Sentences with phrase «interpreting historical traditions»

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In the broader historical perspective Whitehead thus stands in the neo-Platonic tradition which situated Platonic «Ideas» in God and [230] interpreted them as God's ideas for creation.

When later tradition interprets Moses as a performing prophet, as a prophet whose primary medium is not utterance, but action, we wonder if this may not reflect typo - logical characterization at least in part; the tendency, that is, to see in Moses and Samuel a common «type,» playing similarly vigorous, creative historical roles.

The Beelzebul controversy which Mark (3.19 - 22) supplies as the context for his version of the tradition with which we are concerned may or may not be historical, but it is certainly evidence for the fact that in the first century exorcisms as such were comparatively meaningless until they were interpreted.

The heavy reliance on its own internal historical memory may seem to imply that Christianity is just another esoteric religion, accessible only to a group of insiders There is, of course, a certain insider's perspective in any faith tradition, but it would be contrary to the inclusive character of Christianity to interpret our belonging to a Church community as though it were a position of privilege that separates us from those not so gifted.

To interpret this text as a historical vestige, moored in misguided hopes from Israel's past, is to misunderstand the canonical forces at work in shaping the prophetic tradition into a corpus of scripture directed to Israel's subsequent generations of faith.

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.»

This work can be interpreted in the simplest, most direct manner — as a stereotyped image of China's food culture and painting traditions, but at the same time, its multiple references to various Chinese social and historical backgrounds make interpretation much more difficult: the use of objects to express morality in Chinese landscaping, satirical poetry mocking ostentatious refinement, and the imitation of handwritten menus to capture a scene of civil life... Viewers unfamiliar with the specific context can easily find themselves lost in the smokescreen of mysterious Oriental poetic calligraphy and bonsai art.