Sentences with phrase «n't write a tradition»

And, you'll find that this is true, even if you don't write a tradition series, per se.

Not exact matches

«We understand Hong Kong may not want to change its tradition for one company, but we firmly believe that Hong Kong must consider what is needed in order to adapt to future trends and changes,» wrote Joe Tsai, an executive vice chairman at Alibaba, the biggest name in Chinese e-commerce.

If we need to write more songs or design more light shows only to amuse ourselves and keep us focused (nothing wrong with doing those things; I'm pointing to the reason for doing them), then we have not yet understood that a worship tradition — a worship routine, if you will — is how we reinforce our worship desire.

... while Paul VI did write that it was his responsibility to sift the material he had been given by many advisers, including the papal commission on marriage and fertility that Pope John XXIII had established and that he, Paul, had expanded, he also made clear that the teaching of Humanae Vitae rested, not on the personal conscience of Giovanni Battista Montini, but on the mature conviction of Pope Paul VI as custodian and servant, not master, of the Catholic tradition.

An unbiased scientist would realize this oral tradition was put to writing 3,400 years ago as an teaching point to a chosen people not a lecture series at MIT.

Having known both of these scholars and having written about Talmon at some length, I must point out that Talmon wrote expressly on the French postrevolutionary and restorationist traditions and not about the later period that concerned The Origins of Totalitarianism.

It is a Western writing, Hellenistic, probably Roman; obviously written in Greek, and not, I believe, the translation of a completed work in a Semitic tongue; and yet resting back upon traditions that were certainly far older than its own date, undoubtedly Palestinian in origin, and circulating originally in the Aramaic language spoken by the common people of Galilee and Judea in the days of our Lord.

The Pharisees have delivered to the people a great many observances by succession from their fathers, which are not written in the laws of Moses: and for that reason it is that the Sadducees reject them, and say that we are to esteem those observances to be obligatory which are in the written word, but are not to observe what are derived from the tradition of our forefathers.5

’25 Bloch believed that «the ultimate, enduring insight of Marx is that truth does not exist for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and meaning, providing a key in theory and leverage in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless truth «contains initiative for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.

And when that tradition was written courts weren't «promoting» people to AA.

«Although some notable New Testament scholars affirm traditional Johannine scholarship, the majority do not believe that John or one of the Apostles wrote it, and trace it instead to a «Johannine community» which traced its traditions to John; the gospel itself shows signs of having been composed in three «layers», reaching its final form about 90 - 100 AD.»

Beside it is not clear if he wrote the book bases Islam & the Quran or basis the Muslims in Asia or Muslims in Europe or America since although Islam is one but the Branch of Islam, the Race, the Customs & Traditions play a tough role in shaping each nation of Islam to look & thinks different from each other... am sure you have the same thing in Christianity as wouldn't think Chinese Christian is exactly like European Christians or European Christians are all the same with out any differences whether Protestants or Catholics or between both branches??

In fact, I wrote a whole book proving that Jesus was not born in December, and that most of our Christmas traditions are Pagan holidays....

The stories were put to writing by — so tradition says — Moses (though his name doesn't appear as «inspired author»).

John Eppstein, writing The Catholic Tradition of the Law of Nations between the World Wars, argues that proportionality and last resort are to be found in the arguments of the Neoscholastics, but the texts he cites do not clearly make the case.

About this Mingana writes, «It is the constant tradition in the Eastern church that the Apostle Thomas evangelized India, and there is no historian, no poet, no breviary, no liturgy, and no writer of any kind who, having the opportunity of speaking of Thomas, does not associate his name with India.

Evangelicals stand in continuity with the Great Tradition of Christian believing, confessing, worshiping and acting through the centuries, while not discounting the many local histories that must be written to give a full account of Christian communities in any given era.

God does not arise for us out of inherited tradition, writes Buber, but out of the fusion of a number of «moment Gods.»

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

Hence we conclude that the presbyter is reporting a genuine tradition, namely of «Mark's» association with Peter and his recollection and writing down of certain things Peter had said in his preaching; and this is all the more probable in that (a) the presbyter uses the tradition to meet a current objection, and (b) he presses it a little too far — though not so far as Papias does — in meeting the objection.

The New Testament Gateway — Internet NT ntgate-way.com / 18 Writing the New Testament - e-xi-sting copies, oral tradition etc. ntgateway.com / 19.

After all, when writing a book about music and Christianity, why wouldn't one bother to emphasize that great tradition of musically - focused Christian faith, drawing upon the resources which, in God's providence, that tradition alone could provide.

Neither there nor elsewhere does Paul refer to the empty tomb, and his emphatic «flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God» certainly suggests that when Paul wrote First Corinthians he did not know of the empty tomb tradition.

All in all this book is very good and written with the vigour and zeal of someone who clearly enjoys being a Catholic and feels that traditions which help us to teach the faith are not only worth maintaining but encourage us to feast and be merry.

