Sentences with phrase «other traditions against»

Swimme, a Catholic physicist and follower of Thomas Berry, emphasizes how the narrative revolution in science is now capable of placing all our religious and other traditions against the more fundamental backdrop of a cosmic story.

Not exact matches

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.

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

Sometimes Father Murray seemed to be whimsical about it, but at other times he was dead earnest in suggesting that a day might come when the proponents of the founding and defining Protestant tradition of the American experiment may, for complex reasons, tire of the experiment or turn against it.

Alexander III, following the ancient tradition of the Church declared that «After a lawfully accorded consent affecting the present, it is allowed to one of the parties, even against the will of the other, to choose a monastery (just as certain saints have been called from marriage), provided that carnal intercourse shall not have taken place between them; and it is allowed to the one who is left to proceed to a second marriage» (III Decretal., xxxii, 2).

The WEA plans to «help and train our people to overcome prejudices against other Christian traditions and not to confuse things from the past with present realities,» secretary general Efraim Tendero said.

Similarly, other religious traditions should be studied critically, but with no prejudice against them because of unfamiliar features of their thought or practice.

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

Educators and other representatives of culture vigorously defend these traditions against any criticisms by what remains of the older Western culture of civility, order, and restraint.

In response to Prof. Schimmel, and also back to Prof. Levenson, if the preservation of Jewish identity requires that we always have to react against a «negative other,» then that diverts us from asserting the universal significance of the whole Jewish tradition.

Verbal similarities are not therefore a strong argument for the dependence of Thomas upon the canonical gospel tradition, and all other factors arc against such dependence.

In other words, what holds this tradition together is that it is against something.

And not because we are against others, or merely because we are convinced of the intellectual and experiential integrity of our own tradition.

To this conclusion other traces in the gospel tradition point, sayings which stress now the agreement between Jesus and the Baptist, now the superiority of Jesus over John; sayings which show now the solidarity of the two sects as against orthodox Judaism, now the rivalry between them.

Could Protestants directing culturally leading institutions legitimately discriminate in any way against people from other traditions?

When theological schemes are interpreted against the background of this wider reality, we can come to see that the concerns which have shaped specific theological positions are ones that other traditions often share, even if with a different emphasis and linked with other concerns.

I think some christians are against men being together with other men because it goes against their long church tradition of men being intimate with alter boys.

But deal with advertisers, public - relations experts and mass communicators and you will find that practical - minded people, not secularists, are screening them because the partisans of the «Judeo - Christian tradition» are divided against each other.

He was still fighting to retain what he saw to be the true tradition and meaning as against other Reformers who wished to «spiritualise» it, and against the practice of the papal authorities who had not modified their functional and canonical position.

The tradition of just war analysis guards against the troubling idea of killing to send a message or for any other symbolic purpose.

The point, here, is that public schools were pressed to recognize cultural pluralism and to avoid favoring any one religious tradition over against others.

The Reformation was utterly dependent on what came before it, but it transformed the past by using parts of it against other parts, by taking key emphases already widely accepted among the faithful and showing that, if one saw this doctrine or that practice from a slightly different angle, everything was changed — all the while managing to maintain continuity with the deepest sources of the tradition.

In the best tradition of those with everything to gain and nothing to lose by fighting, if necessary against the rules for what they want, the friaries of Erfurt and the six other Communities who had joined together to send the deputation immediately sent another two friars off to Rome, with a further objection and request.

For instance, the judge granted summary judgment against the NCAA on its argument that scholarship rules «improve [e] the quality of the collegiate experience for student - athletes, other students, and alumni by maintaining the unique heritage and traditions of college athletics and preserving amateurism as a foundational principle, thereby distinguishing amateur college athletics from professional sports, allowing the former to exist as a distinct form of athletic rivalry and as an essential component of a comprehensive college education.»

Gunfest, Being the 6th richest club in the woeld and having great tradition and history means nothing if you do nt uphold or practice these values and at leastvTRY to show the AMBITION that falls into line with where Arsenal should be, I know we both know how our season will go but your statement about us being too big or financially dwarfing other clubs has applied every season for the past eight and weve still had cup exits against Bradfords, Blackburns, league home defeats vs wigan and hull, etc, etc..

In the years prior to the 2014 Gaza conflict, far left - wing and Islamist traditions came together and cross-fertilized each other in the context of the failure of the Israeli - Palestinian peace process, the Second Intifada, the Durban conference, the 9/11 attacks, and widespread and fierce public protests against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The setup: Based on the Michael Lewis book, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) goes against the old - school traditions of baseball scouting and uses statistical analysis to build a competitive team of has - beens, cast - offs and other cheap talent.

Or we need to educate young people in this area, proving its role in environmental protection, its utility to save Earth resources and supplement them with other cosmic ones, in the intellectual development of the child, in fighting against the superstition and pseudo - sciences, in the knowledge of ethnic traditions in relation to a globalized world.

Common Core is designed, Moore insists, «to smear the Western and American tradition with the brush of sexism, racism, and all the other charges we have come to expect from the Left against this country's long history of freedom.»

Curry, on the other hand, participated in a regionalist movement that, while it attracted support in the short run, essentially cut against the grain of the American artistic tradition.

Hofmann allowed the tensions between the two traditions to play off against each other and in the process discovered a new visual language that challenged the traditions of the past.