Sentences with phrase «important tradition in»

Alexandra Pagar, Director of Brand Partnerships: «Decorating for the holidays has been a very important tradition in my family since I was a little girl.

If religion is an important tradition in your family, you can tailor your toast with a message from God or the Bible:

Cinco de Mayo is an important tradition in Mexico and a good opportunity to learn about the customs and rich cultural heritage of our southern neighbors.

The11th Tradition is a very important Tradition in my opinion as it keeps us all as equals among our fellowship.

The authors are engaged with one of the most important traditions in Islamic intellectual life, Shari`a reasoning.

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Red packets, also known as hongbao in Mandarin Chinese, are an important tradition of the festival.

«It is an important tradition for all of us in DHL — the chance to work with community partners and deploy our global shipping network — and one we look forward to every year.

Because so much of our year is spent in the workplace, it is important to extend this tradition into our professional lives.

«Indigenous peoples are being forced into long and costly court battles to defend their traditions and ways of life because governments in Canada still refuse to accept the need to work collaboratively with Indigenous peoples on important decisions about environmental protection and resource development,» said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.

Borges, for instance, believed him a far more important figure in French letters than any of his more celebrated near contemporaries, and credited him with having invented an entirely new approach to aesthetic experience, reconciling (without merging) the traditions of Asia and Europe.

those Jews and Christians who still believe that their respective religious traditions can speak to them and to the world beyond them have an important opportunity to speak to each other in a new way.

But one important difference is that an essential part of the peyote ritual is to experience God through the mind - altering effects of the drug; that is not part of the communion service in any Christian tradition, and it is not part of any Jewish celebrations or rituals.

Christianity differs from every other tradition in religiously important ways.

All in all, Gottlieb argues, «Mendelssohn's skill in showing how an enlightened, tolerant concept of Judaism can be drawn from Jewish sources provides an important model for how a premodern religious tradition can be brought into harmony with modern humanistic principles.»

His argument on the point that concerns us is that Mark 13.32 must be held to be the all - important text; Mark 9.1 has been formed in the tradition from Mark 13.30, which itself originally referred to the Fall of Jerusalem and Destruction of the Temple; and Matt.

Was not something important lost in not being more consciously Jewish in the way Georgetown declares itself the «heir to the long and rich Catholic and Jesuit tradition of caring for the sick,» as it says on its website?

Madison's implicit assumption, and that of the entire tradition of religious toleration until the last few decades, however, was that religious diversity and conflict would involve competing sects that differ on some important questions of doctrine and practice but nonetheless share in common a basic Judeo - Christian orientation that is also, in very broad terms, our society's implicit civil religion.

One of the most important steps in the development of primitive Christian doctrine, and by far the most important for the tradition embodied in Mark and the Synoptics, took place when Jesus was identified with this celestial figure of apocalyptic expectation.

Worship style and denominational affiliation are not particularly important, although we've limited our search to churches in the Protestant tradition.

All this is basic to contemporary work on the theology of the synoptic evangelists and their tradition; indeed, this contemporary work is consciously built upon the foundations laid by Bultmann in this most important book.

Richard Steel, an evangelical church pastor in Stratford - upon - Avon, believes the shroud stands above Protestant concerns about the veneration of relics in the Catholic tradition, saying: «If it is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, it's one of the most important relics that the Christian Church has.»

They need to be read correctly, to be widely known and taken to heart as important and normative texts of the Magisterium, within the Church's Tradition... I feel more than ever in duty bound to point to the Council as the great grace bestowed on the Church in the 20th century.»»

Wether in Latin or the vernacular, chant is an integrall and important part of our Christian heritage and living tradition.

This is a tragic development in a tradition which once believed that baptism was important enough to die for.

