Sentences with phrase «much older tradition»

But there is also a much older tradition of stories with a realistic setting, where the fantasy happens in unnoticed cracks in the world as we understand it.

Such cosmologies are almost always «vitalistic» in the sense of requiring auxiliary and somewhat ad hoc hypotheses to account for the apparent violation of the law of entropy in the impetus toward greater complexity manifested in the evolutionary process.6 Evolutionary cosmologies thus perpetuate a much older tradition of Romantic Naturphilosophie far more than providing a fully contemporary philosophy of science or some sort of «scientifically - verified» philosophy.7

Not exact matches

They should open their eyes, minds, hearts and deeply analyze, discern and compare any of the Middle Eastern Christian Traditions which are much older than Islam to their Muslim faith.

I am evangelical and not a Catholic however let it be pointed out that most non-Catholic traditions, new and old, have just as much extra-biblical belief and rituals but they are not formalized as such.

Even If the due - process provision calls on the court to protect rights recognized by tradition or widespread consensus, there is a problem with Roe: it involved neither Antiabortion laws were decades old, and although a few states had partly decriminalized abortion, Roe went much further and struck down laws in virtually every state.

Much of this material, the old evangelic tradition, contained sayings of Jesus.

This is a carryover from a very old Hebrew tradition that did much the same thing and arrived at similar ages.

They have so much to unlearned and abandon century old traditions and rituals.

My own view is that it makes a great deal of difference which religious tradition a biblical theologian belongs to, so much so that I have argued in print that a common Jewish and Christian Old Testament theology is impossible.

In particular, he said, he began to see much of the Old Testament as unoriginal stories that had been told in many pagan traditions.

Today, however, it is being increasingly recognized that the tradition of miracle stories in the gospels deserves much more serious attention than either the older liberal or the earlier form - critical scholarship gave it.

St. John Chrysostom, an outstanding doctor of the Eastern tradition, was particularly pessimistic: «Among thousands of people there are not a hundred who will arrive at their salvation, and I am not even certain of that number, so much perversity is there among the young and so much negligence among the old.»

Some of them still carry old denominational convictions; for instance, about continuity in the Anglican Church, the rejection of a set - aside ministry in parts of the Society of Friends, the parity of the ministry in the Reformed tradition, and no ordination without a call from a local church as in much of Lutheranism.

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

Form criticism underscores the role of oral tradition by demonstrating that much of profoundest meaning in the Old Testament is closely related to a continuing cultic activity which was largely sustained by the mouth and memory of successive generations of participants.

I think a major problem with many churches nowadays is that they are so stuck in their ways that they fail to even desire to start thinking about the Bible with as much objectivity as they can muster — such an approach might lead them down a path that doesn't follow age - old traditions.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

Old traditions carry on, no matter how much denied, and in a poetic way relate to the bible verse to «Honor your father and mother» or in other words your ancestors and elders, because without them you wouldn't be here.

But how much of these can we claim as our native inventions, rather than merely our peculiar variations on older traditions?

This is in partial agreement with the entire «idealist» tradition, much older in Asia than in the West, according to which «matter» is a form of manifestation of «mind» (in the broad or nonanthropomorphic sense) and is nothing simply on its own.

But I'm the youngest child, and many of our traditions changed and faded out over the years because my older siblings weren't around for as much through the holidays.

As I've gotten older, I've tried to recreate that tradition as much as possible.

Yet, despite the TV — the old men liked to watch American wrestling — much of the Kelabits» cultural traditions remains intact.

Arsenal blood flows in the veins of the Gooner, and we exhibit the spirit and tradition of one of the oldest clubs in the World wherever we are, as much in India as in London.

While not much is known about the origins of most old wives» tales (they were an oral tradition, so the first tales were never recorded on paper), they're still fun to try!

-- the much older Labour Pacifist tradition that Corbyn is steeped in.

Though it must be older as there was a long prevailing tradition of oral transmission of knowledge from one generation to another much before it was jotted down in Vedas and other texts.

That is, knowledge about the more than two - millennia - old Eastern tradition of investigating the mind from the inside, from an interior, subjective point of view, and the much more recent insights provided by empirical Western ways to probe the brain and its behavior using a third - person, reductionist framework.

