Sentences with phrase «existing traditions of»

This new American orientation encouraged art to become more of a commercial product, and loosen its connection with existing traditions of aestheticism - a trend furthered by the emergence of Abstract Expressionism, Pop - Art, and the activities of the new breed of celebrity artists like Andy Warhol.

In countries where institutional support of history painting was less dominant, the transition from existing traditions of genre painting to Realism presented no such schism.

This democracy package could also include a review of local government, including voting systems (where there is a strong case for PR, perhaps by STV given the existing tradition of multi-member constituencies).

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What Wesley said is that reason, experience, tradition, and scripture all must exist within a sort of «holy» tension.

Paul and the Romans made the rumor of a crucifixion into a savior story by usurping other existing traditions, such as the Mithraic virgin birth, and death of the sun god Mithra.

And so, to the pastor of a very traditional church, maintaining the look and feel of the traditions can seem almost as important as the reason these patterns exist.

By the sixteenth century — the age of Shakespeare — a well - established tradition of self - examination existed, as is evident from the many guides to the spiritual life for those who would assay it.

Although the arrival of Christianity systemised and propagated a written language, a literary tradition had existed before it, as had various forms of art.

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.

A faithful church will find that it already has enormous resources, most obviously in a deep tradition of teaching on sexual ethics that already exists.

’25 Bloch believed that «the ultimate, enduring insight of Marx is that truth does not exist for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and meaning, providing a key in theory and leverage in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless truth «contains initiative for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.

The reason AA still exists after 76 years is because of the 12 traditions, I hope as members we don't lose sight of the importance of all of them.

In central Europe it sometimes seems that the deepest reason for preserving and developing the theological tradition in the university has been that a profession exists whose chief function is the proclamation of the Biblical message.

Following Orthodox tradition, the icon exists because the archetype exists, be it Christ or Mary or one of the saints.

The fact that Luke 17.20 f. serves a function in terms of the Lukan theology does not, of course, mean that it is a Lukan construction; the next question to ask is whether it existed in the tradition before Luke.

For most of the interval between 30 A.D., when Jesus» career ended, and the date of the beginning, so far as we can know, of Gospel writing, the tradition about Jesus existed only as individual stories and sayings, circulating separately and orally among the scattered churches.

As the tradition developed, this acute observation is lost, because the tradition is no longer regarded as arising naturally from observation of life but as existing as a mysterious and powerful entity in its own right.

Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»

It's often said that three claims of the Christian tradition — «God is omnipotent,» «God is love» and «Evil exists» — present a logical contradiction.

If by «evil exists» you mean that evil possesses a real substance of its own, and that it therefore exists in the way goodness exists (or, for that matter, a tree, a rabbit, an idea or a dream exists), in point of fact Christian tradition has usually denied this quite forcibly.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

As an existing force, these traditions, which have shaped the ethos of so much in the United States, have never been more than one tradition among many.

What Stephen Neill failed to recognise was the possibility of a tradition existing in Edessa at the time of the writing of the Acts of Thomas that Thomas worked in the kingdom of Gundaphorus.

A special problem has been the faithful presentation of the dialogue that has existed throughout Buber's creative life between Buber as original thinker and Buber as interpreter of tradition.

We know tradition now not only in the form of social rigidities resistant to change but as the dynamic structure of modifiable habits without which men do not exist as men.

As we stated the Acts was written at the beginning of the third century, reflecting a tradition that existed earlier.

When the school of Nisibis introduced the teaching of Theodore, there was a continuity with the existing theological tradition.

Existing both as an oral tradition and in print on cheap paper for wide distribution, these corridos are often sagas of heroic daring or noble suffering and thus candidates for expression of links between religion and politics.

Thus many of the ideas and categories which they brought with them to their experience of the Buddha gave direction to the development of the existing tradition and above all assisted in its codification and systematization.5 When the dogmatics applied the predicate Mahapurusa to the Buddha — as we know, the Mahapurusa is characterized by a number of specific primary and secondary physical and spiritual attributes — or that of Cakravartin — this does not imply, as de la Vallee Poussin has already and very appropriately remarked, that they were «idealizing» or recalling attributes of the historical Sakyamuni.

