Sentences with phrase «early history and traditions»

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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.

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.

In fact, however, as I have indicated, I do not think that the Synoptic traditions should be taken for the most part as factual history, but rather as reflections, cast in narrative form, of the theological thinking of the early Church about the Easter appearances and of various current controversies about them.

The Christian documents of the second and later centuries which contained information about the Apostolic age handed down by tradition, must also be regarded as providing a very limited help for the reconstruction of the history of the earliest period.

So it seems all the more difficult to accept the Bible as authoritative just because somebody — tradition or the early Church — says so, when in fact these somebodies did not know as much about the Bible's history and background and diverse elements as we do today.

This apocalyptic element is certainly present in the Gospels, and it was present in the gospel tradition; but it probably came in at a point early in the history of the tradition, and it grew stronger in some circles as time passed, reaching its climax in the Gospel of Matthew — only to be all but completely rejected in John!

In regard to the actual formulation of the criterion we have attempted, it should be noted that we are still insisting on the importance of establishing a history of the tradition and of restricting ourselves to the earliest stratum of that tradition; in our view, material dependent upon other material already present in the tradition is necessarily a product of the Church.

In our earlier mention of the work of Jeremias on the parables we pointed out that one of the reasons for its success is that he achieves a history of the parabolic tradition; he is able to show how the parabolic tradition reached its present form and what that tradition was like in its earlier and earliest forms.

In our attempts to reconstruct the teaching of Jcsus, then, we must first seek to write a history of the tradition with which we are concerned and to arrive at the earliest form of the saying in the tradition, or the earliest form of the saying we can reconstruct from the tradition.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

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.

As in his earlier book, A History of Christian Thought: An Introduction, and its two supplementary volumes of selections from primary sources, Placher shows himself to be an insightful, judicious and reliable interpreter of the tradition and of significant figures and issues in contemporary debates.

History based on a social - kerygmatic interpretation of data covers the early and mid-20th-century methods known by the Germanic phrases «form criticism,» «tradition criticism» and «redaction criticism.»

The double saying has no earlier history in the tradition; the point at issue is the question of repentance in face of a challenge, certainly a major concern of the message of the historical Jesus; the references to the queen of the South and the men of Nineveh are vividly apposite and absolutely in accord with Jesus» use of unlikely good examples in his comparisons (the Good Samaritan); and the element of warning in the saying coheres with a major aspect of the message of the parables.

Catholics have not used the language of primordiurn much because they see biblical history within the tradition and the tradition within history, but the conservatives are often primitive in their views about origins of episcopacy and papacy, and contemporary moderates often try to settle things by going back to biblical accounts of early ministry and communal life.

Difficult to know whether that was based on earlier oral tradition - and even then if it was story or history.

If the new dates for the Spanish cave art are confirmed, they could indicate that Neandertals and H. sapiens exchanged artistic traditions earlier than previously thought, says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who was not involved in the studies.

SOCIAL SCIENCES: World History GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - WH.5 - 12.1 The Beginnings of Human Society NSS - WH.5 - 12.2 Early Civilizations and the Rise of Pastoral Peoples NSS - WH.5 - 12.3 Classical Traditions, Major Religions, and Giant Empires NSS - WH.5 - 12.4 Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter NSS - WH.5 - 12.5 Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 1000 - 1500 CE NSS - WH.5 - 12.6 Global Expansion and Encounter, 1450 - 1770 NSS - WH.5 - 12.7 An Age of Revolutions, 1750 - 1914 NSS - WH.5 - 12.8 The 20th Century

Compelling references continue through the millennia in numerous esoteric texts: the sacred B'on treaties, manuscripts of the Kalki lore, the Puranas, the earliest texts of the Kalachakra Laghutantra, in the even older Kalachakra Mulatantra, and in the ancient wisdom traditions of civilizations throughout the Himalayan regions of Asia and beyond.The Zhang Zhung and Tibetan scriptures refer to the mysterious world as Shambhala I lam - yig, B'on treaties as Olmolungring, Hindu histories as Aryavarth, Chinese as Hsi Tien, and Russian traditions as Belovoyde.In an esoteric treatise composed in the early 1500s by Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup, the Third Panchen Lama describes his remarkable visit to a land of wise masters hidden deep in the Himalayas.

Concerts of video game music have a tradition in Sweden and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Merregnon Studios share a long history of working together on such shows, having collaborated on one of Europe's earliest video game concerts back in 2006.

In the selected items on view, the developments of American artistic traditions can be traced through the early interests in portraiture, the rise in prominence of landscape painting in the 19th - century, the popularity of genre scenes, as well as the academic traditions of history and large - scale society paintings.

Paolini's belief that a work of art is not just reflective of the «here and now» but is also resonant of earlier traditions, has led him to investigate art's relation to the past, creating intriguing installations deeply rooted in art history from the Renaissance to today - from plaster casts of classical sculptures shattered on the ground, to photographs of iconic paintings by Northern Italian Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Lotto, or inquiries into the construction of the image.

Early Turner is very much of his time: a history and landscape painter in the first half of the 19th century, looking back to the classicism of Claude and the Dutch Golden Age tradition of sombre marine...

The piece also reflects Bernhardt's interest in the history of textiles and the American tradition of quilt making, more specifically the quilts that have been produced in the African - American hamlet of Gees Bend, Alabama, since the early nineteenth century, and to which her work shares a formal and emotional affinity.

1998 Tradition & Conflict: A Visual History of African - Americans in Art, 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN

Radical Presence provides a critical framework to discuss the history of black performance traditions within the visual arts beginning with the «happenings» of the early 1960s, throughout the 1980s, and into the contemporary practices of a new generation of artists.

Even after Richter's turn to figuration since the early 2000s, he has maintained his characteristic use of brash colors and dynamic, theatrical compositions, now applied to a «new kind of history painting,» in the thematic and formal tradition of Max Beckmann and George Grosz.

I didn't acquire my taste for the art world in what seems to be the popular way of doing so, by early exposure to art history and first - hand experience of the work of revered painters and sculptors; while I engage with the history and traditions of art in a serious way now, I was unconcerned with such scholarship just a few short years ago.

Recognized for restoring Carnival celebrations to the classical traditions of the nineteenth and early - twentieth centuries, Schindler has received numerous awards and his work has been included in exhibitions on the history of Mardi Gras.

Kathy Halbreich, director of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, writes about the range of influences he absorbed: «From his early drawings rooted in a European Surrealist tradition to his monumental abstract canvases, Motherwell's visual language synthesizes a veritable history of modern painting, reflecting ties to Picasso's early collages, Matisse's color - rich paintings, and the development of American Abstract Expressionism in which he played such a pivotal role».

Radical Presence provides a critical framework to discuss the history of black performance traditions within the visual arts beginning with the «happenings» of the early 1960s, throughout the 1980s, and into the present practices of contemporary artists.

Reconciliation Australia's Narragunnawali: Reconciliation in Schools and Early Learning is a digital resource for teachers to develop further knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories and traditions from early learning through to high schEarly Learning is a digital resource for teachers to develop further knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, histories and traditions from early learning through to high schearly learning through to high schools.