Sentences with phrase «element of traditions»

The chief problem facing any comparative study involving the Indian religious tradition is the identification of the characteristic elements of that tradition.

Much work needs to be done to incorporate women's experience into Christian tradition and its theology, but Christian feminists regard the core of Christianity and at least some elements of its tradition as being life - giving for women.

In a mature resolution of this tension we may get a reflection of the positive elements of tradition outside its dogmatic straitjacket.

Various elements of tradition seem nonessential, such as male celibate priesthood and biblical cosmology.

Today, the pupils of the original form critics are prepared to accept elements of the tradition their teachers rejected.

This inevitably makes him a loyal critic — one who is deeply committed to that element of the tradition which is creative and constructive while at the same time becoming an unflinching critic of all those forces which threaten the heart of the matter.

That path required reform - through - retrieval, the recovery of an element of the tradition of which the Church had lost sight: namely, Pope Gelasius's distinction between, and affirmation of, «two authorities» in the world that should not be thought identical, or even too closely enmeshed with each other (a point underscored by Gregory VII in the Investitute Controversy).

Finally, this Judeo - Christian would celebrate elements of the tradition that can be chosen voluntarily and promoted publicly.

The first thing he would do is to promote the teaching of elements of the tradition in schools.

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

There is also an element of tradition — after all, it was the first food that many of US received as babies and offering baby rice has become established and widely accepted as the «norm» when transitioning infants to solids.

Whatever your vacation has in store, come and enjoy the finest elements of tradition, ambiance and luxury at America's original destination resort.

Park Regis Boutique is a 21 - room hotel combining elements of tradition, history, culture, arts and modern heritage.

And while there's an element of tradition and rite of passage in how Kratos teaches Atreus to hunt and kill (tapping into our nostalgia for an already existing imagery), the fact that so many of us saw ourselves in these characters is alarming.

Not exact matches

I came out of the Methodist tradition which is based on the Wesleyan Quadrilateral which demands that faith be based on four elements — Scripture, Tradition, Reason, and Extradition which is based on the Wesleyan Quadrilateral which demands that faith be based on four elements — Scripture, Tradition, Reason, and ExTradition, Reason, and Experience.

Griffiths focuses on two elements of Pitstick's distillation of the tradition.

You find a way to assimilate and integrate various elements of thought, even from outside your own tradition or system, into your own way of thinking (or some might say «believing»).

The Catholic Church had retrieved lost elements of its own tradition, and learned some new things along the way, in coming to terms with religious freedom and political modernity.

In this way no major element will be omitted and the importance of each aspect can be judged in the light of the entire tradition,

The cosmic and acosmic descriptions of brahman are two of the three major elements of the Indian religious tradition.

Although there is no avoiding the fact that the Indian tradition is rather silent on the question of whether or not brahman is dynamic, Radhakrishnan has here raised the more fundamental elements involved in that question and provided material for comparison at this deeper level.

The goal would then seem to be to step outside of our Christian tradition into the shoes of the scholarly or philosophical observer, identify the elements of wisdom in each community, and weld them into a new whole.

As Jacques Dupuis put it, Vatican II affirmed positive elements not only in the personal lives of people of other faiths but in the religious traditions to which they belong.

When Friedrich Nietzsche, in his several tirades against Christianity, points to these elements as of the essence of the biblical tradition, he is certainly correct — though not in the dark conclusions he draws from the observation,

In the civil war and struggle for power in the time of Uthman, the third Caliph, irreligious elements among the Muslim people did not refrain from fabricating traditions concerning the merits of some political figures.

In a collection of essays entitled The Sanctified Church, Zora Neale Hurston described the traditions of the African American holiness and Pentecostal churches as a «revitalizing element» in black music and religion.

Finally, a tradition inevitably develops that tells the story of how these rules were first received, a story which roots them not in the common life of the people, but in the element of the divine.

(Jude, vs. 20) One does not mean by this that other elements of the original tradition are not present in the New Testament's thought of holiness.

