Sentences with phrase «traditional expressions of»

Integral to his work is the presence of historical resonance, which serves to enforce traditional expressions of power.

Traditional expressions of the Christian vision are crumbling and can not be restored.

If it is the recurring patterns as presented on the major social forms of communication which are effective in the molding of culture, greater attention needs to be given to the study of the dominant patterns and images shown on religious television programs and how these relate to other and traditional expressions of religious faith.

They are meeting needs and fulfilling some of the functions which people once found in theistic religion, and in the process are modifying some traditional expressions of religious faith

For after the shock of discovering just how completely the entire civilized world had averted its gaze from what was happening to their fellow Jews in Europe, they would find not only that they were now being welcomed to hitherto restricted precincts but that all the traditional expressions of hostility to Jews had been banished from polite, and even largely from impolite, society.

At this stage we part company with all traditional expressions of hope which have been based on the continuation of the conscious personal self.

Growing numbers of church people, too, are thoroughly secularized and find their meanings in a technological pragmatic society, and, while continuing to observe the traditional expressions of worship, teaching, and sacraments, these people find their search for meaning more and more unmet by the church's teaching.

When he can no longer see Elijah and the wind has stilled to a whisper, Elisha tears his shirt in two in the traditional expression of grief.

Notice how much mobility and benefit you receive on the journey toward handstand even if the traditional expression of the pose is not currently part of your regular practice.

Not exact matches

Like all mainline Protestant denominations, United Methodism finds itself challenged on its traditional position on sexual morality by the emergence of the conscientious conviction that gay and lesbian relationships are a legitimate expression of God's good and diverse creation.

Many on here may think that I take offense with anyone who holds to a traditional interpretation of scripture stating that * all * homosexual expression is sinful.

The entire approach of sex education is technocratic and, at best, morally neutral; in many cases, it explicitly opposes traditional morals while moralistically insisting on the equal acceptability of any and all forms of sexual expression provided only that they are not coerced.

During the Reformation, Anabaptists insisted on following literally Jesus» command not to swear any oath, while Calvinists and Lutherans adhered to the traditional Roman Catholic use of religious oaths as an important expression of the religious foundations of political obligations.

The sorts of books, ideas, authors that make it into a traditional canon do so because they are taken to have been influential expressions of such interests.

More recently, theologians and church leaders from denominations that have historic ties with churches in the north have encouraged African Christian expressions that are free of northern acculturation, are faithful to the gospel and draw upon traditional African

The second expression of Latin American Christianity is the traditional church.

Here, too, we have simply the inverse of the traditional position: that it was the government which was charged to put down the overflowing of sin, and that the order established by the state was the expression of God's «No» to disorder, violence, etc..

I'm not Catholic or Anglican, but I've recently felt a strong pull toward more traditional, liturgical expressions of worship.

With three languages — English, German and French — as channels of expression in every session and with traditional misunderstandings and sectarian prejudices, there would be, of necessity, some critical moments, but the chairmen always so wisely steered the conference out of troubled waters that those instances which did occur were of trifling consequence by the side of the spirit of gracious fellowship which pervaded the delegates both in the conference sessions and in the university halls and hotel lobbies.

Liberals, on the other hand, aim to increase women's power and expression by working within traditional contexts, rereading, redefining and reclaiming traditions in light of women's reality.

Rather these traditional ethical values must be understood as the symbolic expression of what takes place when people stand in true dialogical relation to each other.

We may prepare for our next section, then, by affirming that, for Christian faith, by the prevenient Action of God a human life was taken and made into the instrument for the gracious divine operation; in more traditional idiom, the eternal Word, Self - Expression of very God, was clothed with a true humanity, crowning the rest of God's work in and for God's human children.

And even if Mary and John and Bridget are all of a mind to want more expansive worship expressions, expressions that more completely and surprisingly witness to everything God is about, the odds are that their parish's worship schedule will force a choice upon them — contemporary or traditional.

This kind of internal contradiction seems to run through much traditional theology; it finds explicit expression in Luther's dichotomy between the terrible God, who put him not only in awe but in utter terror, and the tender and loving God whom he knew in Jesus Christ as the savior, the loving friend, and the gracious Father of men.

Since it is more important for a proposition to be interesting than true, the traditional regard for propositions as the matter for judgments and the bias towards truth (even the expression «truth - value» is prejudiced against false propositions) has nearly dealt a fatal blow to the understanding of propositions» dynamic role in the universe.

