Sentences with phrase «book as tradition»

Was it such a book as tradition held it to be?

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As I emphasize in my book, The Confident Speaker, a story can be a highly effective communication tool — after all, it's a timeless tradition that dates back to the Stone Age.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

Seems that maybe there was also a lot of translation that occured before the books even took written form, as these tribes had traditions of passing on information orally, before writing and scribing started to take hold.

The intention of the series is to reclaim, at long last, the Bible as the book of the Church's living tradition.

The book does not really present «the voice of first millennium Christianity» or make much of an argument toward «restoring the great tradition» (as the subtitle suggests it might).

Our «early traditions about Jesus» (to use the title of a little book by the late Professor Bethune - Baker) are not interested so much in what has been called the «biographical Jesus» as they are concerned with what Jesus did and said as he was remembered by those who believed him to be their Lord, the Risen Messiah, and who were therefore anxious to hand on to others what was remembered about him.

The compilation of the Traditions took final form at the hands of Bukhari and Muslim in the third century (ninth century A.D.), and today most Muslims recognize their work as the two correct books on Traditions.

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.

When Shalev places the Book of Mormon in this tradition, it comes off looking as American as Poor Richard's Almanac.

Aristotle had raised the fundamental question about being [on], and in the seventh book of the Metaphysics he makes it the question about «entity» [ousia] 2 — about «substance,» as it will be called in the Latin tradition.

The bulk of this scholarly volume treats the distinctive and different ways that the Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican traditions adapted what the author identifies as the medieval model; the Catholic tradition, with its insistence that marriage constitutes a true sacrament of the new dispensation, thus serves as something of a foil for the book's extended argument.

Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the romantic comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.

It's a bumper Christmas - y edition as Sam, Claire and Justin debate the best time to put up your tree and hear from funny man Paul Kerensa about why he's written a book about Christmas traditions.

As I have argued throughout this book, critical Americans must not leave the tradition of American idealism entirely to the chauvinists.

Beside it is not clear if he wrote the book bases Islam & the Quran or basis the Muslims in Asia or Muslims in Europe or America since although Islam is one but the Branch of Islam, the Race, the Customs & Traditions play a tough role in shaping each nation of Islam to look & thinks different from each other... am sure you have the same thing in Christianity as wouldn't think Chinese Christian is exactly like European Christians or European Christians are all the same with out any differences whether Protestants or Catholics or between both branches??

Thanks for the informations about the Sir above but honestly I have not read the book and do not know what came in it about Islam but for me the name of the book was enough for me to realize that he had no respect or faith in the Quran nor he did understand what it meant to reflect and might has taken account of Tribal customs and traditions as being part of Islam or even maybe the meaning of the Hadith and differences between them..

It appears that some time in the third or fourth century of the Christian era an effort was made to bring together all the writings that remained, and to put into written form such oral traditions as were still retained concerning the lost parts of the book.

His book is an extraordinarily instructive examination of how these patterns unfold in both Scripture and tradition, where all three» often intertwined» operate as the «most appropriate ways» of naming the Trinity, none of which makes the others unnecessary.

But what is important is not that certain books be read as an end in themselves, but that they be read because of their relationship to other books in a tradition and community that make such a conversation significant.

Taking as his source the Mishnah, the book of Jewish oral traditions, Edersheim writes that specific passages «lead us to infer that these flocks lay out all the year round».

Even in this «extreme» book, which attempts to call into question our ability both to know God's will and to predict our fate, we find two root affirmations common to the wisdom tradition, based as it is in creation: (I) God is sovereign, and (2) present life is to be lived in joy as God's gift.

Articulated by editor Jim Wallis in his book Agenda for Biblical People, as well as by editorials and articles by the staff, the Sojourners position reflects a Christian radicalism steeped in the Anabaptist tradition - one committed to rigorous discipleship, corporate life - style, and societal critique.

The Old Testament properly so called is the corpus of books, written and handed down in Hebrew (or in the kindred Aramaic), which were received as Scripture in the first century of our era by Hebrew - speaking Jews, representing the central tradition of Hebrew and Jewish religion.

Spong has been an outspoken advocate of gays in ministry, but as bishop he was also the author of several books on Christianity that present a sharp critique of Christian tradition and a decidedly unorthodox view of Jesus and Mary.

This tradition probably comes from a second - century Christian book known as the Infancy Gospel of James, which says that Joseph «saddled a donkey, and he set her upon it» (17:2).

