Sentences with phrase «of various traditions»

In India, the Marriott hotels offer a diverse range of properties, reflective of the unique amalgam of various traditions and cultures that

They focus on the Three Wise Men and their role within the Christmas Story, as well as looking at the significance of Epiphany to Christians and some of the various traditions associated with this religious celebration in different countries.

With the erosion of religious, ethnic and social connections and the rituals and practices they provide to confront mortality and bereavement, more and more of us must reinvent, from the leftovers and borrowings of our various traditions, the wheel that works the space between the deaths that happen and the deaths that matter.

In addition to discovering agreements and overlaps in the teachings of the various traditions, we may work for the emergence of a new consensus as the traditions interact with one another in a context of mutual respect.

Churchmen of various traditions are making strenuous efforts to prevent the once magnificent edifice of Christendom from falling into further ruin.

The distinctive religious ends of various traditions correspond to relations with God in which one dimension conditions or limits the rest.

For example, there has already been some convergence among representatives of the various traditions regarding the mystical dimension of religion.

That is why it has become common to speak of the various traditions as «paths of faith».

At a time when Christians of various traditions are wrestling with questions of political theology, it does not seem to make sense for Jews to insist that Christianity holds an essentially ahistorical view of salvation.

That it should be open to transformation through the insights of the various traditions, that it should be open to the possibilities of creative transformation by contact with the wisdom and vision of other sources, is highly...

Unlike the dogmatic adherents of various traditions, we will think about these matters, not just accept what some tradition proclaims to us.

Not exact matches

Lasch reminds us that the corrosion of our democratic way of life and especially our public discourse has its roots in widespread distrust of our institutions and the traditions around which they have developed and of which they are the expressions — whether the family, church, and local communities, or private enterprise and all the various levels of government.

You find a way to assimilate and integrate various elements of thought, even from outside your own tradition or system, into your own way of thinking (or some might say «believing»).

The fact that I attempt, very carefully, to show how a Christian public philosophy needs to take into account the contending views of various Christians» as well as our entire liberal / conservative political tradition» does not weaken my appeal for something more fully, integrally, and distinctively Christian.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

Although these Abrahamic traditions share a lot in common, from their stories of shared ancestries, to their patriarchal roots, to various figures and prophets like Jesus, Moses, the Angel Gabriel, and so on, many understand these faith traditions as rivals.

22.25, where the disciples are told not to be like the euergetai of the gentiles but is also implied in the various traditions within the New Testament which call for a mutual ethic amongst the believers which undermines the need for patronage.

Although the arrival of Christianity systemised and propagated a written language, a literary tradition had existed before it, as had various forms of art.

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;

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

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.

The simple fact that we have a canon of Scripture, which was compiled and organized by various early Church Fathers, and became a tradition, shows that we must, to some degree, accept and depend upon some forms of Church Ttradition, shows that we must, to some degree, accept and depend upon some forms of Church TraditionTradition.

A knowledge of the way in which the Traditions were compiled and transmitted facilitates an understanding of the various attitudes toward the Traditions which are found in Muslim countries today.

If we wish to persist in the quest to uncover a historical core to the tradition, then it would be far wiser to attend to the wider pattern of ideas that the various traditions about Jesus create.

Last year, the United States resettled more Christians than any other religious tradition primarily because Christians have been uniquely targeted for persecution in various parts of the world.

Sometimes this has meant that various historic Christian traditions have affirmed the legitimacy of each other's differences in articulating the faith.

Furthermore, it is compatible with the various construals of the subject matter of theological schooling (Word of God, Christian experience, Christian tradition — paideia as «Christian culture» - or various combinations of these).

It is much the same, if not worse, when we turn to the conservative defenders of the various religious traditions.

Rev Gumbel has done a fine job mediating between various protestant theologies, and arguing that he is presenting a sort of common denominator «kerygma» between Catholic and reformed traditions.

Their goal was to connect those drawn to Hauerwas's vision from various ecclesial traditions and to link them for friendship and the sharing of ideas so they might better serve their own churches.

In fact, however, as I have indicated, I do not think that the Synoptic traditions should be taken for the most part as factual history, but rather as reflections, cast in narrative form, of the theological thinking of the early Church about the Easter appearances and of various current controversies about them.

Our concern in this and the subsequent chapters is not, however, with the total Islamic culture but with the specifically religious culture which originates almost exclusively from the Qur» an, the Traditions of the Prophet of Islam, and the various interpretations of these two fundamental sources.

And theologians of various persuasions and denominational traditions have accepted some of his emphases.

A week - long «Colloquy on the Loss and Recovery of the Sacred,» it had been designed as a small working conference of church leaders gathered from a broad spectrum of the various Christian traditions.

Whether Rama or Ravana ruled, whatever political authority structures came into being or disappeared, they had but minimum impact on the life of the various village communities; they continued to live in some kind of internal self - sufficiency according to their different traditions, with Custom as the real King.

We have seen, then, a sampling of the images that various traditions of the ministry have rejected when reluctant, on one count or another, to accept the responsibility of being theologians.

[50] Christian theology of religions, on the other hand, «studies the various traditions in the context of the history of salvation and in their relationship to the mystery of Jesus Christ and the Christian Church.»

Second, as I suggested earlier, each of the various religious traditions, I maintain, is based upon a particular preconceptual «vision of reality.»

There are many motivations, and they are described in various ways: «(Our understanding of) God's plan for women» «Faithfulness to (our interpretation of) the Bible» «Conformity to the tradition (of our Church)» «Shared culture and values (with those like us)» «Fellowship and community (with those like us)» «Well - understood and clear - cut roles (in some areas)» «Gender - specific roles and responsibilities (again, in some areas)»

Theology, if it is to explore adequately the meaning of play and its relation to the sacred, must «study the various biblical traditions and engage in the systematic hermeneutical task of appropriating the meaning of the biblical message for today's world.

This awareness can not be objectified or known in the usual sense, and various religious traditions present varying descriptions of it.

The various schools of Tradition agree that natural reason relies upon experience for its initial signals of reality; hence, to start philosophy with sense and image is no crime, but it is a crime to end there.

When the Orthodox theologian John Meyendorff described the difference between Tradition and traditions, he contrasted the living truths of the faith received in fellowship with the triune God over against its various cultural embodiments.

Such arguments as «the Church teaches --» were destined to become less and less sufficient to win immediate acceptance for the ideas they prefaced The validity of traditions was questioned; general beliefs about physical phenomena were subjected to various tests.

The New Testament contains the deposit, in writing, of the continuous tradition about Jesus at various stages of its transmission during the first century of the church's existence.

Yet from its very beginning the various elements of the Christian tradition, while always being concerned with doctrinal constraints, have also been open, at least to some degree, to novelty.

Even the comparison of the mythologies of the various religions will help him to understand more clearly the significance of the myths of the Christian tradition.

There is a sense in which such traditions have stood in the wings awaiting this time and will now re-emerge, I predict, with a new creativity, offering various paradigms of nonfundamentalist evangelicalism.

Exploring the world and various cultures and traditions makes them smarter and more able to deal with diverse people than someone else who accepts the doctrines of their parents and seeks after nothing.

Various elements of tradition seem nonessential, such as male celibate priesthood and biblical cosmology.