Sentences with phrase «seen as traditions»

Indeed, they can be seen as traditions of human action, in distinction, although not separation, from traditions of thought.

Not exact matches

Admirers of the tradition see the centuries — old spectacle of bullfighting as more of an art than a sport.

While it is encouraging to see the high level of support from Chinese companies, for whatever reason, the unfortunate truth is that not all leading domestic Chinese companies are able to serve the one belt, one road as they are constrained by traditions, culture, and language barriers.

Kohl was much more comfortable than Merkel with the language of German patriotism (the Prussian tradition loves to obsess over guilt, and sees the language of German patriotism as being «tainted»).

Reconstructionists accept that the deconstructionists have succeeded in severing the thread of French tradition, but see deconstruction as nihilism with no future.

«In the Christian tradition, loss, collapse and failure have always been seen as not only unavoidable, but even necessary on the path to wisdom, freedom and personal maturity,» Blaszczak said.

Instead, we may see them as magisterial figures committed to Scripture and tradition, as men who were victims not of history but of hatred, the worst kind of theological odium.

Jews came to be seen as the enemies of Christian tradition, indeed of all tradition.

As a result, anyone who sees the value of tradition is forced into a conscious role of being «conservative,» or to use Eliot's term, «orthodox.»

Popular christmas traditions in north america are so far removed from christianity, I don't see how folk can cite religion as grounds for offense.

If they read Mormon.org they will see that it is misleading in terms of presenting the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as if it were the Christian concept, when in fact they reject the Christian tradition as having fallen centuries ago.

The early monastic tradition appears to have inherited this attitude, with the result that work often came to be seen as a debasing and demeaning activity, best left to one's social» and spiritual» inferiors.

Perhaps the major difference is that, whereas the dominant traditions see this critique as freeing theology to function as an independent discipline with little attention to the sciences, the process tradition sees this as an opportunity to reconstruct both theology and the sciences so as to bring them into a new synthesis.

Hooker, Wright says, «saw this as an impossibly simplistic agenda,» and emphasized instead the organic nature of the church and a more holistic understanding of the interplay between reason, tradition, and scripture.

Another vision of democracy; however, sees it not only in terms of its result (private freedoms) but in terms of its foundation upon the virtues known in the classic tradition as «republican» or «civic» virtues.

The alternative to seeing Mendelssohn as an utterly sincere interpreter of a sacred tradition, however, is not to regard him as a trickster and a liar.

The main caveat is that the first resource fails to show the human spiritual soul, which our tradition has seen as so fundamental to a coherent presentation of the Catholic Faith (and the FAITH movement agrees!).

Thus, these monks are continuing a long line of false religions and traditions that will be dealt with by God just before the battle of Armageddon (Rev 16:14, 16), as seen at Revelation 18.

Kasper thinks that the Catholic theological tradition doesn't talk about mercy enough and that the classical concept of God, which sees God as perfect and unchanging, is «pastorally... a catastrophe.»

And there are other suggestions of earthly, that is, nationalistic Jewish, Messiahship to be found in the old tradition — more fully elaborated in the other Gospels, especially, as we have seen, in Luke.

They can not see why their children fail to have the same standards as their own, but in truth they have denied their children any practical contact with the ongoing tradition that is chiefly concerned with keeping these alive in our culture.

We were told to see the long hours that physicians and medical students invest in the service of science and patients as an expression of this venerable tradition of healing.

The major Christian tradition has not been pacifism, in the sense of refusal to share in any war, but it has been a testimony for peace in the sense that war is seen as a necessary evil at best and never something in which to glory.

In the Sindhi tradition the groom is seen as the embodiment of lord Vishnu on the wedding day.

We can not stand in the Judeo - Christian tradition unless we see this nation as always under judgment.

Aronofsky sees his interpretation of the Genesis story as part of the midrash tradition, in which Jewish teachers create stories meant to explain the deeper truths of the Tanakh.

suffering, true sociality, as qualities of the divine, along with radical differences (as we shall see) in the meanings ascribed to creation, the universe, human freedom, and in the arguments for the existence of God, those inclined to think that any view that is intimately connected with theological traditions must have been disposed of by this time should also beware lest they commit a non sequitur.

