Sentences with phrase «teach other traditions»

Professors who teach other traditions accurately.

Not exact matches

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

All great religious Traditions teach a negative version of the Golden Rule — «you shalt not do unto others that which you would not have they do unto you.»

One part of Protestantism fragmented and hardened into a series of contradictory biblicistic positions; the other continued to meander beyond the limits of Scripture and tradition and, uncontrolled by any legitimately established teaching authority, to become a dogmatic and ethical free - for - all.

What is needed, however, so as to reassure the Eastern Orthodox is some mechanism whereby a pope who departs from Tradition by teaching error, or what may be construed as error, can be inhibited by a form of ecclesiastical enquiry or trial — as is the case with any other bishop in the Church.

but not in the structures, teachings and Scriptures of other religious traditions.

Like Christians of other traditions, we, too, have a certain body of teachers whom we trust and a certain history of teaching we respect.

Upon the basis of Paul's teaching, taken alone, Christianity might possibly have foundered a century later in the rising sea of Gnosticism; possessing Mark's compilation of the historic traditions, later amplified by the other evangelists, the church held true to its course, steering with firm, unslackened grip upon the historic origins of its faith.

This further suggests that, whilst we are primarily nourished spiritually by the scriptures and teachings of the community of which we are a member, we can find inspiration in the writings of other traditions.

Even in light of how Jesus's life and teaching move between the two poles, there is a tendency in Christian tradition to tilt in one direction or the other, depending on the context.

There can be no doubt that what he takes over in his letter from a great philosophical tradition and from other pagan sources is included by him in this comprehensive concept of divine paideia, for if it were not so, he could not have used it for his purpose in order to convince the people of Corinth of the truth of his teachings.»

Such are the Wahhabi teachings concerning the fundamentals of the faith, but concerning the consequences, the particular requirements of religion, they follow the orthodox teachings of the school of Hanbali, which follows the Qur» an and the Hadith (Tradition), and refuses deduction — although they do not forbid the code of practices of any of the other Imams.

There are other eschatological similes in the recorded teaching of Jesus (J. Jeremias, Parables of Jesus [rev. ed., 1963], pp. 115 - 24, discusses the many such similes that are found in the tradition without going particularly into the question of their authenticity.)

Thus support for human rights in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities follows a pattern: each group believes that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradition.

In the modern context the just war teachings of the Catholic Church lie alongside the contributions of these other spheres to the developing tradition.

I think one of the mistakes Christian fundamentalists make is to assume that other religions or cultural traditions have absolutely nothing to teach us.

This structure depends on wide acceptance of a double feature of Christian teaching that is present in many other traditions as well.

If some of the Traditions seem to be of slight importance, others contain some of the more profound ethical and religious teachings of Mohammed.

If one believes the Bible to be inspired or a guide for Christian living but doesn't necessarily believe it is inerrant or the literal word of God, that doesn't have to mean we just throw it all out... it doesn't have to shatter your worldview (i.e. it's either all true or all false — fundamentalists love to think this way and teach others to do the same) Use the Episcopal 3 - legged stool model (Scripture, reason, tradition) or the Wesleyan Quadrilateral (Scripture, tradition, reason, experience).

Let us continue to examine the nature of the synoptic tradition by considering the results of the work of the scholar who has probably done more than any other to make available to contemporary scholarship historical knowledge of the teaching of Jesus, Joachim Jeremias of Gottingen, whom we are proud to acknowledge as our teacher.

Other work on the history of the synoptic tradition will be mentioned in the course of our own work; at this point our concern is simply to argue that the reconstruction of the teaching of Jesus must begin by attempting to write a history of the synoptic tradition.

Some churches have affirmed this explicitly in their confessions or other basic writings; others have unfolded their life, eschewing confessional statements, but claiming to celebrate this tradition in teaching, order, and piety.

It's like they've never bothered to challenge their brains over the idea of «death to self» that is taught time and again in both scripture as well as other Christian traditions such as the catechism.

On the other hand, scholars who were sensitive to the differences between the historical Jesus and the Christ of the gospel tradition tended to see their task as depicting the historical Jesus in such a way that they and their readers might enter into his experience and so share his confidence in God, (For example, B. Harvie Branscomb, The Teachings of Jesus [New York: Abingdon Press, 1931], p. 209: «This is the source and ground of Jesus» confidence and courage....

