Sentences with phrase «inherited a tradition of»

Therefore Williams explicitly repudiated the validity of the inherited tradition of classic Christian theism.

Hence everyone has, of course, the duty to transform and renew from their very roots all these inherited traditions of Christian life, piety and education according to modern needs.

Taken together, they argue for «change» but, in the hands of O'Malley, with a wary glance upon the inherited tradition of the Church, earlier conciliar authenticity and the authority of papal teaching.

The revelation of God, given in Scripture, is regarded as authoritative only insofar as it provides clarifying images which illuminate experience as it is critically interpreted by reason.Theology within this framework articulates the meaning of the inherited tradition of the Christian community in the light of empirical knowledge supplied by the sciences.

Family law is diverging sharply from the inherited traditions of the church.

She uses the visual language and inherited traditions of classical academic western painting, particularly the portrait and still life.

Gottman and DeClaire write «we have inherited a tradition of discounting children's feelings simply because children are smaller, less rational, less experienced, and less powerful than the adults around them» (p. 31).

Not exact matches

Here Shakespeare's a faithful example of our western tradition, which does not honor what is merely inherited.

In his thinking, therefore, there was no break in the continuity of the social group; the church was God's true people, inheriting the promises and carrying on the great tradition of Israel.

It needs to be noted that in the inherited Western tradition, creativity has been seen as an attribute of creatures with mentality, that is to say of human beings only.

One further issue will be addressed in the next chapter, before shifting our attention to the output of those who successfully attacked the inherited tradition and laid the groundwork for a recasting of the pivotal issue at hand.

Unlike much of the inherited tradition where God was conceived as either the retired, uninvolved clockmaker, or as so perfect, eternal, unchanging that the world had no impact on Godself, the process God has a receptive side.

There is only one reference to «inheriting the Kingdom» in the synoptic tradition and that is in the context of the markedly Matthaean parousia parable of Matt.

The only places where anything like a usage parallel to those characteristic of the synoptic tradition are to be found are John 3.3, 5; Acts 14.22; and the references to inheriting the Kingdom or enjoying the blessings of the Age to Come in the Pauline corpus.

And so may you pass from death to life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up in your souls as an eternal endowment.

Rather than deploying inherited wisdom as a means of associating itself with traditional elites, the university has been disparaging tradition, in order to become one with popular taste.

The fearful aspect of the present situation is that those who have inherited the major tradition of the West now have an ethic without a religion, whereas they are challenged by millions who have a religion without an ethic.

God does not arise for us out of inherited tradition, writes Buber, but out of the fusion of a number of «moment Gods.»

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.

Its strong tendency is to find the norms for Christians in the depths of the inherited dominant tradition.

Nevertheless I am convinced that what has been said is on the right lines and that it provides a kind of summary of the best insight and interpretation in the theological tradition which we have inherited.

We ask them for guidance in beginning and starting over again, not against or as an alternative to our inherited tradition, but in confidence that the Church, our mother, lives for the sake of ever more fully serving the truth of Christ.

When these factors are added to a tradition of weak child - rearing skills inherited from a traumatized past the resulting disastrous offspring is well nigh inevitable.

Neither there nor elsewhere does Paul refer to the empty tomb, and his emphatic «flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God» certainly suggests that when Paul wrote First Corinthians he did not know of the empty tomb tradition.

While these notions seem terribly abstract, nevertheless, in the case of Christianity, we see them operating as we acknowledge the disharmony as well as deprivation of greater richness in the sexism, racism and anti-Judaism of its inherited tradition.

like most of us, inherited an immense tradition that there ought to be justice.

Unlike much of the inherited Western tradition, which has equated creativity with mentality and attributed it only to human beings, process thought considers anything actual at all an instance of creativity, from the tiniest energy event to the most complex creatures we are aware of, human beings; some degree of mentality is present in no matter how rudimentary, even negligible, a form.

