Sentences with phrase «something of a tradition in»

Pub food is something of a tradition in the UK, and while you are enjoying the pub crawl, you can enjoy a tasty bit of grub in one of the most haunted pubs in London.

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Unfortunately, December marks the start of something of an annual tradition for myself and my roommates: staring in disbelief at our electric bill.

In fact, passing on a subscription to the next generation has become something of a family tradition.

According to the natural law tradition, a right is a spiritual entitlement, a moral power to do (e.g., to walk in one's garden), hold (e.g., to keep a family heirloom), or exact something (e.g., to demand the payment of a debt).

Something of those two traditions of German patriotism remains in German politics today.

If thoughtful members of both communities become adequately aware of the moment they now occupy in history, and are prepared to reexamine their respective traditions for the resources there to be developed, then the Jewish - Christian relationship has a significant chance of becoming something more enriching than it has ever been before.

Scripture does do something to us in worship, which is why it is a scandal that Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and other traditions have more public reading of Scripture in their services than we Bible - oriented evangelical Protestants.

And there was something even odder when it was done in the name of the school's Catholic tradition ¯ by the Protestant chaplains in the official Georgetown office.

In the same period, the systematic theology tradition in Scotland suffered something of a decline, and when it began to revive in the 1990s it was with the help of several English theologians, so that there has been considerable convergence with England and WaleIn the same period, the systematic theology tradition in Scotland suffered something of a decline, and when it began to revive in the 1990s it was with the help of several English theologians, so that there has been considerable convergence with England and Walein Scotland suffered something of a decline, and when it began to revive in the 1990s it was with the help of several English theologians, so that there has been considerable convergence with England and Walein the 1990s it was with the help of several English theologians, so that there has been considerable convergence with England and Wales.

Was not something important lost in not being more consciously Jewish in the way Georgetown declares itself the «heir to the long and rich Catholic and Jesuit tradition of caring for the sick,» as it says on its website?

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?

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.

It has become something of a sport for folks in the evangelical, neo-Reformed tradition to take to the internet to draw out the «boundaries of evangelicalism,» boundaries which inevitably fall around their own particular theological distinctions and which seem to grow narrower and narrower with every blog post on the topic.

All of the other great traditions say something similar in one way or another.

And in this context the word «conservative» means in principle something quite positive, for it also includes the courage to affirm continuity, clear principles, detachment from ephemeral fashions, fidelity to the Word of God which endures for ever, respect for tradition, for what has organically developed, for the wisdom and experience of our ancestors.

But before we discuss these parables, we must say something about the understanding of the forgiveness of sins among the Jews at the time of Jesus, and especially about the frequently recurring «tax collectors and sinners» in the gospel tradition.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

The now beleaguered non-neo-conservatives in every tradition may find that something like an analogical imagination is at work among us all, The need — my need and theirs — is to find better ways in the future of articulating that imagination and that strategy in both theory and in practice.

I seem to recall some pesky tradition of AA mentioning anonymity as being the spiritual foundation of all our traditions and another saying something about remaining anonymous in press radio and films.

In a world of such rapid change, it is something of a comfort that Professor Kurtz and his friends keep alive an old, if eccentric, tradition.

We do mean to suggest the possibility and even the probability that in the unmistakable implications of messianism in Joseph, the germ of the later development of the concept was something already given in Israel's early traditions, precisely as the germinal faith in one God as Creator (Gen. 2), Judge (3 - 11) and Redeemer (12 ff.)

I have tried to say something about the sort of thing it is for a Christian to believe in God and about the way in which this belief is rooted in a living historical tradition.

Yoder needs to be read in the tradition of liberal Protestantism not only because he helps us recognize the strengths of that tradition, but also because he helps us see why that tradition has come to an end (which accounts for why he remains something of an outcast in mainstream Protestant theology).

Yet Jewish thinkers were right in believing that they possessed in their own national tradition something of higher value than a secular civilization could offer.

Christian identity is a personal component in something that characterizes every Christian tradition at its best — the sense of tension with the present order.

Whether a genuine miracle the Western Church has ignored or simply the blessing of natural fire to become something more, Holy Fire is one of the longest - held Easter traditions in Christianity.

-- let us say an Aryan, a Hindu, a Greek, or a member of the Roman proletariat, something would surely be found to betray this fact in the diversified gospel tradition we possess; or if, say, he had had no connection with John the Baptist, or had not criticized the scribes, or had been stoned to death rather than crucified.

