Sentences with phrase «earlier traditions of»

«As a form of public entertainment, wrestling emerged from the earlier traditions of the music hall and circus ring,» explains the author.

That was the voguish creed advanced by Lord Maurice Glasman and Jon Cruddas, among others, during the last parliament, seeking to anchor Labour in its earlier traditions of community, mutualism, localism and self - help, rejecting the excesses 1980s neo-liberalism and 1960s social liberalism alike.

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.

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.

In effect, he beats the critical tradition at their own game, defending the authenticity of the miracle accounts, counteracting the unfounded claims of anti-Semitism and demonstrating the early tradition of high Christology in the primitive Church.

This is natural, since the tradition had undergone considerable development before it was embodied in our canonical Gospels, and during this time it had been exposed to the influence of what we may call the «futurist eschatology,» as distinct from the» realized eschatology» which gives its character to the earliest preaching, as well as to the earliest tradition of the teaching of Jesus.

Now one might expect that this pattern of interpretation would have been retained by Paul, if historical — that is, if set forth by Jesus himself or found in the earliest tradition of his sayings or expounded in the early church — or one might even think it possible that Mark derived from Paul some hint of this system of exegesis of the Old Testament and of interpretation of the career of Jesus as a heavenly being appearing upon earth prior to his exaltation and his dying (as a heavenly being) upon the cross, though unrecognized in his true nature until the Resurrection.

A further difficulty lay in the fact that the early traditions of the Semitic race were negative about return from Sheol.

While, therefore, under the early Hebrew system a shocking absence of regard for womanhood is revealed in some narratives, so that Professor J. M. Powis Smith can even say that in the early traditions of Israel, «Chivalry is conspicuous by its almost total absence,» (The Moral Life of the Hebrews, p. 41.)

Easy to caricature, but a memoir that resonates with an earlier tradition of what constitutes the big society.

«It also provides a changing culture, in which more fathers are getting involved with taking care of their kids, as opposed to the earlier tradition of being just breadwinners.»

Located in the heart of Downtown Napa, Basalt offers seasonal California Cuisine, drawing influences from the earliest traditions of Mexican and Spanish cooking from Executive Chef Esteban Escobar.

Not exact matches

The theological obtuseness of the Roman court theologians (Cajetan partly excepted), the inability or unwillingness of the Roman authorities to appropriate their own best ecclesiological traditions, and the unlovely influence of financial politics on the handling of the doctrinal issues all played a considerable role, as did Luther's impatience and anger, his inability to take stupid and inappropriate papal teaching at all calmly (perhaps because his own early view of the papal office was unrealistically high), as well as his tendency to dramatize his own situation in apocalyptic terms.

I can't speak for James Kugel, who as I observed in my essay tends to overdraw the contrast between what we can reliably know historically (as opposed to the often agenda - driven projects of modern critics) and the ways in which the Bible was read in the earlier traditions.

This living tradition includes the early creeds, the ecumenical councils, and the writings of the Fathers of the Church.

A ritual meal within the early Jesus communities, such as those prescribed in Didache 10 and 9, with no paschal imagery, no Last Supper tradition, and no connection with the death of Jesus.

In his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern period.

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.

the manuscript tradition was God's perfect way of preserving His word early on amongst imperfect men.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

Thus, to invoke the Russian Church's traditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries requires us to engage in historical reconstruction rather than to nurture beliefs and practices that are ongoing.

To appreciate the significance of Calvin's work ethic, it is necessary to understand the intense distaste with which the early Christian tradition, illustrated by the monastic writers, regarded work.

In my earlier years I had little doubt about not only the moral superiority but also the historical future of the values of the liberal democratic tradition.

During the past two decades an unlikely wave of liturgical enthusiasm has swept over American evangelicalism, but it is too early to tell whether or not evangelicalism, lacking any liturgical tradition of its own, has the resources to sustain a liturgical movement.

