Sentences with phrase «own historical tradition»

Moreover, they're unlikely to any time soon because of long legacies and historical traditions that will be difficult if not impossible to overcome.

It is probably best to think of John's gospel as a meditation on the meaning of the life of Jesus rather than primarily a historical record, although at times he seems to preserve an early historical tradition.

What historical traditions determine the particularity of this school's culture and ethos?

As Johann Baptist Metz and John Cobb have seen in correspondence, it is the memoria of the Christ - event that plays a crucial role in the theological notion of revelation.10 In this view a certain historical tradition of narration and reflection recalls the experience of a unique revealing event by memory.

Not only is it true that the idea of the consequent nature of God is metaphysically dependent upon a particular historical tradition, but I would also suggest the possibility that it is directed wholly and without remainder to what the Christian, and only the Christian, has known as the total and final presence of God in Christ.

I have tried to say something about the sort of thing it is for a Christian to believe in God and about the way in which this belief is rooted in a living historical tradition.

Second, the Christian vision of reality includes implications not only about God, humanity, and the world, but also about a particular historical tradition, with Jesus at its center.

The Enlightenment sought to emancipate the eternal ideas of reason from the cloak of historical tradition, to lay them bare in their stark purity and truth, and to do away with every bit of mythological sense — or, from their standpoint, nonsense.

If religion is understood in its elemental sense, and not merely in its sectarian expressions, it is entirely practicable for the public schools to educate religiously without violating any ideals of religious freedom, without partisanship for any historical tradition, and without transgressing the principle of persuasion, not compulsion, in all matters of faith.

Thus we are delivered from the merely contemporary and have entrance into all the richness of the historical tradition in which we stand.

@Earn án: Please elaborate how the historical traditions of Islam differs from that of Christianity and makes it any less or any more violent?

pp. 300 - 303, and Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel.

Furthermore, in his «The Theology of Israel's Historical Traditions,» Gerhard von Rad invites us to redraw the dividing line between prophecy and eschatology: the message of the prophets must be considered eschatological in every case where it considers the old historical bases of salvation null and void.

The final three chapters summarily consider the evidence against and for the virgin birth, arguing that it is neither myth nor indemonstrable truth; instead the evidence for the existence of an historical tradition anteceding the Gospels, ultimately from Mary herself, is more credible than any alternative explanation; hence, for anyone open to the possibility of miracles, there is good evidence to affirm Jesus» virgin birth on the basis of the New Testament's testimony.

It has been said that the writer is not following any historical tradition of the life of Jesus, but drawing freely from prophecy an ideal picture of the suffering Messiah.

In the Jewish historical tradition, religion and nationality were closely intertwined (as, for many Israelis, they still are).

It transcends the limitations imposed upon human groups by their historical traditions.

Christianity has both pacifist and nonpacifist theological stances depending on denominations and historical traditions.

If we can not accept the basic presupposition that to take one step behind the sources is to arrive at firm historical tradition about Jesus, then this criterion becomes much less effective.

The work of C. H. Dodd on the historical tradition in the fourth gospel does not help us appreciably here, because, even if we grant his case (and we could not accept his basic premise that early tradition and historical tradition are synonymous), 63.

Our encounters with the past occur within the historical tradition in which we are already situated and which alone makes knowledge possible.

In one sense this is certainly true since it comes to us through a long historical tradition or social process whose origin is found in something that is believed to have happened factually in the distant past.

Hence it is appropriate for us here to consider the meaning of this action of Christian worship as the historical tradition of Christianity has understood it, always remembering that our primary concern is to show how this action is related to the kerygmatic proclamation, the preaching of the gospel of God in Jesus Christ for man's wholeness.

Do we not find lying at the center of Whitehead's vision a nondualistic apprehension of the union or coinherence of the macrocosmic and the microcosmic, of the outer and the inner, of the beyond and the near at hand which has no genuine precedent in the Western historical tradition?

Pending that development, it would appear that it is only Buddhism which provides an immediate entry into Whitehead's imaginative world, for it is only Buddhism among our historical traditions which we today can imagine as a totally nondualistic mode of vision.

Thus Christian mission is the action of the body of Christ in the history of humankind - a continuation of Pentecost Those who through conversion and baptism accept the Gospel of Jesus partake in the life of the body of Christ and participate in an historical tradition.

As a result, those who still seek their answers in great historical tradition have a double burden.

Religious claims, in this regard, are a series of propositions which are coherent in their own terms and which generate a historical tradition in which believers struggle to reconcile their understanding of truth - claims with the pressures of life and experience.

In view of the multiple challenges of secularism and social change in the modern world, no denomination can afford to fuel its mission with energies and perspectives drawn only from its own historical tradition.

The first lecture speaks of an «adventure in exploration»: «the sort of thing it is for a Christian to believe in God and the way in which this belief is rooted in a living historical tradition».

Because when the Church entered the Hellenistic world, and later helped create the world of the modern West, it became indissolubly linked with a particular historical tradition.

The second is that Protestant - evangelical worship has followed the curvature of culture rather than being faithful to the biblical, historical tradition of the church.

Here too schools inescapably stand in some historical tradition or traditions and differ from one another in the attitudes they adopt toward those traditions.

The choice among these various schools of commentary on the Qur» an and Sunnah depends on one's attitude with respect to three basic issues: the credence to be attached to historical tradition; the weight to be given to the claim for a hidden meaning in the Qur» an; the amount of subjectivity to be allowed in interpretation.

David Noble in Historians Against History anticipated the current interest in primitivism by showing how the semisecular historical tradition uttered constant jeremiads against an America falling into complexity.

While I would insist that «God» expresses a concept and is not only a proper name within a certain historical tradition, I believe that Hartshorne pays insufficient attention to the force of that tradition in shaping Anselm's meditation.

He is a student of culture, an expert on the church, and knows the difference between the Biblical theology of the church, and the historical tradition of church.

Yes, barbecue has a great historical tradition and many BBQ cooks use techniques several hundred years old.

Modern products can simply have modern concepts from the core, however the drinks industry is full of historical traditions, and the packaging industry has to ensure these traditions are projected at point of sale.

The researchers suggest that in the South in particular, this aversion to breastfeeding is partially due to the historical tradition of black women serving as wet nurses for white children.

We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of «dangerous and unusual weapons.»»

Housing minister Yvette Cooper told the Daily Politics today that Hayden Phillips must recognise the «historical tradition» of Labour and its affiliated organisations, and said there was likely to be «strong hostility» to any attempt to change that.

Students learn about different countries and their social and historical traditions.

Pointing out the rich religious and historical traditions behind a maxim underlines its deep importance in human life.

Such stories invite students to compare historical traditions from Western and Indigenous perspectives.

And it's not just that Ireland has a stunning historical tradition, it's also that contemporary Irish authors and...

Blessing becomes her grandmother's apprentice midwife in Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, becoming part of a long and proud historical tradition in her family, and in the human family.

This hairstyle is inspired by dog show competitions, but it has its own historical tradition.

In Russia there are some historical traditions in naming dogs.

Historical traditions respect and owners authenticity make this place unique.