Sentences with phrase «authority of tradition»

The only way this could be accomplished without total surrender of one religious community to the other would be through some sort of syncretism, and the dominant authorities of both traditions have been rightly suspicious of any such syncretism and have carefully proscribed those practices that seem to express it.

They started rummaging through the Confucianism and Buddhism they had tossed out, hoping to reclaim the former moral authority of these traditions for the party.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Advocates of canonical education view with dismay the decline over the last century in the «authority of tradition.»

Cardinal Newman said there were three authorities in the Church: the authority of tradition, the authority of reason and the authority of experience, which he placed respectively in the hierarchy, the university and the body of the faithful.

Jeremy, Under the header «The Failure of the Reformation», line four, shouldn't it read «the authority of Scripture over tradition» rather than «the authority of tradition over Scripture?»

And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.

If you were to compare the typical writings of the average Calvinist, Arminian, Lutheran, and Catholic theologians, you would discover that when it comes to the issues of faith, grace, the accomplished work of Jesus Christ, the authority of tradition over Scripture, and the goal of glorifying God in all of life, there is very little distinguishable difference (See the journal article I wrote on this several years ago).

But Jesus» knowledge had an immediacy that transcended the authority of these traditions and enabled him to stand in judgment on them.

For a masterful account of the value of social custom to the life and well - being of society, see George Allan's book, The Importances of the Past: A Meditation on the Authority of Tradition (Albany: SUNY Press, 1986).

Even here you explained the authority of the Scriptures and the authority of tradition in the church.

The purpose is to suggest alter - native ways of viewing the authority of tradition.

«While the Enlightenment emphasized man's untrammeled reason (Kant's sapere aude) and the necessity of intelligibility, the Church was built on the superiority of revelation, the authority of tradition, and the intrinsic value of mystery.»