Sentences with phrase «national tradition of»

His national tradition of landscape painting, young as it was, seemed stronger, and when it was on the point of being embalmed in an Australian Academy of Art (luckily short lived) the reaction was urgent and noisy.

The national tradition of portraiture is represented in a fine collection of Elizabethan works, as well as those by Gainsborough, Reynolds, and Hogarth «the father of English painting» whose much - loved Rake's Progress sequence remains a popular draw.

On Christmas Eve, Iceland celebrates the national tradition of Jólabókaflóð, the «Christmas Book Flood.

France's ski team had been a heartening exception to the recent national tradition of sporting failure; generously subsidized, in 1961 it had dominated international events.

Not exact matches

Redefining familiar traditions and designing new symbols and rituals, they hoped to channel the main tenets of National Socialism through the popular holiday.

Unfortunately, that means pushing back on national leadership that has no respect for the constitution or separation of power and for American tradition.

Today, @POTUS will sign an EO creating a new faith - based initiative, and will continue the @WhiteHouse tradition that dates to President Truman of proclaiming the National Day of Prayer.

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Today in the Rose Garden, President Trump continued the tradition of celebrating the National Day of Prayer.

Analysts say that Navarro would be a tradition - breaking choice for director of the National Economic Council.

Second, the tradition is too big and too full of parties, caucuses, movements, and organizations to permit such a person emerging on a national scale.

Call upon the various religious groups bound by the same national fabric to address their mutual state of selective amnesia that blocks memories of centuries of joint and shared living on the same land; we call upon them to rebuild the past by reviving this tradition of conviviality, and restoring our shared trust that has been eroded by extremists using acts of terror and aggression;

They re-founded the Jewish community among the ruins of Jerusalem, and by slow and painful degrees built up a civil and ecclesiastical polity through which the Jewish people maintained and developed its national traditions under the tolerant rule of the Persian Empire.

We have to bring together all of the social forces including in those countries where the national traditions mean that it is mainly the associations and NGOs which are active more than the trade unions which tend to be stuck on a professional level rather than in a wider capacity.

Community, tradition, connect to family and neighbors as well as a sense of national community in many societies (although many atheist societies are evidence that the spiritual component is not needed) are wrapped up in a religious ident.ity.

The centre's director, Stephen Bullivant, said that the centre would «bring the riches of the Catholic tradition of social thought, the riches of Catholic teaching on faith and reason, into the national conversation.»

Huffington Post: Newt Gingrich's Catholic Conversion Is Part of a Larger Spiritual Shift in His Life and Politics As former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's star continues to rise ahead of GOP Republican primaries, he has had less time for what in recent years has become a calming, soothing Sunday tradition: sitting in the pews at the cavernous National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, praying to Jesus and the Virgin Mary during noon Mass while listening to his wife sing in the choir.

They were invited to join the newly formed National Association of Evangelicals, a group of church bodies composed of the fundamentalist, holiness and Pentecostal traditions.

Neither the political tradition of realism, with its sharp focus on narrowly conceived national interest, nor a utopian universalism uninformed by the hard practicalities of military capability offers significant conceptual help.

They may, in fact, assert their own retrieval of the denominational tradition over the versions represented in national denominational offices.

If he knows it and lives in it as the tradition of the great Church he has an authority in the local and the contemporary Christian community which the man who represents only the tradition of a national or denominational or localized community can not have.

Yet Jewish thinkers were right in believing that they possessed in their own national tradition something of higher value than a secular civilization could offer.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

Enlightenment thought not only affected specifically political institutions, it also influenced the way the religious tradition would be formulated at the level of national culture.

His harsh treatment of the therapists and their camp followers (including the earlier National Bioethics Advisory Committee) might usefully be compared with the irenic way he handles criticisms of his own Jewish tradition and recent Jewish commentators on the same matters.

«We recognise the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation, that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage,» said Obama during remarks made at a National Urban League Conference in New national heritage,» said Obama during remarks made at a National Urban League Conference in New National Urban League Conference in New Orleans.

In responding the following year in the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly Gormally highlighted a important aspect of the Catholic magisterial and jurisprudential tradition [this article was also published in Faith March 2006].

