Sentences with phrase «particular tradition»

It is through particular traditions that we come to an understanding of the universal.

I was studying music too — traditional music from Uganda and in particular their tradition of polyphonic music.

Like all institutions, the IB has its roots in particular traditions, including specific languages.

The materiality and craft skills adopted for each body of work are carefully selected, honed and embraced, placing Wilbraham within particular traditions of making.

We in the liberal churches must rediscover our own particular traditions and celebrate them as authentic expressions of Christian faith.

Finally, the Madisonian devotion to pluralism won out over attempts to legislate metaphysical or theological solutions or to privilege particular traditions.

Why, the film noir, one of the richest veins in our movie mines, bears a French moniker; and French cinéastes have emulated that particular tradition time and again, from the commercial likes of Borsalino to the more personal genre work of the recently deceased Jean - Pierre Melville to the radically stylized, self - aware poetry of Godard's Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, and Pierrot le fou.

Both of these books focus attention on the imperative that we develop inclusive communities - communities that value particular traditions even as they embrace the participation of adherents from multiple traditions.

which represent «the greatest contemporary efforts to rescue something like the Enlightenment dream,» but finds in their liberal tolerance a «hidden intolerance» toward views embedded in particular traditions.

One phase of this particular tradition is carefully examined in a new book by Joel F. Harrington, Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany (Cambridge University Press).

It is only after they have learned the grammar of a particular tradition that they are able to begin reasoning within it.

Philosophy is critical, imaginative, and comprehensive thinking that strives to free itself from the conditioning of particular traditions and communities, whereas a criterion for the selection of a philosophy by a theologian should be its sharing of a basic vision of reality.

Also, don't assume people know all the nuances of your particular tradition.

The cooperation between Southern Baptists and evangelicals signals a new day, but it may also come with a price, namely, the diminution of Baptist identity and a sense of uprootedness from a particular tradition.

First, religious schools tend to breed idolatry, by identifying a particular tradition with the ultimate.

Furthermore, if you are fully invested in one of these traditions, it is quite likely that some of what we teach and discuss in the group will challenge some of your beliefs and practices, and if you find this offensive or scary, you are probably better off joining a group that is from your particular tradition or practice so that everybody agrees with you and affirms what you do.

erience that ONLY my friends who are not attached to a particular tradition, and understand the phrase «religion in the abstract,» will usually have read more than one of those book, taken more than one seriously, or shown any intellectual honesty or maturity about the subject at all...

It's my experience that ONLY my friends who are not attached to a particular tradition, and understand the phrase «religion in the abstract,» will usually have read more than one of those book, taken more than one seriously, or shown any intellectual honesty or maturity about the subject at all...

On the one hand, populism can refer a particular tradition of redistributionist, anti-corporate, usually agrarian political ideas.

Does such emphasis, however, dilute the richness of a school's particular tradition?

It urges the world toward a post-national, universal future, one oriented around the individual freed from the constraints of any particular tradition.

I agree with the need to understand things outside of a particular tradition of interpretation.

The great world religious figures of this century — Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa — were all deeply rooted in a particular tradition, yet each has a broad appeal.

Informationally speaking, the pluralist theological option radically relativizes the importance of distinct religious boundaries, proposing that different religious traditions may all be equally valid ways of experiencing the revelation of an ultimate reality transcending the comprehension of any particular tradition (See the essays in John Hick and Paul Knitter, eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).

To accept the contingent character of our religious language may seem at first to threaten its informational boundaries, and so in reaction we may be tempted to elevate our particular traditions to a status of timelessness that they in fact do not possess.

A great deal depends on one's particular tradition.

We may end up with some generalizations, but we should move from the particular to the general, not from ideas about religion in general to the understanding of and response to particular traditions.

As James Barr pointed out, «Fundamentalism is the imposition upon the Bible of a particular tradition of human religion, and the use of the Bible as an instrument of power to secure the success and influence of that religion.»

They can nourish a substantial segment of the nation's future leadership, coming out of the churches, in their particular traditions and perceptions of the challenges of the future.

Christianity affirms an idea of truth that transcends any system, and thus the Christian is one who is, in the moment of being a Christian (i.e., standing in a particular tradition), also the one who rejects it (remember thing prophets of old who warned us about how any tradition could become idolatrous)-- betraying it as an act of deep fidelity.

It will be impossible to assess the fruitfulness of that larger proposal to a particular theological school if the understanding of «worship» and of «congregation» it takes for granted is inapplicable in a particular tradition.

For other persons, the encounter of world religions has led to the adoption of a total relativism in place of exclusive claims for a particular tradition.

This example illustrates a «double hermeneutic which acknowledges that our reading of the Bible (as mediated through our particular tradition) must be re-examined and wrestled with repeatedly as we encounter the situations that present themselves to us.»

This denominational factor changes when there is a program distinctly aimed at a particular tradition.

Moreover, because religions are distinctive historical developments, a central task for theology within each particular tradition is the assessment of how well any theological claim coheres with the normative witness to faith of that unique tradition.

A particular tradition of Christianity told him so.

So in this attempt to explicate Christian ethics love is related to a particular tradition of moral norms understood as both revelation and natural law in a particular communal context.

But often such elements have been embraced not so much as a welcome broadening of a particular tradition as a welcome way of changing the subject.

All that postmodern apologists need to do is show that their opponents also stand in a particular tradition that has its own unverifiable presuppositions.

One response is to attempt to distance ourselves from all the particular traditions and communities in order to be able to study each impartially and to accept only what is common to all.

Many of us have gone through extensive (or not so extensive) teacher trainings and began to identify with a particular tradition / lineage.

Do you admire Ukrainian local flavor with the particular traditions and an open - armed welcome?

She always got at the heart of things and the interviewee always seemed to open up and have more fun with it as it was somewhat of an honor to be one of the interviewees in that particular tradition.