Sentences with phrase «authentic traditions of»

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.
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