We have said something about the place of the Bible in the living Christian tradition which preachers represent and for which they function; we have discussed a few of the problems or questions which are raised both for preachers and for people; and we have tried to sum up the theological and moral implications of the gospel as these have been worked out in the tradition down the centuries.

If we have something to say about the timeless enemies of the human condition — injustice, ignorance, bigotry, exploitation, hunger, war — we will fail if we try to sound like every other voice in the public realm instead of using our language and tradition.

As several of you have pointed out, NT Wright does indeed consider his views to be in keeping with Calvin and the Reformed tradition, and his recent debates with John Piper and company over justification are something of an internal skirmish rather than a theological divide.

But of this I remain certain: A marriage license in jurisdictions that have redefined marriage gives legal form to something very different from what the Bible and church tradition call marriage.

The paradox of creativity can be seen in a peculiar character of the kind of process that culminates in something intelligible and novel that contributes substantively to a tradition of human endeavor.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

It is my contention that a theology of Black liberation also must embrace an organic worldview, not only because it is consistent with the authentic roots of Black Americans but because it also represents something fundamental in the Biblical tradition.

Those in the Abrahamic tradition can once again have support from science and philosophy for their conviction that what they worship is worthy of their worship, that, at the base of reality is something worthy of their trust.

In Part 3 of the book, she describes this shift in terms of a «gathering center» in which Christians from the four corners (or quadrants) of Western Christendom — conservatives, renewalists, liturgicals, and social justice Christians — are moving toward the center, grabbing bits and pieces from each tradition and putting them together to make something entirely neIn Part 3 of the book, she describes this shift in terms of a «gathering center» in which Christians from the four corners (or quadrants) of Western Christendom — conservatives, renewalists, liturgicals, and social justice Christians — are moving toward the center, grabbing bits and pieces from each tradition and putting them together to make something entirely nein terms of a «gathering center» in which Christians from the four corners (or quadrants) of Western Christendom — conservatives, renewalists, liturgicals, and social justice Christians — are moving toward the center, grabbing bits and pieces from each tradition and putting them together to make something entirely nein which Christians from the four corners (or quadrants) of Western Christendom — conservatives, renewalists, liturgicals, and social justice Christians — are moving toward the center, grabbing bits and pieces from each tradition and putting them together to make something entirely new.

I grow daily in appreciation of what traditionally grounded Catholics can do for Protestant evangelicals and charismatics, who need their solidity and teaching tradition in order to have something to bounce off of and even at times fight.

I was reminded of something the British writer G.K. Chesterton wrote in his book Orthodoxy (Chapter 4): «Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors.

In some traditions, the hymns, prayers, and anthems are spoken of as «the preliminaries,» something to be dispensed with before the sermon.

This investigation is so thorough, the emerging history of tradition so convincing and the application of what we have called the criterion of dissimilarity so careful, that we feel no need to do more than quote Bultmann's conclusion: «All these sayings contain something characteristic, new, reaching out beyond popular wisdom and piety and yet (they) are in no sense scribal or rabbinic, nor yet Jewish apocalyptic.

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This appears as a limitation of his thought, for doesn't a time of crisis demand an authoritative, certain response grounded in something more than the contingencies of a constantly changing tradition?

Taking a page out of the First Things playbook, Jackson urges Muslim Americans to «articulate the practical benefits of the rules of Islamic law in terms that gain them recognition by society at large,» something that can be done by drawing on the Islamic tradition of practical reasoning that has family resemblances to the Catholic use of natural law and Protestant analysis of «common grace.»

In the lives of women there exists a unique opportunity to develop a sense of God, and there exists something of the essence of God which, though made known to us in Christ, we missed because women were excluded from the ranks of church hierarchy and demeaned in religious traditioIn the lives of women there exists a unique opportunity to develop a sense of God, and there exists something of the essence of God which, though made known to us in Christ, we missed because women were excluded from the ranks of church hierarchy and demeaned in religious traditioin Christ, we missed because women were excluded from the ranks of church hierarchy and demeaned in religious traditioin religious tradition.

The lesser kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason of its being grounded in the mystery of God.

I had been invited to attend as one who supposedly knew something about narrative structure and the role of storytelling in faith traditions.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

On the other hand, for minds deeply influenced by Nominalist traditions of philosophy in the West, a» mystery» means an intellectual conundrum, something one step removed from worldly experience and therefore not quite real in its psychological impact.

And then, of course, a tradition that is capable of self - critique, a tradition that is capable of affirming the truth found in all other traditions — that is something that could actually help you.

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.