Sentences with phrase «in centuries of tradition»

The pace of change in the digital world, characterised by innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, has not always matched the often slow and cumbersome process of the legal world, steeped as it is in centuries of tradition.

While ikebana is a practice still immersed in centuries of tradition, Kasuya's Ichiyo School seeks to update the form and stress the arranger's ability to express emotions or ideas.

«Inspired by vibrant jockey silks which are drenched in centuries of tradition and superstition, the restaurant's visual language is an eclectic mix of bold geometric shapes juxtaposed against vintage British typography and Victorian illustrations from old advertisements.

Steeped in centuries of tradition, National Video Games Day is ritually observed by snacking, gaming marathons and caffiene - induced mayhem.

The cultural, the Hindus Bali religion, and local art are steeped in centuries of tradition, play a major role everyday life of the Balinese.

Dotted with magnificent estates and castles, laced with fragrant vineyards, and steeped in centuries of tradition, the sun - dappled countryside of the Czech Republic is a hiker's paradise.

Each one of these recipes may be based in centuries of tradition, but they've all been given a vegan or vegetarian twist.

Not exact matches

The fields of academia and education are one of the most conservative fields — there are centuries - old traditions and conventional that has remained in use to the detriment of new technology.

Boasting romantic 18th - century architecture, and a rich artistic and cultural tradition, the colonial city of Cuenca is set high in Ecuador's Andes Mountains.

McKay contrasts the proud investigative journalism tradition that brought down the Standard Oil monopoly at the turn of the last century and the Nixon presidency in the 1970s with a form of business reporting that has been «notorious for failing to detect bubbles before they burst with calamitous consequences.»

Fast forward to the 21st century and the tradition of the coffeehouse as radical hub continues in the form of Paralelní Polis's Bitcoin Coffee in the suburb of Holešovice.

In the nineteenth - century movement for German unification, the inhabitants of the left bank of the Rhine tended to favor the so - called «Greater German Solution» that called for a de-centralized, subsidiary German nation, which would include Austria and Bohemia, and be under Habsburg leadership, thus continuing the traditions of the Holy Roman Empire.

Such accusations were presented by the Roman Critic Celsus (citing Jewish traditions) in the 2nd century AD and of course, denied by Christian Apologists.

It is built on centuries of apostolic tradition passed down from age to age in the fullness of Christ.

It turns out that the oldest codes in the Near Eastern legal tradition, Sumerian laws from the 21st century BCE, also have payment in place of retaliation.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

Without denying the place that Protestant reformers occupy in evangelical faith, it should be said that classic Christian teaching, whether in the realm of doctrine or ethics, is best defined not against the backdrop of the sixteenth century, but rather in the light of the broader apostolic tradition.

Advocates of canonical education view with dismay the decline over the last century in the «authority of tradition.»

Thus, to invoke the Russian Church's traditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries requires us to engage in historical reconstruction rather than to nurture beliefs and practices that are ongoing.

If they read Mormon.org they will see that it is misleading in terms of presenting the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as if it were the Christian concept, when in fact they reject the Christian tradition as having fallen centuries ago.

It is very difficult to try to understand how an eighteenth - century figure would have reacted to the later struggles of the nineteenth century and how the tradition should be interpreted with integrity in a new age.

In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the Fifth Sunday of Lent is dedicated to the story of St. Mary of Egypt, who lived in the fifth centurIn the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the Fifth Sunday of Lent is dedicated to the story of St. Mary of Egypt, who lived in the fifth centurin the fifth century.

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

Centuries of separation and polemics have led Protestantism in some quarters to imagine that the biblical witness could be disentangled from the Church's history, tradition, and teaching office.

With the great Jewish thinker of the early part of this century, Franz Rosenzweig, he believes that Jews need to understand anew that «the Jewish vocation, rooted in the biblical tradition, is to be an instrument for the redemption of all humankind.»

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

Almost forgotten in the last two decades of his life and completely forgotten today except by students of American religious history, Ward was a nationally prominent radical in the early twentieth - century tradition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel movement.

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

Upon the basis of Paul's teaching, taken alone, Christianity might possibly have foundered a century later in the rising sea of Gnosticism; possessing Mark's compilation of the historic traditions, later amplified by the other evangelists, the church held true to its course, steering with firm, unslackened grip upon the historic origins of its faith.

