Sentences with phrase «from ancient traditions»

His title may come from ancient traditions of the kind any nation could cherish, as surely as we on our side of the pond should cherish the rights and Constitutions that bind us.

But the earliest archaeological evidence for crop cultivation in China is 11,000 years old, suggesting that farming was slow to emerge from ancient traditions of plant use.

So take a hint from ancient traditions and modern wisdom.

In any case what we possess with most certainty from the ancient tradition is to be found in the Synoptics.

As Alain Ducasse states in the book's foreword, these recipes are drawn from an ancient tradition while also being incredibly modern.

Master Zink developed his style of Yin yoga from the ancient tradition of Taoist yoga that is indigenous to China.

Nyerges suggests that future plans might include a survey exhibition of Chinese bronzes from the ancient tradition.

Not exact matches

It goes back to ancient times and we can get some very simple tips from this tradition.»

When Steve Jobs passed away, friends and family attending his funeral received a small gift from the late tech genius: Autobiography of a Yogi, a book focused on the «ancient science of Yoga and its time - honored tradition of meditation.»

Their power comes from how they are the closest digital equivalent to ancient Chinese tradition,» Chance Jiang, CEO Chatek and Director of Startup Grind Guangzhou told TechNode.

What is really fascinating is the theory that the Hebrew and Muslim deity figure derive from a war god in an ancient Semitic pantheon whose association with the other gods was lost in the confusion that time and oral tradition bring.

Saying prayers that were written hundreds of years ago can feel dry and empty when an ancient form is divorced from the living tradition.

Alexander III, following the ancient tradition of the Church declared that «After a lawfully accorded consent affecting the present, it is allowed to one of the parties, even against the will of the other, to choose a monastery (just as certain saints have been called from marriage), provided that carnal intercourse shall not have taken place between them; and it is allowed to the one who is left to proceed to a second marriage» (III Decretal., xxxii, 2).

«This popular secular event,» it says here, «celebrates the ancient traditions from which Christmas has evolved.»

At a time when both the pastoral counselor and the spiritual director are borrowing profusely from the psychiatrist, the social worker and the psychologist, Lifton is going in another direction and challenging the secular therapist to reclaim some of the wisdom of these more ancient traditions of the cure of souls.

The design grows from the faith tradition of the Benedictines and expresses a new interpretation of that ancient tradition.

The artists draw on an ancient tradition of Mary as herself a voracious reader, stewed in holy Scriptures, and a notion, then commonplace, of the affinity between the intellectual and spiritual lives, of the «garden enclosed» where the God of truth meets the believer, set apart from the demands of the world.

If it gives us a sense that we come from nowhere, that our past is inchoate and our tradition shallow, so that we begin to doubt our own identity and some of the sensitive among us flee to more ancient lands with more structured traditions, it also gives us our openness to the future, our sense of unbounded possibility, our willingness to start again in a new place, a new occupation, a new ideology.

From this world there was no return to simply mythical existence, but myths and other ancient traditions could yet be made to yield an expression of the hostility felt toward it.

Bishops from both sides argued heatedly with Israeli government officials, who consulted ancient traditions and upheld the right of the Armenians.

Such rebellion may also be the liberation from the unjust restrictions which an ancient society with fossilized traditions has fashioned for itself.

This is the main point of the great array of parallels to Jesus» teaching adduced from the ancient Jewish tradition and literature, for example in Strack and Billerbeck's Commentary on the New Testament from Talmud and Midrash.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

RELEVANT looks at the ancient tradition of Ash Wednesday, drawing lessons from the church calendar and exploring why the day still has meaning for the church today.

As Gerhard von Rad has established in his great work, The Theology of the Old Testament, and principally in volume one, «The Theology of Traditions,» Israel essentially confessed God through the ordering of its sagas, traditions, and stories around a few kernel events from which meaning spread out through the whole structure.4 Von Rad believes he has discovered the most ancient kernel of the Hebraic Credo in a text sucTraditions,» Israel essentially confessed God through the ordering of its sagas, traditions, and stories around a few kernel events from which meaning spread out through the whole structure.4 Von Rad believes he has discovered the most ancient kernel of the Hebraic Credo in a text suctraditions, and stories around a few kernel events from which meaning spread out through the whole structure.4 Von Rad believes he has discovered the most ancient kernel of the Hebraic Credo in a text such as Deut.

