Sentences with phrase «been the tradition behind»

So long has been the tradition behind the notion of time's contingency that it has acquired the strength of an absolute truth.

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The financial industry has been so limited by process and tradition that it has fallen behind in terms of innovation and digital development, leaving opportunities for less - established fintech startup businesses to seize opportunities in the marketplace.

It is this ghost lurking behind assertions about most of the Protestant tradition being largely cessationist that I want to exorcise.

Instead, my primary concern was to exorcise a ghost behind claims that the Protestant tradition in the main does not hold to the continuation of the gifts.

Failing that our families, those we leave behind, should have the choice as they are the ones who will be seeking the comfort of those traditions.

That is the philosophical understanding behind African myths, customs, traditions, beliefs, morals, actions, and social relationships.

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.

Of course, the difficulty here is not only that Ward's comments reflect a tradition of anti-Judaism that many Christians are trying to put behind them, but that Stern's comments reflect the worst of liberalism's policing of faith.

Church tradition tells us that that the disciples of Christ had families, but they still were willing to be martyred and die for Christ, leaving their families behind.

By Paul the tradition is taken for granted — but left behind.

So we move behind the Greek of Luke 7.20 to an Aramaic tradition which has been variously translated, and we must necessarily conclude that Thomas 113 is not, in fact, dependent upon Luke 17.20, but upon a tradition upon which Luke also is dependent.

If Heidegger was right — and he was — in saying that there was always a nihilistic core to the Western philosophical tradition, the withdrawal of Christianity leaves nothing but that core behind, for the gospel long ago stripped away both the deceits and the glories that had concealed it; and so philosophy becomes, almost by force of habit, explicit nihilism.

In contrast to the classical tradition, he declares that truth is not found in the unchanging essences lying behind the flow of time, but is essentially historical and ultimately eschatological.

These show us the ways we are products of our environment and the history and traditions lying behind it.

If we are to speak of extremes — without pejorative intent — at the other end of the spectrum would be those services planned by administrators (whether presidents, deans or chaplains) which have survived as full - blown Christian liturgies expressing the theological tradition behind the institution's establishment.

so I'm glad they told the story behind the tradition.

Behind the written documents is both an ancient, oral tradition and some very particular historical circumstances and cultural phenomena which have clearly shaped the narratives.

It is a theology purporting to be the expression of a radical Christian tradition — a tradition unknown to the world of Christian theology, because that world is irredeemably satanic insofar as it is bound to the dead body of that God negated and left behind by the forward and apocalyptic movement of the incarnation.

What form criticism undertakes is to get back behind the written Gospels and their sources to the oral tradition as it circulated prior to the writing down of any account of the «mighty works,» the sayings, the parables, or the discourses of Jesus.

But in recent decades there has been an increasing tendency to try to go behind this, to reconstruct the traditions and writings as they existed before they were incorporated...

But in recent decades there has been an increasing tendency to try to go behind this, to reconstruct the traditions and writings as they existed before they were incorporated into the Bible in their present form.

Responding to the critical tradition's Quest for the historical Jesus (where the Jesus of history is thought to lie behind the layers of theological gloss of the Christian community), Redford shows how the real crux of the problem is the post-Cartesian scepticism of all things supernatural, above all the Incarnation.

In this interview, Kwasniewski explains the vision behind the book, which recovers key sources of the Church's anti-liberal tradition, at a time when more people are questioning the foundations and value of liberalism.

I do think Cohen was rightly decided, but the danger deserves emphasis: When offensiveness becomes a constitutional right, it is a right without any tradition behind it, and consequently we have no norms to govern its use.

Unlike many scholars, he thinks that a Secret Gospel of Mark was edited to produce the later canonical Gospel of Mark, and that behind the Gospel of Peter lies a «Cross Gospel» which provides our earliest tradition about Jesus» passion.

It is true to the insight of the Bible, which the philosophical tradition has tended to obscure behind the impassive mask of absolute, static being.

15:5) have been lost because they told of Jesus» exaltation to God and on account of that were not sufficiently realistic in the eyes of a later generation... The view that the event of Easter was the appointment to heavenly glory can still be traced behind the Synoptic tradition of the resurrection.»

