Sentences with phrase «only important tradition»

As long as you embrace the thankful spirit of the holiday, you are keeping the only important tradition.

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The only limitation of this Catholic tradition which I now believe to be important is that the pattern of relations it emphasized did not include relations to the land and to the other creatures with which we share it.

To be sure, it has often been argued that it does not really matter whether Jesus lived — that we have emerging in the Gospels and in the tradition of the church a certain portrait of him and only the portrait is important.

The church is also being regarded as an important community of memory because the other sources of a rich narrative tradition — families, ethnic groups, residential communities — are also subject to the growing pressures of change, while more recent institutions, such as business firms and the mass media, are believed to have only shallow ties to the past.

So quit relying on Jewish scriptures and Hebrew traditions to inform the CHristian church, and look to the simple message of Jesus on the only commandments that are important, and then the answer here is simple — if women are knowledgeable, capable teachers, welcome them to that role, love them for it, and keep the faith.

It must have had an important place in the tradition, for not only is it reported in all four gospels, but two of them, Matthew and Mark, give duplicate accounts, differing unimportantly in detail.

From his analysis emerges perhaps the most important task of all for modern Christians: Christians should not only advocate peace to fend off the negative threat of nuclear war, but must articulate, espouse and live a positive vision and motivation for peace that is grounded in the biblical tradition.

They usually are content to demythologize it.11 Here again, if one makes the opposite judgment as a systematic theologian, based in Scripture and tradition, that belief in the resurrection of Jesus is not only necessary to Christian faith, but one of its most distinctive and important elements, one may find it possible to express that belief in Whitehead's understanding of the person.

’42 In addition, he not only transmits to us the early tradition that Christ «appeared to Cephas», but tells us elsewhere that some time after his own conversion he went «up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas ’43 and «stayed with him for a fortnight».43 Since Paul and Peter are likely to have discussed all the important aspects of the Christian Gospel together, we can take Paul's testimony as the equivalent of first - hand testimony by Peter that Jesus had appeared to him.

Only in a tradition where adults continue to refer to the family life of individual church members as «the Christian home» would pastors, educators, and theologians have continued to believe for so long that parents are more important than the church is to the faith of children.

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.

The third annual Roots Conference at the Culinary Vegetable Institute in Milan, Ohio stresses the importance of not only adhering to and preserving important culinary traditions, but also illustrates how vital it is to look to the future for sound solutions for the problems we collectively face.

Kathryn's daughters now carry on her traditions and dedication by crafting only the finest, purest products, and using certified organic ingredients designed to nurture and soothe women on their all - important journey of nurturing life.

In Jewish tradition, Jewish marriage is a very important life event, and one of only a handful of lifecycle events that must be taken very seriously.

Not only is it important to me that these diverse and exceptional students have access to the traditional liberal arts cannon through our classes, but it is crucial that their experiences are informing how those texts are taught and that their participation in the liberal arts college tradition is changing the narrative around who belongs in this type of college environment.»

Working with aluminium is important not only in functional terms but also because, by tradition, it demands every detail be treated sculpturally to express the technical excellence of the project through its beauty.

That tradition was important because the cities that host Frieze are not only major art hubs with museums and galleries, but also home to artists and artist - driven organizations, said Victoria Siddall, the director of Frieze Fairs and head of the board of Studio Voltaire.

His bequest funding which, he specified, should be used to acquire only art created within 25 years of purchase, began a continuing tradition of collecting contemporary art which has allowed Aberdeen Art Gallery to establish an important collection of modern and contemporary art.

So, it is an important element still, as long as men continue to hold traditions of power and have money, that we find ways, not only to network with other women, because that part I actually find easy and enjoyable and kind of stressless and effortless.

As judicial educators, we focus on how to present important topics to the judiciary in ways that not only inform them, but also assist them in changing practices which at times are deeply ingrained in judicial tradition and legal practice.