Its history predates Christ on earth: the chanting of sacred Scripture is a tradition we have inherited from the Jews.

The mainline Protestant tradition had inherited the establishmentarian mentality of New England Puritanism, along with Puritanism's urgent moralism.

Reviewing the exegetical search of the early writers involves, then, for those of us who have come into the inheritance of these traditions, the responsibility not only to interact with these inherited traditions, but also to interpret these in the context of the «extratextual hermeneutics that is slowly emerging as a distinctive Asian contribution to theological methodology [which] seeks to transcend the textual, historical, and religious boundaries of Christian tradition and cultivate a deeper contact with the mysterious ways in which people of all religious persuasions have defined and appropriated humanity and divinity.»

We must go about being faithful — with eyes open to what is happening around us, and hearts and minds fully engaged in the traditions we have inherited and the demands of the present age.

At the same time the church is a community of the present, so that the inherited tradition and the social and biographical situation of the moment are always enmeshed with each other, Insofar as the tradition side retains the «gospel,» it has a certain primacy over the contemporaneous side; that is, Christ should transform culture.

To claim, as process thinkers do, that the self is the momentary self in its subjective immediacy goes not only contrary to the insights of the inherited tradition and common sense but presents a serious philosophical problem.

Particularly in America, evangelicalism inaugurated new impulses» more oriented to the Bible and individual conscience than to tradition or history, more pragmatic than dogmatic, more entrepreneurial and self - motivating than tied to inherited patterns of operations.

On the other hand, I see a much more dynamic relationship between the inherited worldviews of these communities and the traditions presently practiced by them.

Whenever this passage becomes too hot to handle, there is a sad, cowardly tendency in the Christian tradition of retreating to one verse: «Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.»

You will learn to look behind both the questions and the resources Christianity gives for answering them, so that you can better understand and evaluate your own religious beliefs in relation to those of the tradition you have inherited or adopted.

We are accustomed to thinking of the «costs» of modernization in the developing nations: the disrupted traditions, the break - up of families and villages, the impact of vast economic and social forces that can neither be understood nor adapted to in terms of inherited wisdom and ways of living.

In the Old Testament this problem took shape from current circumstance and inherited tradition and in many forms is present in the writings of Israel.

These ideas we inherit — they form the tradition of our civilisation.

The redaction critic is supposed to find the word or phrase that reveals the editorial activity of the evangelist in shaping the tradition he inherited.

And such a man could and would do good works and make good use of spiritual advice — Luther proceeded to run through the Judaic «Ten Commandments» from the Old Testament and to pour out advice inherited from a long tradition, salted by his own experience covering most spheres of human activity from insufficient discipline for instance in sexual matters, to excess of discipline in, for instance, diet.

But unfortunately, it seems that Fitzgerald cuts off his ability to inherit — and possibly, see — this tradition when he implies that the the road to a healthy intellectualism necessarily leads one out of the movement.

As we come to the end of our discussion, I wish to return for a moment to the specifically Christian concerns which seem to me, as one who wishes to be integrally Christian in every aspect of my existence, of great importance to those of us who inherit the Christian tradition and, sometimes almost in spite of ourselves, live within the Christian culture.

Some traditions may understand their primary task to be maintaining the separateness of their people from others or keeping their inherited wisdom intact and unaffected.

Theology inherits the Sinai tradition, much compromised especially by those who wear the badge of Sinai and Golgotha: Thou shall not kill!

However, in the case of Christianity, we see them operating as we acknowledge the disharmony as well as deprivation of greater richness in the sexism, racism, anti-Judaism of its inherited tradition.

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

But Herbert's parson is also equipped with «a slighter form of Catechizing, fitter for country people» (Chapter V); the straightforward tradition of religious instruction which the modern parish priest inherits from his medieval predecessor has never been forgotten.

But in recent years, a new small «c» conservatism has also entered the British character, a cast of mind that places new worth and value on tradition, locality and inherited ways of life.