In my reading and study, it seems that while many Reformed people talk about the authority of
Scripture over tradition, in actual practice, they seem to value tradition over Scripture, just like many of these other groups do.
The phrase sola scriptura refers to the primacy and sufficiency of Scripture as the theological norm — the only infallible rule of faith and practice —
over all tradition rather than the mere rejection of tradition itself.
From our analysis here, post-conservative theologians and popular expressions of such in some emergent - type movements, insofar as these still place priority on the experience of the individual and in the
present over traditions, are still liberal.
@ Vista — I'll take the
bible over tradition, being that the tradition started 100 - 200 years after the last apostle died off.
This criticism fails, Person points out, because on any issue where the requirements of the natural law were clear, Kirk always conceded their
precedence over tradition.
Seven out of ten respondents preferred a simple, informal, spontaneous worship
style over tradition, liturgical precision and clergy prominence.
«Twenty - five years ago we had an ideological
battle over the tradition, but professors learned that no skirmishes had to happen, only an expansion of the domain.»
Rather than
fretting over traditions or relevance, we need to focus on what mattered to Jesus: loving God, and loving other people.
At such times, we are tempted to seek some other means of securing knowledge about Jesus than those means through which he has chosen to reveal himself; we yearn to find some
leverage over tradition by uncovering some «objective» knowledge of Jesus not dependent on the fragile trustworthiness of the witnesses chosen by Jesus to embody his presence in the world.
«We are not prioritising gay rights, or
trampling over tradition; we are allowing a space for the two to exist side by side.»
You get a 1.5» layer of combined support foam and green tea and castor natural seed oil infused memory
foam over tradition coils.
It is also bad if we get caught in the orbit of the living guru who
presides over the tradition, since we know (from recent yoga scandals) that those gurus are not immune to the corruption of power and overinflated ego.
In the film's first third (roughly till Louis XV dies), Coppola paints the world of Marie Antoinette like the original Paris Hilton: the little dog constantly in her arms, the frivolous clothes and the constant
pouting over the traditions of French royalty.
During this century, a fundamentally new way of perceiving the world emerged as reason rose to
prominence over tradition, and the rights of the individual took center stage in philosophy and politics, a paradigmatic shift that would define Western thought for centuries to come.
«We notice that more and more of our customers are looking for items made in the U.S.,» says J.T. Rottman, on behalf of
Paws Over Traditions in Plano, Texas.
It's a veritable melting pot of experience and ambition and a new approach to development that will
kill over the traditions.
Bigger Benefits Up North Because Anchorage has 85 days a year with less than 8 hours of daylight, any
benefit over the tradition lighting architecture are compounded.
Now Yellen
takes over the tradition, which adds an additional challenge to the job as financial markets try to interpret every answer for signs of the Fed's direction.
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?»
This is shown simply in the commitment to two priorities: (1) The priority of the rights and freedoms of the individual over those of the community and (2) The priority of the present experience of the individual in the moment over the past and
over traditions.
Given my own commitments to the primacy of Scripture
over tradition or reason, you can imagine my surprise, as a cautious and, hopefully, careful exegete, to discover in the Scripture that tradition has authority.