Sentences with phrase «from history and tradition»

As the world's most famous contemporary art prize travels to Gateshead, Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain hopes the change of scene will «shake the prize free from history and tradition».

DOMA, because of its reach and extent, departs from this history and tradition of reliance on state law to define marriage.

Not exact matches

As one would expect from a magazine devoted to religion, politics, history, and literature — and whose board members and editors are distinguished scholars and writers — we favor tradition.

It may be that in the course of history certain dimensions of saving truth become obscured and must be recovered but it is impossible for a theologian to stand apart from tradition and begin his work ab initio; to do so would be to cut himself off from the Church, which is the source sine qua non of theology, and to deny the historical givenness of Revelation.

Centuries of separation and polemics have led Protestantism in some quarters to imagine that the biblical witness could be disentangled from the Church's history, tradition, and teaching office.

But in other cases, encounter with Buddhist - based meditation has led Christians and Jews to a newfound appreciation for the riches of their own traditions, including a revival of neglected meditation techniques from Western religious history.

Of course there is a simple reason for this: Westminster Abbey is a gothic cathedral that arrives each day from nearly a millennia of tradition and history.

This postliberal line begins from a place that both prioritizes history and tradition over the present moment and prioritizes the community over the individual.

It also shows how it is able, because of this, to achieve the critical freedom which is related to the history of social freedom... The Biblical traditions and the doctrinal and confessional formulae that are derived from these traditions appear in the light of this interpretation as formulae of memoria.

The following traditions are taken from The History of al - Tabari, Volume 1 — General Introduction and from the Creation to the Flood (translated by Franz Rosenthal, State University of New York Press (SUNY), Albany 1989), pp. 187 - 193.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

Throughout history, people have learned by oral tradition and from the stories of others.

And in this task we will always be impoverished if we do not honour and respect the insight, wisdom and contribution of those who, from many traditions and cultures over the centuries of the history of the Church, have also brought their understanding to this sacred conversatiAnd in this task we will always be impoverished if we do not honour and respect the insight, wisdom and contribution of those who, from many traditions and cultures over the centuries of the history of the Church, have also brought their understanding to this sacred conversatiand respect the insight, wisdom and contribution of those who, from many traditions and cultures over the centuries of the history of the Church, have also brought their understanding to this sacred conversatiand contribution of those who, from many traditions and cultures over the centuries of the history of the Church, have also brought their understanding to this sacred conversatiand cultures over the centuries of the history of the Church, have also brought their understanding to this sacred conversation.

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?

In some ways, they are very different from one another — different in size, in denominational tradition, and in their particular histories, opportunities and burdens.

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

Insisting on the cultural importance of «stigmatized knowledge,» he looks at the history of this tradition, going back to the Order of Illuminists founded in 1776 by Bavarian law professor Adam Weishaupt to free mankind «from all established religious and political authority.»

Concerns in this vein have of course appeared many times in our own nation's history, from Jefferson's idealized republic of yeoman farmers to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries» southern agrarian tradition.

In the biblical tradition, God was thought to possess full knowledge of human history, past and present; and from time to time he chose to reveal the future to certain select people, such as Joseph, Daniel and John of Patmos.

They were the product of an extensive study of traditions of republican thought and institutions from the entire history of the West.

From within our human history God's vision of cosmic destiny can be grasped only through the relatively limited and time - conditioned stories of promise that serve as the foundation of our biblical tradition.

Gerber named its 2018 Spokesbaby on Wednesday and aside from maintaining the long - standing tradition of being adorable, Lucas Warren is also making history for being the first spokesbaby with Down syndrome.

Shortage of space prevents us from giving a survey of the doctrine of freedom as it emerges from the history of dogma and theology, or to discuss in detail the theological statements about the nature of freedom which are found in Scripture, tradition and the pronouncements of the magisterium of the Church.

Even after a season of my life when I walked far away from our traditions, gathering the greater story of our Church and history to myself, I now find myself corkscrewing back over and over again to the teachings of my childhood, the songs, the practices.

But how shall he escape Dodd's charge that his sermons are gnostic evaporations of history and departures from the tradition which Paul and others, having received it, were careful to pass along to others?

These sayings have been chosen from among the residue of logia which survives the extensive, and brilliant, investigation of «Jesus as the teacher of wisdom» by R. Bultmann in his History of the Synoptic Tradition (pp. 69 - 105).

And I have found, even from my friends of other faiths (of which I have a few), that people appreciate others who genuinely believe their traditions are more than an amalgamation of pieces of other faiths discarded down the highway of human history.

