Sentences with phrase «more a tradition of»

In some theological schools a traditional construal is simply assumed; in others one or more traditions of construal of the Christian thing are very self - consciously celebrated («This is a school in the Reformed tradition, with the following consequences...!»).

They show signs of process, and they're abstract but not in a tradition of abstraction, more a tradition of postpainting, societally critical conceptualism.

Not exact matches

Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct.

Potts has begun considering more exceptions to Winnebago's long tradition of vertical integration.

«In fact, more than a quarter of U.S. international travelers consider themselves «sophisticated explorers» for whom «exploring new cultures and their traditions while on vacation» is their top travel motivation.»

Admirers of the tradition see the centuries — old spectacle of bullfighting as more of an art than a sport.

The Vidyo team is from all walks of life, and our employees learn more every day about each other's diverse cultures, backgrounds and traditions, and face - to - face inclusion across the board constantly opens our managers up to new ways of approaching each challenge.

More from the South China Morning Post: Kim Jong - un wife's fashion sense a hit with China's public China's secrecy over Kim Jong - un's visit was part of a long - standing tradition US and China in talks to shield soybeans and other farm products from trade war tariffs

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.

Breaking with tradition, Apple will not release first - weekend sales of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, saying the figure is more a reflection of supply than demand.

PASTA has been enjoyed for centuries and by tradition, Italian people have consumed more than the rest of the world's population put together.

«It's even more important that Uber build a company that reflects the multi-racial, multi-cultural character of Oakland and the East Bay community, and its tradition of advocating for racial equality and economic justice.»

The ping of an aluminum baseball bat is not a common sound at Pahokee High School, a place far more known for it's tradition of producing top pro and college football players.

More subtly, not accepting the pipeline decision on the Kinder Morgan expansion undermines the great Canadian tradition of compromise.

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).

Extending its rich tradition of design leadership to the Web, nationalpost.com & financialpost.com, it delivers a more immediate, in - depth, and customizable news experience, with all the content and functionality today's online readers demand.

As the only licensed producer applicant in British Columbia's renowned «Golden Mile», our 290 - acre facility in the South Okanagan Valley is celebrated for its ideal climate conditions, honoring this region's tradition of excellence and a family legacy that has grown here for more than 120 years.

Borges, for instance, believed him a far more important figure in French letters than any of his more celebrated near contemporaries, and credited him with having invented an entirely new approach to aesthetic experience, reconciling (without merging) the traditions of Asia and Europe.

Kohl was much more comfortable than Merkel with the language of German patriotism (the Prussian tradition loves to obsess over guilt, and sees the language of German patriotism as being «tainted»).

On Maundy Thursday, Pope Francis chose not to hold the customary foot - washing in one of the main churches in Rome, as is tradition, but went instead to... More

«At Directed Capital we are always looking to provide solutions for Main Street that traditional lenders do not have the capability or flexibility to assist with,» said Directed Capital's CEO Chris Moench, who has specialized in acquiring and repositioning debt for more than 25 years, «With the increase to our credit facility from our longtime lender Goldman Sachs, we were able to acquire these FDIC loans and expect to continue our long tradition of helping borrowers re-access traditional financing channels, while providing investors with superior returns typically uncorrelated with the market.

In all the great spiritual traditions and all the great wisdom schools, part of the journey of becoming more human is often totemed against this notion of sort of waking up and coming out of these illusions.

«Many students today are sick of that and want something that is more connected to the church's tradition.»

Attempts to compare evangelical liturgical practices to those of more high church traditions are often doomed from the start because of the fundamentally different assumptions that undergird both.

We have known for over 200 years that the bulk of the Bible's claims are nothing more than Jewish tradition and folklore and that the Jesus as represented in the NT is nothing like the real Jesus who lived.

As a result, evangelical liturgical practices tend to be far more fluid than the practices of more high church traditions, as the practices flow from a belief that spiritual regeneration precedes liturgical practice — and regeneration can not be reduced down to easily identified physical characteristics.

In one of Ross's most effective chapters, she argues that low - church evangelical liturgy has taken many of its cues from the Gospel of John, while more high - church traditions have tended to look toward the synoptics.

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.

With more than a hint of exasperation, Scalia concludes: «One will search in vain the document we are supposed to be construing for text that provides the basis for the argument over these distinctions; and will find in our society's tradition regarding abortion no hint that the distinctions are constitutionally relevant, much less any indication how a constitutional argument about them ought to be resolved.

If all thinking, then, is conducted within the context of a cultural tradition, it would seem to be done more consistently and more fruitfully when it is explicit about its own contextual limitations and does not pretend to be what it is not and can not be.

Another connection is possible, I think, one that draws upon the Attic tradition of crowning the victor of the Pythian games with a laurel wreath and, more likely still, its Christian acception, symbolizing death's defeat in Christ.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

If thoughtful members of both communities become adequately aware of the moment they now occupy in history, and are prepared to reexamine their respective traditions for the resources there to be developed, then the Jewish - Christian relationship has a significant chance of becoming something more enriching than it has ever been before.

Scripture does do something to us in worship, which is why it is a scandal that Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and other traditions have more public reading of Scripture in their services than we Bible - oriented evangelical Protestants.

Too many priests simply want laypeople to submit to church authority and tradition, and too many laypeople regard Orthodoxy as nothing more than a collection of rituals from which they pick and choose what works for them.

I also know there is a lot more to the traditions of Easter that are based on the Seder then you probably realize.

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

Throughout history, across faith traditions, I imagine the fantasy of a more «convenient» religion is universal.

For 1000 years or more, Roman Catholicism WAS Christianity in most of Europe, and pretty much all of Protestantism has its roots in the Catholic faith tradition.

Never mind that the Christian intellectual tradition is more than «Western» in the usual use of the term, and never mind that there is nothing more uniquely Western than the pattern of self - criticism that easily turns into self - denigration, it is true that Christianity is undeniably and foundationally entangled with the West, and that is enough, in the minds of many writers, to put it beyond the pale.

So yes, Islam was an influence on him for a while, but he was more interested in the origins and the life of Muhammad than actually the tradition itself.

Von Balthasar's aesthetics displays, perhaps, more intellectual virtuosity, but Maritain's has the advantage of being within the ongoing intellectual tradition of Thomism.

Jaroslav Pelikan (1923 - 2006) was the greatest historian of Christian doctrine since Adolf von Harnack, and he was both more comprehensive and more sympathetic to the tradition he studied than was the great scion of German liberal Protestantism.

(Thomas Aquinas gets only one mention in more than sixty pages of text, and then with a reference to his «using the terminology of the philosophical tradition to which he belonged.»

Were we to get enough Americans to appreciate the teachings of the Founders, and of the American political tradition (APT) more generally, they would become far more moderate and judicious in their voting.

As in liberal Protestantism, the Father was Good; the Son, being human, even better and more philanthropic (well, the Jews and Muslims dropped this bit); and keeping God's commands involved less tradition or ritual and more love of our fellow - men, all men being sons of the one Father.

The fact that I attempt, very carefully, to show how a Christian public philosophy needs to take into account the contending views of various Christians» as well as our entire liberal / conservative political tradition» does not weaken my appeal for something more fully, integrally, and distinctively Christian.

Lots of the «rules» of our comfortable Christian subculture are based more on tradition than the Bible.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

My point is that the great tradition is much better and much deeper than the tradition of the more or less neo-scholastic manuals.