Sentences with phrase «reflects earlier traditions»

More commonly the document as a whole is placed twenty years later, though it is recognized that it reflects earlier traditions.

The Acts of Thomas written around AD 200 reflected an earlier tradition.

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It is likely that this grew steadily as something freely embraced and the later rupture of traditions between East and West reflected the diverse practice that went on earlier.

The idea of the Ascension after a long interval, say forty days, is a very late conception, not reflected anywhere in the earliest tradition.

It reflected the early modern impulse to submit Scripture to reason more than it harmonized with early church tradition, which regarded a literal six - day creation as unnecessary to Christian orthodoxy.»

The document recognizes a certain problem in that «Scripture comprises a variety of diverse traditions, some of which reflect tensions in interpretation within the early Judeo - Christian heritage.»

On these grounds Matt.11.12 has a very strong claim to authenticity: it stands in the earliest stratum of this particular tradition and it reflects the attitude of Jesus to John rather than that of the early Church, to which he was at best the Forerunner (Mark 9.

Rather, gaining explicit knowledge from religious traditions allows one to reflect on the earlier immediate experience and to conclude that therein lay an «unthematized knowledge» of God.

Nor do we, at least, doubt that the unfolding meaning of all that was given in early tradition was in appreciable measure reflected in the long editorial process of the compilation of the present Old Testament canon.

As we stated the Acts was written at the beginning of the third century, reflecting a tradition that existed earlier.

Brock focuses on disputes over women as leaders; Hearon, on the possibility that the canonical traditions reflect the activity of women story - tellers in the earliest communities.

Further, some of the sayings in Thomas appear to be very early and may even reflect a stage of the Jesus tradition older than that found in Mark.

It may reflect a comparatively early tradition which developed when it was thought that crucifixion led immediately to exaltation.

Instead, these authors were dependent on written and oral accounts that had already undergone interpretation and were based on traditions built up to reflect the needs and expectations of the early believers.

The term as a title applied to these individuals can hardly originate earlier than the latter part of the ninth century, and much more likely reflects the development of tradition in the eighth or seventh century.

x (c. 190), representing the Lord as laying his hands on the apostles, may reflect this usage for bishops at a slightly earlier date than the Tradition.

In a tradition ranging from the kitchen - sink realist films of the late»50s and early»60s to the contemporary works of Mike Leigh and Andrea Arnold, English movies set among the working classes have tended to have fatalistic trajectories and miserabilist aesthetics, underlining their drabness to reflect their characters» sense of hopelessness and to visually convey a lack of upward mobility.

Even though 1904 is officially considered the starting point of Riga's art nouveau architecture, Ludvigs Neiburgs constructed his building a year earlier, reflecting in the façade the same eclectic art nouveau or Jugendstil tradition that is found in the later examples of this style mostly imported from Germany.

The JW Marriott Phu Quoc buildings reflect early 20th century style and embrace the traditions of French colonial architecture.

The piece also reflects Bernhardt's interest in the history of textiles and the American tradition of quilt making, more specifically the quilts that have been produced in the African - American hamlet of Gees Bend, Alabama, since the early nineteenth century, and to which her work shares a formal and emotional affinity.

Deriving from the early, expatriate phase of Byars's career, his drawings in the NYU Art Collection reflect his interest in Japanese calligraphy and contribute to the longstanding dialogue between American and Asian traditions.

Kathy Halbreich, director of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, writes about the range of influences he absorbed: «From his early drawings rooted in a European Surrealist tradition to his monumental abstract canvases, Motherwell's visual language synthesizes a veritable history of modern painting, reflecting ties to Picasso's early collages, Matisse's color - rich paintings, and the development of American Abstract Expressionism in which he played such a pivotal role».

That said, it is important to state that while American avant - garde artists of this period (especially Rauschenberg) were indebted to earlier Europeans (like Duchamp, Schwitters et al) for establishing certain traditions (like collage), their unique focus was on producing art which reflected the reality of contemporary America.

Rail: I'm just reflecting on those early paintings that you were doing which seemed to be more in the tradition of Cubism.

The QAG is committed to strengthening its holdings of early Australian art and artifacts, so as to reflect the visual traditions of Queensland's Indigenous peoples in all their rich variety.

Bill McKibben said this in an e-mail Tuesday night: «He — early on — understood that this was a much bigger question than stopping particular sources of pollution or protecting particular natural parks, that it went straight to the heart of how we understood ourselves, and that our traditions would have to bend to reflect those new understandings.»