Sentences with phrase «follow tradition for»

Yet nothing about Spiegel's history suggests he's willing to follow tradition for tradition's sake.

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This rule, or tradition, stemmed from a German tradition that the royal family followed for years.

He said no to working a nine - to - five; accepting money from investors in return for shares; living a life without purpose; and following the rules of any industry or tradition.

The March for Our Lives, held on Saturday in Washington, D.C., and in satellite events across the United States, followed, in that sense, activist tradition: It included speeches, rousing and passionate.

In the decades immediately following World War II, Conservatism provided, for many American Jews, the ideal balance between tradition and modernity.

In the ordination service of my tradition, candidates for the ministry are asked, «Will you in your own life seek to follow the Lord Jesus Christ, love your neighbors and work for the reconciliation of the world?

Following tradition and a practice recommended by saints, I can join my spirit to the body and blood of Christ by lifting up to God my desire for Holy Communion even when I don't consume a consecrated host.

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

That a congregation's defining practice of worship is a response «in Jesus» name» implies study of that to which it is a response: Just how is God understood to be «present» is Jesus» ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection appearances; what understanding of God follows from this; who is Jesus; what are the sources and the warrants of these characterizations of Jesus and of God (scripture, tradition, history of doctrine); what understanding of these sources makes them not only sources but also authoritative for these understandings of God and Jesus?

Still, such theorists also continue, as did Kant himself, the modern natural law tradition, at least in the following way: The duties prescribed by nonteleological liberalism are defined in terms of rights that are prior to any inclusive good; that is, these rights are separated from, and respect for them overrides, any inclusive telos humans might pursue.

A notable departure has occurred at the Claremont Colleges where, for several years, the three main religious traditions have been expressed in simultaneous «opening exercises» in separate locations, which are then followed by a common interfaith experience, with Jewish, Catholic and Protestant speakers in alternate years.

Thus support for human rights in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities follows a pattern: each group believes that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradition.

I will give you two examples, Exodus 4:24 -26 indicate that Zipporah read about Hebrew tradition of circumcision and used that knowledge against Moses who grow up as an Egyptian and God sort out to kill him for not following that tradition.

The other is to follow that easy route of religious tradition, declaring that it is not for us to understand; we simply need to accept that it is so.

When people are trained at an early age not to think for themselves but follow a path of «tradition» this is what you get.

(Ironically, he seems to be following the tradition of Martin Luther, who saw Judaism as a hate - mongering religion, and Rabbi Meir Kahane, who saw hate as the basis for his theological and political outlook towards Palestinians.)

For example, one might suggest that if the creative inputs follow that broad theological / ontological structure of the Christian faith, integrate the key role models of their faith in the new structure and their inputs can be shown to be informed directly or indirectly by their own «conservative» tradition and the text, the Bible, they could be understood to be in line with Christianity.

It should be emphasized that this position does not at all imply a lack of respect for or even theological interest in other religious traditions, but it follows the great majority of historic Christian theologies in denying the possibility of salvific revelations anywhere outside the biblical orbit.

ScottK: So what you are saying is that since the Jews prohibited their people from following the tradition of the Ammonites (burning their children as a sacrifice to their god Molech) that somehow lets people like Bin Laden off the hook for killing, burning and maiming thousands of innocent people?

In fact, it can be argued (and I will, in what follows below) that the present divergences in social thought throughout contemporary evangelicalism stem largely from this source from differing theological traditions that provide conflicting models for social ethics today.

The Christian tradition, following the New Testament, also lifts up some persons for special respect and veneration.

The event is a remarkably colorful occasion for the church, which says it follows the beliefs of the «primitive» or early Christian traditions.

This is why it is always wise to responds to such people with as much grace and dignity as you can muster, for your response to them in this way might be just the thing that helps them see that it is okay to question tradition and follow the Spirit's leading away from institutional religion.

They will follow in the tradition of the Hebrew prophets: feeding the poor, caring for widows and orphans, attacking economic systems that produce injustice.

