Sentences with phrase «on other traditions»

The Protestant emphasis on Scripture as a sole and sufficient guide for faith has made us deficient in drawing on other traditions of the church.

Was is founded on any other traditions or legends of the region in which it supposedly happened?

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Some of the demonstrations, which are also celebrated under the International Workers» Day banner, reflected cultural traditions, and many others were a rallying cry for equal rights, equal pay, and a renewed focus on social, environmental and civil - rights issues.

She's also focusing on other family traditions they have around the holidays, such as baking cookies with her grandkids and her annual Christmas party.

Precious metals, on the other hand, are grounded in tradition and serve as a sound centerpiece to an international diversification plan.

Beyond the special visit of Senator Collins, highlights included: • Intense and probing pre and post-dinner conversations about the economy and the world on the deck (along with wonderful wine and hors d'oeuvres — part of the tradition is that each participant ships several bottles of excellent wine to share with others) • Participation in a financial forecast survey of key factors for the upcoming 12 months as well as a review of the prior year's financial forecast survey — including distribution of funds that the prior year's attendees «bet» on the accuracy of the forecasts.

The other part of me also knows that if you do believe by Scripture, tradition and your own internal barometer that homosexuality is a sin (let's say), then you are not going to wish to give the thumbs up to someone being on staff who is openly living that lifestyle.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

On the other hand, Muslim immigrants are welcome helps in the deconstructionist war against tradition.

On the other hand, a surprisingly large portion of Christians I've talked to are well versed in the philosophical traditions of the last 3000 years (including Greek philosophy and other religions).

crazy that when i was watching the news it had a split screen with 1 guy saying the buried him with all the muslim traditions to show respect to islam and on the other side of the screen it had people singing na na na na hey hey hey goodbye!!!

One bases it on the opinions and traditions of man who simply got what they believe from other men.

For some, that tradition comes from their family, for others, it is based on their pastor or denomination from which they grew up in, others may not have a tradition to draw on altogether.

Now this Tradition lives on side - by - side with the Bible — each confirming the other... and of course, we still have our conscience!

Process philosophers in the tradition of Charles Hartshorne propose an account of God as changing from moment to moment, and therefore as internally complex, internally affected by events in the world, and essentially dependent on other nondivine realities.

I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.

And, on the other hand, since the Wesleyan tradition is working on a fundamentally different axis, it is more easily able to adapt to a new intellectual context.

Of course, within this unified tradition, there are traditions that move in different directions on other matters.

As one watches this debate unfold, the ones who defend the US Emergent tradition of gaslighting and other on and offline bullying tactics are those who have a financial stake in the Emergent brand.

Yet such theological thinking must be undertaken in full awareness that theologians and thinkers of other traditions not only «listen in» on our conversations, but also are engaged in interpreting religious plurality in the context of their own traditions of faith.

Other thinkers based their judgments on the traditions prevailing in Medina because it was the environment where legislation was made at the time of the Prophet and during the first two Caliphates before the outbreak of the sedition.

Our «early traditions about Jesus» (to use the title of a little book by the late Professor Bethune - Baker) are not interested so much in what has been called the «biographical Jesus» as they are concerned with what Jesus did and said as he was remembered by those who believed him to be their Lord, the Risen Messiah, and who were therefore anxious to hand on to others what was remembered about him.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

Second, if the church is attentive to the New Testament, Justin Martyr and Hippolytus, the Eastern church, the Western catholic tradition, the Anglican tradition, the Lutheran tradition, the Calvinist intent (and practice, if not in Geneva then in places like John Robinson's Leiden), the Wesleyan intent and that of the early Methodists, then its worship on every festival of the resurrection — that is, on every Sunday — will include both Word and Supper, not one or the other.

Even in light of how Jesus's life and teaching move between the two poles, there is a tendency in Christian tradition to tilt in one direction or the other, depending on the context.

Suddenly, reporters and plenty of others who've tuned into the wildly popular «Two and Half Men» want to know about the Seventh - day Day Adventist tradition, which Jones says in the online video he has recently joined, connecting his conversion to his new outlook on the show.

Religious virtuosos, on the other hand, engage in ressourcement: they draw on the resources of profound traditions and project them into the future, calling for action in light of what the ancient texts themselves project.

They emerged out of the Christian denominational - biblical tradition on the one hand and Enlightenment utilitarianism on the other hand.

On the other hand, the full spiritual import of a religious ceremony, informed by text and tradition, eludes even the most devoted artist.

Your spiritual experience is valid to me, and most Pagans don't think of other religious traditions as being «wrong»; we just disagree with anyone who thinks they have a stranglehold on the truth.

What is chosen therefore is one of those types of act which «in the Church's moral tradition have been termed «intrinsically evil» (intrinsice malum): they are such always and per se, in other words on account of their very object, and quite apart from the ulterior intentions of the one acting and the circumstances.»

America, on the other hand, a strong tradition of respect for individuals as morally autonomous beings frustrates contemporary attempts to provide social solidarity and hence a socially informed sense of identity.

On the other hand, the British had a greater sense of tradition and more theological sophistication than did the Americans.

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendencOn the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendencon in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

Furthermore, Ogden recognizes that there is a definite historical connection between the Christian tradition on the one hand, and existentialism and process philosophy on the other.57 Would one not have to say that both of these forms of philosophy became possibilities in fact only as a result of the emergence of Christian faith in history, and of the particular direction the theological tradition developed?

As Matthew and Luke also contains other material on common that is not found in Mark, a hypothesis was also developed that there was another source, either form oral tradition or from other source documents.

They suggest that the same eternal principle may be recognized in other great spiritual teachers such as the Buddha and Lord Krishna, and that too exclusive a focus on Jesus is liable to ignore the evidence of God's presence in the other great faith traditions of the world.

The theory and practice constituted a rich orientation to reality, one that covered many of the areas with which the Western traditions dealt but also others on which the Western traditions throw little light.

It can be seen from the above that there are real differences between the synoptic tradition on the one hand and the remainder of the New Testament on the other, as far as the usage of Kingdom of God is concerned.

It's christians pretending to be the first to have ever created a holiday that are declaring war on all the other traditions around this time.

But on the other hand, in many curious ways, tradition is the cause of our present condition.

In other words, embodying the just war tradition is not simply a matter of invoking a checklist of criteria on the eve of conflict.

Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1) bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is as essential as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the experience of bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»

It means that the church must, among other things, be backward - looking; it has a special mission to preserve the past, to carry on a tradition.

Anglican «walking together» can mean recognising others as holders to the same Creeds and broad traditions, while not necessarily having the same practice on less essential matters.

Might it be time to find your place among followers of Jesus who concentrate on following Jesus, loving others, and helping those who need help rather than among those who spend their time worrying about «marital cultural traditions» and similar things?

In this regard, when we lift up before the congregation the lives of the saints who gave themselves for others and when we encourage service to those in need around us (e.g., the works of mercy) we are contributing to the formation of the kind of people on whom the just war tradition as a form of discipleship depends.

The masses, on the other hand, need the guidance of religious tradition - which can co-exist with this elitist philosophy - lest they fall prey to irrational ideologies.

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

Egyptians, on the other hand, contained traditions of the sayings of Jesus which portrayed him as having come to «destroy the works of the female», specifically the work of reproduction.