Sentences with phrase «modern traditions for»

she is dedicated to helping women reclaim their femininity and power with tools from ancient and modern traditions for today's world.

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Eve Tushnet has written beautifully on a vision of friendship for gay Catholics, encouraging them to recover a fundamental aspect of the Catholic tradition of human ecology that has been missing in modern times.

I can't speak for James Kugel, who as I observed in my essay tends to overdraw the contrast between what we can reliably know historically (as opposed to the often agenda - driven projects of modern critics) and the ways in which the Bible was read in the earlier traditions.

It is for such reasons that I have found within the Wesleyan tradition a useful pattern of theological reflection and the resources for trying to think theologically in the modern world.

All in all, Gottlieb argues, «Mendelssohn's skill in showing how an enlightened, tolerant concept of Judaism can be drawn from Jewish sources provides an important model for how a premodern religious tradition can be brought into harmony with modern humanistic principles.»

My hope is that as evangelicals move beyond the modern paradigm of individual autonomy (particularly as it applies to biblical interpretation), we will begin to appreciate church tradition as an undeniable foundation for our faith.

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

Virtually all previous representatives of the modern natural law tradition, including Grotius and even Hobbes, had in some way or other related natural rights to divine power or command, which served as the source for the directives of natural law notwithstanding that these did not derive from a divine telos or comprehensive purpose.

Still, such theorists also continue, as did Kant himself, the modern natural law tradition, at least in the following way: The duties prescribed by nonteleological liberalism are defined in terms of rights that are prior to any inclusive good; that is, these rights are separated from, and respect for them overrides, any inclusive telos humans might pursue.

To sum up: Modern young people need to be taught manners: not the code of the emancipated ego, nor the pattern of conformity to the will of the majority, but the action - language of democracy, with due respect for worthy traditions from the past and determined criticism of unworthy ones.

Through this transformative insight Bonhoeffer finds the key so many modern thinkers have been looking for: a way beyond metaphysics, or what Heidegger called the «onto - theological tradition.»

On balance, Berger's theoretical perspective has provided a modern apologetic for the value of religion, arguing not from theological tradition but from the secular premises of social science that humans can not live by the bread of everyday reality alone.

Among all the ancient traditions, Buddhism is Christianity's most serious competitor for modern man's attention and loyalty.

This picture of «tradition» versus «progress» fits our wider, modern political and cultural frameworks of «right» versus «left,» but it is grossly inadequate for understanding the history of modern Catholic theology.

When he looks at the literary situation of sixty years ago, I think Gioia is observing the fading light of the modern tradition, which, even in its nihilism and atheism, remained deeply religious — where faith is a necessity not only for prayer but also for painting.

If art aspired to religion in the modern tradition, in its waning, it has settled for entertainment.

For all of us alike face the same issue of understanding our own tradition in the light of our modem cultural and social situations — only let us, in assaying that problem, not forget the present precariousness, the moral temptations and the religious requirements of that infinitely risky modern situation!

From his analysis emerges perhaps the most important task of all for modern Christians: Christians should not only advocate peace to fend off the negative threat of nuclear war, but must articulate, espouse and live a positive vision and motivation for peace that is grounded in the biblical tradition.

The most important change for my work in the past 20 years is the increasing polarization between the modern right and left in both Protestantism and Catholicism, and the corresponding decline of a center rooted in premodern communal traditions.

A critical appropriation of Russell Kirk's thought would be useful for those who wish to disavow the modern «domination of boredom and materialism» Person laments in exchange for a moral and aesthetic vision grounded in natural law and tradition.

Our modern, Western tradition is Cartesian for we have been taught to think of the mental and of the physical as different, real things.

I have suggested elsewhere that value - free technology, the military - industrial complex, and narrow nationalism might be modern examples of such principalities and powers.9 Hendrikus Berkhof suggests that human traditions, astrology, fixed religious rules, clans, public opinion, race, class, state, and Volk are among the powers.10 Walter Wink sees the powers as the inner aspects of institutions, their «spirituality,» the inner spirit or driving force that animates, legitimates, and regulates their outward manifestations.11 They are «the invisible forces that determine human existence «12 When such things dehumanize human life, thwart and distort the human spirit, block God's gift of shalom, the followers of Jesus are rallied for a new kind of holy war.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

I should now be willing to suggest that it is a willingness to take the axiological feature as ultimately determinative for the attribution of divinity that characterizes all modern forms of so - called ethical theism and distinguishes them from the classical tradition.

The task that lies ahead is the development of a postmodern, post-Freudian, neoclassical approach to Christian pastoral care that takes seriously the resources of modernity while also penetrating its allusions and, having found the best of modern psychotherapy still problematic, has turned again to the classical tradition for its bearings, yet without disowning what it has learned from modern clinical experience.

