Sentences with phrase «dealing with the tradition»

So far we have been dealing with the tradition of the sayings of Jesus, our aim being to deduce from the character of this tradition how far those texts that were handed down originally without any biographical context are historically trustworthy and worthy to serve as sources for a historical picture of Jesus.

The toil of dealing with traditions: do we keep the old or build them new?

But, as I expressed an interest in fine art at that time — because I had been going to museums — he really gave me my first serious critical confrontation with how hard you had to work, how you had not to expect much, because you were dealing with a tradition which was an extraordinary community of excellence.

Only upon a closer look the analytical potential of her paintings dealing with the tradition of modernism becomes visible.

CA I think it deals with tradition.

Not exact matches

It is time for political leaders and their advisors to consider these and develop other practical policies to deal with inequality and our economic problems in a way consonant with America's broad - based ownership tradition.

Oh, he is part of the «Christian'tradition indeed... treat all women like second - class citizens and let the men deal with the tough stuff.

Christians stand to learn a great deal not only from each other, crossing denominational lines with «generous orthodoxy,» but also from those who pray in other traditions.

Thus, these monks are continuing a long line of false religions and traditions that will be dealt with by God just before the battle of Armageddon (Rev 16:14, 16), as seen at Revelation 18.

To a limited extent he also dealt with the history of the transmission of the parables in the tradition.

At the very least, the idea of contrast needs to challenge the dialectician to deal with a wider range of traditions and modes of thought with greater attention to their autonomous meanings.

The theory and practice constituted a rich orientation to reality, one that covered many of the areas with which the Western traditions dealt but also others on which the Western traditions throw little light.

The second major point in the process doctrine is that it deals with the significance of evil in a manner different from the tradition.

The movements Howell mentioned were all led by powerful personalities, but they also dealt with basic issues of Baptist identity and Christian faith: namely, the balance of Scripture and tradition as norms of belief and practice (Campbellism); the nature of the true church and its identity markers (Landmarkism); and the reality of divine grace in the plan of salvation (hyper «Calvinism).

Bargaining and barter were and are known in all the cultures that have developed moral and religious traditions, most of which have well - known maxims and principles that deal with the vast spectrum of social and moral issues, from fair weight to marriage contracts, bred in the marketplace.

The fact is that * both * religious texts have passages that can be read as justification for abhorrent acts, and so * both * religious traditions have a responsibility to examine and deal with those issues.

The US should've buried him according to Muslim traditions in an undisclosed location so that it doesn't become a shrine but it deals with Muslim traditions properly

Okay David, I realize that the UCC courts each has their own peculiar traditions and practices — until the UCC changes into a three court system, there still are the four courts to deal with and navigate.

Such a department can not deal exclusively with the thought that religious traditions have generated.

Exploring the world and various cultures and traditions makes them smarter and more able to deal with diverse people than someone else who accepts the doctrines of their parents and seeks after nothing.

I am trying — haltingly and amateurishly — to incorporate some of his wisdom, but for the present I am still more comfortable dealing with my life - situation in the more familiar terms of the Christian tradition.

Schools have to deal with the dissonance created by the blending of a religiously diverse constituency with the school's particular religious tradition.

Developments in the «new biology,» which deals with wholes of increasing complexity in the organization of interrelated parts rather than with discrete and isolated segments, especially in molecular biology and the growing field of ecology, with its discoveries about the basic interdependence of living organisms with other living organisms and with its larger environmental context, have further undermined these traditions assumptions.

But in the case of the fourth gospel we are dealing with a single entity exhibiting a marked degree of unity in theological emphasis such that no attempt to divide the gospel into different sources and to begin to write a history of the Johannine tradition has commanded anything like a common consent among scholars.

This argument breaks down on the fact that the contemporary form critic does not deal with a nebulous entity, «the community», to which he ascribes all kinds of powers; he deals with specific groups, individuals and traditions which he isolates, identifies and delineates.

The Greek philosophic tradition produced several great statements of the fundamental human options for dealing with the terrors wrought by the historic process or by change.

The choice of terms is Whitehead's and it may be somewhat confusing for the novice theologian, for we are dealing with a different kind of distinction from what is found in our theological traditions.

When we deal, later in these lectures, with the way Jesus was interpreted in the early church, we shall have occasion to discuss at some length several examples of such modifications in the tradition.

Following the Santiago recommendations, the study deals with three aspects of an ecumenical hermeneutics: the quest for the One Tradition in the many traditions (part A, paras. 14 - 37) 8; the quest for the One Gospel in the many contexts (part B, paras. 38 - 48); and the Church as hermeneutical community in matters of discernment, the exercise of authority and reception (part C, paras. 49 - 66).

Furthermore, these schools deal simultaneously with the accumulated tradition (gathered up into courses in Bible, theology, history, etc.) and with the critique of that tradition.

Nowhere in his discussion of ancient Israel or early Christianity does Greenberg deal with theological interpretations of scripture in those traditions.

But Korn also points out that the rabbinic traditions dealt with this moral problem in two ways.

They also have to deal with the limited and incomplete grasp of human goods that is apparent in every modern version of the tradition.

All of those problems or issues you raise have been dealt with in my faith tradition and that's why we're right.

Another means of dealing with the problem of the content of the word event was recently proposed: a marriage between linguistic analysis and the Heideggerian language tradition found in the new hermeneutic.

They must not only deal with the failures of those traditions and the horrors they have perpetrated in the past - like the pogroms, inquisitions and oppressions that make some ask whether it would not be better for humanity if Christianity were forgotten.

But deal with advertisers, public - relations experts and mass communicators and you will find that practical - minded people, not secularists, are screening them because the partisans of the «Judeo - Christian tradition» are divided against each other.

But if Zionism is an attempt to marry power and morality» to join religion and liberalism, tradition and modernity, patriotism and principle» then America has a great deal in common with Israel.

Ideas of right and wrong were incalculably enlarged and deepened under their influence, and in this process they had to deal with certain outstanding limitations in their moral tradition.

If I have dealt at some length with this old tradition, it was to show that for Christians to take a position in favor of violence is nothing new at all.

They were dealing with issues in their faith communities without the benefit of much church history or tradition to which they could refer.

This is an area in which there has been a good deal of wishful thinking, rooted in part in the broader aspiration of modern Jews to maintain some link with Jewish tradition, while not stinting in any way on their modernity.

The argument - replayed and reported on cable news - raised questions about how the Jewish tradition deals with transgression, judgment, repentance and rebuke.

However critical they may be of this tradition, they must understand it and deal with it.

The ancient church traditions seem better geared to deal with all stages, and may even encourage them.

My own conviction is that the historic religious traditions have greater wisdom and more capacity to deal with the deepest issues facing humankind than do the newer ways.

Of course, he has dealt with the wisdom tradition in a greater detail in his separate work, Wisdom in Israel, which was published posthumously in 1972 (German edition in 1970), W. Eichrodt makes a significant contribution by recognizing the importance of «Creation'theme in the wisdom literaturexxvi.

It is the purpose of this volume to present certain studies of the gospel at the point where the oral tradition was being crystallized in writing; and for this reason we shall pay chief attention to the Gospel of Mark, though the other early source or cycle — Q, the «Sayings Source» — will also engage our attention now and then, But we can not deal with that source in detail at present; indeed, we shall not have the time to deal adequately with Mark, and can study only some of its leading features and the problems to which these give rise.

Tradition deals here with Word and Covenant.

Many of the state colleges and universities do not offer instruction in religion, while some of them provide courses dealing with the Bible, general surveys of religions of the world, and philosophical and ethical concepts of the Judeo - Christian traditions.