Instead, millennials are returning to simplicity, small community and even traditional, liturgical expressions of worship.

Purcell has offered a profound reflection on the place of God in the midst of suffering, the illustrations from his own life and those of others giving helpful, concrete expression to the traditional identification of our sufferings with those of Christ on the cross.

May all Britons continue to live by the values of honesty, respect and fair - mindedness that have won them the esteem and admiration of many -LSB-... and] always maintain... respect for those traditional values and cultural expressions that more aggressive forms of secularism no longer value or even tolerate.

On the other hand, pentecostally oriented evangelical churches, such as the Johannesburg - based Rhema Church movement, as well as the African indigenous churches, such as the Zion Christian Church (whose worldview is an amalgam of Christian teaching and traditional African religious expression), have experienced an explosion of membership.

Affirming the goodness of human beings as found in traditional Chinese mythology, his theology states that Christians must applaud the quest for the infinite wherever they find it, even in such expressions as the Way of China's ancient Taoism.

And anyone who imagines that under such a regime of opinion believers in traditional marriage will be respected in their views and practices should carefully examine the expression of contempt in the judge's eye.

But because several of the Democratic candidate's policy positions are so manifestly incompatible with Christian reverence for the lives of the most vulnerable, and because her party is so demonstrably hostile to expressions of traditional Christian faith, there is plenty of critique and criticism of the Democratic candidate from Christians, including evangelical Christians.

Hartshorne's dependence upon Whitehead finds clearest expression in his enthusiastic adoption of Whitehead's view of the universe as essentially one of perpetual change and becoming, in opposition to the dominant views of traditional Western philosophy and theology that the basic realities of both God and the universe endure permanently without essential change.

People from the United States and all around the Pacific had gathered to celebrate the expression of their faith in the traditional Hawaiian practice of talk - story.

James knew of certain Christians who believed that «faith without works» is salutary (James 2:14), a view which conforms in outward expression to the traditional Pauline formulation (see, e.g., Romans 3:28 and Galatians 2:15 - 16; and compare the post-Pauline formulations in Acts 15:11 and Ephesians 2:8 - 9).

Tim Farron tried to defend and exemplify the traditional liberalism that allowed diversity of views and freedom of expression.

Doubt, therefore, can often best be explored in a community identified with and related to the traditional church structures, but not so closely as to inhibit the expression of lostness and uncertainty.

It too has more or less liberal and conservative expressions, with the former leaning toward communitarianism (a kind of unlikely hybrid of socialism and capitalism that Alasdair MacIntyre once rather dryly called «going to bed with the phone company») and the latter stressing traditional morality and trying to resist the rationalizing trends of modern society.

Ironically, particularly in the USA, there has been an expression of serious worry about the Japanese take - over of traditional Hollywood companies.

Since formal speech is perhaps the most native form of conscious American expression, it seemed good that this book retain that traditional characteristic.

Full credit must be given to St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 - 74), who, building upon the work of his teacher Albertus, constructed such a magnificent synthesis of traditional Christian doctrine and of the new knowledge that it became the standard expression of Christian doctrine for the Roman Catholic Church up until the present day.

Moreover, such evidence explicitly supports the belief, also traditional, that one self - same scheme of thought animates and finds at least implicit expression in Whitehead's writings beginning with Science and the Modern World.

The process by which a thoroughly modernized form of religion makes headway is, in Bellah's view, not accomplished strictly at the expense of more traditional variants of religious expression.

At the level of religious organization there is also much to support Bellah's contention that religious expression has become increasingly differentiated from traditional religious institutions.

Its expression in the legal terms of traditional theology is strange and often meaningless to modern ears.

The third of the major functions of traditional religious faith is to provide a body of belief structures which serve to harmonise the many disparate ideas, experiences and institutions within society in such a way that individual as well as corporate needs and aspirations are given expression.

It declares that the idea of Indian Secularism is an expression of the toleration based on the traditional Hindu doctrine of the equality of religions.

In his writings on women it is clear that he misunderstood their traditional home - centered roles, seeing them as normative expressions of inherent biological necessity.

They subsequently yielded to the unlimited freedom of God, though they generally acknowledged in their traditional expressions that God created a world of goodness and required obedience.

Instead of responding with the traditional and easy «You will think and do as we say because we're your parents» routine, we interpreted those embryonic expressions of defiance as opportunities for discussion, dialog and even debate.