The real test of love as seen in the deeper moral traditions of mankind, and in the Christian faith, is the willingness of persons to commit their lives and sexual being faithfully to one another «till death do us part».29

Rather, Russians see faith as inherently public and political, and a Russian does not need to embrace the current state of Russian Orthodoxy as the de facto state religion in order to take these traditions seriously.

Russians see faith as inherently public and political, and a Russian does not need to embrace Russian Orthodoxy in order to take these traditions seriously.

When later tradition interprets Moses as a performing prophet, as a prophet whose primary medium is not utterance, but action, we wonder if this may not reflect typo - logical characterization at least in part; the tendency, that is, to see in Moses and Samuel a common «type,» playing similarly vigorous, creative historical roles.

It was only a later tradition that tended to see the first tablet as our duty to God and the second tablet as our duty toward our neighbor.

Instead my four co-authors and I speak of «the biblical and republican traditions,» which we do not claim to be identical but which we see as deeply interrelated.

Some feel it reflects a negative valuation of human sexuality based on the dualism of Hellenistic thought, which saw salvation as a freeing of the soul from the body, rather than the biblical tradition which affirms the goodness of the whole creation.

The author of this study, however, sees Eriugena as the inheritor of a spiritual tradition that, while acknowledging the influence of Augustine of Hippo, also embraces Gregory of Nyssa, Evagrius Ponticus and Maximus the Confessor.

He was speaking of that which he saw articulated in the Catholic tradition of Eucharistic worship, as he understood it; yet his words unconsciously echoed a great deal that is most deeply characteristic of Dr. Karl Barth's criticism of what he regards as the very heart and centre of Catholic dogmatics, namely the doctrine of the analogy of being.

(To obviate all misunderstanding, I must explain that I am using this term in the sense frequently given it by Anglo - Saxon theologians, who see «radicalism» as rooted in the tradition (Bishop Robinson, the death - of - God theologians).

After lunch, Father Ed settles down to talk to me about his remarkable spiritual journey to the Ordinariate — the structure set up by Pope Benedict to allow former Anglicans to become Catholics, bringing with them some of their Anglican traditions — and about what he sees as its particular mission, to revive authentic, English spirituality in the Catholic Church.

But westerners have drawn what they saw as the clear implications of these traditions for sex relationships less informed by masculine dominance.

Christian congregation; some have seen a theological school as distinct from but interrelated with congregations in ways analogous to the relation in the Reformed tradition between the congregation and its clergy; others have seen a theological school as related, not to congregations, but to a cadre of active clergy for whom it provides «in - service» or «extension» education.

Whether «holocaust» is the right way to speak of the event, or whether the extirpation of African religious tradition was as extensive as Butler sees it to be, will be debated for a long time to come.

In those days, an older pastor was often seen as a better representative of the tradition.

This is also seen in the difference between those who see Jesus as in some way embodying a universal principle, as is the case of theologians in the tradition of Schleiermacher, and those, like the great Swiss theologian Karl Barth, who stressed that humans can in no way sit in judgment on God's revelation.

It needs to be noted that in the inherited Western tradition, creativity has been seen as an attribute of creatures with mentality, that is to say of human beings only.

So I see two options for someone screwed over by their religious traditions (David tormented by hell as a child, for instance):

In view of the emphasis upon «tax collectors and sinners that is so widespread in the tradition, it is natural to see this emphasis upon universalism as arising out of that concern.

As Johann Baptist Metz and John Cobb have seen in correspondence, it is the memoria of the Christ - event that plays a crucial role in the theological notion of revelation.10 In this view a certain historical tradition of narration and reflection recalls the experience of a unique revealing event by memory.

It can be seen from the above that there are real differences between the synoptic tradition on the one hand and the remainder of the New Testament on the other, as far as the usage of Kingdom of God is concerned.

I see Torah as a mirror for our own spiritual development, a roadmap for our spiritual journey, a repository of our tradition's wisdom teachings.

But as Churchianity fades away, I am beginning to see glimmers of light as the grime from centuries of tradition is scrubbed away, and the glory of God begins to manifest itself among groups of Christians who just want to live life like Jesus in their communities.