The tradition of making such mechanisms could be much older.

This combination has a tradition in Bavaria where in old times the access to salmon, sardines etc. was difficult and I think there is some truth to sticking as much as possible to the regional foods one is genetically accustomed.

Baking is an old tradition and relies much on science.

But over the holiday season something has to be said for updating and improving old habits especially when is comes to how much emotion is tied up in keeping traditions alive.

As I've gotten older, I've tried to recreate that tradition as much as possible.

So much more goes into it than I realized, and I LOVE how old the tradition is — the Saratoga course first opened in 1863, making it the second oldest racetrack in the country!

Keeping in the tradition of modern classics, Calvin Klein Jeans and Mytheresa have tapped 16 - year - old Lottie Moss to front the campaign — the much younger half - sister of Kate, who herself famously starred in the ads over 20 years ago.

Wedding garters are one of those age - old traditions that add so much to your wedding day.

Where much talk of film culture necessarily targets the social conditions enabled (and disabled) by government, institutions, big business, etc, an older tradition in film criticism takes a step away from this «materialist» fray, to revel in the visions of special auteurs.

Older man / much younger woman casting may be a Hollywood tradition, but that doesn't mean it's a good one.

Though much of the film's early press focused on von Trier's audacity in digitally superimposing porn actors» genitals onto the stars» bodies to maximize the verisimilitude of the sex scenes, Nymph -LRB--RRB- maniac is not an ironic essay on digital magic but rather a defiantly old - fashioned affair, grounded in well - trodden narrative traditions.

And now, with those old enough to be teenagers during the»50s much too old for network television to care about, this new adaptation still upholds the tradition.

Since Catholic schools must not abide by restrictive government regulations, they have an opportunity to be among the first to make creative use of broadband, 3 - dimensional visualization, adaptive learning, and much more, if only they can find a way of welding old traditions to new circumstances.

There's much to be said for an older philanthropic tradition in which the donor waits to be approached by someone who might have a plan, a project, or an idea with merit that never would have occurred to the people with money to give.

The Spens report on secondary education published in 1938 concluded that there is general agreement that much of what is most valuable in the grammar school tradition depends on the existence of a sixth form, and given that all existing grammar schools have a sixth form, this 80 - year - old shibboleth could continue to influence the government's thinking.

It is finished in its original two - tone Black and Tan that looks especially nice even three decades after it was applied by Tiffany Motor Coach but obviously there's much more to the coupe than just paint, cool cars like this that are built in the same tradition of the Excalibur and Zimmer add century - old class and distinction to more modern components, that's where you get the custom swoopy fenders, decorative exterior exhaust ports, 2 exterior spare tires, full - length running boards, and bright wire wheels and of course the classic - style trunk with leather straps but beyond the grandest of grand touring appearance are the fundamentals you want for example, the doors are unaltered from the original Mercury Cougar body, the same goes for much of the main glass and underlying components, so maintaining this one - of - a-kind appearance is much easier than it might first seem.

The Choo Choo is the Umgeni Steam Railway's main stream of revenue with which they fund the restoration and maintenance of their incredible collection of locomotives and rolling stock, and it makes the already exciting trip — particularly if you have children who are totally enthralled by the occasion — that much more worthwhile to think that you're keeping an old tradition alive.

Sanur still maintains a much tradition and many parts of the old Bali can still be found here.

Tenganan Pegringsingan is the most famous of several old Balinese villages, whose much of its centuries - old culture and traditions live up to this day.

The Yamadas are as dysfunctional as the next family: Kenichi keeps grossing everyone out, and Reina is hardly full of respect for her parents, while Kaneyo keeps clinging to the old family traditions, much to the chagrin of her daughter.

It doesn't have to pretend to have a story line, it doesn't have to pretend to develop characters and character arcs, and it doesn't even have to make all that much sense — a game can, in the tradition of old Nintendo and Sega games, simply take an interesting premise and run with it.

Though Zelda games are sometimes criticised for reusing much of the same set of items from game to game, the fact is that new uses for old items come up all the time, perpetuating the Zelda inventory tradition in a completely justifiable way.