Sentences with phrase «of tradition behind it»

Gold leaf and oil paint have the weight of tradition behind them, and don't declare their toxicity.

For an art form that's barely a century old, film has a lot of tradition behind it.

There's a lot of tradition behind these round cakes, too.

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For example, Apple Pay lagged behind Chinese competitors in providing promotions timed with the Chinese cultural tradition of exchanging red envelopes («hong bao») filled with money during the Lunar New Year.

The financial industry has been so limited by process and tradition that it has fallen behind in terms of innovation and digital development, leaving opportunities for less - established fintech startup businesses to seize opportunities in the marketplace.

It is this ghost lurking behind assertions about most of the Protestant tradition being largely cessationist that I want to exorcise.

Instead, my primary concern was to exorcise a ghost behind claims that the Protestant tradition in the main does not hold to the continuation of the gifts.

Failing that our families, those we leave behind, should have the choice as they are the ones who will be seeking the comfort of those traditions.

But it is arrogant to suggest that the only authentic condition of congregational life is one of perpetual — especially artificially engineered — change and to think that one can measure a congregation's faithfulness by its capacity to leave its tradition behind.

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Church tradition tells us that that the disciples of Christ had families, but they still were willing to be martyred and die for Christ, leaving their families behind.

In doing so he stands in the tradition of Schleiermacher who discerned behind the diverse religions a shared experience of absolute dependence on God.

So long has been the tradition behind the notion of time's contingency that it has acquired the strength of an absolute truth.

So we move behind the Greek of Luke 7.20 to an Aramaic tradition which has been variously translated, and we must necessarily conclude that Thomas 113 is not, in fact, dependent upon Luke 17.20, but upon a tradition upon which Luke also is dependent.

If Heidegger was right — and he was — in saying that there was always a nihilistic core to the Western philosophical tradition, the withdrawal of Christianity leaves nothing but that core behind, for the gospel long ago stripped away both the deceits and the glories that had concealed it; and so philosophy becomes, almost by force of habit, explicit nihilism.

In contrast to the classical tradition, he declares that truth is not found in the unchanging essences lying behind the flow of time, but is essentially historical and ultimately eschatological.

These show us the ways we are products of our environment and the history and traditions lying behind it.

If we are to speak of extremes — without pejorative intent — at the other end of the spectrum would be those services planned by administrators (whether presidents, deans or chaplains) which have survived as full - blown Christian liturgies expressing the theological tradition behind the institution's establishment.

Behind evangelical support for Israel lies a long tradition of Christian thinking about the millennium.

It is a theology purporting to be the expression of a radical Christian tradition — a tradition unknown to the world of Christian theology, because that world is irredeemably satanic insofar as it is bound to the dead body of that God negated and left behind by the forward and apocalyptic movement of the incarnation.

Concern with revelation of the future, the attempt to get behind the problematic of life, the desire to possess or use divine power, the acceptance of tradition and law as a «once for all» in which one can take refuge — all these prevent the meeting with God in the lived concrete.

What form criticism undertakes is to get back behind the written Gospels and their sources to the oral tradition as it circulated prior to the writing down of any account of the «mighty works,» the sayings, the parables, or the discourses of Jesus.

Responding to the critical tradition's Quest for the historical Jesus (where the Jesus of history is thought to lie behind the layers of theological gloss of the Christian community), Redford shows how the real crux of the problem is the post-Cartesian scepticism of all things supernatural, above all the Incarnation.

Higher criticism includes an analysis of the literary genre of the text, its historical background, the history of the oral tradition behind the text, and the cultural and psychological factors at work on the author and editor (or editors) of the text.

In this interview, Kwasniewski explains the vision behind the book, which recovers key sources of the Church's anti-liberal tradition, at a time when more people are questioning the foundations and value of liberalism.

Unlike many scholars, he thinks that a Secret Gospel of Mark was edited to produce the later canonical Gospel of Mark, and that behind the Gospel of Peter lies a «Cross Gospel» which provides our earliest tradition about Jesus» passion.

It is true to the insight of the Bible, which the philosophical tradition has tended to obscure behind the impassive mask of absolute, static being.

15:5) have been lost because they told of Jesus» exaltation to God and on account of that were not sufficiently realistic in the eyes of a later generation... The view that the event of Easter was the appointment to heavenly glory can still be traced behind the Synoptic tradition of the resurrection.»

