Sentences with phrase «own biblical tradition»

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.

In the Biblical tradition, justice is the identifying characteristic of Yahweh and the first prerequisite for a peaceable society.15 A philosophy which does any less is inadequate to our religious insight and will prove counterrevolutionary in its consequences.

The religious insight of the exodus story works itself into the Biblical tradition in many ways.

Yet this obsession with greatness and number - one - ness, whether of individuals, nations or civilizations, has always stood in a rather awkward relationship to the biblical tradition — however much Christendom has failed to sense the awkwardness.

Though later wise men from the East come to Herod's palace to pay homage to the newborn «king,» they find him in the only place consistent with the rest of the biblical tradition: among the lowest of the low.

With the great Jewish thinker of the early part of this century, Franz Rosenzweig, he believes that Jews need to understand anew that «the Jewish vocation, rooted in the biblical tradition, is to be an instrument for the redemption of all humankind.»

When Friedrich Nietzsche, in his several tirades against Christianity, points to these elements as of the essence of the biblical tradition, he is certainly correct — though not in the dark conclusions he draws from the observation,

The contemporary habit of speaking about rights apart from obligations is alien to the biblical tradition and, we would argue, alien to the logic of the Universal Declaration.

They emerged out of the Christian denominational - biblical tradition on the one hand and Enlightenment utilitarianism on the other hand.

It also shows how it is able, because of this, to achieve the critical freedom which is related to the history of social freedom... The Biblical traditions and the doctrinal and confessional formulae that are derived from these traditions appear in the light of this interpretation as formulae of memoria.

I can see that there are roots of this atomism in the biblical tradition, but I am also convinced that they do not dominate it.

But in the biblical traditions, God can not be understood directly.

We Christians have the freedom in Christ to meet together as often as we like in a structure we are comfortable with that closely mirrors biblical tradition.

The biblical tradition about the two tablets of stone does not appear in the Bible in conjunction with the familiar version of the Ten Commandments that is in Exodus Twenty.

Some feel it reflects a negative valuation of human sexuality based on the dualism of Hellenistic thought, which saw salvation as a freeing of the soul from the body, rather than the biblical tradition which affirms the goodness of the whole creation.

We are somewhat led astray by the tendency, even in the biblical tradition, to conceive the creation before sin as idyllic bliss.

If the biblical tradition has been rejected so has the Greek.

H. A. Wolfson writes that scholastic philosophy, or the coming together of the Biblical tradition and Greek philosophy, was founded by Philo and destroyed by Spinoza.

Curiously, the religious dimension of the new global society may draw on some of the long - neglected elements in the biblical tradition itself.

Followers of the biblical tradition, however, believe that they have heard a «word» speaking out to us in our lostness, a light shining in the darkness, a word telling us we are not alone and that through it the cosmos has been delivered from its apparent aloneness.

(ENTIRE BOOK) An examination of the two primary traditions — denominational biblical tradition and enlightenment utilitarianism — that worked together to contribute to the American Revolution and to create the civil religion which marks American culture to this day.

The theme of two lordships is powerful and central to the biblical tradition as a whole.

What is the nature of humanity according to the biblical tradition?

This is the unity, the wholeness, the integral and inseparable oneness that has been affirmed in the biblical tradition.

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?

Luther, by rejecting Dionysius, very appropriately, left spirituality free to return to its more authentic sources in the Jewish biblical tradition.

More radical feminists, however, have attempted to show that the biblical traditions are thoroughly and irredeemably antifeminist.

22 and God's concern for human suffering has a strong biblical tradition behind it (Patrick Miller Jr..

The radical rupture of this world that took place in ancient Israel and is at the root of the biblical tradition almost certainly served to reinforce these boundaries.

In comparison with Egyptian and Hellenistic divine archetypes such as Isis and Demeter, the biblical traditions can not be expected to yield much fruit.

For the great majority of Americans, moral discourse — beliefs about right and wrong, good and evil — is shaped and carried by the biblical tradition.

In building long - distance devotion to human rights we need not and should not draw primarily on the secular Enlightenment of the 18th century, which has so often been hostile to the biblical tradition.

A sixth dimension, closely related to the first, third, and fourth dimensions, is grounding the theological position historically, showing the new features to be authentic developments of the Holy - Spirit - inspired trajectory of the human spirit that is recorded in the biblical tradition.

It is not mere poetry but a most solemn truth - claim of the biblical tradition that «no man is an island.»

For all the new European inhabitants of America the Christian and biblical tradition provided images and symbols with which to interpret the enormous hopes and fears aroused in them by their new situation, as I have already suggested in using the terms «paradise» and «wilderness.»

In the present text of this narrative, Moses goes up and down Mount Sinai no less than three times, and for a man reputed in the biblical tradition to be in his eighties, that is no small chore.

But an unorthodox vision of the Holy Trinity compels us to discuss: Is it best to imagine the triune godhead according to biblical tradition, or according to personal taste?

In the biblical tradition, God was thought to possess full knowledge of human history, past and present; and from time to time he chose to reveal the future to certain select people, such as Joseph, Daniel and John of Patmos.

Thus America came to be thought of as a paradise and a wilderness, with all of the rich associations of those terms in the Christian and biblical traditions, or, more simply, thus Europeans came to think of America as both a heaven and a hell.

Theology, if it is to explore adequately the meaning of play and its relation to the sacred, must «study the various biblical traditions and engage in the systematic hermeneutical task of appropriating the meaning of the biblical message for today's world.

He acknowledges the importance of personalistic imagery in the biblical tradition.

In the second source of Tillich's theology, the biblical tradition, personalistic symbols are more strongly represented.

From within our human history God's vision of cosmic destiny can be grasped only through the relatively limited and time - conditioned stories of promise that serve as the foundation of our biblical tradition.

It seems to me, then, that even though Tillich's theory of symbols dwells on religious uses, and his theological method starts from existential questions, his formal discussion of God is more strongly indebted to idealist philosophy than to either religious experience or the biblical tradition.

But that basis is very narrow, and even it is strongly influenced by biblical traditions in ways seldom recognized by many natural - law theorists.

But biblical tradition refuses to allow God's law to become identified with the kings law.

The ancient world and the biblical tradition knew about dreams.

Jonathan Edwards is interesting for contemporary theologians because he developed a balance of brilliant intellectual honesty, fidelity to the biblical traditions, and an openness to new insight brought by personal experience.

«As a Christian,» says the cardinal, «there are no prior commitments that can overrule or trump this biblical tradition of compassion for the stranger, the alien and the worker.»

More specifically, his goal is «to examine — with a frank apologetic agenda near at hand — the possibilities for envisioning the transformation of humanity through relationship with Christ, as per Biblical tradition and Christian experience, in a process - relational mode»