Sentences with phrase «number of traditions»

Over the past few decades, a number of traditions have developed regarding the pet adoption process in an effort to prevent animals who have found themselves homeless and in a shelter from suffering a similar or worse fate in the future.

American education remains deeply reluctant to do this, since it requires overthrowing any number of traditions and practices — from child - centered pedagogies, assumptions about student engagement, and other progressive education ideals, to local control of curriculum, the privileging of skills over content, and the movement toward mass customization of education.

There always seems to be a great number of traditions during the holiday season and I love each and every one of them.

It is, and has always been, a mixture of a number of traditions.

The 68th annual march, touted as a «family - friendly event» will carry on a number of traditions.

A number of traditions or hadiths associated with Muhammad prohibit killing women and children.

Some authoritative source of detailed instruction beyond that furnished by the Koran became imperative so that probably larger and larger numbers of Traditions were committed to writing.

♦ Shalom Carmy reflects on our responses to immigrants in his editor's column for the spring number of Tradition, the Orthodox Jewish journal published by the Rabbinical Council of America.

Not exact matches

A weak attempt at repeating the truce was made in 1915, but a tradition would not take hold due to «the high numbers of dead and hardened attitudes on both sides but also because of actions of senior commanders.»

Increasingly applied in western psychology, the practice of mindfulness comes out of the Buddhist tradition of meditation, and is championed by a growing number of celebrities, athletes and executives.

And while it may be wrong to ironize a song - and - dance number that seems intended as a nice send - off for a venerable actor and a semi-venerable character — still one notes that the whole tradition of the musical spectacular is a tradition of lavishly bankrolled excess.

If we take the objective view and try to apply morality based on current American tradition god is immoral in a number of ways.

With scant grounding in constitutional text or tradition, court majorities took it upon themselves (usually over strong dissents) to remove a number of matters from legislative and local control.

In other words, «liberalism» is used by these thinkers with a more inclusive meaning, according to which the tradition of political Liberalism dates back at least to the philosophy of John Locke and numbers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Milton Friedman, and Reinhold Niebuhr among its spokesmen.

Yet this obsession with greatness and number - one - ness, whether of individuals, nations or civilizations, has always stood in a rather awkward relationship to the biblical tradition — however much Christendom has failed to sense the awkwardness.

Or with Eliot, Auden, C. S. Lewis, Barth, Reinhold Niebuhr, Vladimir Solovyov, Lossky, and Bulgakov, not to mention Unamuno, Simone Weil, Berdyaev, and Leo Chestov — and these are only a small number among those connected closely with the continuing tradition of Christian humanism.

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

Some traditions mention ninety - nine names of God, but it is probable that the number is to be understood, not literally, but only as a very great number.

The Romantic tradition to which Melville at least partially belonged modified this pastoral motif in a number of ways, but it never lost its certainty that cities are perverse, the swarming nests of all that is evil and unnatural.

Its emphasis on social and communal relationships as the defining element in its religious worldview made it the most attractive option for the growing number of suburban Jews looking for a sense identity and tradition in suburban yenemsvelt.

Tradition has estimated variously the number of children Herod put down, from the tens of thousands to the single digits.

A number of people outside of the peace church tradition seem to be quite interested in what these pacifists are saying and doing.

In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).

«What's interesting is that these values, associated with Obama and the black Protestant tradition are now also the values of a growing number of white evangelicals,» she says.

In a number of ways we live in alienation from very rich aspects of the Jewish tradition.

For a number of reasons Aquinas» formulation of the idea of just war provides a useful place to begin reengaging the classic just war tradition in its specifically Christian form.

There are a number of different versions of the tradition expressed in songs and stories, all of them of later dates.

Yet the main plan of the gospel is simple and straightforward, and contains a number of consecutive historical developments which have a good claim to rest upon a true tradition.

