Sentences with phrase «in medieval tradition»

Steeped in medieval tradition and architecture, the place known as the «City of a Hundred Spires» offers a number of must - see attractions as the Prague Castle, St. Vitus Cathedral, Charles Bridge and Wenceslas Square.

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The inadequacy of the modern, secularist alternative to medieval disputationism (whether of the rejectionist or accommodationist type) is that it assumes that humans can transcend their traditions and simply reconstitute themselves in an ahistorical realm, one whose simplicity and transparent rationality will overcome the complexities of the past.

According to The New Encyclopædia Britannica, the one called St.Augustine's «mind was the crucible in which the religion of the New Testament was most completely fused with the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy; and it was also the means by which the product of this fusion was transmitted to the Christendoms of medieval Roman Catholicism and Renaissance Protestantism.»

Often more active in the world than in a Church that is still clinging to many of its medieval traditions which bind it like a grave cloth.

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the romantic movement, reached conventional respectability and domestication in the nineteenth century, and now seems out of date.

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.

There has also been a deliberate attempt to develop our particular situation into a strong culture for the College, mainly rooted in traditions that staff experienced in their own schools a generation ago, or in revivals of medieval traditions, such as that of the boy - bishop (a boy rules the College for a day on the feast of St Nicholas.)

The other tradition — rooted in Judeo - Christian practice transmitted through Roman, medieval and common law, then through European philosophy to the American Constitution — stresses what E. J. Corwin has called «the higher law background» of our legal tradition.

After Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII corrected the Kantianism and Hegelianism of some early - nineteenth century Catholic intellectuals» namely Georg Hermes and Anton Günther» a tradition - oriented ethos developed in which Catholic thinkers, by and large, resisted the temptations of modernity and instead harvested the wisdom rooted in ancient and medieval sources.

Black theology has its deepest rootage in the experience of enslaved and oppressed Africans, and in their appropriation of the witness of scripture; but not in the philosophical and theological traditions of the Western academy and in its medieval and Greek forebears.

[1] Later talmudic texts affirm belief in a G - d - given oral tradition [2], as do the writings of medieval and post-medieval Orthodox scholars.

The tale of Lilith originates in a medieval work called «the Alphabet of Ben - Sira, The story of Lilith is not actually found in any authentic Rabbinic tradition.

In this sense, these positions come full circle and begin to look like that great ritual enemy of Protestantism; namely, the mechanical view of the sacraments attributed to the medieval tradition.

Patristic and medieval hymns are finding greater currency among some Evangelicals, while Catholics today praise God in the songs of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and others in the Evangelical tradition.

By the following century Lutheran theology had returned to the medieval tradition in which it was thought that the souls of the departed already live in blessedness with Christ in a bodiless condition, and where, for this reason, the significance of the general resurrection was considerably lessened.56 It was left to extremist Christian groups, such as the Anabaptists, to affirm the doctrine of soul - sleep and to describe human destiny solely in terms of a fleshly resurrection at the end - time.

The Italian Nobel prize - winning playwright Dario Fo, author of Accidental Death of an Anarchist, has traced Grillo's emergence to a tradition going back in Italian culture to medieval times — of the giullari, or «jugglers,» strolling comics who went around trading in sarcasm, irony, ridicule, and stories at the expense of the great and powerful.

First, those who imagine that behavior modification techniques are a twentieth century innovation may have forgotten how prevalent some behaviorist assumptions have been in the Christian tradition generally, and particularly in the early medieval monastic and penitential traditions.

This is why post-Reformation Protestant scholasticism, according to Willem van Asselt, was «much broader and more diverse in its use of materials of the Christian tradition, particularly the medieval scholastic doctors,» than were the Reformers themselves.

Grierson is very emphatic about Christian Influence on Bhakti tradition in South India in the medieval period.

It was once primarily a matter of liberal arts, a tradition developed in the Medieval period when universities were closely tied to the church and theology was the queen of the sciences.

No members of the nobility became Protestant preachers — in contrast to the medieval tradition.

In fact the whole series of English devotional manuals from Cosin's in 1627, which picks up the tradition of the medieval and Elizabethan Primers, down to Thomas Nelson's Companions (to the Altar and to the Festivals and Fasts), the work of a nonjuring laymIn fact the whole series of English devotional manuals from Cosin's in 1627, which picks up the tradition of the medieval and Elizabethan Primers, down to Thomas Nelson's Companions (to the Altar and to the Festivals and Fasts), the work of a nonjuring laymin 1627, which picks up the tradition of the medieval and Elizabethan Primers, down to Thomas Nelson's Companions (to the Altar and to the Festivals and Fasts), the work of a nonjuring layman

The word carnival, another common name for the pre-Lenten festivities, also derives from this feasting tradition: in Medieval Latin, carnelevarium means to take away or remove meat, from the Latin carnem for meat.»

The resources tell the Christmas story, look into traditions today and explore how Christmas was celebrated in the Tudor and Medieval period.

What was true of the ancient Greeks who maintained a vast oral tradition of epic poetry through repetition and embellishment, or of medieval troubadours who spread songs across continents, with each new singer making alterations, is also true of content created in digital media.

In medieval times, philosophers and theologians believed that the exchange of goods should be governed by a «just price,» determined by tradition or the intrinsic value of things.

CRACE»S HAUNTING FABLE Jim Crace's starkly beautiful new novel, Harvest, takes place in a small, tradition - bound village in an era that feels medieval.

We also organize COOKING CLASS / CULTURAL TOUR in a day tour close to Rome: an unique experience about Italian Food Tradition, hand - on pasta, plus a dive in the past visiting a medieval village with a famous Abbey back in 12th Century.

Similarly, Koons's Winter Bears, 1988, carved in the tradition of medieval German church sculpture, could be read as a metaphor of Adam and Eve.

Motifs from Western and Eastern pictorial traditions are regularly referenced in his works, and we often find visual references to Medieval and Renaissance paintings.

Carnivalesque transgressive rituals and anarchic humour are residues of subcultural, pre-Christian traditions, which is why laughing and smiling were banned in the art of medieval Christian Europe.

Earlier in May the streets of Madrid were taken over by flower queens to welcome in the spring with old medieval traditions.

In Italian medieval fresco traditions, like the mostly - destroyed ones in Pisa, the escaping soul is depicted as a baby floating out from the deceased mouth; this dolphin seemed too to be gently and sadly seeking transcendencIn Italian medieval fresco traditions, like the mostly - destroyed ones in Pisa, the escaping soul is depicted as a baby floating out from the deceased mouth; this dolphin seemed too to be gently and sadly seeking transcendencin Pisa, the escaping soul is depicted as a baby floating out from the deceased mouth; this dolphin seemed too to be gently and sadly seeking transcendence.

In the same way that Gustave Courbet's work challenged the traditions of painting by depicting ordinary people on a heroic scale, Wheat seeks to reapply the idea of the large - scale tapestry, hung primarily behind royal thrones and used as symbols of authority during medieval times, by re-contextualizing their use and imagery.

That song tradition itself originated deep in the past with the medieval troubadours who fused word and music in their encounters with their life and times; honoring Dylan, America's troubadour, takes us full circle to poetry's origins.

Roman Legal Tradition is a peer - reviewed journal dedicated to the civilian tradition in ancient, medieval, and moTradition is a peer - reviewed journal dedicated to the civilian tradition in ancient, medieval, and motradition in ancient, medieval, and modern law.

Just a short post (since I'm on the road) but the O'Quinn Law Library has launched a site called The Anglo - American Legal Tradition which reproduces images of legal documents from Medieval and Early Modern England from the Public Records Office in London.