Sentences with phrase «great sense of tradition»

The hive of activity is centred on the village square that boasts charm and a great sense of tradition.

There is a great sense of tradition at The Black Horse Inn.

On the other hand, the British had a greater sense of tradition and more theological sophistication than did the Americans.

Not exact matches

Against such an ancient and affirming tradition, Francis's assertion that «the great majority of our sacramental marriages are null» shocked both common sense and Catholic sensibility.

In this sense, these positions come full circle and begin to look like that great ritual enemy of Protestantism; namely, the mechanical view of the sacraments attributed to the medieval tradition.

Slowly, largely subconsciously, the great Jewish tradition and the teaching of the prophets underwent a reinterpretation in his mind when the sense of this communion got hold of him.

Still, if his purpose was, as he writes, to provide «an understanding of the vital religious component of the American tradition,» it might have been helpful to give readers a greater sense of the variation, and even the conflict, within that tradition.

Such cosmologies are almost always «vitalistic» in the sense of requiring auxiliary and somewhat ad hoc hypotheses to account for the apparent violation of the law of entropy in the impetus toward greater complexity manifested in the evolutionary process.6 Evolutionary cosmologies thus perpetuate a much older tradition of Romantic Naturphilosophie far more than providing a fully contemporary philosophy of science or some sort of «scientifically - verified» philosophy.7

In the great orthodox philosophic tradition, the body is treated as an essential condition to the soul's life in this world of sense; but after death, it is said, the soul is set free, and becomes a purely intellectual and non-appetitive being.

Our schools are part of that rich tradition of Catholic learning that gave the world its universities and colleges, its village schools and mission schools, its great centres of learning and its small everyday ones, and its sense that intellectual life is bound up with the life of the soul.

He also emphasises a sense of continuity, and seeks to ensure that St Mary's offers a connection with the Church's great tradition of education and culture.

And amidst the confusions and perplexities of many men doing many things only institutionally connected, the sense of the great tradition of the Church emerges in many places as the idea of a line of march to be taken up, of a direction to be followed, a continuing purpose to be served.

There's a lot I love about the Catholic tradition — the connection to history, the liturgy and ritual, the time for contemplation, the sense that the «great cloud of witnesses» that surrounds us is very much alive and active and a part of our lives.

Certainly there is a tradition that the defeated heretical monks held a rival council of ten thousand members, known as the Great Council, and drew up a different recension of the scriptures which among other things, according to the Dipavamsa, 1 «broke up the sense and doctrine in the five Nikayas,» and «rejecting some portions of the Sutta and the profound Vinaya, they made another counterfeit Sutta and Vinaya.»

Trouble is that a very large proportion of so called Gooners on this site are totally plastic, glory hunting babies with no sense of history, tradition or loyal unending support for a great club.

The stark Irish scenery with its accompanying sense of tragedy, derived from the days of The Great Famine, found later expression in O'Donoghue's art, as did the knowledge and experience he gained from his father Daniel, who introduced his son to many of the great European cultural traditions derived from Classical Greek art, the Renaissance and later Great Famine, found later expression in O'Donoghue's art, as did the knowledge and experience he gained from his father Daniel, who introduced his son to many of the great European cultural traditions derived from Classical Greek art, the Renaissance and later great European cultural traditions derived from Classical Greek art, the Renaissance and later eras.

From reviving old traditions, to mystical landscapes, street art has great potential to beautify our cities and imbue their spaces with a sense of wonder that they sometimes sorely lack.

«Amy is great at blending a sense of tradition with a modern aesthetic,» he explains.