Sentences with phrase «faith traditions also»

Not exact matches

It's interesting to see these people light up when they're speaking about their own faith traditions and also see Morgan light up when he learns something he didn't know before.

Also, Indian theists therefore have lacked the conceptual tools to express adequately their faith in terms of their intellectual and cultural tradition.

Thompson grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home and his acclaimed 2003 autobiographical graphic novel Blankets tells not only the story of his first love but also his coming - to - terms with the Christian tradition of his family, culminating in a crisis of faith.

Yet such theological thinking must be undertaken in full awareness that theologians and thinkers of other traditions not only «listen in» on our conversations, but also are engaged in interpreting religious plurality in the context of their own traditions of faith.

Women's stories serve not only as the testing ground for new theological proposals, but also as material for building new theological traditions that revitalize the entire community of faith.

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

Thirdly, just as Christian scriptures are the gift of the Word of God offered by the Christian community as a record of its faith, so other scriptures can be considered also as a gift of the Word of God offered to Christians by members of other religious traditions.

We know that there is also wisdom to be found, much of it similar to Biblical wisdom, in the sacred texts and stories of other faiths and traditions and we are glad to have those, also, to help us discern the direction of our lives and paths.

Scripture is the primary source and guideline «as the constitutive witness to biblical wellsprings of our faith,» but tradition, experience and reason also function as sources and guidelines, and in practice «theological reflection may find its point of departure» in any of them.

One wonders, then, whether the fullest definition of «reading backwards» ought also to include retrospective reinterpretation of the Scriptures informed by the theological tradition, the rule of faith, and church history.

2000 years of tradition and all books of the Bible which are divinely inspired do not mention «a wife» The current canon was adopted at the Council of Trent by the Catholic Church and it is also accepted by Protestant faiths.

The movements Howell mentioned were all led by powerful personalities, but they also dealt with basic issues of Baptist identity and Christian faith: namely, the balance of Scripture and tradition as norms of belief and practice (Campbellism); the nature of the true church and its identity markers (Landmarkism); and the reality of divine grace in the plan of salvation (hyper «Calvinism).

He further says that the East Syrian church was under the ecclesiastical control of Antioch and the whole story of Thomas's work in the East is a fabrication by Edessa to assert its independence of Antioch and also to prove its orthodoxy in faith, Hence Brown rejected the East Syrian tradition concerning the apostolic activity of Thomas in India.

I need more than the resources of Bible, theological tradition, and my own commitments if I am to understand my faith and the world in which it is set; I also need the ethical insights of my secular colleagues, the political and psychological analyses of my friends and foes, and the prophetic jab of nonchurchmen whose degree of commitment so often puts my own to shame.20

And then, I suppose you'd also say that the traditions of the muslim faith are the «absolute and only truth», and that the teachings of christianity are false?

The author looks at the process of communication - reception - in the early Church, and concludes that the bishops must also be listeners and seek guidance in Holy Scripture and in the tradition of the faith of the People of God.

The bishops must also be listeners and, like all the members of the faithful, must seek guidance in Holy Scripture and in the tradition of the faith of the People of God.

We do also practice tradition, not as tenants of our faith though.Tradition at our house holds that the birthday person picks the meal, it also includes giving gifts at christmas.Not because it was created the same day as a pagan holiday, but because it is a family tradition.

When he looks at the literary situation of sixty years ago, I think Gioia is observing the fading light of the modern tradition, which, even in its nihilism and atheism, remained deeply religious — where faith is a necessity not only for prayer but also for painting.

In New Thought, as in the mystic traditions of many faiths, oneness is regarded as literal and absolute, and therefore must include not only the victims of violence and domination, but also the perpetrators.

President Obama also started the new tradition of an Easter Prayer Breakfast where he has spoke openly about his own Christian faith.

Therefore, the very thing about the expressions of faith in the Christian tradition which makes a properly secular interpretation of them possible and even necessary also makes a secularistic theology impossible.

In responding the following year in the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly Gormally highlighted a important aspect of the Catholic magisterial and jurisprudential tradition [this article was also published in Faith March 2006].

In the Torah, the Jewish scriptures, we not only read about faith traditions, but also Jewish social history.

However, Rice also notes that there was, and always has been, another side both to Calvin and the Reformed tradition — a side that was less confident in the intellect's ability to answer all questions — a side that could acknowledge ambiguity and be open to mystery at the heart of the faith — and that understood God to be immanent as well as transcendent, and one whose «dependability came not from being unchanging, but from being loving.»

