Sentences with phrase «more from the traditions»

Sprung more from a tradition of blaxploitation than from Coppola's cosa nostra, it has a certain Seventies retro charm to it.

Any costume drama with Helena Bonham Carter in a main role probably is worth at least a look for her performance, and she commands attention as the story's most beguiling character, Miss Havisham, even though the way she's utilized feels borne more from the tradition of Gothic horror than customary.

Martin Johnson Heade's Still Life with Apple Blossoms in a Nautilus Shell (1870) takes more from the tradition of the Dutch Golden Age.

Not exact matches

Spotify can buck tradition because, though it's not yet turning a profit, it is earning cash, and it is not planning on raising more revenue from investors.

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

JetStar, the Australian low - cost carrier, has more than 80 flights per week to Bali from both Singapore and Australia and told CNBC it has been complying and observing the tradition since it began flying to Bali.

«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.

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.

Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

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.

I have spent time worshipping within both the evangelical and Episcopalian traditions, and would argue that evangelicals have much to learn from more embodied - oriented traditions.

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.

But it is more complex, this dislocation, since Binx is «an exile from his own traditions.

Nowhere in the world is the Bible more alive and its traditions more present than in Israel and Palestine, the lands from which the holy book emerged.

However, in our Jewish tradition, the possibility of return — teshuvah — turning away from evil to come back to a more primordial source of good, can not be denied to any person or to any people on earth.

From the point of view of the Christian tradition itself, such a renovation is not merely a capitulation to one more cultural expression, «but a new stage in the ongoing shaping of the gospel in different times and contexts.

The crowd scenes are from the worst Hollywood tradition — the participants not untrained, but trained in a manner that suggests the lavishness of the production more than the reality of the historical moment.

The 11 Tradition is about far more than just protecting the anonymity of fellow AA - ers, it's about protecting AA from us.

Over the past decade, more Christians have been admitted to the US as refugees than those of any other religious tradition, including many persecuted because of their faith from countries like Iraq and Burma.

Capitalism, in turn, creates the economic base on which may be built, with guidance from religion and democracy, a more humane society of the kind called for by both Christian and Jewish traditions.

I have selected them from many more, hoping that they would indicate to you how it is that the great souls in the Christian tradition have come to possess their «fighting certainty.»

For this reason I would engage now in more detail with his presentation of a prominent philosophical tradition from the point of view of the different one presented by the Faith movement.

With the new translation of the Mass bringing out the original emphasis on the concept of sacrifice more faithfully Fr Mark Vickers, using some ideas from Edward Holloway's New Synthesis, shows the meaning of the idea in the Judaeo - Christian tradition.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

Both Rahner and Holloway were attempting to synthesise the scholastic tradition with modern philosophical insights, these latter being much more established in Rahner's case - namely emerging from the Existentialist tradition.

But as liberals learned more about those whom they were seeking to convert to Christianity from other religious traditions, they became less sure.

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.

The Reformed tradition is much broader and more diverse than many of us realize, and since we've already featured the more conservative Justin Taylor for «Ask a Calvinist...» I thought it was time to interview someone from the progressive end of the Reformed spectrum for our «Ask a...» series.

This sounds like a claim to a special revelation, but more probably it refers to the tradition handed down from Jesus himself through the apostles.

Those patterns sprang from traditions in which the whole assumed more importance than its parts.

The final stage is a return to the situation to give it a more theonomous interpretation from the perspective of the central themes of the tradition, especially the symbol of the Kingdom of God.

There is no proof that the bible is anything more than a collection of middle - eastern myths, derived from oral tradition, edited by men with a definite agenda, transcribed repeatedly and translated by individuals of varying skill.

From the gospel accounts of his spoken words at the Last Supper, the unity of Catholic tradition holds that the Real Presence is divinely given in the sacrament of the Eucharist — substantively more than any lesser parallelism on our part of either seeing or hearing.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

From this perspective then, orthodoxy could entail a more critical look at tradition, since what has been passed on may in fact be a perversion of the original message.

At a time when both the pastoral counselor and the spiritual director are borrowing profusely from the psychiatrist, the social worker and the psychologist, Lifton is going in another direction and challenging the secular therapist to reclaim some of the wisdom of these more ancient traditions of the cure of souls.

Within the U.S., how does this tradition relate to African - American conspiracy theories, from Elijah Muhammed's teaching that whites are devils to the more recent myth that AIDS began as a white conspiracy to kill Africans, or Amiri Baraka's suggestion that Jews had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks?

I believe that these indicators will support my general thesis, which is that the African - American conception of God as God of the oppressed is far more in accord with Hartshorne's vision of God than with those classical Western theologies which are affiliated with denominations and traditions from which African - American congregations have sought to liberate themselves.

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.

I am attempting to furnish a very broad sketch of the variety of Indian Christian perception of God - Christ relations as a background for a more detailed appraisal of insights on the same subject from a mystical tradition of Islam.

While Bunge never shies away from the very real connection between this pedagogy and the abuse and diminution of children, she even more adamantly proclaims that such an estimation of the tradition is not a «full account of past theological perspectives on children and our obligations to them.»

More than from any other source, the position here set forth derives from the Christian tradition.

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There are traditions that Christianity found its way to China in the first century, but the earliest more reliable report is from Arnobius who wrote in 300 AD, stating that the Gospel had been preached in China.

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.

Protestants and Catholics tend to look at authority from rather different perspectives, and on the whole I think it fair to say that the version of the common tradition to which Catholics are heir tends to give them a more positive attitude toward the function of authority in the church than that found among Protestants.

If it gives us a sense that we come from nowhere, that our past is inchoate and our tradition shallow, so that we begin to doubt our own identity and some of the sensitive among us flee to more ancient lands with more structured traditions, it also gives us our openness to the future, our sense of unbounded possibility, our willingness to start again in a new place, a new occupation, a new ideology.

According to the common tradition, authority is derivative from more basic social agreements.