She uses the visual language and
inherited traditions of classical academic western painting, particularly the portrait and still life.
Family law is diverging sharply from
the inherited traditions of the church.
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.
Therefore Williams explicitly repudiated the validity of
the inherited tradition of classic Christian theism.
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.
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.