Sentences with phrase «interpret other traditions»

He shows how critics rooted in one philosophical tradition typically interpret other traditions in ways that are different from the interpretations of those who inhabit those traditions.

Not exact matches

Others would argue that we should not open «sensitive» areas of our economy to companies controlled by a government that does not share democratic traditions as we interpret them.

Yet such theological thinking must be undertaken in full awareness that theologians and thinkers of other traditions not only «listen in» on our conversations, but also are engaged in interpreting religious plurality in the context of their own traditions of faith.

In our dialogue with other traditions, the key to sustaining conversation (rather than cutting it short by claims that others will interpret as arrogant) is to keep before ourselves the possibility that in some way or other all religions may be relative, culturally specific ways of looking toward an ineffable mystery.

This means that context — in the broad sense of cultural, religious, social, political and economical circumstances — and text — as Scripture in its process of transmission and interpretation, that is, its Tradition — do mutually interpret each other.

Before the New Testament was put together, from the oral traditions about Jesus and the letters and other material known in the primitive Christian community, appeal was made to the Old Testament, that is the Jewish Scriptures, for predictions of and a way for interpreting the significance of Jesus.

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

When theological schemes are interpreted against the background of this wider reality, we can come to see that the concerns which have shaped specific theological positions are ones that other traditions often share, even if with a different emphasis and linked with other concerns.

We then set out grounds for judging the position to be contrary to Catholic faith, that is, to Scripture and teachings that definitively pertain to Tradition, each interpreted in the other's light.

7.13 in the parousia sense, and the other (represented in Mark 14.62 a and Acts 7.56) a development of a tradition interpreting the resurrection in terms of Ps.

In this atmosphere, Jean Renoir, anticipating war and deeply troubled by the mood he felt around him, thought he might best interpret that state of mind by creating a story in the spirit of French comic theater, from Marivaux to Musset, a tradition in which the force that sets every character in motion is love and the characters have no other occupation to interfere with this pursuit.

His series Whitewashed looks at how contemporary Western culture interprets Oriental tradition from its own perspective, and speaks to the phenomenon of transforming, reproducing, and consuming those original images to fit other public and social tastes.