Sentences with phrase «by years of tradition»

Faced with a background of book retailing that was stagnated by years of tradition and a lack of innovation, Follett College Book Stores is bringing together the bastion of progressive thought with a redefined image.

No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well - marked boundaries of the haves and have - nots.

Not exact matches

On what he wants to see happen next: «I would advise [Obama] personally call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous «State Secrets» privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years in office for any wrongdoing.

Shortly before assuming office last year, Trump broke with tradition by ordering all of former President Barack Obama's political appointees to leave their ambassadorships immediately after the inauguration.

The wishful thinking done by P, M, M, L, and J approximately 2000 years ago continued the embellishment and fiction tradition of the Jewish scribes.

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.

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.

For almost 400 years after Jesus Christ's resurrection the people did not have the Bible... they were not lost but lived by conscience and Tradition of the Apostles.

«Truth Be Known was created in 1995 by independent scholar and author of comparative religion and mythology D.M. Murdock, also known as «Acharya S.» Acharya's work is designed to bring to light fascinating lost, hidden and destroyed religious, mythological and spiritual traditions that reveal an exciting core of knowledge dating back thousands of years.

Since the book demonstrates so powerfully the case for the return to the pre-Conciliar liturgy, Fr Joseph Fessio, S.J., Editor - in - Chief, Ignatius Press has to temper his own enthusiastic Forward by putting the position of «those who advocate a rereading and restructuring of the liturgical renewal intended by the Second Vatican Council, but in light of the Church's two - thousand - year tradition.»

It seems we were ahead of the curve by about 10,000 years (or more once the oral traditions are accounted for).

In these last years, scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, I have come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

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.

In these last years scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, the author has come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

It was in this spirit of mediating tradition with the challenges of the twentieth century that the forty - two - year - old Dubois, recognized as a gifted theologian and scholar of Thomas Aquinas, was tasked by his superiors with strengthening the Catholic presence in Israel.

We are heirs of a long tradition of piety, but by fifty years ago, that form of spirituality had gone dry.

2000 years of tradition and all books of the Bible which are divinely inspired do not mention «a wife» The current canon was adopted at the Council of Trent by the Catholic Church and it is also accepted by Protestant faiths.

While in years gone by the kinds of marriages held together solely by the tradition that «stability is the best policy» often lacked intimacy, relationships held together solely by sex may be equally devoid of intimacy.

While there is a tremendous amount of religious stability amongst some religious traditions, as shown by the steady blocks of each color flowing from one year to another, we also see a lot of movement in a short period of time.

A large number of leading New Testament scholars have now rejected these traditions as unhistorical, leaving us with two conclusions: the first, that none of the Gospels was written by an eye - witness of the events described in it, and the second, that the earliest Gospel, that of Mark, was written thirty - five years or more after the death of Jesus, and the other three Gospels were written nearly sixty years or more after the same point.

Clergy can increase effective lay ministry in the workplace by nurturing members of congregations in the basic fundamentals of the faith - literacy in Scripture and Christian traditions and participation in liturgy and the rhythms of the church year.

Wilson, who lives outside Des Moines, Iowa, was emulating a Lenten tradition carried out by German monks hundreds of years ago.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

But this pushes asidetwo thousand years of Christian tradition that insists that man must live by the vision of God, a participation in divine life existing within his being by grace or else end up with a profound loss.

Ramadan is the most sacred month in the Muslim year, commemorating the revelation of the Holy Quran - the sacred religious text of Islam - by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammed, according to Islamic tradition.

«Ramadan is the most sacred month in the Muslim year, commemorating the revelation of the Holy Quran — the sacred religious text of Islam — by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammed, according to Islamic tradition.»

Democracy and Tradition» the fruit of years of reflection and development by the author» actually comprises essays on three quite different topics.

2,000 years ago what you and I think of as «slavery» was present and considered acceptable, not just by pagans but the Jewish tradition as well.