By technically following Muslim tradition it removes a flashpoint for extremists to exploit.

And it is perhaps not a coincidence that many clergy in the fastest - growing denominations today — those in the Pentecostal tradition, for example — follow the same model, supplementing their ministries through other work.

For example, the following Tradition from the Mishkat collection reveals a side of Mohammed not often discovered in the Koranic teachings.

The sermons in the mosque — for in this respect they follow Jewish and Christian custom — are based upon the Koran mainly, though frequently upon the Traditions as well.

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.

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

Thus it is for each generation to allow that tradition to come alive in its own time and place, to see that it is purified and given contemporary significance, with such modifications as may be required; and then to hand it on to the next age, for the enrichment of the Christian faith, worship, and life of those who follow.

While Christians typically go for unique names, Muslim tend to follow traditions.

For that reason, The Young Pope seems targeted toward those who know of the Catholic traditions, but don't necessarily follow them or take them as seriously as they might have when they were younger.

If a basis for the ruling is not found in the Qur» an or the Traditions, then it should be sought in the general agreement (ijma) of the religious leaders, and that general agreement should be followed by all the people.

In the instance of the story of the Paralytic at Capernaum, the evangelists have used the tradition to serve their own purposes, Mark (followed by Luke) as a demonstration of the authority of the Son of God (Mark 2.12), and Matthew as a basis for the Church's authority to forgive sins (Matt.

Following the Santiago recommendations, the study deals with three aspects of an ecumenical hermeneutics: the quest for the One Tradition in the many traditions (part A, paras. 14 - 37) 8; the quest for the One Gospel in the many contexts (part B, paras. 38 - 48); and the Church as hermeneutical community in matters of discernment, the exercise of authority and reception (part C, paras. 49 - 66).

One can see a similar phenomenon of «contemporizing» tradition in the development from Paul's letters to the Epistle of James (for what follows see CEJ).

It was a longstanding principle of the civic republican tradition that power follows wealth; and for that reason a rough equality of property was assumed to be one of the prerequisites of a democratic republic.

A well - placed Jew, certainly he knows the teachings of the Pharisees (keep the Law), of the Essenes (be an ascetic and wait for the Coming), of the Saduccees (follow the tradition), and of the Zealots (join the revolution against Rome).

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

I agree I think tradition of man has taken away the foundation of God's purpose with their own idogoly & many people follow that instead of God's word for themselves where being the objective is far from salvation, loving God with all your heart & loving your neighbor as thyselve.

There are some churches (and people such as yourself) who I respect for seeking to follow the apostolic tradition.

The Witherspoon Institute (where I direct the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution) is now accepting applications for the following seminars: Moral Life and the Classical Tradition: for rising high school juniors and seniors, with readings in Plato and Aristotle,....

For instance, O'Malley said, consider the Pope's decision to wash the feet of a group of prisoners on Holy Thursday in 2013, just after his election as pontiff, instead of following Vatican tradition and celebrating a Mass at St. John Lateran's Archbasilica.

Bill Deacon for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end ------------ What if someone doesn't turn away from God, they have notions of spirituality, pray, etc, but don't follow the same human - crafted traditions you do?

The Primacy of Christ in the light of modern science vindicates, with a new profundity we believe, the Catholic tradition which has affirmed Tertullian's «the flesh is the hinge of salvation» (see our Editorial for September 07, «Renewing our Vision of the Sacraments», and the lively correspondence that followed in subsequent issues).

The politics that follows from this vision is one of tolerance and the welcoming of diversity, not because, as in some liberal traditions, tolerance and diversity are valued for their own sake, but because, given the dimness of our individual perceptions, one can not be sure which of the paths we are urged to go down is the right one.

This older layer of the tradition we may take as relatively trustworthy, for the following reasons:

She made them every Thanksgiving and Christmas and I followed the tradition and made 6 dozen for both holidays.

That was followed the next day by the «lunch plate,» a Honolulu tradition for a hearty midday meal.