Sentences with phrase «for developing the tradition»

■ Bishop Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1168 - 1253), Bishop of Lincoln and founder of the «Oxford School» known for developing the tradition of experimental science.

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LONDON — A rather cynical tradition has developed in recent years in which, in the final days and hours before MPs leave Parliament for their summer break, the government releases a deluge of embarrassing reports, statistics, and statements in an apparently deliberate attempt to bury them.

It is time for political leaders and their advisors to consider these and develop other practical policies to deal with inequality and our economic problems in a way consonant with America's broad - based ownership tradition.

Being aware of thinking through the basis and traditions of what we believe was essential to develop a framework for the situations that we knew that we were going to face as Christian leaders.

If thoughtful members of both communities become adequately aware of the moment they now occupy in history, and are prepared to reexamine their respective traditions for the resources there to be developed, then the Jewish - Christian relationship has a significant chance of becoming something more enriching than it has ever been before.

You cant debate God... you cant use logic to explain God... You cant use your small finite mind to try and explain away an infinite God... Man is flesh and blood but man has a spirit and some things can only be received and revealed thru spirit... And what you do nt see is actually more real than what you can observe with your five senses... And BTW I did nt say religion i said God... Religion is man made tradition... God is real... develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and gave you life... God has a purpose for your life...

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.

There has also been a deliberate attempt to develop our particular situation into a strong culture for the College, mainly rooted in traditions that staff experienced in their own schools a generation ago, or in revivals of medieval traditions, such as that of the boy - bishop (a boy rules the College for a day on the feast of St Nicholas.)

And in this context the word «conservative» means in principle something quite positive, for it also includes the courage to affirm continuity, clear principles, detachment from ephemeral fashions, fidelity to the Word of God which endures for ever, respect for tradition, for what has organically developed, for the wisdom and experience of our ancestors.

In the Roman Catholic tradition the ancient practice is preserved of making bishops responsible for doing theology; and then that tradition is developed to make bishops, and preeminently the Bishop of Rome, responsible also for discerning and authoritatively declaring the correct or «orthodox» theological judgments.

As we think of the four problem areas we have considered, one central theme emerges: a developing concern for the rights, privileges and, well - being of the individual as over against the maintenance of traditions.

We can not facilitate God's will for maturing and developing the Body of Christ if we simply try to make a new Tradition.

Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?

We know, for example, that there were hymns and spiritual songs in the biblical church, and later, the rich traditions of chanting and polyphony developed.

It embodied the Dalit search for a culture of their own and developed a counter culture parallel to the «Great Tradition» without being co-opted into the Sanskritic tTradition» without being co-opted into the Sanskritic traditiontradition.

Second, we must use the vast ethical and conceptual resources of the Judeo - Christian tradition to develop a God - centered ecological ethic which accounts for the sacredness of the earth without losing sight of human worth and justice.

These principles have a notable ancestry within the Calvinist tradition with which I identify: from the concept of sphere sovereignty developed by Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper, to the Politics of the sixteenth - century German Calvinist Althusius, all the way back to Calvin himself, who spent the greater part of his career struggling for the freedom of the Church in a city where civil rulers dictated ecclesiastical policy.

But today there is developing a certain discontent with our culture and its tradition, and a certain suspicion regarding its capacity for radical change.

Nevertheless Kuhn still maintains that the most fruitful strategy of normal science is to develop and exploit the prevailing tradition, extending its scope and accuracy; the examination of assumptions and the search for alternatives, he holds, seldom occurs except during major crises.31

For Christian theology, that event is the person of Jesus and the tradition that has developed in his Spirit.

Jonathan Edwards is interesting for contemporary theologians because he developed a balance of brilliant intellectual honesty, fidelity to the biblical traditions, and an openness to new insight brought by personal experience.

The law killeth, for these social traditions which made human community possible are increasingly restrictive of human initiative along novel lines, affording maximum freedom only to those content to develop along established patterns.

As a compensation for the anxiety created by the breakup of the tradition, what actually developed was a tendency either to bifurcate existence and preserve one's piety in isolation from the searing winds of criticism, or else to live through the negation by living off the negation.17 The second alternative has become increasingly dominant.

In seeking to develop a theology of nature, process theologians are supportive of endeavors to appropriate other images from the tradition, such as St. Francis» compassionate love for the poor and treatment of animals as sisters and brothers, the Orthodox view of the church as inclusive of all of creation, and the use of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist, products of the interworkings between God, the non-human natural world, and human labor, that speak, to contemporary needs.

