Sentences with phrase «biblical tradition»

But that basis is very narrow, and even it is strongly influenced by biblical traditions in ways seldom recognized by many natural - law theorists.

We point to it in other cultures — Native American and Buddhist — but we have forgotten that it exists in our own biblical tradition.

A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature edited by David Lyle Jeffrey Eerdmans, 960 pages, $ 80 A mammoth new reference work, certain to be a standard and invaluable resource, this «dictionary» contains hundreds of articles on biblical figures, motifs, concepts, quotations, and allusions» both in their scriptural context and as they have been used and understood by English - speaking writers and scholars since the Middle Ages.

The fundamental «mystery of the universe» is free to reveal itself in any number of ways, and no tradition can claim an exhaustive unfolding of this mystery whose very essence is understood in biblical tradition as freedom.

Here I want to point out how central justice is to the whole biblical tradition as well as to Jesus.

More specifically, his goal is «to examine — with a frank apologetic agenda near at hand — the possibilities for envisioning the transformation of humanity through relationship with Christ, as per Biblical tradition and Christian experience, in a process - relational mode»

Luther, by rejecting Dionysius, very appropriately, left spirituality free to return to its more authentic sources in the Jewish biblical tradition.

She has researched biblical traditions for traces of feminine characteristics of divinity, which she interprets according to the Jungian category of the female archetype.

We Christians have the freedom in Christ to meet together as often as we like in a structure we are comfortable with that closely mirrors biblical tradition.

(ENTIRE BOOK) An examination of the two primary traditions — denominational biblical tradition and enlightenment utilitarianism — that worked together to contribute to the American Revolution and to create the civil religion which marks American culture to this day.

For all the new European inhabitants of America the Christian and biblical tradition provided images and symbols with which to interpret the enormous hopes and fears aroused in them by their new situation, as I have already suggested in using the terms «paradise» and «wilderness.»

Theology, if it is to explore adequately the meaning of play and its relation to the sacred, must «study the various biblical traditions and engage in the systematic hermeneutical task of appropriating the meaning of the biblical message for today's world.

But biblical tradition refuses to allow God's law to become identified with the kings law.

As such, it is at least a partially alien criterion by which to appreciate biblical traditions, since their understanding of divine power is rather different, a subject we shall turn to in the next chapter.

Given their consciousness of themselves and the world in which they live, they are able to join biblical traditions that would seem to us irreconcilable.

Biblical tradition bans charging interest to the poor and foreclosing on property mortgaged under abusive loan terms.

In this photo - based work, a bright green snake — the proverbial serpent of biblical traditions — is collaged onto the legs of a woman whose hand is reaching back seductively behind her knee.

Church people have a deep history of interest in the city, one that is rooted in biblical tradition.

I agree with Madden that «the broadly Western understanding of human dignity and destiny... is strongly influenced by biblical traditions.»

They emerged out of the Christian denominational - biblical tradition on the one hand and Enlightenment utilitarianism on the other hand.

If you read further into the Jewish Biblical tradition, the first «wife» of Adam from chapter 1 was separated from him and eventually exiled, becoming the demon Lilitu or Lilith.

All I think we can say, speaking From within the biblical tradition, is that we are called to care for the whole of creation including the animals in it, not because they are sentient, or because they possess any other particular property, but simply because they are God's creatures.

Even patriarchy's deepest plots have not wholly» silenced women in the biblical tradition, nor does our knowledge of these infamous «proceedings» have to cancel other values of Scripture for us.

Yet this obsession with greatness and number - one - ness, whether of individuals, nations or civilizations, has always stood in a rather awkward relationship to the biblical tradition — however much Christendom has failed to sense the awkwardness.

There is — as the imagery itself might indicate — a remarkable affinity between the biblical tradition and the comic tradition which has too often been neglected because of misgivings over drawing upon such associations.

Though later wise men from the East come to Herod's palace to pay homage to the newborn «king,» they find him in the only place consistent with the rest of the biblical tradition: among the lowest of the low.

With the great Jewish thinker of the early part of this century, Franz Rosenzweig, he believes that Jews need to understand anew that «the Jewish vocation, rooted in the biblical tradition, is to be an instrument for the redemption of all humankind.»

When Friedrich Nietzsche, in his several tirades against Christianity, points to these elements as of the essence of the biblical tradition, he is certainly correct — though not in the dark conclusions he draws from the observation,

The contemporary habit of speaking about rights apart from obligations is alien to the biblical tradition and, we would argue, alien to the logic of the Universal Declaration.

It also shows how it is able, because of this, to achieve the critical freedom which is related to the history of social freedom... The Biblical traditions and the doctrinal and confessional formulae that are derived from these traditions appear in the light of this interpretation as formulae of memoria.

I can see that there are roots of this atomism in the biblical tradition, but I am also convinced that they do not dominate it.

Of course we did not counsel people to go to church, though we did try to show why some of the people we interviewed do go to church and what the meaning of the biblical tradition is in America.

But in the biblical traditions, God can not be understood directly.

The biblical tradition about the two tablets of stone does not appear in the Bible in conjunction with the familiar version of the Ten Commandments that is in Exodus Twenty.

Some feel it reflects a negative valuation of human sexuality based on the dualism of Hellenistic thought, which saw salvation as a freeing of the soul from the body, rather than the biblical tradition which affirms the goodness of the whole creation.

That is why, in the biblical tradition, humankind was commanded to «be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth».

If the biblical tradition has been rejected so has the Greek.

H. A. Wolfson writes that scholastic philosophy, or the coming together of the Biblical tradition and Greek philosophy, was founded by Philo and destroyed by Spinoza.

Curiously, the religious dimension of the new global society may draw on some of the long - neglected elements in the biblical tradition itself.

Followers of the biblical tradition, however, believe that they have heard a «word» speaking out to us in our lostness, a light shining in the darkness, a word telling us we are not alone and that through it the cosmos has been delivered from its apparent aloneness.

The theme of two lordships is powerful and central to the biblical tradition as a whole.

From out there, God occasionally intervenes in the world or the universe, especially in the more dramatic events recorded in the biblical tradition, and above all, in Jesus.