Sentences with phrase «old tradition as»

Now that Taiwan has set the example, it is hoped that other countries that carry out this practice will implement rules to outlaw this centuries - old tradition as well.

Amazon which is one of the biggest online retailers in the world decided to join this age old tradition as it offer its customers to trade in any of their used devices provided that it can still be used in exchange for its gift card.

Her illusions belong to older traditions as well.

Not exact matches

Some say one long - term scenario has Canadians making a final toast to the 200 - year - old brewer, as the Molson and Coors families turn their back on generations of tradition and sell out to one of the giants.

Admirers of the tradition see the centuries — old spectacle of bullfighting as more of an art than a sport.

As people's tastes widen for all things handmade and delicious, the old traditions of cheese making and aging have become big business.

But by helping to revive UA as an artist - led studio, Cruise will be the latest entrant in an old - school Hollywood tradition.

Collecting swag is an OTC tradition that is probably as old as the conference itself.

If a company seems old school or values tradition, they will probably appreciate a handwritten note as well.

This debate, as old as Plato's Phaedrus, is kept alive by Page Meets Stage, a New York arts event where two poets from the two traditions square off against each other.

And not go deeper in new ways of praying, but actually return to old historic practices that are rooted in our historic Christian contemplative tradition and my sense here, in the Sacred Enneagram is that as we come to terms with what our type is, that actually gives us a clue of what it looks like to nurture a deep, contemplative spirituality.

I am evangelical and not a Catholic however let it be pointed out that most non-Catholic traditions, new and old, have just as much extra-biblical belief and rituals but they are not formalized as such.

So that's been helpful to me to feel a part of something so old and broad as the Catholic tradition is.

This gourmet store at the center of hip Brooklyn bills itself as being «based on old - world ideals with a loyalty to our family... dedicated to the time honored traditions of the culinary and agricultural world.»

And there are other suggestions of earthly, that is, nationalistic Jewish, Messiahship to be found in the old tradition — more fully elaborated in the other Gospels, especially, as we have seen, in Luke.

When one passes from the Old Testament into the New, one finds Christian thinking, in this regard as in every other, rooted in the prophetic tradition.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

Influential as the old sacrificial system continued to be in Christian thinking, it was the prophetic tradition with reference to personal prayer that more powerfully affected the New Testament.

«In time we will rediscover prayer as the invisible centre and foundation of culture... and from that centre will be born a new civilization... a Christendom, but distinguished from the old Christendom not least by the fact that it will be shaped by many religious traditions.»

Simon said in the course of their centuries - old tradition on the mountain, the monks viewed it as just a speed bump.

Kaiser Verlag, 1960; ET by D. M. G. Stalker is now available as Old Testament Theology: II The Theology of Israel's Prophetic Traditions; Edinburgh and London Oliver and Boyd, 1965.)

The present setting of this saying is editorial, as are all settings in the tradition, and in this instance the setting is at least as old as Q, since both Matthew and Luke use the saying and its setting in different ways: Matthew to interpret the exorcisms of Jesus as a present manifestation of the eschatological future, «spirit» being «in primitive Christianity, like the «first - fruits» (Rom.

In those days, an older pastor was often seen as a better representative of the tradition.

It was in this spirit of mediating tradition with the challenges of the twentieth century that the forty - two - year - old Dubois, recognized as a gifted theologian and scholar of Thomas Aquinas, was tasked by his superiors with strengthening the Catholic presence in Israel.

Many Christians need to think more instead of blindly accepting tradition, or old writings as literal.

Those old traditions are breaking apart as more and more people have access to more information, showing religious belief to be baseless.

Take any traditional objection to accepting the old Platonic analogy of God as the World Soul and it can be shown that the objection stands or falls with aspects of a tradition which philosophy has been moving away from since the middle ages — for instance ideas of sheer infinity, sheer immutability, also what is usually meant by omnipotence.

Each of these bursts of indignation is part of a larger populist tradition that is as old as the Republic itself.

