Sentences with phrase «specific traditions of»

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In 2009, Carney broke with central bank tradition, which typically offers only vague pronouncements of where interest rates might be headed in the future, and laid out a specific timeline, promising to hold rates at near - zero for 15 months.

To prove their point, these Islam - is - the - problem critics tend to link specific acts of jihadi groups to a string of references from Islamic scripture, traditions, legal texts, and Muslim scholarly opinions.

It was founded in response to a call from St John Paul II to tackle two specific issues: the crisis in marriage and the family, and the need to bring the traditions of Western and Eastern Christianity in Europe together following the collapse of Communism.

The fourth point was to recognise the specific character of each religious tradition.

We discussed above the general probability that Thomas is independent of the canonical gospel tradition, and now we must return to the point with specific reference to Luke 17.20 f.

In other words, many of these groups may be cultivating a spirituality that is not associated with anything specifically Christian or linked to any specific religious tradition.

Culture involves specific actions or rituals to be performed in a given way at different stages of life such as birth, marriage and funerals within a community, and these acquire the value of tradition.

Traditions are those specific forms of thought in which in each age the tradition embodies itself They are also the means by which the tradition is handed down from one age to another.

rather than viewing each individual character or incident as only an instance of some collectivity or trend, is able to see the specific, the novel... the way even the «typical» diverges from type... [and can] recognize the peculiar dialectic between continuity and discontinuity in tradition.

In essence, tradition means neither theologoumena ecclesiastically imposed nor superstitions ecclesiastically sanctioned (the common Protestant stereotype), but the sum of attempts down through the ages to expound and apply biblical teaching on specific subjects.

There are many motivations, and they are described in various ways: «(Our understanding of) God's plan for women» «Faithfulness to (our interpretation of) the Bible» «Conformity to the tradition (of our Church)» «Shared culture and values (with those like us)» «Fellowship and community (with those like us)» «Well - understood and clear - cut roles (in some areas)» «Gender - specific roles and responsibilities (again, in some areas)»

Religious traditions also supply family - specific norms, like the importance of marital fidelity, as well as more generic norms, such as the Golden Rule.

Taking as his source the Mishnah, the book of Jewish oral traditions, Edersheim writes that specific passages «lead us to infer that these flocks lay out all the year round».

Perhaps so, but that conclusion flies in the face of a long tradition of sociological research that has shown relationships between specific types of beliefs and variations in social class, region, family structure, and political system.

Coakley's approach has the advantage of locating feminist interpretation within a specific religious tradition, observes Amy Plantinga Pauw, who teaches theology at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary.

Thus many of the ideas and categories which they brought with them to their experience of the Buddha gave direction to the development of the existing tradition and above all assisted in its codification and systematization.5 When the dogmatics applied the predicate Mahapurusa to the Buddha — as we know, the Mahapurusa is characterized by a number of specific primary and secondary physical and spiritual attributes — or that of Cakravartin — this does not imply, as de la Vallee Poussin has already and very appropriately remarked, that they were «idealizing» or recalling attributes of the historical Sakyamuni.

They are especially susceptible to legendary development, and they seem to be used in the tradition for theological purposes rather than as simple accounts of specific events.

However, the attraction of specific non-Christian traditions (Hindu and Buddhist especially) may be due as much to their treatment of the question of suffering.

If there were no specific saying in the Koran or in the Traditions, and no Ijma or agreement existed with respect to a situation which arose in the course of Islam's rapid spread beyond Arabia, how could it be met?

It should be noted that Santorum is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, which does not require a specific 10 percent tithe, as many other traditions do.

«It is only because human beings have an end toward which they are directed by reason of their specific nature,» he writes, «that practices, traditions, and the like are able to function as they do.»

The first of these is the obvious fact that once the early church came to think as being a heavenly eschatological Redeemer (whether it used the «Son of Man» or not) it was inevitable that it should regard him as having thought of himself in that same way, even if nothing in the remembered tradition of his words gave specific support to that view.

This argument breaks down on the fact that the contemporary form critic does not deal with a nebulous entity, «the community», to which he ascribes all kinds of powers; he deals with specific groups, individuals and traditions which he isolates, identifies and delineates.

Reasonable people committed to the Jewish tradition can, and always have, disagreed in their interpretation and application of it in specific areas.

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.

In our dialogue with other traditions, the key to sustaining conversation (rather than cutting it short by claims that others will interpret as arrogant) is to keep before ourselves the possibility that in some way or other all religions may be relative, culturally specific ways of looking toward an ineffable mystery.

As historians have amply demonstrated, these distinctive values linked the members of religious traditions to specific parties and candidates.

While statements about rootless cosmopolitans may have arisen out of specific polemics against the Jews, as R.R. Reno suggests, the Confucian tradition consistently inveighed against merchants who sought to maximize their individual profit while contributing a net negative to society, knowing that this could ultimately undermine the state.

