Sentences with phrase «over all tradition rather»

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Jeremy, Under the header «The Failure of the Reformation», line four, shouldn't it read «the authority of Scripture over tradition» rather than «the authority of tradition over Scripture?»

As several of you have pointed out, NT Wright does indeed consider his views to be in keeping with Calvin and the Reformed tradition, and his recent debates with John Piper and company over justification are something of an internal skirmish rather than a theological divide.

I tend to think that it's not women entering leadership roles that has caused the decline of the church but rather tradition and doctrine over ruling the search truth in the scriptures.

Rather than fretting over traditions or relevance, we need to focus on what mattered to Jesus: loving God, and loving other people.

For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with religious experience, worship, spirituality, counseling, and the like over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich in offerings in ethics, sociology of religion, liberation theology, and the like than in offerings in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical traditions may reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood in action than in contemplation.

We have passed over the discussion of the gospel of John until now because it, too, in the belief of modern scholarship, rather generally, but not by any means unanimously, is a product of the second century, and not therefore the work of the beloved disciple to whom tradition assigns it.

On these and many other issues related to authority and ecclesiology, the way forward is not to smudge over deep differences that remain between the two traditions but rather to acknowledge them openly and to continue to struggle over them together in prayer and in fresh engagement with the Scriptures.

An early Asian grilling tradition was Mongolian barbecue, invented by nomadic tribes who grilled their goats and lambs over open fires rather than carry around huge metal cooking pots.

Children often do not have much control over the parenting plans and scheduling, so giving them control over the activities and traditions helps them look forward to the holidays rather than dread the changes.

Reform of the constitutional architecture of the UK state over the past two decades has adhered to a conservative orthodoxy based on an enduring belief in the British Political Tradition: the redistribution of power is negotiated between the state and sub-state national and regional elites rather than with the British people.

«I will accept there are certain migrants, especially those from Eastern Europe, who don't have a tradition of general practice, who will go to the emergency department rather than to general practice and we need to address that, but it's certainly not responsible for the massive increase we've seen in recent months and it's certainly not responsible for the 1.7 % increase that we've seen over the last decade.»

Yet, doing so would also require that the industry (and critics) embrace the fact that most of such films would, at least initially, be rather underwhelming if not outright bad: after all, it is only through repeatedly practicing the craft of genre filmmaking that, over time, a film industry can elevate its game and make reliably solid films in any given genre — films that can hold their own when compared to those from other nations that excel at genre filmmaking, including Hollywood (the genre filmmaking tradition par excellence), France, South Korea, or Hong Kong.

Others would rather stick to tradition and say that vaccinating has warded off the most deadly animal diseases over the past 30 years, so why question it now.

In some respects Arkham Knight has some rather serious problems in the form of dull drone combat, no Challenge Maps, weak side quests and an over reliance on using the Batmobile and the series tradition of having lackluster boss battles.

Over the years, through a series of decisive shifts in medium and intent, he turned to painting and drawing, embracing the phenomenological and spiritual legacy of abstraction as a transcendental, rather than purely formal, tradition.

For all the surprise it caused over the Atlantic, abstract expressionism was not the start of something, but rather a beautiful ending, the epic finale of a long tradition of Romantic nature painting, gone up in the fireworks of Newman's zips, Pollock's drips and the smoky miasma of Rothko's colour fields.

It is not the case that there were no foundries and dealers in Britain, but the tradition of cire - perdue casting, brought to a masterful degree in France over centuries, had been rather neglected.

Over the years, our Know Your Rights tradition has guided the firm, instilling in our lawyers an unwavering commitment to representing injured people rather than protecting the interests of big business and insurance companies.

It's a longstanding tradition among many American families: Mom and Dad buy a new car for themselves, then turn their old one over to a teenage son or daughter rather than sell it or trade it in.

Children often do not have much control over the parenting plans and scheduling, so giving them control over the activities and traditions helps them look forward to the holidays rather than dread the changes.