Sentences with phrase «earlier tradition»

The juxtaposition reveals the various pioneering styles and techniques each artist employed while paying homage to earlier traditions of painting.

More commonly the document as a whole is placed twenty years later, though it is recognized that it reflects earlier traditions.

In keeping with early traditions celebrating creativity, here are five great Valentine's Day presents that you can make or design.

Yet I do think that abstract expressionism and the movements that reacted to it in the 60s attracted far more attention from the general public than the equally significant work of representational artists who were painting during that period, creating work that evolved naturally from earlier tradition where AbEx and other later movements appeared to be more radical leaps.

Thus, if we use the now standard symbol of «J,» «E,» and «P» to designate the three most conspicuous narrative strands inter-woven in Exodus (as well as in Genesis and Numbers), we will think of «J» as the recording of early traditions which remained current and fluid down to the tenth century B.C., when the J - work was done by a single man (in this respect probably unique among the three primary sources).

When you point out they are the ones who incorporated earlier traditions it puts their ignorance and hypocracy on display.

All of Israel's earliest traditions point to a concern to de-emphasize human participation in war.

Since no remembered fact threw any light upon why his parents were in Bethlehem when he was born (earlier tradition uniformly associating them with Nazareth), imagination was free to explain the circumstance in whatever seemed the most plausible way.

Here we have a phenomenon not without parallel in the history of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation of believers; and it is all the more striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those of the capital city.

We have been accustomed to viewing Israel's early traditions through the narrow spectacles of the post-exilic Jews for whom religion had become a nationally exclusive affair.

Several early traditions of the East centre around Judas Thomas.

Over time, Chichen Itza moved even further away from Classic Mayan culture leaving behind earlier traditions.

Yahweh is king for the psalmists, the prophets and even in earlier tradition, so it made sense to talk of God's kingdom.

As a historian, Marxsen rejects the physical resurrection not because he does not believe in miracles, but because the earliest tradition simply doesn't identify resurrection with a resuscitated body.

Paul, who gives us the earliest tradition, explicitly rejects the notion of a physical resurrection and says nothing about an empty tomb, but still speaks of faith in the resurrection.

Where following Jesus maintains continuity with the earlier tradition they maintain continuity.

V «Priestly» laws and narratives of Genesis - to - Joshua («P») written on basis of earlier traditions.

Both, such writers typically claim, were fictions created by the early Church and read back into the life of Jesus» which they say they discovered through a fourth - century Gnostic text called the Gospel of Thomas (containing, they say, earlier traditions than the four canonical gospels) and Q (a hypothetical document that would have contained the source material for those traditions that Matthew and Luke share but are not found in Mark).

This may represent an early tradition of that event, handed down in the Christian community, perhaps at Jerusalem, rather than Paul's own account of the matter; but it is consistent with what Paul says himself in his own letters.

Like the historians, adherents of the movement had little awareness that Pentecostalism was a development of an earlier tradition.

Although predating the work of Dayton and Wacker, Robert Anderson's Vision of the Disinherited (1979) correctly identifies the premillennial return of Christ as the central focus which enabled Pentecostalism to emerge as a movement distinct from the earlier traditions.

The chief ancient ritual of intercourse with the unseen world was sacrifice, and in her earliest traditions, sacrificial practices of some kind were assumed as a matter of course.

In the earliest tradition of the Exodus, we learn that Moses was leading Israel out to the wilderness for the celebration of a sacrifice in a rendezvous with YHWH.

However, to use an insight borrowed from Bernard Lonergan, this viewpoint sublates» that is, preserves and raises up» the theologically interpreted history of the earlier tradition, which in its depth and subtlety has a unique capacity to mediate the reality of Christ.

We do mean to suggest the possibility and even the probability that in the unmistakable implications of messianism in Joseph, the germ of the later development of the concept was something already given in Israel's early traditions, precisely as the germinal faith in one God as Creator (Gen. 2), Judge (3 - 11) and Redeemer (12 ff.)

The Acts of Thomas written around AD 200 reflected an earlier tradition.

W. D. Davies has suggested that in the earliest tradition Jesus appears first to Peter because it is Peter who had denied his Lord and for whom therefore the assurance of forgiveness was most explicitly bound up with the possibility of a new life in grace.15

Each generation rejects, but also builds upon, the work of its predecessors, often retrieving elements of the earlier tradition that those predecessors had rejected.

We are led to suppose that the earliest tradition contained a wealth of reminiscences, informal, unorganized, but full of characteristic traits, and that out of these the stylized narratives were shaped, to serve the needs of preachers and teachers.

Although this expression goes back to the early traditions of Christian theology, it is still applicable today.