Sentences with phrase «there exists a tradition»

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

Not exact matches

Besides, he adds, there's value to normative thinking, too — rules and traditions often exist for good reasons.

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-.

What Protestants need to do is to examine why they don't have the word in their tradition — for there exist excellent and prophetic reasons.

When the school of Nisibis introduced the teaching of Theodore, there was a continuity with the existing theological tradition.

But in recent decades there has been an increasing tendency to try to go behind this, to reconstruct the traditions and writings as they existed before they were incorporated...

But in recent decades there has been an increasing tendency to try to go behind this, to reconstruct the traditions and writings as they existed before they were incorporated into the Bible in their present form.

Even before the written Talmud was written, there was the «Oral Torah,» a tradition of interpretation which probably existed for more than a thousand years prior to its codification in the Talmud.

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?

which clearly shows that there existed in the early Church what we shall call an eschatological judgment pronouncement tradition having its roots in Christian prophecy and its Sitz im Leben in the Eucharist.

Given the form - critical view of the tradition, it is evident that the way back from the tradition as we have it to the historical Jesus will be a long and arduous way, and there will be many instances where it will simply not exist, since much of the tradition will have been created in the early Church and will lead us at most to an aspect of the Church's understanding of the risen Lord.

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 tradition.

there exists a close connection and communication between sacred tradition and sacred Scripture.

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

Perhaps the most pervasive assumption in the Occidental philosophical tradition has been that there exist unique individuals capable of acting responsibly and morally in an ordered, temporal continuum.

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.

Hence there exists a close connection and communication between sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture.

If there ever was an autonomous women's religion, it has not survived as an existing independent tradition.

Eunice Goes suggested to me that the sneers against areas such as Hampstead and Islington are part of a wider cynicism about urban - dwelling educated people that has existed for centuries but is becoming more prevalent in our post-factual age, «there is a very long established tradition of anti-intellectualism in England that is more about posturing than reality because there are lots of excellent English intellectuals».

As you say in your comment there also exists the influence of a cultural politics, New Left, Eurocommunist tradition.

This democracy package could also include a review of local government, including voting systems (where there is a strong case for PR, perhaps by STV given the existing tradition of multi-member constituencies).

«This is an important innovation because despite centuries of scholarship there exist many unresolved questions about the... evolution for different folktale traditions,» says Robert Ross, a psychologist at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who has studied the origins and transmission of folktales.

For beginners, there exists yogic traditions that concentrate on the fundamentals of stability, proper alignment, and flexibility.

In Hindu, Buddhist, and yogic traditions, there is a «throat chakra,» or energy node, that exists in the body and corresponds with the thyroid gland, plus communication.

It is to Lynne Ramsay's credit that it is difficult, if not impossible, to slot her debut feature into any existing British genre or tradition, though there are echoes here of Ken Loach's early poetic social realism, of Bill Douglas's stark, painterly style, and of Robert Bresson's «pure» cinema, stripped down and sensual.

The Spens report on secondary education published in 1938 concluded that there is general agreement that much of what is most valuable in the grammar school tradition depends on the existence of a sixth form, and given that all existing grammar schools have a sixth form, this 80 - year - old shibboleth could continue to influence the government's thinking.

There is a certain tradition that exists with many gaming franchises, often this is terms of a struggle to change or a reliance on something that the franchise has done for so long.

And while there's an element of tradition and rite of passage in how Kratos teaches Atreus to hunt and kill (tapping into our nostalgia for an already existing imagery), the fact that so many of us saw ourselves in these characters is alarming.

Interestingly, there existed a very strong concept of property rights, very similar to Western European capitalist tradition.

But we share a legal tradition, and many of the same social forces there also exist here, albeit on a muted scale.

Consequently, there is a mismatch between the methodological traditions widely followed in the social and behavioral sciences, which presume homogeneity, and the expectation that antisocial behavior problems are causally heterogeneous and that, in fact, multiple subtypes and trajectories exist.

Given that it is an expedited procedure, if you recall the matters that I referred to earlier about how there is often not a tradition of research - although there is some with respect to sites - it is simply impossible with the existing resources to be able to do that in the incredibly short time frames involved.