Sentences with phrase «through other traditions»

Should we say, as some inclusivists do, that it is because of Christ's saving mystery, offered to all, that salvation is available to the Hindu, for example, in the sincere practice of his or her faith — that in Christ salvation is mediated to Christians through the church and to non-Christians through other traditions of faith?

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It does not come from any other source, and certainly it doesn't come from tradition or through some supposed mystical personal experience since the Canon is closed.

Among those gathered here in her modem voice (through scriptural images, verbal echoes, parallel situations) are women whose stories have been muffled in the Bible's tradition — Hagar, Bilhah, Zilpah, Mary, the Lord's «handmaiden,» Sarah, Rachel, Leah, Rebekkah, Ruth, Puah and Shiphrah (the Hebrew midwives in Egypt), Jael, Jephthah's daughter, the «Jezebel» of Revelation, and other, unnamed ancestresses, «missing persons without textual authority.

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

I am hopeful that now, in our encounter with other great religious traditions, we will respond creatively and transform ourselves again through the encounter.

Through these further human relations Christ leaves other principles which will endure in the Church: Petrine (Office and Sacraments), Pauline (missionary character and charisms), Johannine (unity, contemplative love and the evangelical counsels) and Jacobine (continuity of old and new covenant — Tradition, Canon Law).

In other traditions it is hardly institutionalized at all, being worked out through informal consensus processes.

The other tradition — rooted in Judeo - Christian practice transmitted through Roman, medieval and common law, then through European philosophy to the American Constitution — stresses what E. J. Corwin has called «the higher law background» of our legal tradition.

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.

This corresponds to the general principle, made popular in the tradition of nineteenth century German idealism, that self - consciousness occurs in and through other - consciousness.

Tradition dictates that a disgruntled priest who was bitter at being passed over for promotion had told the ruling Muslim caliph that a priest simply «greased the chain of iron that held the lamp over the tomb with oil of balsam» and, once the shrine had been sealed, «applied a match through the roof to the other extremity of the chain» so that «the fire descended immediately to the wick of the lamp and lighted it».

On the other hand, the book is in turn the source of the tradition which ensures the continuity of the religious community through the generations.

That it should be open to transformation through the insights of the various traditions, that it should be open to the possibilities of creative transformation by contact with the wisdom and vision of other sources, is highly...

Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, emphasized the difference between the new and the old meanings of political theology depicting what had earlier been called political theology as the ideology of political religion, which is the symbolic integration of the beliefs of a people through which they sanction and sanctify their traditions and their ambitions.12 Moltmann strongly supports Peterson in his critique of political theology in this sense.13 It is the task of what is properly called political theology — in Metz's sense — to unmask the pretenses of political religions.

And it is perhaps not a coincidence that many clergy in the fastest - growing denominations today — those in the Pentecostal tradition, for example — follow the same model, supplementing their ministries through other work.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

Hans - Georg Gadamer, a philosopher whose thought resonates profoundly with Burke's, points out that tradition is something that one belongs to and yet is «other» than oneself: «Self - understanding always occurs through understanding something other than the self.»

And the totem becomes a symbolic medium through which mystery is disclosed, though perhaps not in the sense of the radical other - ness that we discern in the axial and post-axial religious traditions.

As the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions have known for centuries, and many other churches have discovered too, the only way that this extraordinary narrative will yield its meaning is quite simply if we play the events at their original speed — God's speed, not ours — living in and through the events day by day: the grieving farewells, the betrayal and denial, the shuddering fear in the garden, the stretched - out day of torture and forsakenness, and the daybreak of wonder, color and tomb - bursting newborn life.

Instead of being worried about religion and its fate in life, clergymen may be helped to a more adventuresome and dynamic understanding of religion's role in contemporary life through participation in the dialogue between questions and answers, between the meanings of the contemporary and those of tradition, and between religion and the other fields of thought.

I found these prayers in the Psalms, in the Book of Common Prayer, from church history, through the Daily Office, and in the writings of other followers of Jesus from a variety of church traditions.

That path required reform - through - retrieval, the recovery of an element of the tradition of which the Church had lost sight: namely, Pope Gelasius's distinction between, and affirmation of, «two authorities» in the world that should not be thought identical, or even too closely enmeshed with each other (a point underscored by Gregory VII in the Investitute Controversy).

Yet the fundamental concern of Cobb in Christ in a Pluralistic Age is to articulate the hope that «Christianity may be saved through its interior acceptance of pluralism and its creative transformation through openness to other traditions» (CPA 181).

There shall be no other gods, and no images, religious forms, or traditions shall be tolerated as symbols through which we pretend that we have captured the essence of God.

In other words, this tradition of theology is best described through its conversations and the ways it has been mediated through various disciplines, not primarily through its systematic expositions, doctrinal tendencies or star figures.

If the bishops and other negative absolutists would speak of tradition, let them speak of it in its full ambiguity and subtlety, instead of acting as though the tradition were a simplistic, Platonic negative floating through time untouched by contradiction, nuance or complexity.

Such truth always comes mediated through texts, traditions and communal practices and therefore as incomplete and fragile, calling us to listen again with each other's help for a divine Word.

