it is certainly
authentic.
In his History
of the Synoptic
Tradition, we find him accepting an
authentic «such sayings as arise from the exaltation
of an eschatological mood», oor, «sayings which demand a new disposition
of mine», 49.
Here he writes, in connection with the question
of reconstructing
authentic teaching
of Jesus, «we have reasonably secure ground under our feet only in one particular instance, namely, when there is some way
of showing that a piece
of tradition has not been derived from Judaism and may not be ascribed to early Christianity, and this is particularly the case when Jewish Christianity has regarded this
tradition as too bold and has toned it down or modified it in some way».
The demands
of «the human spirit for the time include
authentic understandings, many
of them rooted in the Gospels and in the deepest Christian intellectual
traditions, about the nature
of human existents.
however, he goes beyond this, for in that book he by no means restricts himself; in his presentation
of the message
of Jesus, to sayings which he had found to be
authentic in the course
of the discussion in the History
of the Synoptic
Tradition.
We have the testimony
of the Jewish sources; the fact that such stories occur in all strata
of the
tradition, including the two earliest, Mark and Q (criterion
of multiple attestation); and the
authentic Kingdom - sayings related to exorcisms, especially Matt.
If we are to establish any sayings attributed to Jesus in the
tradition as
authentic, then the first thing we must be able to do is to write a history
of the
tradition of which a given saying is a part, establishing so far as we are able to do so the earliest form
of the saying known in the
tradition.
There is every reason to accept them as
authentic; their very vividness, the fact that the
tradition has misunderstood the first two (v. 33 makes them examples
of self - denial) and the extreme unlikelihood
of anyone but Jesus using a Zealot assassin as an example (cf. the Labour Racketeer!)
Then, by the application
of the criterion
of coherence, it is possible to go on to accept as
authentic that material from the earliest strata
of the
traditions, the tendencies
of the
tradition having been taken into account, which coheres with the emphases to be found there.
We in the liberal churches must rediscover our own particular
traditions and celebrate them as
authentic expressions
of Christian faith.
The answer is that we have not done so if we understand Christology in the
authentic sense
of the theological
tradition.
Yet in the more
authentic sense
of a prophet as one who speaks for God to declare his word and will, Jesus and his message
of the kingdom stand clearly in the prophetic
tradition.
I do not think now that the religious and ideological heritage that I was given as a child and as an adolescent was an entirely
authentic version
of the American
tradition, but the subjective sense
of continuity with the past is an indelible experience that undoubtedly colors even my present perceptions.
This continuing dialectical transformation moves toward a culmination in Christian atheism precisely because
authentic Christian
tradition must reflect the dialectical movement
of God, who emptied himself into Christ and by the death
of Christ became universally immanent in cosmos and consciousness and continues there to move on toward the final identity
of opposites in which God will be all in all.
How far the renewed interest
of some Christians in the mystical and contemplative
traditions is indebted to Hinduism it is hard to say, but Western Christians can still be helped to discover a deeper dimension to life by encounter with the
authentic spiritual teaching and practice
of Hinduism.
Authentic heirs
of the biblical
tradition could not have the ancient biblical faith today except as nostalgia, because times have changed.
The difficulty
of fitting Buddhism into broad generalizations about «
authentic and lasting religious experiences» raises a broader question about the coherence
of positing a mutual normativity
of different religious
traditions.
We shall see how within each
of the three
traditions of Christian love there is a search for an
authentic realism about man and history which results in a strain upon the traditional forms.
The deepest threat to Catholic intellectual life today stems not from a lack
of engagement with the outside world, but from ignorance
of our own
tradition and widespread loss
of authentic biblical and doctrinal thinking.