Sentences with phrase «distinguished tradition of»

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art has a distinguished tradition of organizing traveling exhibitions, here working with the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation in circulating Frank Stella Prints: A Retrospective.

«Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static highlights BAMPFA's distinguished tradition of mounting groundbreaking exhibitions of abstract painting — a consistent strength of our collection and exhibition program that dates back to a 1963 gift of work from Hans Hofmann and continues through last year's Charles Howard retrospective.»

The works in «Laughter in the Dark» can be viewed within the distinguished tradition of political satire and social commentary by artists such as Hogarth, Daumier, Goya, and Picasso.

The Great House continues the distinguished tradition of the original great houses that once overlooked vast Caribbean plantations — but now featuring a breathtaking, panoramic view over Marigot Bay — «The most beautiful bay in the Caribbean».

In the tyre tracks of DB4, DB5, DB6 and DB7, today's DB9 GT continues that distinguished tradition of luxury, excitement and style with a raft of engineering, equipment and styling developments calculated to make this the very best of what DB9 can be.

The richness of educational opportunities offered at the department is based upon a long and distinguished tradition of teaching and research.

British theology has a distinguished tradition of doing theology «through the fathers,» meaning the theology and history of the first six centuries or so of Christianity.

Not exact matches

Speaking for myself, although the same would be true for most of the others, I was working within a broadly Augustinian way of thinking about these matters» a tradition that sharply distinguishes between the city of God and the city of man, and insists that the one can never be transformed into the other.

They fail to distinguish two types of religious persons who may be part of this group: the first, who depend completely upon the literal interpretation of Scripture and tradition by an authoritarian pastor, and second, those who undertake rescue activity as the command of God, based upon a thoughtful and self - ratified interpretation of the ethical imperatives of the gospel.

Hart distinguishes between God as defined by the classical religious traditions and the gods who decorate the pantheons of most of the world's religions.

Santmire quite proudly calls himself a «revisionist,» distinguishing his course from those he calls «apologists»» that is, «defenders of the classical Christian tradition,» chief among them this reviewer (I take the term as one of honor, fidei defensor).

He distinguishes four possible criteria: (1) multiple attestation; (2) discounting the tendencies of the developing tradition; (3) attestation by multiple forms; (4) elimination of all material which may be derived either from Judaism or from primitive Christianity.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

The effort to distinguish a historical event from later interpretation is a standard historical procedure, just as it is to question the historicity of such details in the tradition as dearly betray that later interpretation.

Those who would defend the custom in order to preserve the integrity of Dinka tradition and beliefs fail to distinguish between moral agents and their particular actions.

«In time we will rediscover prayer as the invisible centre and foundation of culture... and from that centre will be born a new civilization... a Christendom, but distinguished from the old Christendom not least by the fact that it will be shaped by many religious traditions.»

As distinguished from people holding to pacifism or the «holy war,» people holding to the just war tradition claim to make decisions on the empirically knowable facts of the case.

Furthermore, despite the emphasis by such theologians as Augustine, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Reinhold Niebuhr (with whom Schlesinger enjoyed a personal association) on the need to distinguish between divine and human authority, it is a gross distortion of all of their views for Schlesinger to impute to them the kind of relativism which makes the existence of God and the reality of revelation (the basis of all western religious traditions) so utterly irrelevant for public life.

In the philosophic tradition of Thomas Aquinas, «natural law» is distinguished from divine law because its commands are accessible to human reason even in the absence of divine revelation.

You need to distinguish between Bible doctrine and man - made doctrine or traditions of men.

It is important in this connection to distinguish very clearly within each tradition between its fundamental unity and the unity of harmonization, fruit of the «Biblical» spirit, «between saga produced near the historical occurrences, the character of which is enthusiastic report, and saga which is further away from the historical event, and which derives from the tendency to complete and round off what is already given.»

Yet he refuses to collapse biblical theology into the history of the religion of Israel, distinguishing the two this way: ««History of religion» is concerned with all the forms and aspects of all human religions, while theology tends to be concerned with the truth - claims of one religion and especially with its authoritative texts and traditions and their interpretations.»

What distinguishes Hobbes from the classical and Christian traditions and their modern continuers is the absence of any notion of God or the Good and a corresponding radical theoretical individualism.

But he adds, Fundamentalism has to be distinguished from Orthodoxy; for while the latter involves strict adherence to tradition, the former interprets tradition for political purposes» («Towards a New Philosophy» in The Times of India 9.7.93).

[22] The Catechism of the Catholic Church provides a magisterial endorsement for this call: «According to an ancient tradition, one can distinguish between two senses of Scripture: the literal and the spiritual, the latter being subdivided into the allegorical, moral, and anagogical senses.