It has been my personal experience that Judaism is often practiced with an appreciation for the cultural benefits of community and tradition without falling into the pits of fundamentalism and intellectual suicide; not that Jewish fundamentalists don't exist, they just seem to make up a smaller percentage of the overall population.

Whether that mystery is redolent with llluminati conspiracy or the source of grace and truth, it nonetheless exists and will be reflected in the art associated with the deep traditions of Christianity.

«The society exists,» explains its website, «to promote and sustain fellowship and truth — seeking (fides quaerens intellectum) in theological reflection upon the Christian faith, within the mainstream of the Christian Church and tradition in light of the theological legacy of Thomas F. Torrance.»

They too have to work for renewal of religion, for a new spirituality and tradition, for a spiritual vacuum can not exist in the world.

Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several features which divide it so sharply from the Passion narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation of that in the stage of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first of which can exist as an independent story, but the second of which can not, for it depends upon the first.

Once the tomb pericope is separated from the rest of the Gospel it is seen that it could not have existed in this form as an independent tradition, for the mention of the women with which it begins has had to take the form it does in order to link what follows with the preceding Passion story.

Even before the written Talmud was written, there was the «Oral Torah,» a tradition of interpretation which probably existed for more than a thousand years prior to its codification in the Talmud.

If there were no specific saying in the Koran or in the Traditions, and no Ijma or agreement existed with respect to a situation which arose in the course of Islam's rapid spread beyond Arabia, how could it be met?

As Christians, we must recognize that paradox is inherent to our tradition, that mysteries will always exist, and that faith is more often a matter of the heart than the brain.

But this pushes asidetwo thousand years of Christian tradition that insists that man must live by the vision of God, a participation in divine life existing within his being by grace or else end up with a profound loss.

A different type of this hindrance to careful listening to a particular text exists in the oral tradition of a harmonized New Testament.

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

Jeremias has achieved his most spectacular results by connection with the parables ascribed to Jesus in the tradition, for he has been able to reconstruct a history of the parabolic tradition, working back from the texts as we have them, through the various stages of the Church's influence on it, to the tradition as it must have existed at the beginning of the history of its transmission by the Church.

Yemeni Jews, like Ethiopian ones, were very nearly forcibly «repatriated» to modern Israel where their traditions were safely submerged beneath orthodoxy, but 50,000 Indian, Pakistani and Kashmiri Jews still exist and revere their «Tomb of Moses.»

According to some definitions of Islam (within the Islamic tradition or outside it), Malaysia is a country that ought not to exist.

Given the form - critical view of the tradition, it is evident that the way back from the tradition as we have it to the historical Jesus will be a long and arduous way, and there will be many instances where it will simply not exist, since much of the tradition will have been created in the early Church and will lead us at most to an aspect of the Church's understanding of the risen Lord.

In the lives of women there exists a unique opportunity to develop a sense of God, and there exists something of the essence of God which, though made known to us in Christ, we missed because women were excluded from the ranks of church hierarchy and demeaned in religious tradition.

«Perhaps some people think the nonviolent tradition exists only among folks who wear Gandhi buttons on their lapels and have some history with the Left; they don't think a bunch of white - bread eaters with Bible College bumper stickers could be «real» satyagrahis.

As in similar Native American traditions, «all these symbolic images and gestures are associated with the wind and with the breathing of the universe — the visible motion of the power that invests everything in existence» (Jamake Highwater in Ritual of the Wind) To exist in family is to experience an insistent Chinook wind, blowing warm in winter and cool in summer, lending a direction and center to all that one does.

Different theologies of scripture exist not because the Christian tradition is inherently contentious and can not reach a consensus, but because each moment, era, and epoch raises different questions about the nature, authority, and interpretation of scripture, and about how scripture relates to tradition, reason, and experience.

1) multiple interpretations of the Bible exist 2) there are many ways to apply the teachings of the Bible to public life 3) no one denomination or spokesperson has a monopoly on how to accurately interpret the Bible and apply it to public life 4) because we live in a pluralistic society, we must learn to raise the level of public discourse so that we not only appeal to our specific religious tradition, but to a common sense of morality and justice