Sentences with phrase «departures from the tradition which»

But how shall he escape Dodd's charge that his sermons are gnostic evaporations of history and departures from the tradition which Paul and others, having received it, were careful to pass along to others?

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On the face of it Santayana rejects all three of these departures from the tradition, since (1) he makes no very explicit move from a continuant to an event ontology, (2) regards the inherent nature of an object as a matter of the individual eternal essence which it actualizes and (3) regards the distinction between matter and form as at least a virtually inevitable way of expressing the obscure manner in which one state of things takes over from another (see RB 278 - 284).

Though as a Protestant theologian, he was naturally inclined to give Catholic progressives the benefit of the doubt, Lindbeck nonetheless found himself appalled by the extent to which the progressives «appealed to the Council to justify their own loss of faith, their mindless capitulation to modernitas, their devious and unacknowledged departures from what is essential, not only to the Roman tradition, but to Christianity itself.»

Father Murray provided that «something more» by arguing that those altar - throne alliances which seemed to be the tradition were in fact a departure from the tradition.

Meanwhile, in 1981, in an innovative paper presented at United Theological College, Bangalore, Arvind P. Nirmal found a point of irreversible departure «Towards a Sudra Theology» which had eventually led him to be the father of dalit theology.3 Nirmal himself used to recall the lores and stories from the Marathi dalit oral tradition and admitted that he has been greatly influenced by them in his understanding of God.