Some theologians in the Wesleyan tradition, especially those most under the influence of neo-evangelicalism, in the early years of the post-World War II Evangelical Theological Society attempted to work in the neo evangelical coalition.

Among these early witnesses to the tradition, though far from the earliest, was our own St Aldhelm of Malmesbury (709) and, later, St Bede.

It is likely that this grew steadily as something freely embraced and the later rupture of traditions between East and West reflected the diverse practice that went on earlier.

In its effort to achieve a universal vision, liberalism has continued the ancient tradition including that of the Greek Fathers, so that the attack on liberalism also condemns any return to earlier forms of theology including that of Wesley.

If and when it happens, we might even start baptizing people from alien backgrounds, as the early Christians did, and find our comfortable traditions shattered by the disconcerting presence of strangers in the faith — including Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus.

One finds the antecedents of this tradition in early stages of discussion of Darwinian evolution.

the reminder that Orthodox theology continually refreshes its thinking by reference to the early Church Fathers, who were much concerned with the question of God's activity in the other sects and traditions and in the wisdom of humankind.

With the great Jewish thinker of the early part of this century, Franz Rosenzweig, he believes that Jews need to understand anew that «the Jewish vocation, rooted in the biblical tradition, is to be an instrument for the redemption of all humankind.»

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

These «deviations from the tradition of the Early Church... increasingly estrange Anglicanism from the Orthodox Church and contribute to a further division of Christendom as a whole».

In some of the traditions related to one or the other of these fertility sex goddesses, celebrants would rise early in the morning to observe the sun rising in the east.

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

Almost forgotten in the last two decades of his life and completely forgotten today except by students of American religious history, Ward was a nationally prominent radical in the early twentieth - century tradition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel movement.

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

Our «early traditions about Jesus» (to use the title of a little book by the late Professor Bethune - Baker) are not interested so much in what has been called the «biographical Jesus» as they are concerned with what Jesus did and said as he was remembered by those who believed him to be their Lord, the Risen Messiah, and who were therefore anxious to hand on to others what was remembered about him.

Even the greatest statement of the early Enlightenment's tradition of toleration, John Locke's 1689 «Letter Concerning Toleration,» which is much more subtle on this point, draws a distinction that's relevant today.

In 2012, when the Obama administration first proposed the so - called HHS mandate, requiring employers to provide insurance coverage that included free access to contraceptive and abortive drugs, it provided an exceedingly narrow religious exemption from the rule that echoed some of the distinctions first made in these earliest incarnations of the English tradition of toleration.

I have a portrait of an ancestor who lost his land to the Crown because he was a Catholic; there is a tradition of an earlier ancestor who lost his life.

In fact, by confusing Tradition with traditionalism and radically opposing the Scriptures to Tradition, much of the Christian wisdom Tradition, beginning with the writings of the early Church Fathers (& Mothers) and continuing even into modern time, the Protestant Reformers have cut much of the Western Church off from the ongoing Revelation of the Christian wisdom Tradition.

The simple fact that we have a canon of Scripture, which was compiled and organized by various early Church Fathers, and became a tradition, shows that we must, to some degree, accept and depend upon some forms of Church Ttradition, shows that we must, to some degree, accept and depend upon some forms of Church TraditionTradition.

Its object was to create military discipline among the Muslims, looking back to the early Islamic tradition when every Muslim was a soldier of God.

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

«Meier [Marginal Jew I, 211 ff and 376] considers these traditions to be «largely products of early Christian reflection on the salvific meaning of Jesus in the light of OT prophecies» and concludes that their historicity is «highly questionable.»

More and more, I find myself wondering if church sprung out the minds / needs / traditions of the early Christ followers who needed community while facing persecution.

The idea of the Ascension after a long interval, say forty days, is a very late conception, not reflected anywhere in the earliest tradition.

Not direct «Paulinism,» then, but the leaven of Paul's teaching influencing the common faith of the earliest church in the West, and hence affecting the tradition as it came to Mark some years later — that is what we may reasonably look for in Mark's Gospel.