I follow the terminology of Tradition (capital «T», the Gospel itself as transmitted through the ages), tradition (small «t», the process of transmission of the Gospel) and traditions (small «t», plural, the tradition adopted and preserved by the various denominations in their specific way), as developed in: «Scripture, Tradition and Traditions», in: P.C. Rodger and Lukas VischTradition (capital «T», the Gospel itself as transmitted through the ages), tradition (small «t», the process of transmission of the Gospel) and traditions (small «t», plural, the tradition adopted and preserved by the various denominations in their specific way), as developed in: «Scripture, Tradition and Traditions», in: P.C. Rodger and Lukas Vischtradition (small «t», the process of transmission of the Gospel) and traditions (small «t», plural, the tradition adopted and preserved by the various denominations in their specific way), as developed in: «Scripture, Tradition and Traditions», in: P.C. Rodger and Lukas Visctraditions (small «t», plural, the tradition adopted and preserved by the various denominations in their specific way), as developed in: «Scripture, Tradition and Traditions», in: P.C. Rodger and Lukas Vischtradition adopted and preserved by the various denominations in their specific way), as developed in: «Scripture, Tradition and Traditions», in: P.C. Rodger and Lukas VischTradition and Traditions», in: P.C. Rodger and Lukas ViscTraditions», in: P.C. Rodger and Lukas Vischer (eds.)

Thus it seems reasonable to conclude that Hegel and Whitehead, even though their philosophical systems differ so dramatically in specific details, nevertheless represent two variations of a single tradition of process philosophy.

1) multiple interpretations of the Bible exist 2) there are many ways to apply the teachings of the Bible to public life 3) no one denomination or spokesperson has a monopoly on how to accurately interpret the Bible and apply it to public life 4) because we live in a pluralistic society, we must learn to raise the level of public discourse so that we not only appeal to our specific religious tradition, but to a common sense of morality and justice

One way of doing that is not focusing on any specific cultural or religious tradition.»

They are so specific that the tradition of Jesus» words seems obviously influenced by what had occurred in the meantime.

Furthermore, the Christian community exists in the contemporary world in which Christian people have their own specific experience and grasp of what this tradition, grounded in the apostolic witness to the originating event, can mean to them.

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

When theological schemes are interpreted against the background of this wider reality, we can come to see that the concerns which have shaped specific theological positions are ones that other traditions often share, even if with a different emphasis and linked with other concerns.

High rates of denominational switching and interdenominational marriage, reduced levels of denominational identity and cross-denominational tensions, and pervasive contacts across denominational lines all point toward a declining monopoly of specific religious traditions over the securement of religious convictions.

Religion and the Death Penalty is organized around religious traditions, specific religious arguments and policy applications of moral theory.

In the tool - using culture technologies were invented and used based on specific needs of that culture or in service of the symbolic world of religion, politics, etc. «Tradition, religion, politics, social, and education all «directed» the invention of tools and limited the uses to which they were put.»

Accordingly, he paid special attention to (1) the special place of Judaism and Christianity in Western civilization, which the first approach had stressed; (2) the relationship between the history of religions and philosophy of religion (or theology), which the second approach had emphasized; and (3) the concern North Americans had shown for specific religious traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam.

But the signers overlook an important difference between evangelical empathy evoked by the biblical tradition and the assertion of a specific territorial claim based on religious Scriptures.

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.

I do not find this so strongly in other process thinkers, and insofar as Muray will not be more specific than that the criterion for reconstituting a tradition is «whatever contributes to the enhancement of relationality and creativity that are true of the fundamental character of reality itself» (93), I do not think he will much like the basis of Hauerwas» critique, namely the stories of the history of Israel and Jesus as they continue to be remembered and enacted in the Christian church.

The fact that the Christian passion for humanity may resemble other forms of humanism which appear to owe nothing to specific Christian origin or inspiration, and that humanists outside the Christian tradition can make a common commitment with Christians to enlarge and enhance the human and humane, does not mean that these individuals» differing sources of humanism are to be treated deprecatingly or indifferently; Christians will see in those sources evidence of the radical freedom and the unpredictable activity of the Logos, to which the Fourth Gospel first gave witness.

It is, nevertheless, necessary to speak very cautiously in the matter of how, in any specific instance, the earliest form of the tradition has been modified by subsequent reading back.

The traditions of the Semitic and Greek world were now transposed into the specific formalism of such words as ligare, solvere, potestas, imperium, gubernacula, sententia, justitia.

We may not call it a «characteristic apocalyptic touch» or the like, because in our view these texts are not the product of a general apocalyptic conception, but of specific Christian exegetical traditions.

Schillebeeckx would have a stronger argument if there were an established cultural tradition of a specific type of conversion experience such as can be found in certain Christian denominations, particularly in «evangelical» sects and in the southern United States.

In this regard we do need to return to the essential outlines of the Thomistic tradition while developing its specific arguments and detailed categories in the light of modern science.

In his excellent study of the Son of man sayings in the synoptic tradition, Tödt argues convincingly for the existence of a pre-Lukan formulation in Acts 7.56, but then finds it impossible to relate the resultant synoptic - like Son of man saying to the synoptic tradition because the words are not on the lips of Jesus, and there is no specific parousia reference.