Sentences with phrase «most other traditions»

Not exact matches

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).

Yet you do not see the narrow path you have been led down by simple dint of «tradition» and other long - standing violations of the Constltution merely because most Christians support this sort of thing.

Speaking for myself, although the same would be true for most of the others, I was working within a broadly Augustinian way of thinking about these matters» a tradition that sharply distinguishes between the city of God and the city of man, and insists that the one can never be transformed into the other.

Look up Santa Claus in Wikipedia: combined the afore mentioned w / Odin and Father X-mas and various other European traditions (thus probably most likely Caucasion.

The demographic breakdown between the two denominations is difficult to assess and varies by source, but a good approximation is that greater than 75 % of the world's Muslims are Sunni and 10 — 20 % are Shia, [1][2] with most Shias belonging to the Twelver tradition and the rest divided between several other groups.

As a result the Wesleyan tradition, like most other classical traditions, has had both its fundamentalist and its more liberal wings of interpretation.

I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.

This vision seems to match other universalistic aspects of the Christian tradition, especially its claim to universal reason, and it constitutes the most important practical application of my theological project.

It is unfortunate, but most Christians tend to let their tradition too heavily influence their reading of Scripture instead of the other way around.

At the most recent General Assembly of the World Council of Churches, in Vancouver in 1983, the theological significance of other religious traditions still remained a controversial issue.

It is a fact that I have spent my life, for the most part willingly, under the influence of the Bible, particularly the Gospels, and of the Christian tradition in literature and the other arts.

On the other hand, the full spiritual import of a religious ceremony, informed by text and tradition, eludes even the most devoted artist.

Your spiritual experience is valid to me, and most Pagans don't think of other religious traditions as being «wrong»; we just disagree with anyone who thinks they have a stranglehold on the truth.

As long as most women believed that tradition, they never complained about their beatings, nor dared talk about them openly with other similarly abused women.

The task of the missionary today, it was maintained, is to see the best in other religions, to help the adherents of those religions to discover, or to rediscover, all that is best in their own traditions, to cooperate with the most active and vigorous elements in the other traditions in social reform and in the purification of religious expression.

Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?

Of course I am aware that there are other Christian theological traditions than the radical Augustinian, most notably the Thomist, but I confess my doubts as to whether natural law can withstand the depreciation of the political.

His book is an extraordinarily instructive examination of how these patterns unfold in both Scripture and tradition, where all three» often intertwined» operate as the «most appropriate ways» of naming the Trinity, none of which makes the others unnecessary.

In the tradition of revivalism and mass evangelism in America, however, so much attention was given to conversion that the other five sixths of the convert's life were simply neglected, with the result that most converts aborted their pilgrimage near its beginning.

My argument was that Pure Land Buddhism identified its founder with a mythical figure, Dharmakara, that there are advantages in connecting one's tradition to historical reality, that the emphasis on other power or grace is clearer in the Christian tradition than in most Buddhism, and that Jesus could function as an historical embodiment and teacher of grace.

Some of these details are innocent and rooted in tradition; others are significant aberrations to the Christmas story, making December 25 one of the most syncretistic events on the Christian calendar.

Those traditions have been written down in the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles (which are older than most gospels), and other writings that, while did not make it to the Canon (Bible), serve as important historical references.

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

Most are overtly Christian, all are from diverse traditions, some are interfaith while others are appropriate for agnostics and atheists.

Our incorporation of the nominally religious with the secular camp does reduce the size of the major religious traditions, at least in comparison with estimates by most other scholars, but seems to us to have ample empirical warrant.

Most of these guys don't get our traditions some judge them other just make fun of them lets not start any religious wars over it though.

However, this should not dissuade readers of other Christian traditions because the differences are, for the most part, negligible for the beginner in process theology.

For Catholics and, I suspect, most other Christians, faith does not rest on historical research but on the word of God authoritatively proclaimed by Scripture and tradition.

This massive shift has had a devastating effect on the once - deep cultural values that exerted their force upon most of society's institutions — values of truth, duty, discipline, reading, beauty, family, tradition, justice, among many others.

If one is moved on theological grounds to take other traditions seriously, one has another and most fruitful approach to the study of ones own tradition in the presence of and in relation to other traditions.

The uniquely Christian Revelation in theTrinitarian and Christological Mysteries provide the spiritual paths that speak most deeply to me although I find many valid insights in other spiritual traditions, especially the Eastern Religions and even primitive shamanism.

Since almost all of the sayings are paralleled once in Mark (usually in the same context as in Mark), the most likely explanation is that when Matthew found them not only in Mark but also in some other source — perhaps oral tradition — he used them twice.

Christian --(supposed) Follower of Christ Mormon — follower of the Christ depicted in the Book of Mormon and have differing traditions than most other organized Christian religions.

Perhaps the most far - reaching development in this area is the increasing presence in British departments of members of different faiths who are interested in making critical and constructive contributions to their own and to other traditions.

The Vatican seems oblivious of one of the most obvious and impressive facts about contemporary theology - that one can not draw the traditional lines between Catholic theological efforts and those that spring from other parts of the Christian tradition or even from non-Christian sources.

Most recently, they have sought to wrestle — together with people of other faiths — with the awful issues everyone must confront today - nuclear war, hunger, disease, the despoiling of the ecosphere — and to reach into the various traditions as possible sources of values and visions for facing such horrors.

Finding this third line of interpretation the most plausible, Pierce seeks to identify the full range and complexity of Enochic and other traditions that may have influenced the language and thought of 1 Pet 3:18 - 22 (and 4:6)... The Petrine author's primary reliance on 1 Enoch still seems to this reviewer most likely.

Wollstonecraft's analysis is also applicable to the Christian church today since most churches are still based, if not in governance at least in theology, on authoritarian relationships: God / people, pope / church, bishop / priest, priest / laity, biblical revelation / natural theology, Christianity / other religions, tradition / modernity, theologians of the past / theologians of the present, etc..

For the most part, however, the world's religious traditions still remain considerably out of touch with each other.

And an old historical relativist perspective reminds me that, like most Christians, my being such is an accident of history and biology just as accidents of history determine other religious traditions and who belongs to them.

To be sure, the world I inhabited for decades led me to develop most of my closest personal and professional relationships with secularized persons and with faithful adherents of other religious traditions.

I got interested in Islam and discovered that it has the most authenticity than any other religion and it confirms that Christian and Jewish traditions.

Further, the Jewish apocalyptic texts would then have had to lose all trace of this form of the conception, for in no other such text does the Son of man «come with the clouds», except for this one instance preserved by Christians, and, finally, the Christian tradition would have had to be indebted to this one Jewish saying for the features most characteristic of the specifically Christian expectation.

Leave a comment below to share your most - loved Passover tradition with us and other readers.

of all traditions, i most enjoy ones involving beans and other legume - type things.

Yes, there are some silly traditions that most people enjoy but don't take too seriously and there are annoying stupid fans like every other school.

He can not win every year, but Spieth's name on the leaderboard at Augusta is a tradition and it's the one name that the other players have to check most.

This annual ode to gluttony and debauchery is one of the proudest and most bizarre traditions but, like many other proud Americans, my eyes will be firmly glued to the screen.

For those trying to get their heads around «democratic republicanism» (or the other Marquand ideological traditions, this link given in the piece is the most useful useful starting point, though perhaps we should also invite Stuart White to open a discussion about it over here on LC http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/ourkingdom-theme/tom-griffin/2008/09/19/the-democratic-republican-moment

«That reflects a long tradition, I think, in New York State union politics and state union relationships with executives: most governors have been quite successful in keeping the unions separate and apart from each other.