Sentences with phrase «sacred traditions in»

There are stories and depictions of human sacrifice and other sacred traditions in the Maya civilization.

Not exact matches

Unless your passion and hobby and degrees are in Christian theology, I seriously doubt most agnostics have a clue about sacred tradition and scripture and the divine revelation.

Maybe when we give ourselves to ancient words and sacred texts, and embrace routines and traditions, we can remember that we are not here for what we can get out of worship; we are here to give ourselves away in worship.

This makes a big difference in how we interpret the sacred writings in any religious Tradition.

The Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ in a manger in Bethlehem 2000 some odd years ago is ubiquitous across the country, even if the American tradition has leaned away from the sacred and toward the secular.

The Conference examined the way sacred music has evolved in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, its different modes of expression, its contribution to deepening religious experience, and its place in wider musical and general culture of the three faith traditions.

That way of living — shaped by memory, bounded by tradition, directed to the future, formed to meet obligations both sacred and profane, and ultimately answerable to permanent truths — can not be embodied in the practice of lone individuals, because at its essence it is about relational commitments.

Is this simply a hold - over from an earlier day which the general conservatism of the educational world perpetuates because it has become a sacred tradition, or is there something in the study of literature which, regardless of the field of specialization into which one goes, makes it of vital importance?

What we do with this difference in the two creation accounts is, first, acknowledge it, and second, explain that they are both there because each was a part of one of the two or three sacred traditions put together by an editor to make up the book of Genesis.

We know that there is also wisdom to be found, much of it similar to Biblical wisdom, in the sacred texts and stories of other faiths and traditions and we are glad to have those, also, to help us discern the direction of our lives and paths.

As we attempt to reconnect with our own history, which is after all a sacred history as far as the Divine Liturgy is concerned, the value of the Church's liturgical traditions are once again being emphasised not just as expressions of sacredness and beauty in the public work of God, but as the embodiment and carriers of the Church's faith.

And in this task we will always be impoverished if we do not honour and respect the insight, wisdom and contribution of those who, from many traditions and cultures over the centuries of the history of the Church, have also brought their understanding to this sacred conversation.

To warrant this radical revision — one might almost say reversal — of the Catholic tradition, Father Concetti and others explain that the Church from biblical times until our own day has failed to perceive the true significance of the image of God in man, which implies that even the terrestrial life of each individual person is sacred and inviolable.

The Bible, the creeds, the sacred traditions are only pointers to God which must be transcended, explored in the light of each new day.

To me, the most significant single point is that for people today «sacred meaning does not derive from a rooted concept supported by common tradition and institutions; rather, meaning is located in the unfolding of one's own life.»

But they need to be understood if the recovery of the classical tradition now underway in sacred and secular art alike is to be fully realized.

Noting that we do not live in a sacred world valuing «received knowledge» from holy writ, but in a profane world harshly criticizing that tradition, Victoria Erickson of Union Theological Seminary in New York City wondered if we dared invite our worst critics into our classrooms for dialogue.

Theology, if it is to explore adequately the meaning of play and its relation to the sacred, must «study the various biblical traditions and engage in the systematic hermeneutical task of appropriating the meaning of the biblical message for today's world.

After discussing the prophetic and mystic traditions rooted in these two aspects of the experience of the sacred, Conrad Hyers concludes:

Their collective efforts were so luminous in one way or another that the keepers of tradition bound them together and called them sacred, declaring that no humans could have written them without a lot of divine help.

Thanks to them, the world is lifted up towards God... In this year consecrated to the Eucharist, reviving the figure of Dom Guéranger is an invitation for all the faithful to rediscover the roots of the liturgy and to give a new breath to their journey of prayer, taking care to place themselves always in the great tradition of the Church, in respect of the sacred character of the liturgy and of the norms which mark its depth and qualitIn this year consecrated to the Eucharist, reviving the figure of Dom Guéranger is an invitation for all the faithful to rediscover the roots of the liturgy and to give a new breath to their journey of prayer, taking care to place themselves always in the great tradition of the Church, in respect of the sacred character of the liturgy and of the norms which mark its depth and qualitin the great tradition of the Church, in respect of the sacred character of the liturgy and of the norms which mark its depth and qualitin respect of the sacred character of the liturgy and of the norms which mark its depth and quality.

We concluded that there are several reasons that could be used to support an argument for choosing Jesus as our compass, for granting him a sacred role as meaning - giver: first, we are not aware of any especially good alternatives; second, his ability to serve in this role has been confirmed in many faithful lives; and third, in choosing him we align ourselves with a compass which is in the public domain, and as such our interpretation is subject to the correction of tradition and public debate.

Everywhere they will be a little flock, because mankind grows quicker than Christendom and because men will not be Christians by custom and tradition, through institutions and history, or because of the homogeneity of a social milieu and public opinion, but — leaving out of account the sacred flame of parental example and the intimate sphere of home, family and small groups — they will be Christians only because of their own act of faith attained in a difficult struggle and perpetually achieved anew.

[4] The sacred writings of other spiritual traditions are referenced in varying degrees by the different authors and denominations.

