Sentences with phrase «other great traditions»

Certain texts have never lost their centrality: for the Greeks, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Plato and Aristotle; for Jews and Christians, the Hebrew Scriptures, with Christians adding the New Testament; for the Chinese, Confucius and Mencius, the Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzi; and so forth for the other great traditions.

All of the other great traditions say something similar in one way or another.

Dickens, Robert S., «Thoreau and the «Other Great Tradition,»» The Emerson Society Quarterly, No. 29 (1962), Mimeographed, 26, 28nn2, 3.

Not exact matches

And there is some truth to that, though the other ingredients of this great American tradition — a giant meal, an inundation of family, a frantic cleaning of a home in anticipation of an inundation of family — may exhaust you as well.

The demographic breakdown between the two denominations is difficult to assess and varies by source, but a good approximation is that greater than 75 % of the world's Muslims are Sunni and 10 — 20 % are Shia, [1][2] with most Shias belonging to the Twelver tradition and the rest divided between several other groups.

This global compilation of traditional wisdom shows that none of the great, classical religious traditions conceived of God as a mere intelligent Designer, or as a First Cause within nature, or as a highly moral Personality who happens to be divine as well, or any kind of all - powerful agent that has a primus inter pares relationship with other, less powerful Superbeings and Incredibles.

Any other practice breaks the unity of the church, and the lack of water baptism is actually a tradition of omission, thus not showing a greater understanding of faith, but rather a lack of reverence for the will and intention of Jesus himself.

All great religious Traditions teach a negative version of the Golden Rule — «you shalt not do unto others that which you would not have they do unto you.»

Christians stand to learn a great deal not only from each other, crossing denominational lines with «generous orthodoxy,» but also from those who pray in other traditions.

I am hopeful that now, in our encounter with other great religious traditions, we will respond creatively and transform ourselves again through the encounter.

We invite others to offer from their own traditions alternative ways to clarify, strengthen, and direct this great enterprise.

There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»

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 transcendence.

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.

Some attend to the growing recognition of the intrinsic value and validity of other great religious traditions.

Black theology's rootage in the tradition of that other great protest, schism, and reformation which produced the racially separate African - American congregations determines that it is not at all committed to that predominantly white - Western theological tradition which Hartshorne calls «classical theism.»

It should be emphasized that this position does not at all imply a lack of respect for or even theological interest in other religious traditions, but it follows the great majority of historic Christian theologies in denying the possibility of salvific revelations anywhere outside the biblical orbit.

In Israel's tradition it was assumed that great wealth was gathered at the expense of others in the community.

I raise this question particularly with Pure Land Buddhists because the affirmation of other power, or what Christians call grace, seems to place a greater emphasis on the metaphysical character of the world and human experience than is present in other Buddhist traditions.

If one is to have a degree of objectivity concerning his own tradition, he must be cognizant and appreciative of the other great religious heritages.

Although his way of working this out may not appeal to us, with our quite different scientific knowledge, and our own philosophical idiom, the point here is that Aquinas, like the other theologians of the great Christian tradition, was no «spiritualist», denying or minimizing the material world and the physical body and their ways of working.

Hence its great importance in the Christian tradition has other causes.

In some ways more shocking than the renewal of the demand to take other great religious traditions seriously and appreciatively, is the awareness of the truth and wisdom in the supposedly «primitive» religions.

The other great failure of Fuller's account (also shared by Gillespie) is his interpretation of the Christian tradition in terms of the dualism of body and soul.

Christian theologians have increasingly come to view their work in a global context that takes seriously the other great religious traditions or Ways of humankind.

An important part of such development is to participate in the great historic faiths and in contemporary religious traditions other than one's own.

Patristic and medieval hymns are finding greater currency among some Evangelicals, while Catholics today praise God in the songs of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and others in the Evangelical tradition.

Some throw in a few other explanations (I just grew up with it... It's the oldest religion... We have a great tradition.)