«Whereas evangelical churches (and increasing numbers of mainline ones) seek to attract young people by designing spaces stripped of Christian symbols or tradition, JW people seem to like the traditional feel of the sanctuary, with its dark wood, stained glass and high ceilings.

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

In the days and weeks ahead, huge numbers of Japanese will be turning to their country's religious traditions as they mourn the thousands of dead and try to muster the strength and resources to rebuild amid the massive destruction wrought by last Friday's 9.0 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami.

Instead, he tried to combine it with a number of theological ideas — community, tradition and universality — under one rubric, «narrative.»

Mass Production of Spiritual Teachers: There are a number of current trendy spiritual traditions that produce people who believe themselves to be at a level of spiritual enlightenment, or mastery, that is far beyond their actual level.

Thus many of the ideas and categories which they brought with them to their experience of the Buddha gave direction to the development of the existing tradition and above all assisted in its codification and systematization.5 When the dogmatics applied the predicate Mahapurusa to the Buddha — as we know, the Mahapurusa is characterized by a number of specific primary and secondary physical and spiritual attributes — or that of Cakravartin — this does not imply, as de la Vallee Poussin has already and very appropriately remarked, that they were «idealizing» or recalling attributes of the historical Sakyamuni.

Those who maintain that the idiom of resurrection is to be understood only in the traditional (or Lucan) sense2 would, if correct, leave us with no alternative but to abandon the idiom as a valid way of professing our Christian faith, if we are among the growing number of Christians for whom that tradition is neither historically founded nor even very meaningful.

Now there are a number of important footnotes to Aristotle, but I simply wish to draw attention to the point of culmination of the tradition, that period bridging the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that saw the production of the grand synthesis of the Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas, as well as its poetic embodiment in The Divine Comedy of Dante.

But because such religions are inextricably mixed with Christian traditions — most Haitians, for example, are located somewhere on a voodoo - Catholic continuum — the number of Christians is not at the same time overestimated.

At this point we must take into account the conclusions of a growing number of New Testament scholars to the effect that in the earliest Christian traditions the resurrection of Christ was in any case actually understood in terms of exaltation.

He undertook a systematic sifting of a great mass of Traditions, said to number 600,000, but ended up with selecting something less than 9,000 as authentic.

A large number of leading New Testament scholars have now rejected these traditions as unhistorical, leaving us with two conclusions: the first, that none of the Gospels was written by an eye - witness of the events described in it, and the second, that the earliest Gospel, that of Mark, was written thirty - five years or more after the death of Jesus, and the other three Gospels were written nearly sixty years or more after the same point.

@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.

Yet, to see the academy only from this monolithic view would overlook the significant numbers of scientists who do identify with some form of faith tradition (48 percent) as well as those who are interested in spirituality (about 68 percent).»

Now, as authoritative teaching within the Anglican tradition gradually dissipates, significant numbers have discerned the need to return, yet hoping to bring with them traditions of prayer and practice which have some unique claim to go back even to English Catholicism as it was before the Reformation.

Tradition counts up to twenty - nine different persons in Medina who served as secretaries; a lesser number of scribes recorded the revelations received in Mecca.

The oral tradition he received (and this all helped to make him the civilized man he was becoming) had already created names for the large number and varied kinds of personal forces who made his world such a live place.

So, in any single instance, or in any number of instances, it must always be considered possible that the tradition which the first written gospel source has used has lived on to affect the later gospel traditions in cases where they have used the earlier written source.

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.»

And in many other ways the theological tradition has kept its distance from the idea of a kenotic God, even though to an increasing number of theologians today it has always been essential to Christian revelation.

Yes, the two traditions do share some perceptions and some values, but they also differ in a number of ways, and not just on Jesus: they differ also, I would submit, on the predominant understanding of how one is to understand the body and soul and how one is to react to the body's urges.

The modernist / traditionalist distinction was not applied to some religious traditions because of the small number of respondents (Jews) and to others because the division revealed no political differences (black Protestants).