Sentences with phrase «started as tradition»

Most of the english speaking world has the day off today, in what started as a tradition of helping and sharing, and ended up at the mall.

What started as tradition, quickly turned into an invaluable tool in the health and relaxation of people around the world.

Not exact matches

At a small business, this might be as simple as starting a tradition of eating lunch together and talking about how work is progressing.

Eaton Construction from Portland, OR, boasts quality craftsmanship built on a family tradition of 400 years in the industry, starting with the arrival of Francis Eaton, a «House Carpenter» as described in the ships rolls of the Mayflower, to Plymouth Colony in 1620.

Now, following pushback from broadcasters and event sponsors, that tradition is starting to fade, and progressive activists are delighted that women are no longer being treated as objects.

In this way of conceiving evangelicalism the issues may be focused on questions of anthropology where the basic starting point is an Augustinian tradition of human inability (the «bondage of the will») leading as a necessary consequence to the classic Reformation articulations of election and predestination.

Seems that maybe there was also a lot of translation that occured before the books even took written form, as these tribes had traditions of passing on information orally, before writing and scribing started to take hold.

If and when it happens, we might even start baptizing people from alien backgrounds, as the early Christians did, and find our comfortable traditions shattered by the disconcerting presence of strangers in the faith — including Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus.

The Anglican church stands squarely in the Reformed tradition, yet embraces Church tradition as that which connects all generations of believers together and gives us a starting point for our interpretation of Scripture.

It is just as likely, of course, that these Jewish believers in Jesus had started their own «Christian Synagogue» patterned after the Jewish traditions, and it was this they should not abandon, even in the face of persecution (cf. Jas 2:2; 5:14).

I believe that this document is valuable if we can start to read it as if it speaks to ourselves, our own church, our own tradition than if it were addressed to «others».

Finally, and much as I appreciate rhetorical high spirits, I hope Professor Griffiths will permit me the observation that it really doesn't advance the ongoing debate to suggest that James Turner Johnson is blowing smoke when he explains how James Childress» seminal 1978 article on prima facie duties and the just war tradition jump - started the «presumption against war» trope.

Starting with Socrates, ancient philosophers in the Platonic - Aristotelian tradition contended that the human being is best understood as the subject of wonder.

We ask them for guidance in beginning and starting over again, not against or as an alternative to our inherited tradition, but in confidence that the Church, our mother, lives for the sake of ever more fully serving the truth of Christ.

The starting point of Holloway's theology is quite explicitly an unequivocal acceptance of what is revealed, as defined by the Catholic Church, and a deep respect for the accumulated tradition of Catholic thought.

His strategy, which he refers to as a «recurrence» to this phase of philosophic thought, is to back up to the point where he is sitting there cheek to jowl with Descartes, and then to start all over again, this time avoiding the hopeless dualism which has kept Descartes, and the whole tradition which constitutes the phase of thought in question, from completing the Copernican Revolution.

Susan Galloway, as a Jew, time to stop listening to the traditions of men and start your education on His truth written in Psalms 22:1 - 31, Matthew 4:23, His gospel must be about the kingdom of God.

consider yourself what you wish... doesn't make it so... a christian is one who adheres to whats stated in the creed as it was set forth by those that started the so called christian tradition... using your argument, if i consider myself a doctor does that make it so?

These are the times, as recent issues of this journal reflect, for reassessing our constitutional tradition, and current constitutional decisions and discussions are a good place to start.

The church tapped into the Midwestern tradition of the block party and started what it billed as the «world's largest block party,» a several - day party and fund - raiser.

An example of the development of Christian exegetical traditions as we see the matter, having taken our starting - point from Lindars's work, may be found below in the discussion of the apocalyptic Son of man sayings.

We shall return to Jeremias's work on the parables again and again, for it is epoch - making in several respects, but for the moment we want only to call attention to the consequences of this work so far as a general view of the nature of the synoptic tradition is concerned the success of Jeremias's work demands that we accept his starting - point, namely, that any parable as it now stands in the gospels represents the teaching of the early Church and the way back from the early Church to the historical Jesus is a long and arduous one.

«For neo-scholasticism, everything found its place in the «system», but Ratzinger was instinctively aware that truth is more than any system of thought could encompass -LSB-...] His methodology is to take as his starting point contemporary developments in society and culture, then he listens to the solutions offered my his fellow theologians before returning to a critical examination of Scripture and Tradition for pointers to a solution.

