Sentences with phrase «major tradition»

While rejecting anthropomorphism, major traditions of Islamic thought — within and without the domain of mysticism — have given such texts a profoundly theomorphic explication, especially in conjunction with the epiphany of God's names in creation.

The goal of the study was to identify the patterns advocates» framing strategies, and to compare these with what research — both from the larger FrameWorks Institute project and from major traditions in the cognitive and social sciences — suggests might work.

Smith, a longtime student of comparative religion and author of The World's Religions, pays major attention to the several major traditions but is in sensibility, if not always in doctrine, a Christian.

There have been and still are outstanding individuals in all the major traditions of Christianity who have contributed and are contributing to theological thinking in the context of the religious traditions of India.

Our major tradition is one in which men have had the courage to be free and to uphold the sacredness of individual personality because of their religious convictions.

The fearful aspect of the present situation is that those who have inherited the major tradition of the West now have an ethic without a religion, whereas they are challenged by millions who have a religion without an ethic.

But King also points out that personal symbols of relation and impersonal symbols ofidentilication co-exist in all the major traditions:

This categorization is very helpful: we can identify religious groups with distinctive voting behavior while also showing substantial political differences between «traditionalists» and «modernists» in each major tradition.

In every major tradition of American Christianity it was a time of new focus on Christian education.

By establishing the congruence of religious teachings central to all the major traditions with the legal definitions of basic human rights, Lepard strengthens the argument that the core principles of international human rights law are indeed «universal.»

The international nature of Deng Guo Yuan's art is thus evident early on in his career, and his early twenty - first century work with ink painting is also to be understood in this vein: as a continuation of a major tradition in Chinese art with an eye toward innovations infused with the concerns of other nations and cultures.