Mothers» Union president Lynne Tembey looks at the tradition behind Mothering Sunday and shares the story behind new liturgy she was instrumental... More

In the past, this has tended to be overstated; on the basis of the fact that Jesus certainly taught in Aramaic, and on the assumption that when we had reached one step behind the tradition in our synoptic sources we had reached the teaching of Jesus, it was sometimes assumed that an Aramaism represented the voice of Jesus.

If we can not accept the basic presupposition that to take one step behind the sources is to arrive at firm historical tradition about Jesus, then this criterion becomes much less effective.

But we can say that behind that tradition there must lie a hard core of authenticity, even though its details are unrecoverable today.

Their student bodies represent diverse religious and denominational traditions, none of which functions as the reigning source of the views about church and ministry that are behind the curriculum.

This is the attempt to get behind the biblical records to their sources in oral tradition and written fragments, and thus to determine how individual passages, called pericopes, are related to each other.

Consider leaving just one holiday tradition behind this year, so that the absence (of a fancy meal, a familiar decoration, a favorite ornament) is a reminder of how much justice has yet to be realized in world where the Kingdom has been inaugurated but not yet consummated.

By no means do we have to reckon exclusively with oral tradition... Personally I have... tried to typologize the so - called «prophetical literature» in two main groups: «The liturgical type» («liturgy» taken as a purely form - literary term) to be found in Nah., Hab., Joel, «Deuter - Isa,» et al., with real «writers» behind them, and probably from the very beginning taken down in writing, and «the diwan type» (no very good term, I admit), e.g., Am., Proto - Isa., etc., primarily resting on oral transmission...

Here then is something about the tradition of faith which lies behind Jesus.

If once we get behind the prejudices and tastes of this or that group of modem Christians, and try to discover what the great continental reformers like Luther and Calvin — yes, and like Zwingli, too, for be has been much misunderstood and misinterpreted by many of those who have claimed to interpret his teaching — not to mention the English reformers with their rather closer contact with the Catholic tradition, we shall find that with varying emphases and in varying idiom, they were all of them intent on saying something very like the summary outline which I have just given.

Dibelius found them in the so - called «paradigm,» or example narrative in oral tradition, which can be reconstructed behind the proclamation.

Some highlights of this collection are Khaled Abou El Fadl's eloquent explication of the complexities and restraints behind implementation of the death penalty under Islamic law; an interesting intersection between Fadl's discussion of reticence in the use of the death penalty and David Novak's review of capital cases in Jewish tradition; Stanley Hauerwas's unequivocal claim that the cross is justice (negatively in terms of Jesus» execution according to human law and positively in terms of the ultimate meaning of the cross as mercy and forgiveness); and, conversely, the claim by Beth Wilkinson, prosecutor in the Timothy McVeigh case, that «Even as a Christian, I felt nothing for Mr. McVeigh.»

Behind the best of our languages they find, as Tocqueville did, relatively inert traditions that all five authors presumably wish were more active: biblical thought and imagery, and republican discourse and institutions.

From the days of the primitive kerygma which lies behind the speeches in Acts, behind the oral tradition which was eventually crystallized in Mark and Q, the primary source of the theology of the cross is the words and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth.

The symbols of community are there; the tradition of community stands behind us; and sometimes the leadership for community is also present.

Behind the Mother Earth there is a long tradition of agricultural matriarchal civilization.

While for the social scientist empirical data form the major source for his or her understanding and evaluation of a phenomenon, for the religious practitioner empirical data are just one source of determinative information, and often fill a secondary role behind other sources such as personal experience, intuition, and religious tradition.

And they usually were brain - washed from birth and told what to believe so it's hard as an adult to leave all that tradition behind.

And we won't be able to tell you the story behind these traditions, since we have absolutely no idea why we do it.

Chefs Mullen and Edward Lee discussed culinary authenticity and tradition — which neither is too fond of the meanings behind those words.

I love the Easter holiday, especially the meaning behind it of course, but also because of the tradition we've been doing with our kids since Emma was a baby.

I'm sharing the secret behind a family favorite cookie recipe, and making traditions with the youngest members of the family.

When talking about vegan food, France, which is proud of its cream, egg and butter tradition of sauces and exotic games, might be a little behind the worldly trend, but in recent years it definitely...