Sentences with phrase «insofar as a tradition»

Indeed, insofar as that tradition «itself is in full process of evolution» (PAG 66), one might further surmise that someday the thought of Hegel and Whitehead will be seen as preparatory to a more comprehensive processive world view which will enjoy the same unquestioned acceptance as systems of classical metaphysics in generations past.

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.

It is only insofar as a tradition claims universal relevance that its exclusion of the insights of others is problematic in terms of its own norms.

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In terms of structure, they are anti-sectarian — a further reason why the Left, insofar as it is not prepared to re-examine its traditions, has little idea what to do with them.

They would encourage us to go where scripture led, using all the tools available to us, and being prepared to challenge all human traditions, including the «Reformation'traditions themselves, insofar as scripture itself encouraged us to do so.»

From our analysis here, post-conservative theologians and popular expressions of such in some emergent - type movements, insofar as these still place priority on the experience of the individual and in the present over traditions, are still liberal.

whatever a school's commitment to a particular theological tradition may mean, therefore, insofar as it is a school, it can not entail restrictions on the freedom of teachers and learners to differ and be in error.

While I do get interested in Dylan, hippies, Bowie, baroque - rock, and even some art rock, I am overall not a fan of the turn to seriousness in our pop music, whose first big wave came in 1966 - 1975, especially insofar as it snuffed out what was best in the Afro - American tradition.

The feminist theologian approaching this question faces an additional dilemma insofar as the religious narrative of the Western introspective confessional tradition grounds identity in culturally «feminine» terms.

It is a theology purporting to be the expression of a radical Christian tradition — a tradition unknown to the world of Christian theology, because that world is irredeemably satanic insofar as it is bound to the dead body of that God negated and left behind by the forward and apocalyptic movement of the incarnation.

Christians will always be cultural exiles insofar as Christian Tradition is not co-extensive with any single culture or any form of ecclesial existence and thus calls all forms of life into judgment in the light of Christ.

Insofar as we allow ourselves as Christians to know, in all honesty, the longing and the dissatisfactions of this contemporary quest for transcendence and mystery, we are also in a position to respond to it out of the riches of the JudeoChristian tradition, newly revisited.

All such forms are only more or less adequate to the actual occurrence of tradition, and they are to be retained, if at all, only because or insofar as they still make possible the «handing over» which the word «tradition» (tradition) originally signifies.

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.

Insofar as realization of relation with God in one of the dimensions we have discussed excludes communion as a permanent, coequal dimension, it leads to something other than salvation, And, of course, so long as Christians insist on clinging to distinct identities, relations and communion, they will fail to realize the distinctive religious ends of other traditions.

This project entails a critical interrogation of the gospels as source documents, distinguishing, insofar as possible, the various streams of tradition and interpretation that underlie the canonical texts.

On the negative side, insofar as either tradition depends on the other, it may also be subject to long - standing criticisms and weaknesses of that other tradition, as, for example, the problem of justice.

I do not find this so strongly in other process thinkers, and insofar as Muray will not be more specific than that the criterion for reconstituting a tradition is «whatever contributes to the enhancement of relationality and creativity that are true of the fundamental character of reality itself» (93), I do not think he will much like the basis of Hauerwas» critique, namely the stories of the history of Israel and Jesus as they continue to be remembered and enacted in the Christian church.

Truly this work is tenuous, insofar as it depends a great deal upon both the findings of biblical scholars and a creative understanding of the tradition that it seeks to interpret.

Insofar as figures in the republican tradition have shared something like Pettit's ideal, they have been aware that political disagreement means that coercion is inevitable, and the question is who does it to whom.

Bark Your Head Off, Dog continues the Hop Along tradition insofar as it is sharp, well - produced indie rock accompanying Quinlan's bold lyrical earnestness.

Additional highlights include Helen Frankenthaler's Belfry and February Turn (both 1979), which mimic the look and feel of Abstract Expressionism yet in truth represent a rupture with that tradition through the use of a staining technique that seemingly minimizes the artist's role in the process; Frank Stella's Double Scramble (1978), whose nested squares, color contrasts, and pulsing optical effects bridge the artist's early minimalism and later illusionism; and Robert Rauschenberg's Golden Chalice (1989) which, insofar as it marries abstraction and representation and juxtaposes gestural brushwork and photographic media, affords a crucial link to late 20th - century abstraction.

Rothko worked within the tradition of Abstract Expressionism insofar as his creations are expressionistic statements of materiality.

This is Crosby's discursive inventiveness as a painter: insofar as her works make use of photographic transfers, paint, collage, pencil drawing and marble dust, they draw the viewer gently into a conversation about how «painting» might extend and exceed the traditions of exploring the application of paint to surfaces.