Sentences with phrase «make more traditions»

Can't wait to enjoy the fun fall months ahead and to make more traditions with my family!

Every holiday season there are two things I absolutely need — a new red dress as a holiday party go - to, and some cute around - the - house pieces (like a fun sweater, or a mug for hot chocolate, etc.) I love seeing our collection grow each year, as we make more traditions and soak in all of the holiday feels that we used to miss out on in Florida.

Every holiday season there are two things I absolutely need — a new red dress as a holiday party go - to, and some cute around - the - house pieces (like a fun sweater, or a mug for hot chocolate, etc.) I love seeing our collection grow each year, as we make more traditions and soak in all of the holiday feels that we used to miss out on in...

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While many viewers complain about NBC's tape - delay tradition, the network maintains that the practice is better for ratings as NBC claims female viewers (who actually make up the bulk of the Olympics» audience) watch sports differently than men do, with women investing more in coverage showing athletes» journeys to the games than in the actual results.

But despite MacIntyre's eloquent exploration of what makes a human life coherent, theologians tended to find more compelling what he says about the narrative coherence (or incoherence) of whole traditions.

Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»?

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...

The same point can be made in terms more familiar to the Whiteheadian tradition.

But the parables of Jesus demonstrate that sometimes we may be forced to change our standards so that important traditions can be made accessible to more people.

The eclipse of communist ideology makes it all the more important to remember that, despite its antireligious tradition, Marxist - Leninist communism was, conceptually, the product of a world that felt the need for a transcendent vision.

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.

But fair is fair, and just because Benedict starts with the Church doesn't make him any more fanatical than the atheist who starts with atheism and the atheist intellectual tradition.

The great French historian Jacques Le Goff credited Dante with doing more than any theologian to make purgatory a meaningful part of Christian tradition, and, more recently, Jon M. Sweeney has argued that Dante practically invented the modern idea of hell.

In doing so, we will be no more guilty of indoctrination than the parents who let their kids «make up» their own minds about religion, because all reason is tradition - based.

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

They strengthened the tradition, probably in part an expression of the practical Roman spirit and partly derived from Jesus himself, which made Christianity in the West a more effective force for molding civilization than was Christianity in the East.

So we must turn to more general considerations, and here there are two that are decisive: (1) the translation «within you» would give us a meaning and usage completely without parallel elsewhere in the teaching of Jesus concerning the Kingdom; and (2) in the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus - Gospel of Thomas tradition, where «within you» is certainly understood, the saying has to be recast to make this meaning unambiguous.

In practical terms, I suspect that this means that Christians must make an ever more concerted effort to recall and recover the wisdom and centrality of the ascetic tradition.

The essential elements in the traditional understanding of tradition were left intact by the Second Vatican Council but it was made a more fluid reality to be defined as much by the people of God as by the magisterium.

The most probable conclusion to draw from passages of this sort is that either Thomas or earlier Gnostic tradition made use of the canonical gospels at points where we find parallels, and that there is no reason to suppose that any passage in Thomas (in spite of interesting textual variants) provides an earlier or a more reliable version of any saying of Jesus.

Another way in which Thomas uses the synoptic tradition or, more probably, the synoptic gospels is by adding materials which make sayings of Jesus look more «Semitic» because of their parallelism.

First, it is plain that the empty tomb was not the originating factor since careful critical study of the material found at the end of all four Gospels makes it clear that the stories about the empty tomb are more in the category of Christian apologetic — however honestly believed and taught at the time when the Gospels were compiled from earlier oral tradition — than in that of historical reporting.

For that debate to be productive, however, certain other aspects of the common tradition must be brought into focus and made more conscious than now they are.

@Earn án: Please elaborate how the historical traditions of Islam differs from that of Christianity and makes it any less or any more violent?

He was able to be a part of the ancient tradition of Christian monasticism while being alert to ways in which that tradition could be enhanced, enlarged and made more available to today's world.

Yet it is this very process of rational justification that makes fundamentalism a very modern phenomenon, one that sets it at odds with the more ancient tradition of inerrancy found within the Church.»

The Vaughan School has a tradition of making a more thorough discernment concerning the catholicity and suitability of applicants to their particular educational community.

Although not all Theravada Buddhists are fundamentalists, the role of the Pali Canon in that tradition makes the sect more prone to fundamentalism than, for example, Mahayana or Zen Buddhism.