Redford defends the birth at Bethlehem and, in view of multiple overlaps in the traditions behind Matthew and Luke, the historical reliability of the two accounts.

In the past, this has tended to be overstated; on the basis of the fact that Jesus certainly taught in Aramaic, and on the assumption that when we had reached one step behind the tradition in our synoptic sources we had reached the teaching of Jesus, it was sometimes assumed that an Aramaism represented the voice of Jesus.

But we can say that behind that tradition there must lie a hard core of authenticity, even though its details are unrecoverable today.

Their student bodies represent diverse religious and denominational traditions, none of which functions as the reigning source of the views about church and ministry that are behind the curriculum.

But from the outset, the ideology behind Eden's Gate doesn't feel rooted in any tradition beyond vague notions of sin and survivalism.

Consider leaving just one holiday tradition behind this year, so that the absence (of a fancy meal, a familiar decoration, a favorite ornament) is a reminder of how much justice has yet to be realized in world where the Kingdom has been inaugurated but not yet consummated.

Here then is something about the tradition of faith which lies behind Jesus.

If once we get behind the prejudices and tastes of this or that group of modem Christians, and try to discover what the great continental reformers like Luther and Calvin — yes, and like Zwingli, too, for be has been much misunderstood and misinterpreted by many of those who have claimed to interpret his teaching — not to mention the English reformers with their rather closer contact with the Catholic tradition, we shall find that with varying emphases and in varying idiom, they were all of them intent on saying something very like the summary outline which I have just given.

Some highlights of this collection are Khaled Abou El Fadl's eloquent explication of the complexities and restraints behind implementation of the death penalty under Islamic law; an interesting intersection between Fadl's discussion of reticence in the use of the death penalty and David Novak's review of capital cases in Jewish tradition; Stanley Hauerwas's unequivocal claim that the cross is justice (negatively in terms of Jesus» execution according to human law and positively in terms of the ultimate meaning of the cross as mercy and forgiveness); and, conversely, the claim by Beth Wilkinson, prosecutor in the Timothy McVeigh case, that «Even as a Christian, I felt nothing for Mr. McVeigh.»

Although understandable, «the longing for a tradition that will make sense out of our evangelical tower of Babel, the recoil from self serving exegesis, and the dissatisfaction with the miserable and stultifying parochialism of much evangelicalism» should not cause us to opt for an authoritative creed (and an authoritative church resting behind the creed).

You will learn to look behind both the questions and the resources Christianity gives for answering them, so that you can better understand and evaluate your own religious beliefs in relation to those of the tradition you have inherited or adopted.

Behind the best of our languages they find, as Tocqueville did, relatively inert traditions that all five authors presumably wish were more active: biblical thought and imagery, and republican discourse and institutions.

From the days of the primitive kerygma which lies behind the speeches in Acts, behind the oral tradition which was eventually crystallized in Mark and Q, the primary source of the theology of the cross is the words and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth.

St Mary's has a strong tradition behind it — founded in the 19th century by the Vincentian Fathers as a Catholic teacher - training college, in the past decade it has become first a College offering courses in a range of subjects, and now a fully - fledged University.

The symbols of community are there; the tradition of community stands behind us; and sometimes the leadership for community is also present.

Behind the Mother Earth there is a long tradition of agricultural matriarchal civilization.

While for the social scientist empirical data form the major source for his or her understanding and evaluation of a phenomenon, for the religious practitioner empirical data are just one source of determinative information, and often fill a secondary role behind other sources such as personal experience, intuition, and religious tradition.

very good post... one of yr recent best I think, as well as the others,, who wd fall in behind or at least beside you with a more balanced and informed assessment of all the multiple stories to digest in our earliest traditions.

and many modern critics have abandoned the belief that the author of the fourth gospel used the gospels of Mark and Luke in favour of the view that he drew upon a tradition similar in some respects to that behind these gospels.

Chefs Mullen and Edward Lee discussed culinary authenticity and tradition — which neither is too fond of the meanings behind those words.

I love the Easter holiday, especially the meaning behind it of course, but also because of the tradition we've been doing with our kids since Emma was a baby.

I'm sharing the secret behind a family favorite cookie recipe, and making traditions with the youngest members of the family.