Sentences with phrase «of writing traditions»

The violent technique, while at odds with the unhurried manner of their maker, enabled Anatsui to ally method with metaphor: Fan, and similar works from this period, not only mourns the «historic vandalism» of colonialism, to quote Olu Oguibe, but also ennobles the «plethora of writing traditions» that Anatsui devoted his early career to learning.

It's success lies in the innovation of the written tradition.

Because of the written tradition's fundamental impact upon culture, not all Greeks embraced it gladly.

Not exact matches

«The experience of the broad oriental tradition of a married clergy could also be drawn upon,» he writes, without specificying what that means in the context of the debate over married clergy in non-Eastern traditions.

«No advisor committed to the bipartisan American traditions of government can possibly believe he or she is being effective at this point,» Summers wrote in a column in the Washington Post.

Eve Tushnet has written beautifully on a vision of friendship for gay Catholics, encouraging them to recover a fundamental aspect of the Catholic tradition of human ecology that has been missing in modern times.

«Many of us,» he writes — that would be many of the «social - justice» Catholics who belong to that «older American tradition» — «see gay marriage» in a positive light.

Jesus learned to read and write at the hands of a Pharisee, one steeped in the oral traditions of his religion.

In 1774, Thomas Jefferson wrote» A Summary View of the Rights of British America,» in which he argued from inside that tradition, while reconciliation still seemed possible.

Saying prayers that were written hundreds of years ago can feel dry and empty when an ancient form is divorced from the living tradition.

... while Paul VI did write that it was his responsibility to sift the material he had been given by many advisers, including the papal commission on marriage and fertility that Pope John XXIII had established and that he, Paul, had expanded, he also made clear that the teaching of Humanae Vitae rested, not on the personal conscience of Giovanni Battista Montini, but on the mature conviction of Pope Paul VI as custodian and servant, not master, of the Catholic tradition.

Theology Without Boundaries: Encounters of Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Tradition by Carnegie Samuel Calian Westminster / John Knox Press, 130 pages, $ 14.99 paper Calian, President and Professor of Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (a Presbyterian school), has written a book intended to acquaint Western Christians with the ecumenical contribution of Eastern Christians.

The innovation that drove Christianity was inclusiveness, and it's success is the combination of inclusiveness and written tradition.

G to T What makes the Bible divine is that a symbolic picture language in oral tradition as captured in writing transmitted the message over thousands of years and cultures that still reveals the absolute truth.

You miss the mystics of all traditions who are far closer to the teachings and path of Christ than anyone who simply follows a book written by man centuries after he lived.

fred «What makes the Bible divine is that a symbolic picture language in oral tradition as captured in writing transmitted the message over thousands of years and cultures that still reveals the absolute truth»

Having known both of these scholars and having written about Talmon at some length, I must point out that Talmon wrote expressly on the French postrevolutionary and restorationist traditions and not about the later period that concerned The Origins of Totalitarianism.

So good that someone like Richard is writing history with such a huge amount of knowledge about the Catholic Church and its tradition.

«The tone of the writing, the format of the page, and the directness of the dialog allows the tradition of passing down the biblical narrative to come through in «The Voice.»»

Seems that maybe there was also a lot of translation that occured before the books even took written form, as these tribes had traditions of passing on information orally, before writing and scribing started to take hold.

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

Writing in the Journal of Religious Ethics, they make clear enough, as it used to be said, where they are coming from: «Just war theory is properly understood as an expression of a tradition in Christian political thought that can broadly be described as Augustinian.

Wrote the narrator, «From this comes the Israelite tradition that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah» (vv.

It only has authority and only makes sense as the written record of God's Word handed on through the Tradition of God's People in the Church.

«Motivated in large part by their religious traditions of protecting the vulnerable and serving «the least of these,» as Jesus instructed his followers to do in the Gospel of Matthew,» writes Eric Marrapodi, «World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army are stepping up efforts and working with law enforcement to stem the flow of human trafficking, which includes sex trafficking and labor trafficking.»

It was a tradition that appears to have continued through the writing of the book of Judges.

V «Priestly» laws and narratives of Genesis - to - Joshua («P») written on basis of earlier traditions.

Written toward the end of a long career dedicated to the study of religion» his The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions has been a staple on college syllabi since it first appeared in 1958» this book has a definite valedictory feel.

Newell presents a seven - day cycle of morning and evening prayers written in the «Celtic tradition,» which emphasizes the goodness of creation.

