Sentences with phrase «part of a tradition»

Beyond the special visit of Senator Collins, highlights included: • Intense and probing pre and post-dinner conversations about the economy and the world on the deck (along with wonderful wine and hors d'oeuvres — part of the tradition is that each participant ships several bottles of excellent wine to share with others) • Participation in a financial forecast survey of key factors for the upcoming 12 months as well as a review of the prior year's financial forecast survey — including distribution of funds that the prior year's attendees «bet» on the accuracy of the forecasts.

The Christian tradition is in fact equipped to take the serious searcher past Job, but it was precisely this part of the tradition that was somehow not delivered to Milosz and which does not appear in the poem.

Despite his overdrawn fears of Origenism in much of the history of Christian thought, Farrow ends up aligning himself with the part of the tradition that puts the greatest emphasis on the transcendent difference that Christ makes.

This view is, I hold, more or less pervasively affirmed, explicitly or implicitly, throughout the liberal tradition, so that its absence would provide good reason to doubt whether the theory in question is a part of that tradition.

Scripture is part of Tradition (they are not parallel streams of revelation).

It is an integral part of every tradition of Christian schooling, whether that tradition is on the road from Nicaea or Trent or Augsburg (or Geneva, or Northampton, etc.).

The saying itself is part of the tradition about John the Baptist and, as such, it is part of a tradition with a very special history, a history of a continuous «playing down» of the role of the Baptist («This was convincingly demonstrated by M. Dibelius,, Die urchristliche Ûberlieferung von Johannes dem Taufer; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1915.

That too is part of our tradition, and if we can find no sustenance there, our prospect is even darker than it now seems.

Exotic as their background may be, all these critics of the present are part of a tradition that goes back continuously to the beginning of the settlement of America.

First, the theme of remarkable births is part of the tradition of Israel.

The theme of remarkable births is part of the tradition of Israel.

There is no pressure for the treatment center's members to be involved, no judgment on those who choose not to reclaim that part of their tradition.

The Death of God movement was part of a tradition of liberal Protestantism that sought to turn critics of Christianity into allies who could help midwife a fuller realization of the essence of faith.

My using a part of your tradition in my own shouldn't impact you any more than a gay marriage should impact a het «eros «xual one.

Conservative, liberal, new reformation, liberation, hermeneutical, process and eschatological theologies all speak to part of the tradition.

The uneven witness of the scriptures to women is part of our tradition and heritage.

There are also many Jewish thinkers who believe it to be part of their tradition, and in a form similar to Christian belief.

Nor is it true, as some suppose, that he was referring only to such formal principles as «good is to be done,» for he speaks for the greater part of the tradition when he expressly includes such precepts as «Honor thy father and thy mother,» «Thou shalt not kill,» and «Thou shalt not steal.»

We are now justified in concluding that this was no innovation of his, but represents a part of the tradition he had received.

I would really, really, really like to say YES — because I love my Reformed brothers and sisters, because love evangelicalism's rich history of diversity, and because I love being a part of tradition that allows for spirited dialog.

You can not have people coming a few hundred years later saying this thing happened hundreds of years ago, if it would not have been part of their tradition already, because the people would realize the writers are liars.

Let us look at the part of the tradition in which the process of change was under least control because there was little, if any, actual memory by which to check it — the tradition concerning Jesus» birth.

This part of the tradition underwent more extensive and rapid change than any other simply because interest in Jesus» birth developed relatively late and there was no solid body of remembered fact by which to check the growth of legend.

But when the later Gospels were written, the generation which had known the primitive tradition at first hand had passed, and the empty tomb seemed as early as any other part of the tradition.

In the case of Mark 8.38, we know that Mark has not composed the saying itself, because it is part of a tradition with a very complex history; 5 rather, he has modified a saying in the tradition to make it suitable for his purpose.

We are more than ever convinced of its authenticity, for it is indubitably early, being a major part of the tradition from the beginning.

She was part of the tradition of «southern gothic» writers like Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, and William Faulkner.

It is simply a part of the tradition.

Dillard's seeing career, which is both receptive and highly conscious, is to be considered part of the tradition of seers whose mode of life she evokes:

Each was a part of a tradition which had led him to feel deeply that it was «normal» to use alcohol in certain ways or not to use it.

While all this activity and celebration is part of our tradition and we wouldn't want to miss out on any part of it, we can work to keep it in its proper place.

The New Testament is part of that tradition, not separated from it; therefore, its significance is in reporting the earliest ways, so far as we can recover them, in which Jesus was understood by men and women who themselves were caught up in that tradition and who found (as Houlden notes) «an experience of salvation, of new well - being in relation to God» in their response to the event about which the witness spoke (p. 135).

The wiser religions even preserve those remnants as part of the tradition.

The former first family's presence is part of that tradition.

I still think that such problems no longer arise if one views the Bible as part of the traditions and wisdom of the Church instead of the Church originating from the Biblical Canon.

I'd love to hear from Reformed folks and emerging folks... as well as those of you who consider yourselves a part of a tradition that is neither Reformed nor emerging.

Some of us would celebrate those parts of the tradition that not only tolerate but actually affirm gay and lesbian Christians, including clergy.

Israel's past influenced decisively the understanding of her present and future; but in the reverse operation of the same interpretive principles, the understanding of the present imparted new depth and meaning to the past, a new depth and meaning which it was a part of tradition's business to incorporate in the image of the past as it was being continually verbalized.

If we do not succeed, we may turn to or even organize a feminist church, where our spiritual needs can be met and we can feel ourselves an integral part of the tradition and practice.

The apostle's life becomes part of the tradition that is to govern Christian behavior.

Such a proclamation would be part of a tradition started in the Old Testament in the teaching that the world as only created for the Messiah.

In this part of the tradition, Jesus» very divinity is contingent on being unaffected by others, by the varied changes of life.

The oldest parts of the tradition are fitted, by their form, to be included in the sermon; in fact this relationship to the sermon has doubtless often conditioned their form.

The extraordinary acts that are told of Jesus are accordingly not something that was imposed on his portrait later on; from the beginning they formed an essential part of the tradition about him.

Now that Surlyn ® is an integral part of that tradition, we can expect to see it sitting on top of the very best perfumes everywhere in the world.

Like me, you might occasionally try to make «healthy» cookies, only to discover that, while they help ease the «guilt» part of the tradition, they also cut down on the «festive» part.

It's great to be a part of this tradition,» said Paul.

Be part of the tradition with the BBQ sauce that made us who we are: Mild to Wild Original Finishing Sauce.

There are some parts of tradition that we just don't want to mess with.

Er cos that's part of our tradition, because that what happens in football, cos football is tribal....