Sentences with phrase «living traditions do»

So while Gizmo Green makes some contributions to reducing energy required to construct buildings by calling for materials extracted and regionally, living traditions do the same, and they also prefer materials that have been processed less, embodying less energy.

Not exact matches

But it usually does poorly when it comes to Cost of Doing Business and Cost of Living, and this year it upholds that tradition.

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

The other part of me also knows that if you do believe by Scripture, tradition and your own internal barometer that homosexuality is a sin (let's say), then you are not going to wish to give the thumbs up to someone being on staff who is openly living that lifestyle.

The lives of the saints do not present us with a new theory of virtue, but a new way of teaching, a new strategy that builds on the tradition of examples, but enriches it by unfolding a pattern of holiness over the course of a lifetime.

You cant debate God... you cant use logic to explain God... You cant use your small finite mind to try and explain away an infinite God... Man is flesh and blood but man has a spirit and some things can only be received and revealed thru spirit... And what you do nt see is actually more real than what you can observe with your five senses... And BTW I did nt say religion i said God... Religion is man made tradition... God is real... develop a personal relationship with the one who created you and gave you life... God has a purpose for your life...

While this isn't intended as a rallying call for the masses to embrace Jesus, it's actually fantastic theology it speaks of the sort of living faith that perhaps Brand doesn't realise is perfectly possible within the Christian tradition.

But as the true modems they don't realize they are, they have remembered these traditions faithlessly — by the letter and without the spirit of traditional piety — and have erased the life - affirming themes of Israel's covenant.

But there began a period of craving to understand the meaning of life, and since philosophy did not seem to offer the ultimate answers to such a quest, I finally decided to probe the Christian tradition more seriously than I had considered worthwhile before.

day to day life of a muslim revolves around these beliefs and traditiopns.as far as christianity is concerned or a christian is concerned he or she is just a christian on traditions and stories told in man - made bible and their life does not revolve around any true beliefs or traditions and they do not take them seriously as well.

to the new intellectual environment, combined with the fact that Wesley did seem easily to appropriate the emerging biblical scholarship of his day, are grounds for suggesting that the Wesleyan tradition is more appropriately viewed as non-fundamentalist, even among those who wish to live in more direct continuity with the spiritual dynamic of the founder.

Much work needs to be done to incorporate women's experience into Christian tradition and its theology, but Christian feminists regard the core of Christianity and at least some elements of its tradition as being life - giving for women.

For almost 400 years after Jesus Christ's resurrection the people did not have the Bible... they were not lost but lived by conscience and Tradition of the Apostles.

Parents and families need to be re-educated in Catholic family prayer and tradition, and in how to invite Christ into every aspect of their lives through prayer, penance and sacrifice — there is much to do.

How do we understand the work of Christ or the Holy Spirit in relation to non-Christian traditions, which clearly have sustained the lives of countless millions and generated great civilizations?

Lutheran theology's antinomian tendency makes it perhaps more vulnerable than the other Reformation traditions in spite of the countervailing forces of its sociology and its doctrinal tradition, although here and there an older methodology, which understands that the Gospel does not negate the commandments, lives side by side with neo-Lutheranism and makes possible at least a tentative no to the likes of the task force.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

Now what Mark sets out to do, on the basis of the current tradition, already and indeed from the beginning interpreted by faith on the basis of experience, is to show that Jesus, instead of becoming Messiah at his resurrection, was already Messiah during his earthly life.

In the Hebrew - Christian tradition the presupposition is that the universe does contain satisfaction for man's highest desires, that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are blessed and shall be filled, that there is living bread and water for the spirit, not, in a negative peace of renounced desire but in the positive achievement of triumphant personality, both here and in an eternal kingdom of souls.

The real test of love as seen in the deeper moral traditions of mankind, and in the Christian faith, is the willingness of persons to commit their lives and sexual being faithfully to one another «till death do us part».29

He is a generous voice in the Reformed tradition.: What of the Reformed tradition do you struggle with most and how do you live with, and enter into, that struggle?

For us tradition is on the way to becoming something we know about but do not live.

Moreover, it has almost changed its nature today because in human life it has widened so enormously, whereas the Church, being simply the teacher of the universal natural law and of apostolic tradition, can not do more than proclaim general principles.

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

To be sure, it has often been argued that it does not really matter whether Jesus lived — that we have emerging in the Gospels and in the tradition of the church a certain portrait of him and only the portrait is important.