6:30) On the other hand the word «faith» does not mean for him, as later for Paul and John, the obedience of men under God's redeeming revelation, though this use of the term also enters occasionally into the gospel tradition.

It is also important to recognize that the real meaning and ground of the resurrection faith in the primitive church was not particular items in the tradition nor particular views as to how Christ's victory over death was accomplished.

By this tradition is undoubtedly meant, also and not least, the tradition of faith of the Catholic Church.

Now we are also asking: What does our experience of human sexuality say about our perceptions of faith — our experience of God, our interpretations of Scripture and tradition, our ways of living out the gospel?

And as pointed out earlier, it would also unnecessarily contract the informational character of our own faith tradition.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

A theology of interfaith cooperation lives honestly alongside your theology of salvation and evangelism, but also asks what in your Christian faith — your relationships to Jesus, your understanding of the Bible, your knowledge of Christian history and tradition — speaks to why you might work together with people of other faiths on issues of common concern.

Although they cite the Baptist theologian Timothy George in a way that shows his awareness of the ground - breaking work of the World Conference on Faith and Order at Montreal in 1963 on «Scripture, Tradition, and traditions,» Noll and Nystrom make no systematic use of his insights; they also neglect to note the phraseology of Pope John Paul II when he called for further study on «the relationship between Sacred Scripture as the highest authority in matters of faith and Sacred Tradition as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God» (Ut Unum Sint, 79)» a formulation that I think may hold the best promise of resolving the question since the sixteenth cenFaith and Order at Montreal in 1963 on «Scripture, Tradition, and traditions,» Noll and Nystrom make no systematic use of his insights; they also neglect to note the phraseology of Pope John Paul II when he called for further study on «the relationship between Sacred Scripture as the highest authority in matters of faith and Sacred Tradition as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God» (Ut Unum Sint, 79)» a formulation that I think may hold the best promise of resolving the question since the sixteenth cenfaith and Sacred Tradition as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God» (Ut Unum Sint, 79)» a formulation that I think may hold the best promise of resolving the question since the sixteenth century.

Dialogue between these traditions not only helps us to live peacefully with the rest of creation but also helps us to live peacefully with people of other faiths.

The dialogue between religious traditions not only helps us to live peacefully with the rest of creation but also helps us to live peacefully with people of other faiths.

In fact we all should have some private devotions and should question seriously if they are lacking, because they provide that helpful link not onlywith the liturgy but also with the traditions of those who have gone before us in the practice of faith.

It is important to add that in the tradition of biblical faith, historical revelation, which is the self - disclosure of God in history, is never deemed to inhere simply in the event as event, but also in the interpretation of the event.

Tradition is also shaped by the mind of faith, which is theology, and by the institution of worship.

There is also a Malay tradition which relates that the first king of Samudra was a heathen who adopted the Islamic faith between 669 and 674 (A.D. 1270 - 75) and assumed the title of Malik al - Salih.

In our denominational bureaucracies and confessional traditions, which partake of the brokenness and shame of the cross, we also have an ecumenical faith that the Easter promise calls us to be one.

We might even wonder if Jesus» response is not only to her demonstrative faith, but also to her willingness to challenge tradition as he has done.

But in the present chapter it is important also to say a few words about this relationship in connection with the problem of how to unite faith in the universal significance of Christ with an openness to non-Christian religious traditions.

But there is also a third option — one that appreciates the primacy of faith in the order of human thought, recognizes the role played by tradition and authority in all forms of inquiry, and understands that the work of the university is ultimately dependent upon several démodé beliefs about the dignity of mankind and the existence of a Creator.

In what are known for brevity as Life and Work and Faith and Order, and in the World Council of Churches, not only those in the Protestant tradition but also Eastern and Old Catholic churches are included.

They may also love the magic of holiday lights and music and perhaps even gain an appreciation for spiritual traditions related to their family's religious faith.

If faith groups have been attentive to the voices of the poorest, they have also had the unique resource of their own traditions to guide them.

But it also makes me uncomfortable to, in effect, say we have a religious test for public office that will preclude people from certain faith traditions from serving as county clerk...

They also note successful examples of faith groups organizing themselves across traditions and within countries or regions to be more accessible partners to governments and donors.

Asian person are so smart, beautiful and sexy also and off curse ready to live with some tradition and faith.

Adults... Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, Reformed Christianity, Reformed Protestantism, or the Reformed faith) is a major branch