Sentences with phrase «into existing traditions»

Not exact matches

Paul and the Romans made the rumor of a crucifixion into a savior story by usurping other existing traditions, such as the Mithraic virgin birth, and death of the sun god Mithra.

But in recent decades there has been an increasing tendency to try to go behind this, to reconstruct the traditions and writings as they existed before they were incorporated into the Bible in their present form.

It has been my personal experience that Judaism is often practiced with an appreciation for the cultural benefits of community and tradition without falling into the pits of fundamentalism and intellectual suicide; not that Jewish fundamentalists don't exist, they just seem to make up a smaller percentage of the overall population.

Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several features which divide it so sharply from the Passion narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation of that in the stage of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first of which can exist as an independent story, but the second of which can not, for it depends upon the first.

And I assure you that my knowledge of biblical controversies is miniscule, but the one were discussing I have spent some time looking into, it's very intriguing to me that these things exist alongside each other... as I said earlier, John's gospel is a good example of historical detail (with respect to the synoptics) seemingly playing second fiddle to a developing narrative (the Johanine tradition).

[g] iven the uncritical identification of a community with an entire past, communalism finds it easier to appropriate tradition because it inserts its message into existing, unspoken biases or prejudices, stereotypical images of self and others, and unsubstantiated assumptions of society.

«47 And third, it is through this work of reinterpreting its own traditions that Israel as a community develops a historical consciousness, thereby becoming a historical reality, if it is true, as critical scholarship suggests, that Israel did not exist as a unified entity until the amphictyonic period after the settlement of Canaan, then we can say that «by elaborating this history as a living tradition, Israel projected itself into the past as a single people, to whom occurred, as to an indivisible totality, the deliverance from Egypt, the revelation on Sinai, the wandering in the desert, the gift of the Promised Land.

What guides the recent interest in «biblical storytelling» is the conviction that since Biblical literature existed as oral traditions which were then put into script, it was intended to be spoken in the faith communities.

To this basic covenantal relationship the prophets constantly appealed; into its mutual obligations they poured ever new meanings; and at the center of its tradition they had the solid virtues of nomadic life where human ties are close, interdependent and cooperative, where men exist as brothers on a fairly equalitarian level and with a strong democratic sense of personal right.

Tropical Traditions participated in a study at Ohio University at the time that showed the protein from soybeans in chicken feed passed into the egg yolks and tissue of the chickens, potentially making people who thought they were allergic to eggs understand that they might actually be allergic to the soy protein that exists in almost all commercial eggs today, including organic eggs.

Tropical Traditions participated in a study at Ohio University at the time that showed the protein from soybeans in chicken feed passed into the egg yolks and tissue of the chickens, potentially making people who thought they were allergic to eggs understand that they might actually be allergic to the soy protein that exists in almost all commercial eggs today, including organic eggs.

It is to Lynne Ramsay's credit that it is difficult, if not impossible, to slot her debut feature into any existing British genre or tradition, though there are echoes here of Ken Loach's early poetic social realism, of Bill Douglas's stark, painterly style, and of Robert Bresson's «pure» cinema, stripped down and sensual.

It works the wants of potential buyers into existing products without completely treading on Rolls - Royce's traditions.

And while there's an element of tradition and rite of passage in how Kratos teaches Atreus to hunt and kill (tapping into our nostalgia for an already existing imagery), the fact that so many of us saw ourselves in these characters is alarming.

In addition to asking us to think about postmodernist issues of painting, perception, authorship, and the like, Hablon Redux asks what art can do to make existing traditions and practices more visible, through a process that goes beyond interpretation into inspired invention.

However, it is a right which exists in an Act which makes provision for the future dealings in land and where, if agreement is not reached about the doing of a particular future act, the Tribunal is mandated to take into account not only the impact of a proposed future act on claimants» native title, way of life, culture and traditions and social, cultural and economic structures etc (s 39 (1)(a)(i)- (v)-RRB- but also the economic significance and any public interest in the doing of the future act (s 39 (1)(c) and (e)-RRB-.

Marcia got her start in real estate by marrying into «the family business» that already had an existing portfolio, but continued on the tradition to help fund her own future retirement.