I think a major problem with many churches nowadays is that they are so stuck in their ways that they fail to even desire to start thinking about the Bible with as much objectivity as they can muster — such an approach might lead them down a path that doesn't follow age - old traditions.

I was delighted to see that Rod Dreher has used my article on the church in exile as the starting point for a discussion of which Christian tradition will prove most helpful to Christians in the U.S. in the coming years.

Fundamentalists treat Holy Scripture as the starting point of their faith tradition when in fact it is the product: it gathered its authority only after the tradition had started.

Naturally, one starts the difficult meditative visualization of all beings as Buddhas, by seeing one's own tantric lama as Enlightened in the form (for some traditions) of Guru Rinpoche.

The theology of the twenty - first century will take as its starting point the urgent issues of the day, and it will bring to bear upon them multiple traditions, but of these the great tradition of European theology will be one, and a very important one.

If one starts with clear belief in the divine unity and omnipresence, one may safely worship in many places, as we do, without losing the sense of God's oneness; but when the presuppositions of thought and imagination are polytheistic, as with the early Hebrews, many shrines keep alive and vivid the tradition of many gods.

So this year as you start the process of getting gifts for your family, please also begin a tradition of giving shoe boxes to children around the world that are longing to feel that powerful, tangible touch from the God that loves them.

Secular rationalism may be the right road, may be the Truth as it claims to be; but it has come to be felt that there is no a priori intellectual or universal reason for supposing so from the start, so that it may sit in unchallenged judgment on equally massive and venerated traditions, Christian, Hindu, or whatever, that make the same claim.

I would like to get into this Commandment by starting not with its origins and coming forward, as we have done with the others, but rather by starting with its present traditions and corruptions and working backward to its origins, peeling off the layers in the process.

Mormonism started in the same time and place as several American evangelical traditions like Pentecostal movements.

Once started there was no stopping him, and Luther found yet another identity as poet and composer, and the principal originator of a whole new tradition of German church liturgy, rooted in the existing musical culture, and destined to reach its marvellous climax at Leipzig in the work of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Such a proclamation would be part of a tradition started in the Old Testament in the teaching that the world as only created for the Messiah.

I decided to start this as a family tradition, because it makes Thanksgiving day breakfast more festive and starts the day off right... and I just love, love love, yeast buns.

I decided to start making hot cross buns as my own family tradition, even if the first try was a couple of weeks late.

As they get older I look forward to starting new traditions as well as continuing with traditions I grew up witAs they get older I look forward to starting new traditions as well as continuing with traditions I grew up witas well as continuing with traditions I grew up witas continuing with traditions I grew up with.

Started as just a way to use up my Leftover Matzoh from Passover but this has become a tradition in our family we now have it for every major holiday!!

So a few years ago, because they're his favorite, I started a tradition of cooking Brussels sprouts as one of the side dishes at every Thanksgiving feast I prepared.

I started Good Food Matters in December 2008, as both a place to journal my food adventures and a jumping off point into the wide virtual world of cooks, their kitchens, gardens, traditions, recipes, and ingredients.

I started making this bread as «baguette de tradition Français» — although by adapting the recipe I removed some of the details that make a baguette a baguette.

I don't remember making them as a child, but when I was in high school my friends and I started a tradition of making them.

In the tradition of Thomas Hardy who started to blend varietal wines across regions as far back as 1865, the ability to take grapes from multiple sites and soils provides the winemaker with a broad palette of flavours, structure and styles to craft a unique and ultimate expression for the wine.

Healthy Traditions believes that consumer demand will start driving packaging manufacturers to develop more non-toxic healthy packaging materials in the future, such as food - based edible packaging.

And I'm starting to roll my eyes whenever people site tradition as a reason.

No matter what happens, once Wenger does step down the new manager is going to have a tough job to do but will the club try to find a long term solution as has been the tradition over the years or will they start to take a more ruthless approach and sack managers who do not get the results.

The Bears start their pregame routine by performing the HAKA (Warrior Dance) led by # 53 Moala Tautuaa who transferred from Tonga as he went to Toloa High School known for their rugby traditions.

Television coverage still won't begin until 3 p.m. ET, as is Masters tradition, but online streams will start earlier than ever.

Punching poor battered Cockell while he was down was another foul — in the old Dempsey over-exuberant tradition — but, as Rocky tried to explain next afternoon, he had already started his swing and it isn't easy to suspend a punch in mid-air.