The unnamed virgin child becomes a tradition in Israel because the women with whom she chooses to spend her last days do not let her pass into oblivion; they establish a living memorial.

Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?

The Jewish tradition, which has also influenced Christian theology, although not always so much as the Greek philosophical tradition, did see the body as valuable and integral to the life of the person.

But the vast majority of these traditions do not accurately reflect how Jesus lived and ministered, nor the apostles in the book of Acts.

To me, the most significant single point is that for people today «sacred meaning does not derive from a rooted concept supported by common tradition and institutions; rather, meaning is located in the unfolding of one's own life.»

and then when He does... dedicate your life to preaching the truth... not tradition, not religion but truth.

She lived on in oral tradition; it was then that her image expanded and deepened; but in almost no surviving art and few theological commentaries does she even appear.

Christianity does indeed have its own culture, its own intellectual tradition, its own liturgy and songs, its own moral teachings and distinctive ways of life, both personal and communal.

Noting that we do not live in a sacred world valuing «received knowledge» from holy writ, but in a profane world harshly criticizing that tradition, Victoria Erickson of Union Theological Seminary in New York City wondered if we dared invite our worst critics into our classrooms for dialogue.

Nevertheless, the classical humanistic tradition, with its emphasis on the common distinctive qualities of man, provides stronger support for the democratic ideal of human equality than does evolutionary naturalism, with its concern for the continuity of man with the lower forms of life.

The dogmatists of the law reply to Buber that spirit remains a shadow and command an empty shell if one does not lend them life and consciousness from the fountain of Jewish tradition.

What they can do is to interpret it in the light of the present forces impinging on their lives so that the new pattern of life may be continuous with their cultural tradition.

Thus do great traditions end, and a culture that in living memory still read The Pilgrim's Progress and readily recognized quotations from Isaiah now watches Sex in the City and thinks Vanity Fair is a magazine.

Is it a problem, a defeat for our religion or do we discover that the interrelationship of people of different religious traditions is of benefit for our life as human beings in this global village?

It certainly is good to have finally found out that Christianity is nothing more than just tradition, ritual and culture and that all the things which the Bible says about God and prayer are not true — God does not speak to or lead or guide or direct anyone or put thoughts in anyone's mind or show them signs or speak to their heart or mind or tells them what to do or calls people or chooses people or has a plan for people's lives whether they are in an altered state of consciousness / transcendent state or whether they are in an unaltered cognitive state.

A lot of Muslims where I live in NYC don't show much respect for our traditions / customs, so why should we close schools for them?

By entering into conversation with texts from these traditions and considering perspectives largely forgotten by modernity, participants will discover truths that will enable them to live better lives and confidently propose alternatives to those in our age who wish to do likewise.

For me, this isa typical example of «parasitic exegesis» - you live off the tradition, but undermine it with your views, and don't accept responsibility for the full logical consequences of those views.

He was, of course, always more neo-orthodox than orthodox in his beliefs, and his essay on the concept of «basic Judaism» shows him struggling, as so many other thoughtful modern Jews do, to extract what is enduring and imperishable in the Jewish understanding of life: «groping to establish rapport with the Jewish tradition, standing at the synagogue door.»

Bob... I think I am as unconvinced as you are about the veracity of claims that are made by some believers as to what God is doing or about to do in their lives, but I've come to think that religion or the search for meaning is much larger than any particular expression of any one tradition.

Unfortunately this tradition is also very strong among Christians, who — like Hellenists, Hindus, and Neoplatonists — believe that the soul alone is to be saved and that the body and other material objects, whether living or non-living, do not participate in or benefit from the redemption in Christ.

What I've decided to do is live freely myself while challenge all ideas, beliefs, traditions, powers and systems that threaten the well - being and liberty of all people everywhere.

All of us who care about peacemaking and alternatives to a nuclear holocaust — those of us who still believe that God loves the world God created and expects us to do all we can to preserve and enhance life on earth — have a responsibility to pay attention not only to what these preachers are saying but also to what our own tradition teaches about «the last things.

If one believes the Bible to be inspired or a guide for Christian living but doesn't necessarily believe it is inerrant or the literal word of God, that doesn't have to mean we just throw it all out... it doesn't have to shatter your worldview (i.e. it's either all true or all false — fundamentalists love to think this way and teach others to do the same) Use the Episcopal 3 - legged stool model (Scripture, reason, tradition) or the Wesleyan Quadrilateral (Scripture, tradition, reason, experience).