Sentences with phrase «present over traditions»
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.
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The lives of the saints do not present us with a new theory of virtue, but a new way of teaching, a new strategy that builds on the tradition of examples, but enriches it by unfolding a pattern of holiness over the course of a lifetime.
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.
This postliberal line begins from a place that both prioritizes history and tradition over the present moment and prioritizes the community over the individual.
In the present Discipline the church affirms its openness to divergent theological traditions and projects, declaring that the UMC's «theological spectrum... ranges over all the current mainstream options and a variety of special interest theologies as well.»
If God is conceived differently than tradition has presented and elevated, if the transcendent God is simultaneously the immanent God who is perennially with us and not over against us, if God's being is first love, after which power comes to be defined within the implicates of love, then such a God would be one whose death truly would be mourned.
At the same time the church is a community of the present, so that the inherited tradition and the social and biographical situation of the moment are always enmeshed with each other, Insofar as the tradition side retains the «gospel,» it has a certain primacy over the contemporaneous side; that is, Christ should transform culture.
I have been on enough leadership retreats over the last ten years to know that a culture of perfectionism exists across our denominations and traditions, and it is as present within churches that are far from focused on presentation and aesthetics as it is within those that offer the sharpest of products.
This oral tradition formed the basis or main body of the evangelic tradition up to but not including the passion narrative; it was the common knowledge of Jesus as it circulated in Palestine during, and soon after, the lifetime of Jesus — «the report that spread all over Jewish Palestine, as you yourselves know, beginning in Galilee after «the baptism» which John preached» and continuing down to the present.
In this completed work of tradition, that is, as the present text of Exodus 34 is handed over to us, the content of the new covenant law differs from the old, the Decalogue of Exodus 20.
For centuries, farmers» wives all over the world have carried on the tradition of preserving food in jars, often presenting them as gifts, because nothing tops homemade goodies, right?
Labour now finds itself presented the problem of how to manage a core vote that has emerged as a radically Eurosceptic, conservative, insurgency and is forced for the first time to take seriously the tradition - orientated ideals, habits and orientations of the people who have supported it over generations.
Jennifer Lawrence and Jodie Foster will present the award for Best Actress at this year's Oscars, taking over a responsibility that tradition would have given to accused sexual harasser Casey Affleck.
Free Wifi is available in all areas, all rooms have a safety deposit box, there is a designated smoking area plus heating and air conditioning The hotel features the well - known Kiniras Tavern which had a menu that catered for all and done it well it has chosen to go «back to its roots» and present a menu with over 60 dishes that is steeped in tradition and uncompromising in its authenticity.
This tradition, carried forth, expanded, and transformed over the course of the 20th century, continues into the present with innovative approaches to the genre by:
This tradition, carried forth, expanded, and transformed over the course of the 20th century, continues into the present with innovative approaches to the genre by: Patrick Wilson Ruth C. Horton Gallery Los Angeles artist Patrick Wilson creates luminous, sumptuously colored abstract paintings composed of richly layered geometric forms — lines, squares, and rectangles.
Its permanent collection consists of over 120,000 works of art, encompassing: Australian art; Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art; Works by Australian artists in the European Tradition; Western Art (1400 - present); Asian art; Contemporary Art; Photography; Crafts; and Sculpture (Auguste Rodin to Contemporary).
That «Contemporary African Art» is a collecting category encompassing 54 countries, 1.1 billion people, over 2,000 spoken languages, multiple thousands of native tribes, and near equally split between the traditions of Islam and Christianity, surely presents a slew of problematics....
Over the past 50 years, Sean Scully has created an artistic system of his own, gathering and developing the best plastic traditions of the early 20th - century avant - garde and combining them with complex metaphysical philosophy from the Ancient Greeks to theorists of the present day.