(ENTIRE BOOK) Prof. Oden offers a critique of contemporary pastoral counseling that notes the advantages of modern clinical psychotherapy while pointing out its limitations for pastoral counseling which he asserts has all but ignored the classical Christian pastoral tradition exemplified in the work of Gregory of Nazianzus.

This was, in fact, a form of faith that denied the relevance of the Judeo - Christian tradition for modern life by denying it any place in the study program.

In the Greek dawn of western civilization, the word «theos» (god) had two primary meanings, surprising for modern men for whom the word is so heavily freighted with sophisticated meanings of utter transcendence acquired through centuries of Hebrew - Christian tradition.

De Lubac's thesis is that Catholicism alone is capable of fulfilling our tormenting desire for the universal, the desire that breaks the heart of an unstable and uncertain modern West, which in the twentieth century wished to see itself as achieving a non-religious universality based on reason, without resort to religious traditions or appeals to revelation.

What is needed is a Catholic theological interpretation of modern pluralistic democracy, one that insists on real space for the ideas and active contributions of religious traditions, while underscoring the value of respectful argument and even friendship among those who hold competing views.

They hold on to a particular interpretation of an ancient story in Genesis that they have fashioned into a modern account of origins - a story that began as an oral tradition for a wandering tribe of Jews thousands of years ago.

Is the global crisis of modern government and institutions an opportunity for non-Western cultures to draw from their own traditions to govern themselves?

Later «sources» began to be appreciated for what they were, in no small part because it was seen that the Yahwist was not an author in the modern sense of the term, but one «under the influence» of traditions handed down to him.

He knows that the former tradition is on the defensive in the modern world; it has his loyalty and esteem, while he recognizes clearly that other traditions have other men's loyalty and esteem in a comparable, if for him less justified, fashion.

I call this the task of covenant publicity, for which we can draw on the ancient traditions of covenant that underlie modern federalism as well as on the ideas of council, republic and ecclesia.

The reason for this conclusion is also essentially simple: I believe that at the core of the Christian tradition is truth, and this truth will reassert itself in every conceivable contestation — be it with the multiform manifestations of modern secularity, or with the powerful traditions of Asian religion awaiting theological engagement.

The Primacy of Christ in the light of modern science vindicates, with a new profundity we believe, the Catholic tradition which has affirmed Tertullian's «the flesh is the hinge of salvation» (see our Editorial for September 07, «Renewing our Vision of the Sacraments», and the lively correspondence that followed in subsequent issues).

In a general way — to state my thesis baldly — the modern «liberal» tradition excelled in devising practical institutional protections for human rights.

Understandably so, for seeing Jesus against the background of later first - century Judaism makes it easier to portray him as the hero of moderns alienated from religious traditions and structures.

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

But Herbert's parson is also equipped with «a slighter form of Catechizing, fitter for country people» (Chapter V); the straightforward tradition of religious instruction which the modern parish priest inherits from his medieval predecessor has never been forgotten.

The older way of producing refined coconut oil was through physical / mechanical refining (see Tropical Traditions Expeller Pressed Coconut Oil), but more modern methods may also use chemical solvents to extract all the oil from the copra for higher yields.

We invite you to join us for the 29th Annual Passport to Dry Creek Valley: a Modern Tradition with Century Old Roots.

For this year's edition of Vendemmia d'Artista, the art project that Ornellaia launched in 2009 to revive, in a modern key, the Renaissance tradition and cultural value of artistic commissions, the winery selected Canadian artist Rodney Graham to interpret L'Infinito (Infinity), the quality that characterises Ornellaia 2011.

It's time once again for the near - annual grimace - off between Mark Dantonio and Brian Kelly, truly one of football's greatest modern traditions.

In this episode, we talk about a lot of interesting and time - proven Chinese traditions as well as concrete practical tips to get the nutrition your need for your postpartum recovery in today's modern world.

But in the age of scheduling conflicts and commercialism have families become too modern for family traditions?

We continue the tradition by delivering the best old world dishes mixed with modern pub classics, to create a menu that offers something for everyone... and our dishes are made to pair well with both the classic and new Bohemian Lagers everyone knows and loves.

Many of our political or advocacy organizations have similar important traditions, but that doesn't mean they can't evolve and become more inclusive of modern technology — for this conclave, the Vatican News service created a web livestream and mobile phone app for people who wanted to see the Chimney.

They speak their own Language (Aranese, a modern version of Occitan), they have their own culture and traditions, their people doesn't hold a free nation or state for itself, and they aknowledge themselves as a distinct...