Sentences with phrase «of this tradition of»

As heirs of a tradition of strong, capable Christian women whose influence on the world has been positive and uplifting, our aspiration is to ennoble women in the service of Christ.

It is an integral part of every tradition of Christian schooling, whether that tradition is on the road from Nicaea or Trent or Augsburg (or Geneva, or Northampton, etc.).

Yet there remains a general ignorance in the senior management age group of what has happened in the Church in the pontificates of Blessed John Paul II and Pope Benedict, of the revival of faith, whetherthrough new movements or the rediscovery of the tradition of the Church.

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

Secondly, the account comprises Paul's recitation of a tradition of similar appearances to others before him (I Cor.

The ministry often attracts persons who have had an above average dose of the pleasure - anxiety which is one of the dubious products of the tradition of puritanism in our culture.

First, the theme of remarkable births is part of the tradition of Israel.

The theme of remarkable births is part of the tradition of Israel.

The question that is put to Christians today where our christology is concerned is whether we can return our thought and the ethical consequences of our thought concerning Jesus the Christ to the ontological matrix in which it was originally enfolded — namely, the relational ontology of the tradition of Jerusalem; and thus overcome this obdurate temptation, neither biblical nor contemporary, of regarding the one at the center of our confession as the bearer of «substances» that are as incomprehensible as they are incompatible.

Anyone who doubts this ought to reread that brilliant, genreconscious postmodernist (not existentialist) Soren Kierkegaard on sin, grace and the decentered Christian self Even the otherwise happy recovery of the traditions of Christian spirituality in our day are also in danger of becoming further fine - tuning, further new peak experiences for the omnivorously consuming modem self.

Much of the New Testament witness in regard to the poor and the hungry is a reflection or development of the tradition of Israel.

The Death of God movement was part of a tradition of liberal Protestantism that sought to turn critics of Christianity into allies who could help midwife a fuller realization of the essence of faith.

The kind of churches that would emerge would carry forward the best of the tradition of the oldline churches.

Note that one of the traditions of Islam is charity, it's also a consequence for breaking ramadan.

They were the product of an extensive study of traditions of republican thought and institutions from the entire history of the West.

It has been a central feature of the tradition of papal social teaching.

Because we do not permit the quest and the questions a significant place in our consciousness, we also fail to discern responses which, from the side of the tradition of Jerusalem, might indeed engage those who ask, including ourselves.

In his account of the tradition of the Lord's Supper as he had received it, Paul includes the words, «as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes» (I Cor.

She traces the line of a tradition of writing specifically relative to, and interpreted in the light of Christian revelation, encompassing authors as disparate as Bede and Beckett, Plato and Pushkin.

What I didn't get round to doing when I set out: lots of exegesis, lots of historical theology, mastering the big texts of the traditions of the church.

Partly because Christianity was a novelty in its own right and was a «speech - event,» and partly because it arose out of a tradition of Judaism and the Orient, these categories do not fit.

THE ORIGIN OF YOUR TRADITION OF GOING ON «MISSIONS» IS SO JOSEPH SMITH COULD F * CK THE WOMENFOLK OF THE MEN HE SENT OUT ON «MISSIONS».

More than anyone, Stanley Hauerwas has been responsible for the recovery of the tradition of character and virtue in theological ethics during the last fifteen years.

I enjoyed this article; however it is a clear violation of the traditions of the fellowship.

Thus the Gospel of Mark, though deriving its tradition from Palestine, was the sacred book of tradition of the early Gentile church.

The ordinary members of the Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches have a far less authoritarian mentality than Catholics, a far more widespread and lively sense of the richness of their traditions of prayer and practice, and a far more secure sense of ownership by the people of the symbols which provide continuity with the Christian past and guidance to its future.

Oakeshott would have replied that we can only continue doing what we know to be worthwhile, drawing on and rejuvenating what remains of our tradition of thought and conduct.

Not that we must produce over and over again works of the scope of Bultmann's or Jeremias's; but we must be prepared ever to learn from them and to consider any and every saying in the light of the history of the particular branch of tradition of which it is a part.

If we are to establish any sayings attributed to Jesus in the tradition as authentic, then the first thing we must be able to do is to write a history of the tradition of which a given saying is a part, establishing so far as we are able to do so the earliest form of the saying known in the tradition.

She was part of the tradition of «southern gothic» writers like Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, and William Faulkner.

Dillard's seeing career, which is both receptive and highly conscious, is to be considered part of the tradition of seers whose mode of life she evokes:

I think there's a steady build - up of the tradition of the empty tomb through the Synoptic Gospels.

But if we look at the beliefs of Jesus and the apostles as they are mirrored in the New Testament, we find that they see themselves as standing not so much at the beginning as at the culmination of a tradition of faith.

The Resurrection passages control the entire New Testament, and the New Testament, in turn, is an interpretation of the traditions of Israel.

They have included explanatory sections by the editors, sections written by contemporary Asian scholars, and both classical and contemporary writings covering political, social, and literary aspects of the traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, Neo-Confucianism, and Shinto.

Secondly, the opposite danger exists, that of cultural leveling... In this way one loses sight of the profound significance of the culture of different nations, of the traditions of the various peoples, by which the individual defines himself in relation to life's fundamental questions.

Here is our entry into the history of the interpretation of the traditions of the people of God as von Rad understands that process.

That path required reform - through - retrieval, the recovery of an element of the tradition of which the Church had lost sight: namely, Pope Gelasius's distinction between, and affirmation of, «two authorities» in the world that should not be thought identical, or even too closely enmeshed with each other (a point underscored by Gregory VII in the Investitute Controversy).

Partly out of a rejection of a priestly description of ministry, and the absence of a tradition of vested clergy among such denominations as Baptists, Congregationalists and the Society of Friends, Protestants have largely rejected sacred vestments.

Carol Tauer, a philosopher at Minnesota's St. Catherine's College, has recently challenged the moral logic of this declaration, as well as of the current pastoral teachings on abortion, in an incisive and thorough analysis of the tradition of probabilism — a theory of practical decision - making that is accepted in Catholic moral teaching.

Whitehead's thought stands in the mainstream of this tradition of reflection about power.

It is within the context of the tradition of the group that one experiences both a sense of selfhood and a sense of belonging.

And we will, of course, understand classical prophetism better in awareness and knowledge of that tradition of prophetic Yahwism.

It is an inner struggle for me to keep my mouth shut, and yet I endure and continue to pray and implore God to open their eyes to the truth, But the problem is that I an fighting generations of the traditions of men, and short of the Lord appearing to them personally in a vision saying in a booming voice «I am the Lord God!

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

I may have to break out of our tradition of Sweet Potato Casserole this year and make these.

About Tatrafan / Terichem More than 80 years of tradition of packaging film and BOPP film production in Slovakia and Finland created the foundations on which Terichem was built.

As the Gallo brothers say, they're proud of their tradition of making great wine, but most of all, they're honored to be invited to wherever your family gets together.

Britain doesn't have much of a tradition of street - food, although, in London especially, street food from other countries is getting really popular.

Not exact matches

«I went from running a $ 100 million business at Fiskars to a $ 2.5 billion business at UP,» says Fritz, who, after all the businesses he'd seen sold, appreciated the tradition of long service at UP.