Sentences with phrase «been a tradition ever»

It has always been a tradition ever since I can remember and this year I am making a slow cooker spiral ham.

Not exact matches

For the first time ever, Pringles is looking to become part of your holiday tradition, rolling out 8 new flavors based on traditional Turkey Day foods.

the biggest mistake the Reformed Tradition ever made was putting an «ed» at the end of Reform.

If thoughtful members of both communities become adequately aware of the moment they now occupy in history, and are prepared to reexamine their respective traditions for the resources there to be developed, then the Jewish - Christian relationship has a significant chance of becoming something more enriching than it has ever been before.

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

An entire people was mesmerized by the rupture of a culture and a tradition that were entitled to be called the best in Western civilization but that ended up as the worst ever in Western civilization.

; geography and ethnicity («if he's from Galilee, it isn't valid); government authorities (the temple police don't know what to do with him); religious and spiritual authorities (the chief priests rule him out); legal authorities (Pharisees); and tradition or historical authority («No one's ever talked like this before»).

Their emphasis on self - sufficiency and frugality - so complete that questions should arise how Diogenes ever procured a lantern and why he was wasting oil in a search so futile - is the result of a long tradition of praise of poverty, culminating in their view that wealth is qualitative, the internal condition of virtue, to which only poverty can lead.

All we have is the tradition that this was all «revealed» to Moses, but that could just as easily have meant that he simply dreamt it, if he ever existed at all, that is.

Only strategy Christians has to do is fight for what ever Tradition is going on for years by co-ordinating within the different Christian sects as well as DISPLAYING MORE NATIVITY SCEANS AROUND THE NEIGHBORING HOUSES OF ATHEIST FOLLOWERS especially near the leaders houses for for sure, yea I mean purely private property.

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

They need to be read correctly, to be widely known and taken to heart as important and normative texts of the Magisterium, within the Church's Tradition... I feel more than ever in duty bound to point to the Council as the great grace bestowed on the Church in the 20th century.»»

The point about all these pontifications, I thought at the time, whether over the airwaves or in the print media, either by secular commentators or by the kind of Catholics the liberal media like to give a platform to because their views on the Catholic tradition are so similar to their own (it seemed by the beginning of the conclave that it had all been going on for ever) was — or so I reflected then in my simple way — that this wonderful free - for - all was the only chance for many of them to be heard at all on this subject.

Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition.»

After a few years of wilderness wandering (you should expect that, by the way — look for the manna; look for the water from rock), I found myself in the Episcopal Church, which is no less riddled with conflict and shortcomings than any other Christian tradition, but which introduced me to the sacraments that have managed to sustain my ever - complicated, ever - faltering faith.

It's christians pretending to be the first to have ever created a holiday that are declaring war on all the other traditions around this time.

And while I'm not sure I agree with the Distributist Review «s contention that this tradition «[remains] as vibrant as ever,» it's foolish to bet against its continued relevance or even resurgence in a world where much of political and economic life is emphatically not conducted as if people — or God — matters foolish to bet against its continued relevance or even resurgence in a world where much of political and economic life is emphatically not conducted as if people — or God — matter.

No tradition ever was or will be conserved by rejecting the enriching possibilities for change in the pluralistic reality of every historical

One way of viewing the religious crisis of our time is to see it not in the first instance as a challenge to the intellectual cogency of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or other traditions, but as the gradual erosion, in an ever more complex and technological society, of the feeling of reciprocity with nature, organic interrelatedness with the human community, and sensitive attention to the processes of lived experience where the realities designated by religious symbols and assertions are actually to be found, if they are found at all.

Although with a less dramatic involvement in native thought and culture than Ricci's, both Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries in the 19th century often managed to combine a commitment to evangelization in the name of Jesus with a deep (and ever deepening) respect for the native culture and indigenous traditions of the nations to which they had been sent.

The description of Catholic just war teaching as beginning with a presumption against war and ending with criteria whose function is to say when, if ever, that presumption can be overridden is faithful to neither of these Catholic traditions, that of the religious life or that of just war.

Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

While students of ecclesiology will recognize in these perspectives an unflagging congregationalism, Volf is sensitive to areas in which the free church tradition is especially vulnerable: the unity within the Christian communities; the bonds that connect one congregation to others; the accountability of congregations and clergy; and the ever - present threat to neglect or abandon the apostolic tradition.

If my argument is correct then it is more important than ever for Christians to «batten down the hatches» and preserve the rich intellectual and spiritual tradition that they are heirs to.