Not that we must produce over and over again works of the scope of Bultmann's or Jeremias's; but we must be prepared ever to learn from them and to consider any and every saying in the light of the history of the particular branch of tradition of which it is a part.

In our attempts to reconstruct the teaching of Jcsus, then, we must first seek to write a history of the tradition with which we are concerned and to arrive at the earliest form of the saying in the tradition, or the earliest form of the saying we can reconstruct from the tradition.

At the same time, we will work from the standpoint of our own religious tradition of protestant Christianity, understood both in its own history and in its openings to other religious traditions.

From passive to active membership growth: Mainline Protestants no longer have a «guaranteed market share» by virtue of their history, tradition, location and place in the social network.

From the past comes the rich heritage of history, traditions, creeds, myths and symbols, as well as the Bible.

I found these prayers in the Psalms, in the Book of Common Prayer, from church history, through the Daily Office, and in the writings of other followers of Jesus from a variety of church traditions.

Academic community does not refer to some sort of metaphysical entity that is prior to the individuals comprising it and free from its own history and traditions.

The writing of history and tradition in Israel increased in impressive proportion from the tenth century B.C..

«47 And third, it is through this work of reinterpreting its own traditions that Israel as a community develops a historical consciousness, thereby becoming a historical reality, if it is true, as critical scholarship suggests, that Israel did not exist as a unified entity until the amphictyonic period after the settlement of Canaan, then we can say that «by elaborating this history as a living tradition, Israel projected itself into the past as a single people, to whom occurred, as to an indivisible totality, the deliverance from Egypt, the revelation on Sinai, the wandering in the desert, the gift of the Promised Land.

A minister whose career is suffused with a perception of the «great church,» whose thinking bears the imprint of his or her acquaintance with living members of many church traditions, will be a minister who understands and knows how to welcome people searching for a new church home, those who have married into a new denomination, and those who feel that they must turn away from some aspect of their own history.

Though formulated by some of the toughest minds in the history of modern philosophy — Hobbes, Locke, Flume, and Adam Smith — this tradition gave rise to what would appear to be the most wildly utopian idea in the history of political thought, namely, that a good society can result from the actions of citizens motivated by self - interest alone when those actions are organized through the proper mechanisms.

Here we have a phenomenon not without parallel in the history of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation of believers; and it is all the more striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those of the capital city.

That is was also distinctly possible that gathered fragmented written sources as well as oral traditions regarding the laws of Moses and histories of the kings of Israel and Judah coming from prior to Babylonian captivity were then secured and placed into a combined written sources from which what we know as the Books of Moses as well as other books that would be comprised into what we refer to as the Old Testament.

Their hesitation primarily stems from the question of whether the notion of emptiness, conceived as a dynamic emptying of all distinctions, can sustain a commitment to ethics, history», and personhood with the seriousness and even ultimacy that they, precisely as people standing in the Christian tradition, think necessary The Jewish participant, while less concerned with kenosis, shares their concern for the potential loss of ultimacy in the realm of historical action with its ethical norms and deep sense of personhood.

For most of European history from the emperor Constantine's embrace of Christianity onwards there has been a strong tendency to identify worship of God with loyalty to and reverence for the tradition and authorities that constitute the Holy Roman Empire, or its competing fragments in the Middle Ages, or their successor nation states, or one's home town and its familiar «way of life.»

this tradition comes from interpretation of the Bible from people who had never been to the Middle East and knew little or nothing of History.

Christians, on the whole, have little sense of history and are unaware of the sources of the tradition from which they come.

Says the chief justice: «It conflicts with our whole history and tradition to permit questions of the Religion Clauses to assume such importance in our legislatures and in our elections that they could divert attention from the myriad issues and problems which confront every level of government» (ibid., 622).

Christmas and Diwaili are great holidays arizing from long tradition, and they don't belong only to the religious... we all share in the history and have equal claim.

As in his earlier book, A History of Christian Thought: An Introduction, and its two supplementary volumes of selections from primary sources, Placher shows himself to be an insightful, judicious and reliable interpreter of the tradition and of significant figures and issues in contemporary debates.

Burger's statement can only mean that the court sees itself empowered by our history and tradition to forbid the people and their elected representatives from discussing, for any practical purpose, issues that might raise questions about the meaning and intention of the religion clause of the First Amendment.

They have created their own ways of communication, ranging from stories in oral traditions to folk art and music, from popular histories to religious and cultural sysmbolism.

They are not concerned with the ordinary history of Jesus bar Joseph from Nazareth, but with the sacred history of Jesus the Messiah of God, and to this end they select and present material from the tradition available to them.