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

As social scientists assist pastor and people in developing a rich fund of the stories, traditions, world views, character, symbols, and rituals of a congregation, chances for God's Word impacting the congregation in profound ways are greatly enhanced.

In fact, it has done nothing of the kind, for it has failed to develop an intellectual tradition in America or to produce its own class of intellectuals capable either of exercising authority among Catholics or of mediating between the Catholic mind and the secular or Protestant mind.

To the extent this is so, process philosophy may have something to learn from it, for it is often remarked as a weakness of the process tradition in America that it has not developed a substantial ethical and political theory.

It can make these partly difficult associations capable of standing against the philosophical tradition's inconsistent suggestions for a solution and against the common sense of the present day (whereby it incidentally makes intelligible why philosophy has given up the effort to develop a cosmology).

To be sure, the world I inhabited for decades led me to develop most of my closest personal and professional relationships with secularized persons and with faithful adherents of other religious traditions.

We have considerable national resources with which to develop these guidelines, including our tradition of justice and fair play, our respect for individual rights and the common good, and — not least — the wisdom of the eloquent writer who left us those eloquent words about the natural rhythms of life: «For everything there is a season.&raqfor individual rights and the common good, and — not least — the wisdom of the eloquent writer who left us those eloquent words about the natural rhythms of life: «For everything there is a season.&raqFor everything there is a season.»

All of these sayings are testimony to the developing tradition in the Church; they are not evidence for the teaching of Jesus.

This is suggested by the passive now found in Luke 12.9; it would also be an Aramaism (the passive voice as a circumlocution for the divine activity), and it would provide a basis from which the «I» and «Son of man» forms could have developed in the tradition, as variant ways of giving Jesus a role in the judgement.

For this reason we reject Luke 11.30 as part of the teaching of Jesus and regard it as a product of the developing Christian tradition, against Tödt, (H. E. Tödt, Son of Man, pp. 53ff.)

It embraced a full acceptance of spiritual reality, with a developed angelology, and an uncompromisingly strict set of traditions for observing the Law.

In searching for a worthy response, Rollins says he is drawn to Christian mystics like Meister Ekhart, «for while they did not embrace total silence, they balked at the presumption of those who would seek to colonize the name «God» with concepts... By speaking with wounded words of their wounded Christ, these mystics helped to develop, not a distinct religious tradition, but rather a way of engaging with and understanding already existing religious traditions: seeing them as a loving response to God rather than a way of defining God.»

«For me, the key goal is to not do things that will break away from the tradition while still developing products that appeal to new guests to the resort,» Snyder says.

Healthy Traditions has developed its own standards for GMO labeling with their GMO - Tested program.

The goal of the Healthy Traditions project is to eventually develop a nationwide network of producers and suppliers that meet a higher standard than current USDA organic standards, which currently allow for glyphosate and other pesticide residues to be present.

Tropical Traditions has a ZERO tolerance level for GMOs, herbicides, and pesticides, and since the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) allows small residue amounts of pesticides and herbicides approved by the EPA for conventional crops to be present in USDA Organic certified products, we knew that we had to develop our own standards to both use in purchasing products directly from producers, as well as to educate our consumers on our own values and standards.

We began developing our own non-toxic household products and featuring them on our Household Traditions website, for example.

We continue this tradition today by developing tasty, thirst - quenching flavor solutions for both the alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage categories.

We develop products for every category, consumer need state, technology, temperature state, culinary tradition, and channel of distribution.

Because of my Norwegian roots on my mom's side, it is our family tradition to make flat bread and spritz cookies every Christmas, to serve lefse at family gatherings, and a jar of pickled herring occasionally graces the table (something I have not yet developed a taste for and am not sure that I ever will).

She leads the reader through a process for developing a personalized family plan to deal with issues like discipline, competitiveness, and traditions.

This activity combines family tradition and culture with brief communication interactions that are invaluable for developing the foundations of language and literacy.

For example, in Malaysia there are well - developed and specific postnatal recovery guidelines and traditions resulting in a low national rate of postpartum depression of 3.9 %, and within a specific group of Malays, just 3 %.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

There is much common ground, too, with the ideas for «community - wealth building» being developed very concretely by the Democracy Collaborative in the US, though there is a stronger emphasis in their work on the need to root capital in specific places than one usually finds in the alternative liberal tradition.

Professor Ian Diamond, Chief Executive of the ESRC, commented: «This is an exciting new Centre, underlining the ESRC's commitment to developing robust research with and for the Third Sector as well as building on the our long tradition of strengthening research capacity and providing high quality independent research which meets the needs of a wide range of stakeholders.