At such times, we are tempted to seek some other means of securing knowledge about Jesus than those means through which he has chosen to reveal himself; we yearn to find some leverage over tradition by uncovering some «objective» knowledge of Jesus not dependent on the fragile trustworthiness of the witnesses chosen by Jesus to embody his presence in the world.

With Thomas Berry, I believe that we need spiritual leaders who will assume the global human heritage as [their] own individual heritage,» who through contact with other traditions will come to know their own traditions very deeply, and through whose «own self - integration a healing comes to all [humankind]... and the human community is brought into the divine presence.»

In this community, with its scriptures, traditions and rituals, Christians find a further extension of the liberating mystery that came to light especially in Christ, and they are aware that a close relation to the community facilitates encounter with the incarnate God who is mediated through the lives of others.

Survey research in particular, through the work of Gerhard Lenski, Joseph Fichter, Charles Glock, Rodney Stark, and others, was beginning to shape the ways in which sociologists thought about religion, on the one hand, while on the other hand Parsonian theories, speculative and comparative work in the classical tradition, and some of the newer perspectives of phenomenology posed challenges to empirical positivism.

Through the «concierge» option, the stores have retained the tradition of providing full - service for which Golden Spoon excels above all others.

Through algebra and art, critical thinking and composition, technology and Jewish studies, students are enlightened, informed, and forge an identity rooted in traditions of intellectual integrity, devotion to others, and innovation.

This is a decent article, yet the negatives from fans are still there, I would love to see arsenal like I did at the end of the 90's and at the beggining of the 2nd millennium but it doesn't mean in order to do so I would buy all the best players in world, I would get a rich owner to put his filthy money in, change the manager every 2 years to do so, there's so much wrong in football nowadays that yes it's still a sport but there's more focus on the filthy amounts of money being spent on clubs and players that I think attracts more attention than the game itself, now that is wrong and it's very wrong, even our owner though not like the arabs or Russians, yet the yank is clueless about the tradition of our game, it's just sad, so the fact that Wenger has remained for this long through all these changes that have occurred whilst the money game has elvolved, it makes me happy that arsenal do not spend stupid amounts of money on players, we don't try and buy the league, hell we even tight with wages and transfer fees, I'm glad it's like that, though our season ticket is a rip off I still don't mind it because at least we are not like the other supreme teams, there's a bit of tradition left at our club, yet you go to man shitty or Chelski, there is no tradition, it's all about buying ur way all the way to the top, on the other hand spuds don't know what to make of them besides how the heck have they finished above us?

The group solely exists to serve as a voluntary vigilante assemblage of hard core and die - hard members of the New Patriotic Party to help the party win elections through constant advocacy, research and defence of the traditions and records of the party in the Ghanaian and international media or any other appropriate forum.

«The governor is happy to spend billions and all the other incentives he put through this year,» Tenney said, «But yet this business has been around almost 200 years and is a wonderful business with great benefits, great opportunities for our community and has tradition here.»

It was a tragic family tradition passed down through four generations: Nine relatives died from pancreatic cancer, and nine others developed precancerous lesions.

While many of the historic foods, herbs, and practices have been found through modern science to be ineffective at best, many other of our ancient traditions have survived through the millennium because they have been proven to work.

Students will be stretched so that they might reach through the surface of the tradition, accessing practical applications of the work to be applied to themselves and others.

Before going to the store, sift through your personalized cookbook, Nourishing Traditions, or other resources and write out your meals for the week.

I was delighted to obtain some live grains recently in Australia, now buying a book through Amazon called Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon, it has many good recipes for making ie sauerkraut, other vegetables, baking, cheeses, fish sauce etc..

It probably has something to do with holly, poinsettias, and other traditions passed down through the years.

Through conversations about your pastimes, family, weather, traditions and festivities, Ukrainian brides are able to establish an understanding of life in the other country from outset.

Yet, doing so would also require that the industry (and critics) embrace the fact that most of such films would, at least initially, be rather underwhelming if not outright bad: after all, it is only through repeatedly practicing the craft of genre filmmaking that, over time, a film industry can elevate its game and make reliably solid films in any given genre — films that can hold their own when compared to those from other nations that excel at genre filmmaking, including Hollywood (the genre filmmaking tradition par excellence), France, South Korea, or Hong Kong.

In the Mood for Love continues Wong's tradition of capturing moments within a potentially isolating and disconnected environment and bears resemblance to his other 1960s homage Days of Being Wild, which is believed (through Wong's own statements on both films and popular perception) to be the first instalment to In the Mood for Love.

Learning about each other through traditions like All - School Meeting and Mountain Day builds our community.

Tradition suggests a Jaguar will be softer and more isolated in its driving experience than other, particularly German, luxury sedans but the XF in any iteration is taut, responsive, balanced and gives good feedback through the steering and brakes.

It shows what can happen when a disturbed member of society repeatedly falls through the cracks, and in the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, is an indelible, human - level story, brilliantly told, with the potential to inspire social change.

May his soul rest in peace... You continue his tradition of helping others... His helping thoughts will live for ever through people like you...

The region is filled with countless small village dedicated to the centuries - old history of wine - making, and a drive through the area can easily conjure up images of dropping everything and starting your own winery, a tradition that has been the root of draining more retirement accounts throughout the years than probably any other activity.