In a combative interview with the BBC, Patten described Benedict as «the greatest intellectual to be pope since Innocent III,» a «world class theologian,» who had a «really important message about the Christian roots of civilization in this country, and in Europe, and the way in which we can become more self - confident in asserting those Christian traditions.&raquIn a combative interview with the BBC, Patten described Benedict as «the greatest intellectual to be pope since Innocent III,» a «world class theologian,» who had a «really important message about the Christian roots of civilization in this country, and in Europe, and the way in which we can become more self - confident in asserting those Christian traditions.&raquin this country, and in Europe, and the way in which we can become more self - confident in asserting those Christian traditions.&raquin Europe, and the way in which we can become more self - confident in asserting those Christian traditions.&raquin which we can become more self - confident in asserting those Christian traditions.&raquin asserting those Christian traditions.»

Sources for socially engaged Buddhism can certainly be found in Buddhist traditions, and Buddhists can point to important instances of social action for noble causes in their history.

it's more important that they do their evil in darkness due to keeping the traditions of men.

Can we imagine how much of the Catholic tradition has been forgotten when it is said by a Catholic theologian that God - images have never been very important in Christian art?

This dimension of Hellenism is an important source of much of our traditional dualisms, such as soul - body and the denigration of worldliness, which in part was adopted by the Christian tradition.

While this may seem to be theological nit - picking, the differences create important differences in the spiritual and ecclesiastical experience of the average layfolk in the two traditions.

To be sure, it has often been argued that it does not really matter whether Jesus lived — that we have emerging in the Gospels and in the tradition of the church a certain portrait of him and only the portrait is important.

Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»

Is there any sense in which family traditions and family obligations remain important in today's world?»

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

What is important for our purposes is to recognize that he is in the tradition of Leopold, emphasizing systems rather than individuals in his treatment of nature's value.

Furthermore, it is very important to consider tradition in this regard; that is, the way in which the heritage from the past functions for each new generation — sometimes being appropriated rather fully, sometimes being rejected or ignored and other times being creatively reinterpreted in the new situation.

While it was prominent in German pietism in the post-Reformation period, and was particularly important in the Calvinist Reformation (where Psalm texts dominated), the modern hymn book is heavily influenced by the 19th - century tradition of the English hymn.

It is important to acknowledge that, like most congregations, they are very aware of the way in which they are free to shape their own particular lives around a wide variety of traditions and practices.

This question of «right authority» in the just war tradition seems to me especially important in considering the phenomenon of terrorism.

As we talk about the just war tradition that developed in the West, we should recognize that it overlaps in important ways with the jihad tradition.

Thus we find examples of the just war tradition in theorists of the law of nations and in positive international law; we have a form of this tradition in modern military codes, rules of engagement, and praxis; and two of the most important theorists of just war over the past forty years have been the Protestant theologian Paul Ramsey and the political philosopher Michael Walzer.

In this section I believe the contemporary Catechism has lost sight of an important part of the just war tradition.

But what is important is not that certain books be read as an end in themselves, but that they be read because of their relationship to other books in a tradition and community that make such a conversation significant.

But more important than any of those contextual factors, a congregation's sense of identification with a particular denominational tradition is closely tied to how many of its members grew up in the tradition.

In terms of the just war tradition regarding the just use of force, its most important defects are those stemming from the lack of sovereign authority.

During the Renaissance, the Catholic Church served as the most important institutional incubator of the classical tradition in architecture and its allied arts.

For example, I have for the last ten years (but not before) always added the important qualifier «mutually critical» to the word «correlation» in order to indicate the fuller range of possible correlations between some interpretation of the situation and some interpretation of the tradition.

It is also important for the evolving religious life of thousands of persons dissatisfied with the religious traditions or congregations in which they find themselves.

It is important in this connection to distinguish very clearly within each tradition between its fundamental unity and the unity of harmonization, fruit of the «Biblical» spirit, «between saga produced near the historical occurrences, the character of which is enthusiastic report, and saga which is further away from the historical event, and which derives from the tendency to complete and round off what is already given.»

In short, the common tradition holds that it is as important to give attention to the personal beliefs and qualities those given office ought to manifest as it is to the precise duties of the office they might hold.