Sentences with phrase «other traditions do»

But in a broader sense, as we compare our Judeo - Christian heritage with other traditions we do see that it is a life - affirming one.

It should be noted that Santorum is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, which does not require a specific 10 percent tithe, as many other traditions do.

Not exact matches

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

Others would argue that we should not open «sensitive» areas of our economy to companies controlled by a government that does not share democratic traditions as we interpret them.

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.

Yet you do not see the narrow path you have been led down by simple dint of «tradition» and other long - standing violations of the Constltution merely because most Christians support this sort of thing.

We don't compromise our own beliefs and values, nor do we require other faith traditions to alter theirs.

Scripture does do something to us in worship, which is why it is a scandal that Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and other traditions have more public reading of Scripture in their services than we Bible - oriented evangelical Protestants.

Does the idea of non-believers (incuding, I assume, believers from other traditions) being tortured forever make you wet?

It does not come from any other source, and certainly it doesn't come from tradition or through some supposed mystical personal experience since the Canon is closed.

It's not true, however, that others in the tradition think as he does.

Even patriarchy's deepest plots have not wholly» silenced women in the biblical tradition, nor does our knowledge of these infamous «proceedings» have to cancel other values of Scripture for us.

They acknowledge the God of Israel, even though they do not know his name, just as truly as other Christians deny him when, according to the Q tradition, they perform wonders in the name of Jesus while practicing lawlessness.

Other religious traditions do that too.

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

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.»

Should we say, as some inclusivists do, that it is because of Christ's saving mystery, offered to all, that salvation is available to the Hindu, for example, in the sincere practice of his or her faith — that in Christ salvation is mediated to Christians through the church and to non-Christians through other traditions of faith?

Lutheran theology's antinomian tendency makes it perhaps more vulnerable than the other Reformation traditions in spite of the countervailing forces of its sociology and its doctrinal tradition, although here and there an older methodology, which understands that the Gospel does not negate the commandments, lives side by side with neo-Lutheranism and makes possible at least a tentative no to the likes of the task force.

«Motivated in large part by their religious traditions of protecting the vulnerable and serving «the least of these,» as Jesus instructed his followers to do in the Gospel of Matthew,» writes Eric Marrapodi, «World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army are stepping up efforts and working with law enforcement to stem the flow of human trafficking, which includes sex trafficking and labor trafficking.»

You don't have to give up faith in Christ in order to appreciate what is positive in other religious traditions.»

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 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.

No wonder some don't believe it works and have a hard time trusting when those with long term sobriety don't follow the traditions put forth by Bill W. and others.

(The doctrine of the tradition that God is not simply better than other even possible beings, but is better than goodness itself, better than «best,» since he transcends the concept of goodness altogether, does not alter the necessity that he be better - than - best in some, in none, or in all dimensions of value; or negatively, that he be surpassable in all, some, or no dimensions.

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.

(Jude, vs. 20) One does not mean by this that other elements of the original tradition are not present in the New Testament's thought of holiness.

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

In other traditions the practice of doing theology authoritatively is institutionalized in the powers of constitutionally legitimated representative denominational assemblies elected to govern the church.

But I don't try to save Jesus and the Bible for her, any more than any other tradition.

Such are the Wahhabi teachings concerning the fundamentals of the faith, but concerning the consequences, the particular requirements of religion, they follow the orthodox teachings of the school of Hanbali, which follows the Qur» an and the Hadith (Tradition), and refuses deduction — although they do not forbid the code of practices of any of the other Imams.

Bet if we tried a show called «Tried & True Americans» it would get yanked because it would be insulting to other nationalities, religions, etc.... we're not even suppose to say «Merry Christmas» because it's insulting to others... that's BS... this was OUR country long before it belongs to others... if you want to come to our country then you respect our beliefs and our traditions, DO NOT make us change them because you don't agree with themDO NOT make us change them because you don't agree with them..

Virtually all previous representatives of the modern natural law tradition, including Grotius and even Hobbes, had in some way or other related natural rights to divine power or command, which served as the source for the directives of natural law notwithstanding that these did not derive from a divine telos or comprehensive purpose.

You're running into the problem that syncretists always do — both of the «syncretized» belief systems include a purist tradition that objects to polluting their Truth with anything from any other source.

Why do you follow the bible as opposed to other holy texts and oral traditions?

Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?

As Western Christians, the last thing we want to do is to burden new believers from other contexts with our Western Christian traditions.

It did not occur to many people in the 19th century that there might be truth, integrity or value in a religious tradition other than Christianity.

We need to do this not only for the Western tradition but for the other major religiocultural traditions as well.

But those tasks can be classified broadly into two groups: those in which theologians want to regard themselves as doing something special and unique and those in which they wish to affirm community with other religious traditions.

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.

Though evangelical culture (and many other traditions) would say that if it doesn't look pretty to them, it can not be redemptive.

They do not expect to be just like every other church or to appeal to every person, and they do not expect that their tradition will survive without effort.

The idea that society could be based on a mere coagulation of individual interests, that the pursuit of private vice could result in public virtue, was a radically new idea in the 17th and 18th centuries and one that did not sit well with other still powerful traditions.

Little has been accomplished, it appears, other than demonstrating that individuals generally do have an interest in the topic of meaning and that they draw on a variety of thematic traditions in their attempts to construct meaning.

They were oral traditions for centuries and not until it was put on paper did folks begin using one verse here and one verse there to create arguments that marginalize others that do not look and think just as the majority in power do.

But also because the Anglican tradition, at its best, showcases scripture itself in a way that few others do.

Does not every spiritual tradition recognize that care for others is respect for the numinous in every person, as well as a manifestation of the divine within the one who cares?

It is always tempting to peel off the historical shell and extract the pure and fruitful kernel, but, as with any tradition, that is to do violence to the inner and unbreakable unity in which permanent truth and historical form are combined in myth as in other things.

Does it make sense to continue to talk about Christian theology without the context of the other traditions?

Other religious traditions, generally speaking, with the exception of the Jewish faith which is the background of specifically Christian faith, do not seem to have this necessity of corporate worship as part of their very existence.