Sentences with phrase «by inheriting the traditions»

Faou's mission is to honor every characteristic of nature on earth, and we want to do so by inheriting the traditions that our remote ancestors practiced.

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And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.

The fearful aspect of the present situation is that those who have inherited the major tradition of the West now have an ethic without a religion, whereas they are challenged by millions who have a religion without an ethic.

If sufficiently original, human response may shape the common culture inherited by our fellows, for every tradition blindly received originally had its purpose and justification, however feeble that might have been.

The revelation of God, given in Scripture, is regarded as authoritative only insofar as it provides clarifying images which illuminate experience as it is critically interpreted by reason.Theology within this framework articulates the meaning of the inherited tradition of the Christian community in the light of empirical knowledge supplied by the sciences.

Hence professional studies serve to introduce them to the religious tradition which is presupposed by the inherited Theological Encyclopedia.

On the other hand, I see a much more dynamic relationship between the inherited worldviews of these communities and the traditions presently practiced by them.

I found I could not substantiate the supposition that both stories were inherited by the evangelist from the tradition.

And such a man could and would do good works and make good use of spiritual advice — Luther proceeded to run through the Judaic «Ten Commandments» from the Old Testament and to pour out advice inherited from a long tradition, salted by his own experience covering most spheres of human activity from insufficient discipline for instance in sexual matters, to excess of discipline in, for instance, diet.

Theology inherits the Sinai tradition, much compromised especially by those who wear the badge of Sinai and Golgotha: Thou shall not kill!

Agha found herself compelled to use a language unique to her environment, breaking the traditions inherited by post-colonial Pakistan.

The challenge then is to overcome the tendency to drown in the pervasive conformism of spoon - fed culture (often identified as a form of anti-elitism), in favor of openness informed by a true sense of tradition that is not inherited but earned by hard work (as in T.S. Eliot's concept of eliminating at all cost passive repetition).

Ranging from painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture, his work is informed by the inherited European tradition of art making.

Currently, the third generation of the El - Aref family is continuing the tradition, maintaining its inherited sense of client service and subject - matter expertise, whilst keeping the firm on the cutting edge by setting up modern technology tools for Legal practice and management.

They must appreciate that ours is an inherited legal tradition, and that we live on lands that were owned by others before us.