Sentences with phrase «important are these traditions»

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

«As with many families across the country, holiday traditions are very important to us.

«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.

The cover story we are publishing this week falls within the traditions of journalism and Rolling Stone's long - standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural issues of our day.

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

«It's even more important that Uber build a company that reflects the multi-racial, multi-cultural character of Oakland and the East Bay community, and its tradition of advocating for racial equality and economic justice.»

«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.

The Bank called Governors» Day a «long - held tradition that is open to all employees — including members of the Monetary Policy Committee — including their families, with the aim of recognising their hard work and dedication... The annual event is an important one for all Bank employees and the Bank strongly believes that this carefully budgeted event is worthwhile.»

The man - made doctrine and traditions of the Church are so important to.

Traditionists who regard the Reformation as normative are necessarily Meliorists with regard to important aspects of the pre-Reformation tradition.

For Catholics, tradition is just important as scripture — maybe even more so.

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.

But the parables of Jesus demonstrate that sometimes we may be forced to change our standards so that important traditions can be made accessible to more people.

The eclipse of communist ideology makes it all the more important to remember that, despite its antireligious tradition, Marxist - Leninist communism was, conceptually, the product of a world that felt the need for a transcendent vision.

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.»

As Robert Louis Wilken has noted on more than one occasion, Maximus the Confessor's use of the phrase «blessed passion of love» evokes ideas that were important to Christian tradition.

The most important contribution of the churches, called for by those who newly look to it with hope, is to affirm the values of our tradition.

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.

The only limitation of this Catholic tradition which I now believe to be important is that the pattern of relations it emphasized did not include relations to the land and to the other creatures with which we share it.

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.»

Nevertheless, McDermott's larger point that mere Christianity is Great - Tradition Christianity remains important.

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.»»

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

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.

Such a new vision is never unrelated to older visions — that is why tradition is so important; but neither is it identical with them — that is why ecstatic reason must also be involved.

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.»

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?

However, as somebody who has read «every word of AA literature,» I'm shocked that you missed the 11th tradition, or failed to learn why it's important.

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.

But reading the Bible prayerfully is a very important strand of the Christian spiritual tradition.

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.

The church is also being regarded as an important community of memory because the other sources of a rich narrative tradition — families, ethnic groups, residential communities — are also subject to the growing pressures of change, while more recent institutions, such as business firms and the mass media, are believed to have only shallow ties to the past.

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.

So quit relying on Jewish scriptures and Hebrew traditions to inform the CHristian church, and look to the simple message of Jesus on the only commandments that are important, and then the answer here is simple — if women are knowledgeable, capable teachers, welcome them to that role, love them for it, and keep the faith.

Al - Ghazzali is known to be the most important thinker prior to Ibn Arabi who attempted to explain the tradition of the prophet, which is believed to be speaking of human correspondence with God.

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.