It is a Western writing, Hellenistic, probably Roman; obviously written in Greek, and not, I believe, the translation of a completed work in a Semitic tongue; and yet resting back upon traditions that were certainly far older than its own date, undoubtedly Palestinian in origin, and circulating originally in the Aramaic language spoken by the common people of Galilee and Judea in the days of our Lord.

Because in every area of the Bible, from the writing of the text, to the collection of the books, to the transmission, translation, and teaching of the text, extra-biblical tradition and authority is required.

I write from the standpoint of a Church of England parish priest and many of my examples are from that tradition, but I recognize that the Church of England is one church amongst many churches, just as Christianity is one religion amongst many world religions which are slowly learning to share with each other their spiritual treasures and to work together for peace, the relief of human need and the preservation of the planet.

Luke's and Matthew's gospels were probably written between ten and twenty years later, although there is a persistent tradition that Matthew, one of the disciples, wrote a «gospel» or collection of the sayings of Jesus in Hebrew.

The Pharisees have delivered to the people a great many observances by succession from their fathers, which are not written in the laws of Moses: and for that reason it is that the Sadducees reject them, and say that we are to esteem those observances to be obligatory which are in the written word, but are not to observe what are derived from the tradition of our forefathers.5

In this pioneer form - critical work the first attempt was made to write a history of the synoptic tradition and to isolate the influences at work in and on that tradition as it changed and developed.

«For early Christianity Scripture is no longer just what is written, nor is it just tradition; it is the dynamic and divinely determined declaration of God which speaks of His whole rule and therefore of His destroying and new creating, and which reaches its climax in the revelation of Christ and the revelation of the Spirit by the risen Lord... The full revelation in Christ and the Spirit is more than what is written» (TDNT I: 761).

Drawing on Aristotelian tradition, Aristides wrote: «I perceived that the world and all that is therein are moved by the power of another, and I understood that he who moves them is God, who is hidden in them, and veiled by them.

As is often the case when I write about confronting doubt or questioning certain theological traditions, I got a message or two urging me to stop asking so many pesky questions and just enjoy the bliss of absolute certainty that should accompany true faith.

’25 Bloch believed that «the ultimate, enduring insight of Marx is that truth does not exist for its own sake but implies emancipation, and an interpretation of the world which has the transformation of the world as its goal and meaning, providing a key in theory and leverage in practice».26 Drawing on this tradition Moltmann writes that unless truth «contains initiative for the transformation of the world, it becomes a myth of the existing world.

Writing about a quarter of a century after the death of Jesus, he says that the tradition passed on to him, presumably when he became a Christian some twenty years earlier, contained the following statements: «that Christ died; that he was buried; that he was raised to life on the third day; and that he appeared to Cephas and afterwards to the Twelve.

The Apostles» successors, next three centuries: die for faith, write liturgies, establish canon of scripture, doctrine, and practice based on that tradition.

«Abolish such observances and you strike at the heart of tradition and you abolish the distinctive language of belief,» Duffy writes.

So I will end on a somewhat ironic note of contrast: in 1970 I wrote of a «post-traditional world»; today I believe that only living traditions make it possible to have a world at all.

It is highly poetic, and most religious traditions and religious rites were written using the King James Version of the Bible.

H. A. Wolfson writes that scholastic philosophy, or the coming together of the Biblical tradition and Greek philosophy, was founded by Philo and destroyed by Spinoza.

For most of the interval between 30 A.D., when Jesus» career ended, and the date of the beginning, so far as we can know, of Gospel writing, the tradition about Jesus existed only as individual stories and sayings, circulating separately and orally among the scattered churches.

In Jewish tradition, we frequently speak in terms of «Written Torah» (the text of the Hebrew Scriptures as they have come down to us) and «Oral Torah» (the ensuing centuries of conversations and interpretations of our sages and rabbis, which are also considered to be holy.)

It would be possible for Luke to have constructed a story in writing that would bear all the hallmarks of oral tradition, but it is unlikely.

«Although some notable New Testament scholars affirm traditional Johannine scholarship, the majority do not believe that John or one of the Apostles wrote it, and trace it instead to a «Johannine community» which traced its traditions to John; the gospel itself shows signs of having been composed in three «layers», reaching its final form about 90 - 100 AD.»

By reading the letter He wrote to ALL (the Bible) and stop listening to tradition of men teachings that stroke your ego of what you want to hear instead of what He wants you to hear.