For example, in the fourth book of Father Paul Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent, you will find that in the year 1551 the Papal legates who presided over the Council ordered: «That the Divines ought to confirm their opinions with the holy Scripture, Traditions of the Apostles, sacred and approved Councils, and by the Constitutions and Authorities of the holy Fathers; that they ought to use brevity, and avoid superfluous and unprofitable questions, and perverse contentions....

The «stumbling - block» to them was the truly outrageous proposition that the Messianic expectations of Israelite tradition were fulfilled by this Jesus of Nazareth, of whom they had either never heard or who, as far as they were concerned, had died an obscure death over ten years previously.

They passed that tradition down each year by observing the practices of Passover, which included baking matzo, which we still eat to this day.

Those of us who dismiss the conservative tradition as being represented by Billy Graham or by the stance of Christianity Today ten or 5 years ago might, for example, take a look at Richard Mouw's Political Evangelism, which is typical of a new breed of theological writing from a very conservative, though hardly fundamentalist, biblical perspective, or God in Public, by William Coats, Episcopal chaplain at the University of Wisconsin.

Christianity is a cultural tradition of religious belief and practice which, by its own reckoning, is 2,000 years old in the year 2000.

They can't have all been there the same year, but my memory puts together on the table sweet potatoes and yams, butternut squash and the white potatoes mashed with milk and butter that — in one of those family traditions by which chores get divvied up — we were told only Uncle Hugo could make well.

«By and large, a rich and complex idea [i.e., the virtue of patience] that was consistently employed for almost two thousand years to represent the highest possibilities of human life, both in the classical and the Christian traditions, has been allowed to wither away.»

I was reading the College Prospectus for 1993 which was sent to me and it speaks of a Tradition laid down by the founder Ida Scudder which has been moulding you through the years you have spent here.

The paid - time broadcasters have pushed the simplification of the Christian message tosuch an extent, however, that in recent years they have also begun to be criticized by leaders of their own traditions.

In his maiden speech — which, following a tradition now rarely observed, he waited a year after his election to deliver — Sasse argued that the upper house of the U.S. Congress was intended specifically by the framers to preserve minority opinion by enshrining a process of long - form debate to preclude a legislative fast track.

Secondly, the calendar which numbers the years from the supposed birth year of Jesus of Nazareth was established by Christians, and is peculiar to the Christian tradition.

Nope — written by men after hundreds of years of oral tradition, it is far too flawed and fallible.

It is said by some that the religion of the greatest sages of the East transcends, in its contemplative vision of God, the tradition of the Hebrews, at least until the writing of the «Wisdom» literature some two hundred years or less before the birth of Christ.

Perhaps the reminder is again in order that Israel's interest in the original «event» rests predominantly in its present and continuing meaning that the form of the narrative before us is unquestionably cultically conditioned, that is, shaped by the influences of cultic circles at centers of worship in which, the tradition was maintained; and that this cultic tradition returns an image of Moses formed out of long years of meditation on the total significance of his life and time through the succeeding generations of Israel's life.

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

There was in the years from perhaps the seventh century B.C. the beginning of reflection by non-Brahmins and in particular by men and women of the Kshatriya or warrior - ruler caste concerning the great questions of God, the world, and man's origin and final destiny, and Gautama himself was, according to tradition, of that class, and was not out of character in seeking the way out of the round of rebirth, which by his time had become a matter of common belief.

For the past ten years I have been commissioned by St Aldate's, Oxford to teach and preach across the nation to a variety of denominations and traditions.

Thus the rise of the Gospels, let us say, belongs in the last thirty years of the first century; the tradition that underlies them must, by the same token, be assigned to the period preceding.

SAVOR becomes part of the fabric of a community by not only following SMG's 40 - year tradition of dedicated stewardship, but also by focusing on three brand pillars: hospitality, community and taste.

By Aurelia d'Andrea January 1 holds the promise of fresh starts and bright beginnings, which often manifest in that beloved annual tradition, the New Year's resolution.

La Lomita (Little Mountain) is a converted home on the crest of Avenida Juárez where Ophelia Barros carries on a family tradition begun by her parents twenty years ago.

Repeat every year, and your Share the Warmth dinner party will soon become a holiday tradition cherished by all of your guests.