But other writers, such as Robert Fitzgerald (with whose family Flannery O'Connor lived until she developed lupus), saw themselves as part of reviving a great tradition.

1) We're highly evolved primates 2) We have overactive imaginations 3) Our greatest evolutionary asset, our large and highly-folded brains, are also responsible for an insatiable curiosity 4) As a species, and a survival tactic, we make things up to comfort ourselves in difficult times 5) As a complex societal species, we create commonalities and «traditions» with others in our clan / tribe / community 6) These «traditions» result in security, trust, and strong relationships that make the collective more able to survive than the individual 7) These common beliefs also act as a means of numbing the brain to questions and concerns without legitimate or tangible answers 8) Religion is simply a survival mechanism 9) When we die, we simple «are not alive» anymore.

Already in the History of the Synoptic Tradition we find traces of this, because it is noticeable that when he is grouping together sayings which reflect one of these characteristics, Bultmann shows no great concern if some of them are dubious on other grounds, although he will note the possibility in passing.

This new apologetic task is not unlike other apologetic tasks undertaken by Christianity in other periods, especially at the time the biblical tradition encountered the Greco - Roman world in the first centuries of the Christian era, from Paul to Augustine, and at the time of the transition from the Middle Ages to the dawn of modernity, including the great reformations of Europe and the Americas.

We need each other to prove to the world that, with honesty and love, two great and separate traditions can work together to fashion a nobler society.

We may believe that greater creativity is required to avoid negatives in the Spinozistic tradition than in the Whiteheadian, but that all of us are engaged in selective interpretations within our own traditions, and selective interpretations of others, is surely correct.

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.

On the other hand, pre-Vatican II Roman Catholics tended to see the Bible and «Tradition» (capitalized to indicate the great stress put upon it) as equally authoritative, although in our own time that Council's bringing the two into a unity has made considerable difference.

Shira, The meme «God hates pagans and apostates» is definitely biblical, which testifies to the reality that individually and collectively all People of the Book [and other Religious Traditions] are capable of greater or lesser spiritual understanding and mature actions.

One of the great gains in the last decades of the twentieth century, beginning especially with the Second Vatican Council, is the transformation of Christian views of other religious traditions.

A third approach would be to delve more deeply into what Thomas Oden (and others) are calling «the Great Tradition,» «the consensually received instruction in classical Christian writing.»

It is a great gain that today we have friendly and appreciative relations with representatives of other religious traditions.

He said: «I think Britain has a great tradition of very non-violent and peaceful protests but, on the other hand, there were some very serious concerns already raised about the types of disorder and division that could be seen if Donald Trump came here.»

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Although redaction criticism tended to give more respect and credit to the individuals who wrote the Gospels than source or form criticism had, it still placed a great emphasis on the prehistory of each Gospel and tended to disintegrate each text into material labeled «tradition» and other material labeled «redaction.»

My own approach has been to dig deeply into the core of my own tradition and to find there surprising convergences with other Christians drawn from the great heritage of the apostolic faith and the inspired Holy Scriptures we cherish in common.

The new cultural forces which have emanated from the west and which are causing the decay of traditional Christianity also threaten the future of the other great post-Axial traditions.

Certainly there is a tradition that the defeated heretical monks held a rival council of ten thousand members, known as the Great Council, and drew up a different recension of the scriptures which among other things, according to the Dipavamsa, 1 «broke up the sense and doctrine in the five Nikayas,» and «rejecting some portions of the Sutta and the profound Vinaya, they made another counterfeit Sutta and Vinaya.»

On the other side of the ball the San Mateo Bearcats have great tradition as a long line of great Tongan running backs came from this school.

As said by others above, all we can ask is that the effort by the team respects and represents the great tradition of this club.

On the other side, Penn State's greatest tradition — the «We Are» chant — was born in 1948, when All - American guard Steve Suhey is said to have shot down SMU's request to meet about the Nittany Lions taking black players to Texas.