Sentences with phrase «historical traditions such»

The artists work with impressions from contemporary culture such as cartoon series and graffiti, yet when doing so, also engage with art historical traditions such as Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Neorealism, Pop Art or 1960s Performance Art.

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But I find it interesting to examine the historical underpinnings of some of our traditions, such as the date of Jesus» birth.

Allison argues that such criteria for determining the historical core of the Jesus traditions should be abandoned.

The effort to distinguish a historical event from later interpretation is a standard historical procedure, just as it is to question the historicity of such details in the tradition as dearly betray that later interpretation.

The Beelzebul controversy which Mark (3.19 - 22) supplies as the context for his version of the tradition with which we are concerned may or may not be historical, but it is certainly evidence for the fact that in the first century exorcisms as such were comparatively meaningless until they were interpreted.

Such a principle of historical thinking has led to significant reinterpretation of biblical materials, including the miracle traditions about Jesus, the resurrection, and the ascription of titles of divinity to Jesus.

The past which the Christian community or tradition inherits is first of all the event from which it took its origin — Jesus Christ as an historical reality, with all that this includes such as the preparation in Judaism for his coming, the way in which he was received and understood in his own time, his own sense of vocation for whatever he undertook, and the way in which he has come to have significance for later generations.

Coupled with some of the tools of biblical criticism (such as the criteria of Embarrassment, Double Discontinuity and Multiple Attestation), he seeks to demonstrate the case for the origin of the Johannine tradition in the words and actions of the historical Jesus, as passed on by eyewitness accounts and possibly by John the son of Zebedee himself.

Critical scholarship — not only historical critical scholarship, but also newer approaches to the Bible using critical theory — has pressed our understanding of the texts and traditions of ancient Christianity to the point where organized Christianity, if it were to be guided by such work, would have to begin to rethink some of its basic theological commitments.

But if Wilckens is right in saying that «Paul himself obviously has no concrete knowledge about Jesus» grave, nor of the finding of the empty tomb», 20 then any such traditions could hardly have been historical, for if so, Paul would certainly have learned of them when he conferred with Peter.

Being personal and subjective, faith is not open to historical and objective study as the cumulative tradition is, yet without such faith there would have been no such tradition.

Well, clearly, we have to ask ourselves the question as to whether this saying should now be attributed to the early Church or to the historical Jesus, and the nature of the synoptic tradition is such that the burden of proof will be upon the claim to authenticity.

On the other hand, scholars who were sensitive to the differences between the historical Jesus and the Christ of the gospel tradition tended to see their task as depicting the historical Jesus in such a way that they and their readers might enter into his experience and so share his confidence in God, (For example, B. Harvie Branscomb, The Teachings of Jesus [New York: Abingdon Press, 1931], p. 209: «This is the source and ground of Jesus» confidence and courage....

Indeed, on accepting this view of the tradition, one's first impulse is simply to give up the ghost and content oneself with selecting from the earlier strata of the tradition such teaching as is in keeping with one's overall view of the historical Jesus, making no systematic attempt to defend the authenticity of each saying used.

The ideas on which the formula was based came out of ancient ancestral traditions; the logic of the doctrine was unassailable once the premises were granted; great prophets, such as Amos, Micah, and Jeremiah, held stoutly to it; and the formula was confirmed and solidified by the final rewriting of the Hebrew historical narratives to illustrate the thesis that every calamity in Israel's record had been a definite punishment for Israel's transgression.

However, I would join those who argue that the ancient church, being in such close historical, geographical, linguistic, and conceptual proximity to the New Testament era and to its parent religion, Judaism, is characterized by a sustained attempt to remain faithful to the apostolic tradition.

And an old historical relativist perspective reminds me that, like most Christians, my being such is an accident of history and biology just as accidents of history determine other religious traditions and who belongs to them.

As the tradition is now enveloped in legend, there is no way of discovering the historical circumstances of the call of Moses, but we can be reasonably confident that there was such a man, who led a band of Hebrews in a dramatic escape from Egyptian slavery, and one of the oldest elements in the tradition is a song which celebrates the defeat of the Pharaoh's army in the waters of the Sea of Reeds.

Dr. Karen Lawson revisits the historical battles that healing traditions have faced such as homeopathy, chiropractic and osteopathy, and the compromises that were made to achieve recognition within the healthcare system.

When presented to students through a lively pedagogy of received wisdom, such as may be found in common maxims and precepts, these moral traditions can provide a compelling historical dimension to character education.

Such stories invite students to compare historical traditions from Western and Indigenous perspectives.

The selection also illustrates some of the art - historical traditions in L.A. such as 1960s Pop art, the Conceptual art of the 1970s, Minimalism with its Finish Fetish, the Light and Space movement, the great and important post-conceptual movements, and not least all the artists with a social and political engagement.

Even as his work historically emerges from these traditions — organizing simple structures, the use of objects as integers in a larger series, a simple declarative use of materials — his work also foregrounds aspects of such works that have become lost in the art historical context.

The ever - shifting series of images in Thomas's dynamic video include many historical referents such as classicizing, white women of the French academic tradition and pictures of Sarah Baartman, so - called «Hottentot Venus,» a South African woman who was exhibited in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

By engaging with the traditions of painterly practice but normalising the almost exclusive presentation of black people within her work, Yiadom - Boakye's formal investigations of composition, structure and palette also raise questions of identity, visibility and representation, pointing to the dearth of such depictions in the Western art - historical canon.

First, from an art - historical perspective, the equation between art and reality conjures up the tradition of the readymade initiated by Marcel Duchamp and transformed by postwar artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, who in 1959 famously declared: «Painting relates to