Miss Krook's view of the significance of sexuality for love supplies the element we have found missing in the Christian tradition.

Its emphasis on social and communal relationships as the defining element in its religious worldview made it the most attractive option for the growing number of suburban Jews looking for a sense identity and tradition in suburban yenemsvelt.

Pursuing our criterion of dissimilarity, we must seek to determine whether these elements of difference between the synoptic tradition and Judaism are also differences between the synoptic tradition and the remainder of the New Testament.

Curiously, the religious dimension of the new global society may draw on some of the long - neglected elements in the biblical tradition itself.

In contrast, some other prayer forms — including those shaped by the formula of the acronym ACTS (adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication), so popular in some traditions — may serve to balance elements of prayer, but not necessarily in a way that helps us think about the flow or connections between the elements.

The Protestant Reformation attacked certain elements in the Catholic tradition, its exaltation of celibacy above marriage, its conception of the religious vocation as of greater merit than secular life with family responsibility.

The Christian tradition has contained many different elements in the past, some of which were in their day rejected and condemned.

Ironically, it is some of those dissident elements of the old tradition that may well contain seeds of the religious dimension of the future global society.

In two respects, however, the Thomas version may be more original than the Matthaean, for, as Jeremias points out, the fact that the merchant is a general merchant and not a dealer in pearls, preserves the element of surprise, and that the merchant sold his merchandise is more likely to be original than that he sold all that he had (Ibid., p. 199) Both changes are easy to account for in the tradition; the first under the influence of the fact that the merchant found a pearl, and the second under the influence of v. 44 when the two parables were brought together by Matthew.

It's simple enough, and although the American Rorty and the Italian Vattimo have been formed by different philosophical and religious traditions (pragmatism and red - diaper communism for Rorty, hermeneutics and cradle Catholicism for Vattimo), they agree on most of its elements.

The essential elements in the traditional understanding of tradition were left intact by the Second Vatican Council but it was made a more fluid reality to be defined as much by the people of God as by the magisterium.

Jesus is in the business of redemption, and just as Jesus has redeemed you and I, He redeems the cultural elements and traditions that surround us, including pagan holidays.

Integral to it are both an emphasis on the real presence of the risen Lord, reflecting the concern of the Lutheran and Roman Catholic traditions, and on widening the rite beyond the elements themselves to encompass the entire celebration and the Spirit's crucial role in it, in keeping with the Orthodox and Reformed positions.

The author explores these elements and possible points of contact with elements in Christian tradition and experience, raising questions about religious language: reality, analogy and metaphor.

In this paper I have endeavoured to create an opportunity to explore these elements in Hindu bhakti and possible points of contact with elements in Christian tradition & experience.

The task of the missionary today, it was maintained, is to see the best in other religions, to help the adherents of those religions to discover, or to rediscover, all that is best in their own traditions, to cooperate with the most active and vigorous elements in the other traditions in social reform and in the purification of religious expression.

A significant element in the background to the Gospel accounts of Jesus is the tradition of apocalyptic literature in which God has come to be viewed as temporarily absent from the current flow of history.

The Lakota medicine wheel and its symbolic expression of nature's four directions coincide with the form of the Celtic cross, an element of the Catholic tradition.

The tradition of using a tiny bit of bread and wine (or juice) has continued to be practiced, even though it does not even come close to what was practiced by Jesus and His apostles on the night He was betrayed, and reflects instead some sort of magical ceremony where some people believe that God is giving them special grace and power through the ritual elements of bread and wine.

The intellectual and practical challenge, however, is clear: to retain the core moral elements of the just war tradition, even as we acknowledge that they must be rethought, adapted and extended to cover our genuinely novel strategic situation.

Second, robust reflective engagement with the tradition of the Church is an essential element of the Catholic way to theological and moral clarity.

A tradition of living myth is always typological in this sense: it sees connections and analogies between many different elements in the tradition and it interprets current events and predicaments in terms of traditional motifs.