Sentences with phrase «prophetic tradition»

The Mu «tazilites, who were the champions of transcendentalism, resorted to a method of interpretation which explained away all the anthropomorphic passages in the Qur» an, and they discarded the anthropomorphic Prophetic Traditions as invalid or not authentic.

But Luke in a milder vein differentiates between those who know and those who do not know the master's will and ends with a great word in the best prophetic tradition, «Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required» (12:48).

The more dominant prophetic tradition in the Old Testament is grounded in the experience of precariousness.

These themes in Jesus» ministry were deeply rooted in the Hebrew prophetic tradition, and Jesus» ministry an his sacrificial death were a continuation and a fulfillment of that tradition.

The great prophetic tradition had gone so far in the apprehension of God before Christianity began that the first prerequisite for a true estimate of the New Testament is grateful appreciation of the Old.

Jihadists quote from Islamic scripture, prophetic traditions, and legal opinions to support their claims and activities.

Both the book and the fatwa proscribe terrorism and violent rebellion, citing extensively the Qur» an, prophetic traditions, and a chain of legal and theological luminaries over the centuries and across sectarian divides.

I argue that it is precisely this religious aggression that the prophetic tradition stands against in its calls for justice.

He took up the prophetic tradition, and reaffirmed its central teachings in a situation which gave them urgent significance.

Whereas in traditional societies this openness often amounted to somewhat uncritical acceptance of the dominant cultural patterns, today it can also mean incorporation of ranges of concern and action from the prophetic traditions of Israel.

While, therefore, the lessons of the prophets, far from being forgotten, bore fruit in great examples of personal piety, the prophetic tradition could not break through to its logical conclusion — religion as a free, individual choice, regardless of race or nation.

In this regard he was fulfilling the prophetic tradition and would have agreed with the writer of the Apocalypse of Baruch: «Each of us has been the Adam of his own soul.»

The line between the two often blurs, especially when you consider King a part of the prophetic tradition, as many do.

When one passes from the Old Testament into the New, one finds Christian thinking, in this regard as in every other, rooted in the prophetic tradition.

The old Testament affirms the goodness of life and sexuality, and sexual language is freely used to describe the relationship between God and his people, but the prophetic tradition is consistently and radically opposed to the kind of sexual worship found in Baalism.

The prophetic tradition relentlessly insists that creation, governed by God, has a moral dimension.

She takes as normative for Christians the prophetic tradition.

Having learned from the prophetic traditions of Moses, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Jesus, Christians rightly recognize the resourcefulness of biblical perspectives.

Both the prophetic tradition as renewed in Protestantism and process thought remind us that justice is always to be transcended, that it is always to be gone «beyond.»

Nevertheless, the history of Jesus puts him clearly in the prophetic tradition of blunt speech concerning God's judgment upon sin.

They all had their roots directly or Indirectly in the Qur» an and Prophetic Traditions, or were brought into relation with such texts by means of interpretation.

To interpret this text as a historical vestige, moored in misguided hopes from Israel's past, is to misunderstand the canonical forces at work in shaping the prophetic tradition into a corpus of scripture directed to Israel's subsequent generations of faith.

religious laws were based on the literal texts of the Qur» an and Prophetic Traditions, and scrupulously carried out.

The prophetic tradition crosses religious barriers.

In addition to the rational arguments against polytheistic worship, the Qur» an points to the unanimous testimony of the prophetic traditions.

This theory predicates a peculiarly «Isaianic» prophetic tradition the major record of which, created over a number of centuries, is the book of Isaiah.

Also, the prophetic tradition in Israel seemed consistently to treat Yahweh as subject rather than object — that is, words from God expressed the will of God, not the shapes or meaning of God.

And it is not part of the prophetic tradition to say that there can be criticism of all states save one, Israel.

My point may be clarified further by emphasizing another insight from the prophetic tradition: the place where the magnifying glass should be held is always over the nation of which one is a citizen.

It follows from the prophetic tradition that Jews should speak critically of Israel's political policies, if injustice is being done.

First, the prophetic tradition lays upon us all — Jews as well as Christians — an imperative to speak against injustice wherever it is found, even — nay, especially — when it is found within that political configuration we most admire.

So Christians need to hear Jews say that critique of every nation, even Israel, is a part of the prophetic tradition that Jews and Christians share, not a deviation from that tradition.

The prophetic tradition issues one large No to such an attitude.

I have gradually learned to take this perspective to a greater degree, although I remain middle class, and I believe that a middle class perspective informed by the prophetic tradition also has its contribution to make.

This was in part a continuation of the prophetic tradition within Christianity.

What we American Protestants call the Social Gospel, which flourished from around 1890 to 1950, had reemphasized the prophetic tradition, partly under the influence of Marx.