Since the Syriac fathers see the old order of sacrifices as having lost its former value, it is curious how firmly both Aphrahat and Ephrem held a tradition which is strange to the New Testament, namely, that Christ as High Priest «according to the order of Melchizedek», actually received the Aaronic priesthood by unbroken succession of imposition of hands through John the Baptist, who was of priestly family; when the former priesthood was repudiated, the power continued in Christ and he passed it on to the Apostles.

It was surely in ignorance that the Jews and their rulers had put him to death, as the old tradition affirmed.

Yet in each instance, that which the older language sought to express will be present in the preaching, since the event which is proclaimed is both disclosure of God in act and the source of the renewed life that is known within the Christian tradition as «life in Christ.»

Even such a brilliant and subtle study as The Theological Origins of Modernity, by Michael Gillespie, simply assumes that nominalism attained victory over the older tradition because of an intrinsic superiority.

The Old Testament properly so called is the corpus of books, written and handed down in Hebrew (or in the kindred Aramaic), which were received as Scripture in the first century of our era by Hebrew - speaking Jews, representing the central tradition of Hebrew and Jewish religion.

Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, emphasized the difference between the new and the old meanings of political theology depicting what had earlier been called political theology as the ideology of political religion, which is the symbolic integration of the beliefs of a people through which they sanction and sanctify their traditions and their ambitions.12 Moltmann strongly supports Peterson in his critique of political theology in this sense.13 It is the task of what is properly called political theology — in Metz's sense — to unmask the pretenses of political religions.

Though He often does things that were against the Jewish law and Jewish traditions, and because of this, He is often accused of sinning, He never once broke the law of God as contained in the Old Testament.

Those traditions have been written down in the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles (which are older than most gospels), and other writings that, while did not make it to the Canon (Bible), serve as important historical references.

Washington (CNN)-- Employing faith, whether calling for nationwide prayer or healing the nation by quoting scripture, is a presidential tradition as old as the office itself.

Rainer Braendlein, in Islmaic tradition, Jews and Christians are honored as «people of the book» (i.e. followers of Abraham and the Old Testament).

Von Campenhausen himself affirms that «the disputes of the Christians with their opponents... show themselves as a factor at work on all sides, forming the old tradition and refraining it more and more.»

The oldest tradition of the Christian community, as Characterized on pp. 23 ff., begins with the appearance of John the Baptist.

The age - long tradition of the «events» of Easter day, so old that it was caught up in the New Testament itself, can no longer be defended as an historical description of the resurrection of Jesus.

In particular, he said, he began to see much of the Old Testament as unoriginal stories that had been told in many pagan traditions.

In order to make concrete that preaching situation let us assume further that I am a preacher in a church which owns and honors the liturgical tradition, and as a major obedience to that tradition does not deliver over to me — for exploitation according to my ambulatory penchants or enthusiasms — a merely religious occasion, but has from of old designated this Sunday as the second Sunday in Advent.

Some of them still carry old denominational convictions; for instance, about continuity in the Anglican Church, the rejection of a set - aside ministry in parts of the Society of Friends, the parity of the ministry in the Reformed tradition, and no ordination without a call from a local church as in much of Lutheranism.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

On this wave of inspiration, Cædmon began to Christianize the Old English poetic tradition in keeping with the Icelandic view of poetry as the capacity to peer into the runes and find the meaning of the world.

Now one might expect that this pattern of interpretation would have been retained by Paul, if historical — that is, if set forth by Jesus himself or found in the earliest tradition of his sayings or expounded in the early church — or one might even think it possible that Mark derived from Paul some hint of this system of exegesis of the Old Testament and of interpretation of the career of Jesus as a heavenly being appearing upon earth prior to his exaltation and his dying (as a heavenly being) upon the cross, though unrecognized in his true nature until the Resurrection.

No longer present is the old temptation to separate tradition or ecclesiastical magisterium from Scripture as autonomous sources of revelation.

As I watched, I found myself thinking about how the Church, with the age - old sacrament of confession and the tradition of corporate lament, is equipped to speak powerfully and counter-culturally to this very issue.

Favorably quoting a theologian who refers to the Pope as a «liturgical pluralist,» Rocca goes on to say that Benedict is «leading his church forward in the spirit of its oldest traditions.»