It is noteworthy that here and in other passages the encyclical refers not simply to the present state of the teaching of the Catholic Church but to the tradition of the apostles as still taught and lived in the Church today.

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.

For at Yale I was taught to engage in theology as a traditioned - determined practice that is not determined by any one tradition — other than Yale's.

We then set out grounds for judging the position to be contrary to Catholic faith, that is, to Scripture and teachings that definitively pertain to Tradition, each interpreted in the other's light.

Fidelity to the spirit of Jesus» teachings is realized not in possessive clinging to one's own tradition but in placing it in dialogue with others.

In the end, any theology worthy of the name would need to work out some accommodation between the structures of the Church, on the one hand, with its monarchical papal authority, its traditions and practice, and, on the other, Scripture, the written record of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, together with the records of the life and teachings of the group of His first followers.

Many of us whose intuitive faith has been theologically informed by the Trinitarian and Christological Mysteries have found that the spiritual practices of other religious Traditions are often a more faithful expression of our theological beliefs than those taught in many of our «Christian» Churches.

Casa de santé is inspired by the holistic teachings of Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine and other herbal traditions.

We attend to the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of our kids but let's not forget ALL the other things like instilling magic, role modeling, striving for balance, grinding out daily rituals, keeping up holiday traditions, juggling vacations, teaching finances, and the importance of voting... the list is endless.

It's about the presumption in your efforts to coerce others to facilitate, involuntarily join, and financially underwrite these choices and alter their traditions, customs, and social practices to relieve you of effort and having to teach your child some backbone in order to implement what are, again, your personal choices.

I was thinking more along the lines of an oral tradition passed down and «taught» to others (a la proto - midwives), which would have come later at the last 50k mark — but point well taken.

«Our faith traditions teach us that all people are children of God, deserving of love, dignity and equal treatment, and we the undersigned therefore believe that gay and lesbian New Yorkers in committed, loving relationships should be able to protect each other with the critical safety - net provided by civil marriage.

There are so many teachings and practices in the meditation tradition for working more skillfully and compassionately with others — cultivating generosity, patience, discipline, exertion, awareness, and discernment for example — in general, sharpening our minds and opening our hearts.

Thanks for your reply Shawn, and yes your situation may indeed require special attention to being GF; however as I mentioned to others, it was not my intent to get everyone off their special diets if they truly needed to be on them, and especially if that the case with your doctors advice, but rather to remind us that we must not throw the grain baby out with the bath water, remove the almond flour as what's become the king of the GF craze, and too look to the time when with healing we can return to eating all the foods so wonderfully taught in Nourishing Traditions.

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, night waking was considered normal, explains Rubin Naiman, PhD, a clinical psychologist and sleep therapist who draws on spiritual teachings from yoga and other traditions in his sleep retreats and audio programs including The Yoga of Sleep.

My grandma has taught me her ways around the crock and I'm happy to hear other younger people such as myself are keeping the tradition alive.

All religious and spiritual traditions teach that clergy are to help the poor, the disenfranchised, and those who are without power; in other words, the vulnerable.

Continuing in this tradition, Taylor et al. (2000) found that accomplished primary grade teachers provided more small - group than whole - group instruction, had high pupil engagement, had a preferred teaching style of coaching as opposed to telling, and engaged students in more higher - level thinking related to reading than other teachers.

The broad term «progressive education» often refers to schools or teaching methods based in this tradition (though it also means other things).

From Norman Lewis to Joe Overstreet, the Harlem Renaissance — derived tradition of African - American abstract painting (which has historically had a primarily black audience) is intermingled with the tradition of so - called self - taught or outsider artists such as Bill Traylor and Bessie Harvey (whose audience has been mostly in the rural south and mostly black); the more recent wave of African - American conceptualism represented by Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, and others (whose work

Other topics included an influential 1983 article by Sid Sachs (University of the Arts)-- who was in the audience — on whether there was such a thing as a Philadelphia Imagist tradition; a College Art Association conference chaired by curator Judith Stein (also in the audience); the number of artists who taught and lived in both Chicago and Philadelphia (particularly Ree Morton and Rafael Ferrer); and the equal representation of men and women among the Chicago Imagists.

Atheism is the primary focus, because, among other things, it represents the ultimate rejection of the demands of religious teachings and moral traditions, most of which are based on a quasi-governmental purpose that includes control of the population.