«Interpretation does not mean or require departure from the tradition,» he writes, «Though justified discontinuity is not illegitimate, but rather that the Scripture is capable of unanticipated relevancy through reinterpretation» (CC 61).

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.

They were doubtless told again and again in the early church, as today one remembers the illustrations in a sermon, and thus found their way into not only the oral tradition of the church but the earlier written sources of the Gospels.

In their examination of the written records, not only were they not of a mind to «insist on proving this tradition legendary», 3 but because of their Christian commitment they were ready to be convinced of the traditional view if only that were the conclusion to which their study of the New Testament records led them.

Nearly all of the Old Testament is written in the light of this tradition, but our only evidence for this migration is now embedded in traditions which were not committed to writing until some three hundred years later.

All these stories were passed on orally from not just prehistoric, but from times immemorable before man committed them to written tradition.

@fred — the book of numbers is indeed referred as one of the books of moses, it wasn't written by him — there is actually (at least in the bible) 5 books of moses — in reality there is i think 25 books of moses — he didn't write them... oral traditions... they were write down in parts, then added together later.

Writing at a time when the signs of globalization were not nearly as obvious as they are today, he foresaw a process he called «planetization», by which «peoples and civilizations reach such a degree either of frontier con - tact or economic interdependence or psychic communion that they can no longer develop save by the interpenetration of one another».3 Teilhard de Chardin wholly identified with the traditions of the Christian west, yet his visionary mind was able to lift the Christian themes and symbols out of their traditional usage and re-interpret them.

As Timothy George wrote in his introduction to «The Gift of Salvation» in the December 1997 issue of Christianity Today: «We rejoice that our Roman Catholic interlocutors have been able to agree with us that the doctrine of justification set forth in this document agrees with what the Reformers meant by justification by faith alone (sola fide)... [But] this still does not resolve all the differences between our two traditions on this crucial matter.»

Writing of men in an old section of the South that he knew so well Wolfe writes: «He is not a colonist, a settler, a transplanted European; during his three centuries there in the wilderness he has become native to the immense and lonely land that he inhabits; during those three centuries he has taken on the sinew and the color of that earth, he has acquired a character, a tradition, a history of his own..

He writes, «The impasse into which Protestant theology has come through its efforts to give significance to the resurrection tradition shows that the dogma of pure reason does not have sufficient resources to give Protestantism that kind of knowledge of Christian origins that its life and doctrine require.»

But try as I might, I just can't believe that the Five Books of Moses were written by J, E, P and D — the four main authors whose oral traditions, biblical scholars say, were cobbled together to make the Torah.

Here he writes, in connection with the question of reconstructing authentic teaching of Jesus, «we have reasonably secure ground under our feet only in one particular instance, namely, when there is some way of showing that a piece of tradition has not been derived from Judaism and may not be ascribed to early Christianity, and this is particularly the case when Jewish Christianity has regarded this tradition as too bold and has toned it down or modified it in some way».

But this tradition did not come to an end with the writing of the gospels.

The court placed Doe's intent — which was to get baptized but not to become a church member — over the «rules, customs, and tradition of the baptizing church,» Tucker wrote.

With what we now know about oral tradition we can not use the time lapse before the Gospels were written to cast doubt on their general accuracy, even as we can not guarantee their accuracy in every detail.

MR: The fundamental difference between Roman Catholicism and most Protestant denominations and evangelicals is the belief that Roman Catholics have that the Word of God is not just the written Word but also the tradition.

In all his writing at this time there was a reaching out to distinguish acceptable norms in the received tradition, and a wish not to discard what had assisted faith.

It is written by a Ceylonese anthropologist, Gananath Obeyesekere, and is one of the best explanations available of the relation between Buddhism and the customs of the country; it presents the Buddhism of the common people, not the Buddhism of the books: «The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism,» The Journal of Asian Studies, February 1963.

For instance, he completely ignores the fact that the majority of NT scholars in the world believe that much of the NT is pseudepigraphic (that many of the NT books were not written by the authors whom tradition claims wrote them).

Because of the written tradition's fundamental impact upon culture, not all Greeks embraced it gladly.

True, I did write about the beauty of Reformed tradition which I love with the same passion that I would write about the beauty of my wife; and, while that analogy is not perfect (I would not extol my wife's virtues as a means of encouraging others to marry her, while I do extol the virtues of the Reformed faith with proselytizing intent), I hope it explains my zeal.

Keohane and Willimon write, «No one has suggested that we ask any clergy to perform these unions if that person, by reason of conscience, conviction, or church tradition, does not wish to do so.»

For believers, the Bible's unity demonstrates not only that scores of human authors were heirs of a common tradition, but that each of them was guided through life and inspired to write by the same God.

All tradition has it that John did not write alone.

As we shall see, this hypothesis of Lohmeyer's not only enables him to write the most penetrating of commentaries on the Gospel of Mark; it also enables us to reconstruct — in further hypothesis of course, since hypothesis is all we can hope to achieve in this area — to reconstruct one or two of the stages through which the gospel tradition passed before it reached Mark, the writer of the earliest account of what Jesus said and did.