The move coincided with a white paper circulated by Chinese authorities that said religious communities in the country should «adhere to the direction of localizing the religion, practice the core values of socialism, develop and expand the fine Chinese tradition and actively explore the religious thought which accords with China's national circumstances.»

It does not speak well of the USA compared to other developed nations, of the South in a national context, of Southern Baptists in comparison to other religious traditions.

• «The National Council of Churches» (NCC) devotion to its decades - long tradition of pandering to dictators while condemning democracies has been faithful and predictable.

David L. Schindler criticizes the liberal view of the human person that he sees encoded into the American project in First Things, to which Richard John Neuhaus responded with a more positive view of our national heritage, in which religious faith and a strong tradition of civic associations moderate the excesses of liberal individualism.

This is due in part to the fact that the character of our national culture and the traditions of American Protestantism have made them both peculiarly susceptible to fusion.

Thus both democracy and Marxism have incorporated elements of national tradition, and both have tried to appreciate and encourage the nationalistic loyalties of the peoples they have been trying to win.

These are not merely abstract commands, they are made in the name of God, not of any particular national tradition.

Religious traditions are critical repositories of cultural values and intimately connected to national politics.

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.

Blake's fusion of the holiness tradition of ministering to the poor and oppressed with concern for national issues has garnered a statement of affirmation from Catholic scholars.

At a time when Americans have grown accustomed to hearing public officials invoke a kind of generic national religion that's sensitive to diverse faith traditions and nonbelievers alike, Perry has often gone a big step further, telegraphing a distinctly Christian message.

To observe such arbitrary religious invention happening, you need only attend that remarkable caricature of the American religious scene, the annual national convention of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), most sessions of which will be devoted to considering what parts of what «traditions» can be crafted together to make a religion satisfactory to some group and / or set of interests.

The central symbols through which love of country is expressed should cease to be those of military might and should more and more come to celebrate those distinctive national aspirations and traditions that prefigure the reign of freedom and justice everywhere.

The rule of law under which free men live is not a matter only of national tradition and preference.

The extraordinary mishmash of traditions and legends, including having Jesus recite the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, presented a peculiar problem to a National Council group, in view of the fact that the National Council held the copyright on the RSV «in order to preserve the purity of the text.»

If ever there was a homogeneous version of this tradition in national life; if ever, after legal disestablishment, a faith was re-established in the popular ethos; if ever there was agreement on biblical authority, on God, Jesus, heaven and hell and the true, the beautiful and the good, then it was in the high years of what one of my book titles terms the Protestant Righteous Empire.

Free from government control — and without government assistance — religious values, literature, traditions and holidays permeate the lives of our citizens and, in their diverse ways, form an integral part of our national culture.

In 1959 it was suggested that «there remain three principles of democratic procedure to which free church polity must give serious thought» — that is, free discussion, no exclusion from national office except on the basis of creed or ability, and legislation and policy - making executed in accord with methods of representative government (Authority and Power in the Free Church Tradition, by P. M. Harrison [Southern Illinois University Press, 1971], p. 162).

Racial intermixtures have produced some very white - skinned Negroes with blue eyes and fair hair, yet the product of such a union remains a Negro.5 Race as the term is commonly used designates very nearly what the Germans call Volk — a group sharing a common cultural tradition, whether of achievement or servitude, with some measure of national, geographical, and biological affinity.

They advertise that they train global leaders, not national ones, which is why sidelining the Western tradition and substituting the ersatz cultural project of multiculturalism is so common.

We have considerable national resources with which to develop these guidelines, including our tradition of justice and fair play, our respect for individual rights and the common good, and — not least — the wisdom of the eloquent writer who left us those eloquent words about the natural rhythms of life: «For everything there is a season.»

Last week, the Eastern Orthodox Church, a communion of 14 autocephalous, national churches with roots in the Byzantine Christian tradition, concluded an historic synod on the island of Crete.

The first is a matter of the physical and mental traits which we carry over biologically from our forebears; the second is a matter of the social environments, the literary, artistic, religious traditions, the racial and national culture, into which we are born and by which our plastic lives are shaped and: molded.