John the Baptist let his personal God experience trump both Scripture (which he hardly ever quotes directly) and his own Tradition (which is why this son of the priestly class had to move his own ritual down to the riverside).

It is a tradition that needs defending today more than ever.

State the editors, «Those who know and practice... truth must ever stand as guardians of what is essentially the Christian tradition, and call before the bar of human justice and public opinion those who traduce these truths of natural and special revelation.

Yes, this was evidence that God also was upset about what this man named Jesus was teaching, and had seen fit to make Him a public spectacle in the sight of all so that nobody would ever again seek to challenge the teachings of the religious leaders or the traditions of the Jewish people.

Have you ever been criticized for being skeptical about your religious tradition?

In the second place, ever since the Lucan chronology (placing the resurrection of Christ on the third day and the pouring Out of the Holy Spirit on the fiftieth day) became the accepted tradition, and this led to the hypostatizing of the Holy Spirit as the third Person of the Trinity, we have been accustomed to making a fairly rigid separation between the risen Christ and the Holy Spirit.

Arthur Jeffery — one of those who has worked most critically in the field in recent years — is doubtful whether Abu Bekr ever made an official recension as tradition declares.

Whether in the process they lost the essence of the Christian message has been a subject of debate among the various religious traditions ever since, and one which shall be considered in a later chapter.

For this we must ever be grateful; if Mark had edited his material more severely, he would only have cut away these old roots and presented us with a dry stock instead of a living tradition.

The only man whose work we can trace in the synoptic tradition who ever concerns himself to remain reasonably true, in our sense of that word, to his sources is Luke, and even he does not hesitate to make very considerable changes indeed when he has theological reasons for doing so.

Not that we must produce over and over again works of the scope of Bultmann's or Jeremias's; but we must be prepared ever to learn from them and to consider any and every saying in the light of the history of the particular branch of tradition of which it is a part.

We are more than ever convinced of its authenticity, for it is indubitably early, being a major part of the tradition from the beginning.

Informed by contemporary experience of the apparent eclipse of mystery, by the sorrow and oppression in much social existence, by the horrors of genocide, and by the modern threat of meaninglessness to the individual's existence, we now seem to be noticing more explicitly than ever before the image of God's self - emptying, or kenosis, that has always been present in Christian tradition.

The document, whose main title reads «A Treasure in Earthen Vessels», asks about the tradition of faith through the times and within the koinonia, the fellowship of the churches — a question to be asked again and again facing ever - changing challenges.6 To speak about «earthen vessels» means, in a rather free but not unusual interpretation of II Cor 4:7.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all of our traditions ever reminding us to place principals ahead of personalities.

A century ago, T. S. Eliot presented the image of a self - organizing literary culture in «Tradition and the Individual Talent,» one in which «[t] he existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them,» which alters «the whole existing order... if ever so slightly.»

12 states: Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

Experts have predicted the American imported tradition, which sees heavy discounts in stores and online a day after Thanksgiving, will be the biggest ever weekend of spending.

Be Here for Me spokesman Ed Rennie, told Premier: «That we could ever really even consider anything like criminalising prayer - even if it's in a very confined context, which I think this would be - it's just contrary to the democratic and free traditions of this country and to Western democracy in general.&raquBe Here for Me spokesman Ed Rennie, told Premier: «That we could ever really even consider anything like criminalising prayer - even if it's in a very confined context, which I think this would be - it's just contrary to the democratic and free traditions of this country and to Western democracy in general.&raqube - it's just contrary to the democratic and free traditions of this country and to Western democracy in general.»

While the wider impact of such appeals is not yet clear, the call to consider the catholic tradition of the church is receiving an ever - wider hearing.

The respect for culutral relativism is important up to the point when it offends OUR cultural relativism... no American Bald Eagle should ever be sacrificed these Native American tribes should no better... maybe their religion needs to go through a period of modernization instead of being stuck in stupid traditions of the past... this extremely offends me as an American... why do not the Native Americans respect our culture?

Just because something has been around for ever or it's a tradition, it doesn't make it right.

I think there's a very easy - to - find line between faith and reason, where one can take the community interaction, positive messages and good moral lessons of religion and mix them with a non-theistic tradition of self - improvement, free thought and ever - striving.

If ever there was a homogeneous version of this tradition in national life; if ever, after legal disestablishment, a faith was re-established in the popular ethos; if ever there was agreement on biblical authority, on God, Jesus, heaven and hell and the true, the beautiful and the good, then it was in the high years of what one of my book titles terms the Protestant Righteous Empire.