In his book Fundamentalism (Westminster, 1978) James Barr argues that fundamentalism arises out of a particular religious tradition: the revival experience of conversion and the intensely personal acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

Rainer Braendlein, in Islmaic tradition, Jews and Christians are honored as «people of the book» (i.e. followers of Abraham and the Old Testament).

@fred — the book of numbers is indeed referred as one of the books of moses, it wasn't written by him — there is actually (at least in the bible) 5 books of moses — in reality there is i think 25 books of moses — he didn't write them... oral traditions... they were write down in parts, then added together later.

as well as beautiful mealtime prayers, collected from around the world and from various traditions, which alone are worth the price of the book.

Waldstein correctly cites my book Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation as an articulation of the Reformed tradition.

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

Indeed, their full meaning is likely to become more apparent in the future than at the time of the book's first appearance, as thinkers from other world traditions engage its arguments.

Catastrophic so far as the overall impact of Gerhardsson's work is concerned is that in a book having some 325 pages of text, only twelve of those pages are devoted to a discussion of the gospel tradition itself (pp. 324 — 35), and these pages include no exegesis whatever of the text of the synoptic tradition on the basis of his hypothesis.

But try as I might, I just can't believe that the Five Books of Moses were written by J, E, P and D — the four main authors whose oral traditions, biblical scholars say, were cobbled together to make the Torah.

You have verifiable fact type books, then moral carrying fictional stories of an oral tradition which as most oral traditions go, the base stories were built up on every time they were retold and so again every time they were rewritten and translated!!!

Just as there are parties today, writers of New Testament books had to think how to describe Christian faith to people from two different religious traditions.

The Columbia tradition and the larger ideal of a core curriculum is perhaps best understood through Erskine's notion of the classics as books that «every educated person should have read.»

All the great literate traditions have taken certain books as formative of their deepest beliefs and have read them, commented on them, and understood them in changing ways over their entire history.

Palmer ignores this Jamesean strain of pragmatism, because his own thinking was shaped, as he tells us in one of the most powerfully confessional portions of his book, by a different strand of the pragmatic tradition.

This led scholars to reject the tradition which regarded Moses as the author of the first five books of the Bible.

That is to say, the New Testament is a living Book, representing new thoughts emerging out of old settings, and full of contrasts as individual minds and racial traditions contribute their distinctive qualities.

The book begins with a clear recognition of the difference between the resurrection narratives in Luke 24 and John 20 on the one hand and those in Matthew 28, John 21, and what must be presupposed as the tradition underlying Mark on the other hand.

That is was also distinctly possible that gathered fragmented written sources as well as oral traditions regarding the laws of Moses and histories of the kings of Israel and Judah coming from prior to Babylonian captivity were then secured and placed into a combined written sources from which what we know as the Books of Moses as well as other books that would be comprised into what we refer to as the Old TestaBooks of Moses as well as other books that would be comprised into what we refer to as the Old Testabooks that would be comprised into what we refer to as the Old Testament.

This concern found expression in the late Old Testament books of Ruth and Jonah, though there were seeds of it in Israel's earliest traditions, such as the divine words spoken to Abraham, «By you all the families of the earth will bless themselves».

It has passed beyond the reliance upon one's own opinion of the meaning and worth of the Bible, whether as book or as a tradition.

As William McLoughlin competently points out in his book Revivals, Awakenings and Reform, the American revivalist tradition came into existence in the early nineteenth century at the same time as the mass market and popular media such as the penny newspapeAs William McLoughlin competently points out in his book Revivals, Awakenings and Reform, the American revivalist tradition came into existence in the early nineteenth century at the same time as the mass market and popular media such as the penny newspapeas the mass market and popular media such as the penny newspapeas the penny newspaper.

For the same attempt on a larger scale, compare my work mentioned in note 27, above, in which every sentence in the book was thought out so as to be, if possible, cogent in all three traditions.

«Jesuits, as their tradition insists, can be found in almost every country, in almost every workplace imaginable,» Jonathan Wright writes in his book, «God's Soldiers: A History of the Jesuits.»

As in his earlier book, A History of Christian Thought: An Introduction, and its two supplementary volumes of selections from primary sources, Placher shows himself to be an insightful, judicious and reliable interpreter of the tradition and of significant figures and issues in contemporary debates.