Sentences with phrase «great written tradition»

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Written toward the end of a long career dedicated to the study of religion» his The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions has been a staple on college syllabi since it first appeared in 1958» this book has a definite valedictory feel.

The Pharisees have delivered to the people a great many observances by succession from their fathers, which are not written in the laws of Moses: and for that reason it is that the Sadducees reject them, and say that we are to esteem those observances to be obligatory which are in the written word, but are not to observe what are derived from the tradition of our forefathers.5

Evangelicals stand in continuity with the Great Tradition of Christian believing, confessing, worshiping and acting through the centuries, while not discounting the many local histories that must be written to give a full account of Christian communities in any given era.

The mystical tradition, with which I have great sympathy and about which I have written in the companion volume What can we Learn from Hinduism, unites believers beyond the differences of doctrines and ritual and stresses the longing to experience the presence of God.

After all, when writing a book about music and Christianity, why wouldn't one bother to emphasize that great tradition of musically - focused Christian faith, drawing upon the resources which, in God's providence, that tradition alone could provide.

Exploring the Western tradition of writing from Aeschylus to John Paul II, Lucy Beckett provides an encyclopaedic account of what might be styled an «alternative canon» of great writers.

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.

The most successful part of the work is the study of «oral tradition and written transmission» in rabbinic Judaism, to which Gerhardsson has clearly devoted a great deal of time.

In fact, claims Ong, writing «makes possible the great introspective religious traditions such as Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.»

It is written by a Ceylonese anthropologist, Gananath Obeyesekere, and is one of the best explanations available of the relation between Buddhism and the customs of the country; it presents the Buddhism of the common people, not the Buddhism of the books: «The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism,» The Journal of Asian Studies, February 1963.

In that context we can understand the bicentennial epigram written by Harry Jaffa, one of the few political scientists who continues the great tradition today: «In 1776 the United States was so to speak nothing; but it promised to become everything.

Now these characteristic theological emphases were of great importance for the preservation and formulation of the gospel tradition, even prior to its incorporation in the earliest written Gospel, that of Mark, The whole conception of Jesus» earthly ministry is influenced by them: «Jesus is the Savior, but only as combining in himself the office of a Jewish teacher and that of the hidden Son of Man, by virtue of which twofold office he is able by word and deed to bring men to the «gate» of the Kingdom of God.

A third approach would be to delve more deeply into what Thomas Oden (and others) are calling «the Great Tradition,» «the consensually received instruction in classical Christian writing.»

Modern prejudices are combatted through the study of the great works of authors, musicians, artists, and thinkers that have stood the test of time — and have proved that history, tradition, and mastery of grammar and writing have real and inherent value.

Although redaction criticism tended to give more respect and credit to the individuals who wrote the Gospels than source or form criticism had, it still placed a great emphasis on the prehistory of each Gospel and tended to disintegrate each text into material labeled «tradition» and other material labeled «redaction.»

Tradition and aother biblical writings were given great weight as well, and the bible was not something that was seen as literal or without error... God inspired meant God was the muse or concept that moved people to write about their experiences, as well as a history and a bit of a rule book.

It is said by some that the religion of the greatest sages of the East transcends, in its contemplative vision of God, the tradition of the Hebrews, at least until the writing of the «Wisdom» literature some two hundred years or less before the birth of Christ.

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«The alliance between the United States and Great Britain is a partnership of the heart, bound by the history, traditions and values we share,» they wrote.

«This paper makes the case that endangered Indigenous languages can be repositories for factual knowledge across time depths far greater than previously imagined,» the researchers wrote in their paper, «forcing a rethink of the ways in which such traditions have been dismissed.»

«Jim Watson made a great discovery, wrote a great book, led a great genome project and built a great research tradition at Cold Spring Harbor.»

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Finally - a great film in the tradition of the lost art of superb writing (not to mention wonderful acting).

Neither is scary enough (in the tradition of great baddies like Ursula in the Little Mermaid or Jafar in Aladdin) or written with enough dimension to truly engage.

Angie Sage writes in the tradition of great British storytellers.

«Shakespeare Wrote Hits» is the theme of GCAP 2014, and looks set to ignite debate around the time - hallowed tradition of game developers about the legitimacy of popular culture, while at the same time helping developers do precisely what anyone working in a nascent (if it can so be called) medium must in order to «claim legitimacy»: create great works.

I write at such length and so warmly because Hoyland is a terrific artist and people don't seem to know what's authentic and what isn't right now or the difference between what's academic and what adds an authentic inch or two to a great tradition, as the American painter Morris Louis did with his translucent painted veils and neurasthenic draft of speed and movement, and as Hoyland's work, very differently, does now — only he goes much further.

Writing in the catalogue of the exhibition, Enrique Juncosa, Director of IMMA and curator of the exhibition, describes how Winters, while participating in the aesthetic debates of his time, is also «heir to a tradition that includes some of the greatest names in abstraction — Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock and Cy Twombly — all of whom had a profound impact on 20th - century painting... Winters is without doubt, one of the leading painters maintaining the currency of abstraction after Minimalism.

Regardless, it may very well originate with his father who, Suzuki writes, «found great strength in the Japanese tradition of nature worship.»

Andy Staples wrote a great piece for Sports Illustrated on the importance of tradition in college sports and on the tragic nature of this incident.

From Bryan Garner to Anne Lamott, legal writing has a great tradition of celebrating books of writing advice.

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