(II Samuel 12:23) When to such influences from ancient racial tradition and from the controlling patterns of contemporary thought was added the fact that prophetic orthodoxy in Israel had held out no hope of a future life for the individual, it is not strange that even in the Old Testament's later writings we have explicit and convinced denials of such hope.

Romans did decorate with evergreen garlands and such (as did ancient Egyptians), but the main influence of Saturnalia, which was celebrated from the 17th to 22nd of December, on Christmas is in the tradition of gift - giving.

The autonomy of humanity from the realm of supernatural forces was considered by Marx as an axiomatic ontological truth that had been developed since ancient times, and he considered it to have an even more respectable tradition than Christianity.

And, as the prophets later saw, all this presented two focal points of peril to the best traditions that had come from the desert: it substituted for the old austerity the alluring licentiousness of baal worship, and it sanctioned the commercial inequalities and tyrannies, which the baals of sophisticated Canaan sponsored against the ancient ideas of social solidarity, equality, and justice for which Yahweh stood.

I think that an ancient Buddhist text from the Mahayana tradition, in portraying the ideal of the bodhisattva, expresses accurately the divine sensitivity to suffering suggested by the Whiteheadian view:

But let me go back once more to ancient Israel: From the earliest layers of the biblical traditions to the most recent ones, the spokesmen of the God of the covenant violently repudiated the cult of sacred sexuality in all its forms.

In contrast with the ancient myths these sagas are drawn from ancestral traditions.

We, along with the recorders of ancient Israel's tradition, may well understand that Israel's escape from Egypt followed immediately upon and indeed in consequence of an uncommon series of «natural» disasters.

At the same time any interpretation must take into account the confessional form of this tradition; that is, that its present structure, intent, and emphasis are derived from its use in worship and its repeated recitation throughout ancient Israel's generations during annual celebrations of the great deliverance.

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

As we saw above, the Christian tradition understood it as a reference to the parousia (Luke), or to the burial and resurrection of Jesus (Matthew), but these interpretations come from the world of ideas to be found in early Christianity and say nothing about ancient Judaism.

Endemic farming is an important part of this training; reintroducing ancient traditions helps to preserve local culture while improving yields, as these methods often come from centuries of hard - earned experience.

As one of the world's most ancient and rich cuisines, Middle Eastern food — namely that from the Levant and Persian Gulf — is packed full of passion, flavour, tradition and loads of nutrition.

ITZZA the spices that make up the flavorful seasonings come from a land that has been cultivated for centuries recalling the times of the ancient Mayans and Aztecs of Mexico by implementing the same techniques and traditions of the past.

His Book Loving Hands: The Traditional Art of Baby Massage was first published in 1976 from his trip to Calcutta and gives us a good example of this ancient parenting tradition.

However the tradition of having a «continental border there» dates from ancient Greece.

The idea of a social contract has a long history, dating back to various ancient cultures, ranging from the ancient Egyptians, Hammurabi, Greek, Roman, Chinese, Indian and the traditions of the three monolithic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

A source who bagged not to be named but aware of the tradition of the ancient city informed our correspondent on Wednesday morning that the new king can be installed any moment from now whether the body of the deceased monarch has been committed to the mother earth or not since there is no any recorded rite to be done that states that the deceased monarch must be buried before a new king can be installed.

According to Prof. Winter, «The stele provides information on how ancient oriental traditions survived the epochs from the Iron Age to the age of the Romans.»

This antioxidant - filled balm, which uses ancient skincare traditions from Japan and Korea, features matcha green tea for its wide range of benefits.

she is dedicated to helping women reclaim their femininity and power with tools from ancient and modern traditions for today's world.

With rising interest in wellness comes responsibility to preserve the traditions and knowledge our teachers and our teachers» teachers shared with us — many of them come from ancient lineages that deserve reverence and proper acknowledgment, even if they are mysterious or unknown to you.

This brings us to our next step, an important one rooted in ancient traditions from around the globe.

This is again according to the Nourishing Traditions cookbook,» the word «ketchup» derives from the Chinese Amoy dialect ke - tsiap or pickled fish brine or sauce, the universal condiment of the ancient world.

We can begin to regain some of our lost ancient wisdom by following the ancient food tradition of taking a break from eating once in a while.