In order to demonstrate the central importance of the humanities, Beckett attempts a recuperation of the Augustinian tradition of thought (distinguished from the scholastic tradition founded on Aquinas).

’24 E. Schweizer writes, «that the exaltation really dominated the thought of the early church is also shown by the fact that the oldest tradition barely distinguished between Easter and Ascension... It may well be asked if the reports of the first appearances (I Cor.

Some people might distinguish between them more sharply than others, but both processes involve a major movement affecting our subjective limitations and, therefore, they deeply influence our interpretation of Scripture and tradition.

Barth's doctrine of the threefold Word implied simultaneously the indissoluble unity of the Word with the texts, tradition and present life of the church, along with the necessity of always distinguishing between the Word and the text, the text and the community, and the present creeds and future possibilities.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

Gradually, however, the realities of cultural politics are becoming evident even to secular academics, and some political scientists have developed survey items that distinguish among religious traditions as well as levels of religious commitment (the latter measured by church attendance, devotional practices, and the like).

He distinguishes three types of empiricism, what we may call the «classical» empiricism of the modem philosophical tradition, and two more or less revisionary forms thereof.

The constant presence of this mystery to the world and to human existence is equivalent to what the Christian theological tradition has variously called original, universal, natural or general revelation, which it distinguishes from the special or decisive revelation given in Christ.

I should now be willing to suggest that it is a willingness to take the axiological feature as ultimately determinative for the attribution of divinity that characterizes all modern forms of so - called ethical theism and distinguishes them from the classical tradition.

Paul's own distinctive contributions to Christian thought are to be sharply distinguished from what he received by tradition; and it will be found, when these are segregated, that they point to several sources: (a) his own personal experience, that of an intense spiritual nature with a keen imagination and a desperately sensitive conscience; (b) a peculiar exegesis of the Old Testament, partly rabbinic, partly early Christian, but more probably derived from his own reading and pondering of the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures; (c).

Similarly, the Reformed tradition has traditionally distinguished three kinds of doctrinal error related to fundamental articles of the faith: (1) errors directly against a fundamental article (contra fundamentum); (2) errors around a fundamental or in indirect contradiction to it (circa fundamentum); (3) errors beyond a fundamental article (praeter fundamentum).

Relying on «twenty centuries» of Catholic doctrine and tradition, the council's responsibility was to give pastoral teaching that would enable the Church of «our age» to distinguish what was good in the modern world from what was indifferent, or worse, and to make right use of the good while firmly rejecting the bad.

Sources of Indian Tradition, edited by William Theodore de Bary and others, has excellent sections on Hinduism written by two distinguished Hindu scholars, R. N. Dandekar and V. Raghavan, and readings from Hindu writings, carefully chosen to present Hindu beliefs and practices.

In Plato the two primary Greek meanings for «theos», immortal and soul, coalesce, as they had earlier in the Pythagorean religious tradition, rooted in the Orphic mystery cults as distinguished from the popular Greek religion of the Olympic gods.

A second important difference from the tradition is that this soul does not distinguish man from other forms of creation because the soul is found in the more complex animals as well as in man.

It is called «revised» to distinguish it from the co-relational model of liberal tradition.

This project entails a critical interrogation of the gospels as source documents, distinguishing, insofar as possible, the various streams of tradition and interpretation that underlie the canonical texts.

In the second edition (1970) of Kuhn's book and in subsequent essays, he distinguished several features which he had previously lumped together: a research tradition, the key historical examples («exemplars») through which the tradition is transmitted, and the set of metaphysical assumptions implicit in its fundamental conceptual categories.

At the very beginning of the church, the apostles had to distinguish which parts of Jewish law and tradition, if any, ought to become part of Christianity.

In terms of tradition we must be able to distinguish different levels and, thus, to attach a corresponding scale of values to them.

Another example will help us distinguish this kind of approach to tradition from the ideas current in the world of contemporary art and design.

The group's most recent venture featured a lecture by a distinguished historian of Christian thought on the Christian intellectual tradition.

If the task of distinguishing the narrative sources of the fourth gospel is beset with difficulties, that of disentangling from the discourses sayings which come from the apostle, sayings which come from tradition, and the evangelist's own meditations, is even more difficult — and often quite impossible.

In the Tradition Hippolytus does not mention the teacher except in connection with the catechumens, and here he distinguishes between «lay» and «ecclesiastical» teachers, though to both he concedes the rite of laying on hands, as a sign of the catechumen's having completed the course.

Two types of theory can be distinguished, that which seeks to explain almost the whole of a gospel as compiled from written sources, and that which argues from peculiarities of style, language, and form, that written sources of limited extent were used by the final author of a gospel in conjunction with a mass of oral tradition.