The compilation of the Traditions took final form at the hands of Bukhari and Muslim in the third century (ninth century A.D.), and today most Muslims recognize their work as the two correct books on Traditions.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

The notion has tantalized many, including Tertullian and Irenacus, and though it received little assistance from either Platonism or Aristotelianism because of their denigration of matter and the body (and hence did not enter the mainstream of either Augustinian or Thomistic theology), it surfaced powerfully in Hegel as well as in twentieth - century process theologies.22 The mystical tradition within Christianity has carried the notion implicitly, even though the metaphor of body may not appear: «The world is charged with the grandeur of God» (Gerard Manley Hopkins, 27).

The Qur» an, which was revealed almost fourteen centuries ago, and the Traditions concerning the Prophet who lived that long ago exclusively in a desert society can not serve as explicit guides for every situation which might arise centuries later, and especially in the complex societies of the present day.

Perhaps it is necessary to admit that the narrative, at least in the grand nineteenth - century tradition of Tolstoy, Austen, and Melville, is not the form for our time.

I think the article has one detail confused: the Coptic Orthodox Church is not, in fact, part of what is typically referred to as the «Eastern Orthodox» tradition, but part of the «Oriental Orthodox» tradition, which split off several centuries before the Eastern Orthodox / Roman Catholic split, at the time of the Council of Chalcedon.

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.»»

There has undoubtedly been a break in the twentieth century with the tradition of romantic love which arose in the later phase of medieval culture, flourished in the «courts of love» in the fifteenth century, gave birth to the literature of the romantic movement, reached conventional respectability and domestication in the nineteenth century, and now seems out of date.

But in this country there is not the sharp black - and - white contrast between Christians and pagans, largely, I believe, because the whole life of the country has been soaked for many centuries in the Christian tradition.

«The bulk of the Regensburg address was directed to Christian intellectuals who, in the name of «de-Hellenizing» Christianity, pit biblical faith against the great synthesis of faith and reason achieved over the centuries of the Christian intellectual tradition.

For centuries Eve has been blamed as the one almost solely responsible for what happens in the Eden story, and that has resulted in all kinds of oppressive policies in religious traditions and cultural stigmas against women.

Though he devotes the first chapter to «Marriage as Sacrament in the Roman Catholic Tradition,» Witte's analysis concentrates principally on the medieval centuries and concludes with some brief remarks on the marriage legislation of the Council of Trent in 1563.

Mindfulness has a rich history in the Christian tradition through the ancient practice of contemplative prayer, which dates back to the Desert Fathers and Mothers during the fourth and fifth centuries.

Simon said in the course of their centuries - old tradition on the mountain, the monks viewed it as just a speed bump.

The orthodox are stuck in the 19th century believing that they are following the religion of 3000 years earlier, when, in fact, most of their traditions are based on experiences in the diaspora of the last 1900 years, but mostly limited to the past 200.

This is strikingly apposite to the thought of Jesus» saying, and the fact that it is in the Midrash Rabbah certainly does not preclude the possibility that the tradition goes back to the first century.

It was in this spirit of mediating tradition with the challenges of the twentieth century that the forty - two - year - old Dubois, recognized as a gifted theologian and scholar of Thomas Aquinas, was tasked by his superiors with strengthening the Catholic presence in Israel.

However, it is unclear whether she links the tradition of ontological change only to the «newer» (that is, from the 11th and 12th centuries onwards) and «narrower» (pp205 - 206) interpretation of ordination, for she suggests that an ontological change took place in both St Peter and St Paul symbolised by their name changes in the New Testament (p47).

More recently, Donald Dayton has shown in The Theological Roots of Pentecostalism (1987) that these developments in the Wesleyan and Reformed traditions were two wings of a larger movement taking place in 19th - century evangelicalism.

In Jewish tradition, we frequently speak in terms of «Written Torah» (the text of the Hebrew Scriptures as they have come down to us) and «Oral Torah» (the ensuing centuries of conversations and interpretations of our sages and rabbis, which are also considered to be holyIn Jewish tradition, we frequently speak in terms of «Written Torah» (the text of the Hebrew Scriptures as they have come down to us) and «Oral Torah» (the ensuing centuries of conversations and interpretations of our sages and rabbis, which are also considered to be holyin terms of «Written Torah» (the text of the Hebrew Scriptures as they have come down to us) and «Oral Torah» (the ensuing centuries of conversations and interpretations of our sages and rabbis, which are also considered to be holy.)

Abu Zaid may be said to have revived an ancient Muslim tradition, that of the Mu» tazilites, who flourished in the 9th century.