Catechism and sacred traditions of the Church), or has remained in the shallow water.

Whether it involves a memorial in Little Rock, Arkansas, to a victim of the Trail of Tears, the Hawaiian tradition of pono (righteousness and balance), California New Age groups borrowing Indian rituals or New Mexico tribes arguing for the return of their sacred sites, the story of regional religious culture has to acknowledge these rich (and often contentious) roots.

Although the notion of revelation does not appear formally within the Bible (and in fact does not become a central theme of theology until after the Enlightenment), the sacred writings and traditions all invite us to listen closely, and they promise that we shall hear a word bearing good news.

Religious orthodoxy» the tradition of long - standing faith communities» embeds the sacred time of redemption in the rhythm of human life.

They reject the splitting apart, in the Greek and much of the Christian tradition, of body and spirit, nature and history, secular and sacred.

«An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony.»

Landry then helped the committee match its own story with its denominational heritage, noting where the people at Faith Church had cherished its sacred deposit from its total past and where it had gone its own way in the shaping of its local tradition.

The opening of the document clearly indicates that the demand for human freedom in society expressed in part through constitutional limits on government prompted the council fathers to return to the Catholic Church's treasury of sacred tradition.

Who could have imagined that Dr. Billy Graham would be willing to participate and preach in a service at the National Cathedral alongside a Jewish Rabbi and Muslim Mullah, sharing the same chancel area as worship leaders, and reading and praying from their own sacred texts and traditions?

Ramadan is the most sacred month in the Muslim year, commemorating the revelation of the Holy Quran - the sacred religious text of Islam - by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammed, according to Islamic tradition.

«Ramadan is the most sacred month in the Muslim year, commemorating the revelation of the Holy Quran — the sacred religious text of Islam — by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammed, according to Islamic tradition.»

Finally, it must be said that the concrete hermeneutical difficulties arising in the interpretation of sacred scripture and ecclesial tradition do not in themselves form a problem specific to any tradition or one that should separate Churches.

For example, in the fourth book of Father Paul Sarpi's History of the Council of Trent, you will find that in the year 1551 the Papal legates who presided over the Council ordered: «That the Divines ought to confirm their opinions with the holy Scripture, Traditions of the Apostles, sacred and approved Councils, and by the Constitutions and Authorities of the holy Fathers; that they ought to use brevity, and avoid superfluous and unprofitable questions, and perverse contentions....

Stop making it sound like AA will come get you in the night for violating the sacred traditions so blatantly.

They do not say this unless they think they know what God wants human beings to do — unless they can cite sacred scriptures, or the words of a guru, or the teachings of an ecclesiastical tradition, or something of the sort, in support of their own position (id.

A collection of little essays on a host of virtues» personal, social, and sacred» by a Canadian philosopher well «versed in the traditions of both Athens and Jerusalem.

This nontextual character of Dalit and Adivasi traditions influences the direction of contextual liturgical expressions: instead of reaching back to the pristine and original world of the past (mostly inscribed and frozen in sacred texts), they may be intertwined with an orientation towards the future.

So I conclude by returning to this theme of Christianity as a sacrament of the sacred — as a tradition that mediates the reality of God to us — and the Bible as a collection of stories that invites us to see in a particular way, to see reality in a certain way, and to see our own lives in a certain way.

In a day when jihadist violence is an almost - daily occurrence, apologists for Islam sometimes claim religious equivalence — asserting that the sacred texts of the Judeo - Christian tradition have their own incitements to violence.

In the Jewish religious tradition these purity rules formed a closely interlocking network which clearly marked off the sacred precincts of the Temple, the holy land of Israel, and the covenant people of God (or groups of the «separated» within the people), from the «profane» world peopled by the «demon - ruled nations» outside.

Tradition is subordinate to Scripture, and should be shaped by Scripture, but Scripture, on the other hand, must be read in the context of «a vibrant and ongoing interpretative tradition that serves to provide authoritative parameters for expositing [the] sacred ScriptureTradition is subordinate to Scripture, and should be shaped by Scripture, but Scripture, on the other hand, must be read in the context of «a vibrant and ongoing interpretative tradition that serves to provide authoritative parameters for expositing [the] sacred Scripturetradition that serves to provide authoritative parameters for expositing [the] sacred Scriptures.»

But let me go back once more to ancient Israel: From the earliest layers of the biblical traditions to the most recent ones, the spokesmen of the God of the covenant violently repudiated the cult of sacred sexuality in all its forms.

There is one thing, however, that I have in common with the Israelite prophetic tradition in this area: it is not sexuality, but sacred sexuality, which bothers me in religious terms.

We may get away with it in so far as poverty, oppression, and injustice are concerned, but we will hardly find room for those faiths, cultures and ideologies outside the sacred tradition of the church.

The probable pronunciation is Yahweh, although in Israelite - Jewish tradition this specific and particular name of God was commonly deemed too sacred to be pronounced.

In recent years there has been growing appreciation of the Aboriginals» sense of sacred space and of their rich spiritual traditions of the «dream - time».