Sentences with phrase «back upon traditions»

It is a Western writing, Hellenistic, probably Roman; obviously written in Greek, and not, I believe, the translation of a completed work in a Semitic tongue; and yet resting back upon traditions that were certainly far older than its own date, undoubtedly Palestinian in origin, and circulating originally in the Aramaic language spoken by the common people of Galilee and Judea in the days of our Lord.

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Today, Christians of integrity are thrown back upon the never reducible testimony of Scripture, Tradition and the divine Spirit — a testimony that defies possession, but also manifests an exceptional trust in the insight, imagination, reasonableness and spiritual courage of ordinary human beings when they are modest enough to ask for what they do not and can not possess.

The fact may be explained by saying that everything goes back to, or rests upon, the Gospel of Mark; but I think we can not assume that this Gospel would have been accepted if upon any major point its general outline had been found to be faulty or inaccurate by those who were in touch with the primitive tradition handed down in the churches in Palestine.

Cultural forms, on the other hand, can never be relied upon to refer back to a tradition of religious truth.

Nor may it be supposed that an early Christian emphasis upon faith has been read back into the tradition.

Whereas Rorty relies exclusively upon philosophical writings that have subverted the foundationalist project, Palmer draws primarily upon Christian classics and upon a tradition of Christian spirituality that he traces back to the desert fathers.

It was written for the church's use, and it rested back upon the church's tradition and faith.

Indeed, a justification of this was read back into tradition and put upon the lips of Yahweh in his conversation with Moses on Mount Sinai: «In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come unto thee and I will bless thee.»

Here in Germany, for example, we look back upon some thirty generations of Christian tradition.

At Breslin & Breslin, our personal injury lawyers draw upon a tradition of service to Bergen County and northern New Jersey that goes back to the 1930s.