Indeed, it could be argued that this pontificate's signaturecommitment to continuity with Tradition was never more visibly apparent than in Benedict's visits to both Westminster Hall and Abbey, where the Holy Father eloquently invoked the witness of Thomas More, Edward the Confessor, Bede the Venerable, and the splendid Christian tradition that has made England the great nation thTradition was never more visibly apparent than in Benedict's visits to both Westminster Hall and Abbey, where the Holy Father eloquently invoked the witness of Thomas More, Edward the Confessor, Bede the Venerable, and the splendid Christian tradition that has made England the great nation that itmore visibly apparent than in Benedict's visits to both Westminster Hall and Abbey, where the Holy Father eloquently invoked the witness of Thomas More, Edward the Confessor, Bede the Venerable, and the splendid Christian tradition that has made England the great nation that itMore, Edward the Confessor, Bede the Venerable, and the splendid Christian tradition that has made England the great nation thtradition that has made England the great nation that it is.

Exploring the world and various cultures and traditions makes them smarter and more able to deal with diverse people than someone else who accepts the doctrines of their parents and seeks after nothing.

I make this extended autobiographical introduction to indicate how in the liberal Methodist tradition I first encountered the guilt complex about missions which I have since come to know so well after living more than two decades in the West.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

While our rights tradition stems from a belief in a moral order independent of government, a strong case can be made that our system of limited and dispersed power depends even more profoundly upon an appreciation of human imperfectibility.

All such forms are only more or less adequate to the actual occurrence of tradition, and they are to be retained, if at all, only because or insofar as they still make possible the «handing over» which the word «tradition» (tradition) originally signifies.

The fact is, it simply makes sense, to anyone with the most elementary notion of how the Catholic tradition alwaysworked before the distortions of recent decades (which please God, after another decade or two of the current mopping up operations, and the retirement of a few dozen more bishops, will soon be a distant memory).

Let us continue to examine the nature of the synoptic tradition by considering the results of the work of the scholar who has probably done more than any other to make available to contemporary scholarship historical knowledge of the teaching of Jesus, Joachim Jeremias of Gottingen, whom we are proud to acknowledge as our teacher.

On the basis of a surer knowledge of the synoptic tradition, and of more and more work on the Johannine, it may one day be possible to make use of the fourth gospel in the reconstruction of the teaching of Jesus, but that day is not yet.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

It includes both formation through evangelization and enculturation — the processes by which we are converted and initiated into the church and its tradition and thereby come to acknowledge ourselves as a people in covenant with God — and education, or those processes of actualization that help us to live out our baptism by making the church's faith more vital, conscious and active in our lives; by deepening our relationship to God; and by realizing our vocation in the world so that God's saving activity may be manifested in persons and in the church.

Nor is this requirement altered by the observation, which Cobb seems to me to make rather more of than he should, that the philosopher, too, always stands in a special tradition which shapes his vision.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

It can make marriage more interesting to have a variety of religious ideas, traditions, and customs from which to draw in creating the family's own style of belief and practice.

As they develop economically, non-Western societies are more likely to see virtues in political democracy than in Western Christianity and they will become more likely to reinterpret their religious and cultural traditions so as to make them compatible with the democratic political practices.

When moral rules and selves are abstracted from the normative traditions that give them substance and the social contexts that makes them concrete, «values» become little more than sentiments, moral judgments, expressions of individual preference.

Boldly he confronted the sacred tradition and said repeatedly: «You have heard that it was said... but I say...» This rash effrontery was more than some conscientiously could stand; their whole sense of what was sacred made them enemies of this bold impostor — as he seemed to them.

This Entertainer Devil is a darling of the tabloids and rock bands, a merry prankster in the tradition of the German Till Eulenspiegel, whose knaveries directed against notables of the establishment inspire the belly laughs of schadenfreude that make the boringly oppressive human condition more tolerable.

She is deeply appreciative of the religious and cultural traditions that make Israel so much more humane than its neighbors» the same traditions that had led European Jewry in the 1930s to take more seriously than most of their fellow Europeans the injunction to be decent.

Even when the two sets of scripture speak of the same figure — such as Abraham, supposedly the common father of all three traditions — they tell some different stories and draw markedly different lessons, and this makes the term «Abrahamic religions» more problematic than at first seems the case.