Sentences with phrase «traditional understandings of»

«Our amendments will not only put the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation on a sustainable economic footing but will also bring existing legislation in line with traditional understandings of country, which do not distinguish between land and sea.

This parallels traditional understandings of the role of women to serve others.

The photographic works reflect a variety of approaches by contemporary artists that extend or break with traditional understandings of the photographic medium.

Like Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing, which was also created in fall 1953, Automobile Tire Print challenges traditional understandings of art and authorship.

«Throughout this report, the committee aims to challenge traditional understandings of science literacy,» the authors note.

It does not, by itself, however, solve the riddle of how power that is defined by love is to be understood, in contrast to traditional understandings of power.

In seeking a solution to the problem of divine violence in the Old Testament, I was quite hesitant to accept any view which called into question the traditional understandings of the inspiration or inerrancy of Scripture.

Well, the traditional understandings of Inspiration and Canonization seem to be mutually exclusive.

Points of potential encouragement for concerned US Christians: 52 percent of US Muslims say «traditional understandings of Islam need to be reinterpreted,» and 64 percent say there is «more than one true way» to interpret Islam.

Fairbairn's work is instructive to us only as an additional indicator of how widespread the centrality of love was becoming over a century ago for understanding the divine nature, even though he did not address in any helpful way how this challenges traditional understandings of divine power.

In a culture where what constitutes a reasonable religion is shifting, it does no good to expect people to ratify traditional understandings of religious liberty.

The paradox of agape expressed in Jesus» words that «He who saves his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake and the gospels will find it» is explored both in the critics of Christian self - sacrifice, including Fromm, Camus and others, and in the more traditional understandings of agape including the monastics, Luther, Kierkegaard and others.

McLuhan argued that the speed of electronic transmissions — be they telegraph, telephone or television — collapsed traditional understandings of space and time.

In fact, this book helped me see that giving up the traditional understandings of these doctrines can actually help strengthen one's faith in God and aid one in following Jesus more closely.

As a result, most of our traditional understandings of and responses to the world lie shattered, and this demands of us fresh theological explorations at many levels.

In a down - to - earth and intensely practical writing style, Sharon Baker shows the problem with traditional understandings of the atonement and the violence of God, and reveals an alternative way of looking at the cross of Jesus and the violence of God in the Bible.

Lombardo's primary goal is to provide a theological evaluation of three traditional understandings of the role of Christ's death in human salvation.

It is precisely the question of how love is powerful in God, in contrast to traditional understandings of the nature of divine power, that continues to whet the theological appetite.

When he says, «You have heard it said... but I say to you» in Matthew 5:21 - 22, and when he challenges traditional Sabbath restrictions in Luke 14, he is challenging traditional understandings of the Bible and introduces what we might call «a new hermeneutical principle»: namely compassion.

Healthy congregations in the 21st century will undoubtedly be more «seeker friendly,» but they will balance marketing efforts with a more judicious use of traditional understandings of the church and its ministries.

One can see recent standoffs in Geneva on so - called traditional values resolutions as manifestations of a conflict between two rival conceptions of human dignity: one, supported by most Western advocates, that focuses on individual autonomy; and the other, proposed by voices from the global East and South, that focuses on traditional understandings of human nature.

It was the accepted, traditional understanding of marriage at the time.

They rip apart the traditional understanding of the legitimate use of deadly force in self - defense and invite people to kill.

Dr. Cobb lends processes theological concepts to those who systematize the teaching of the Bible, to those who consider contemporary thought as normative and access the Bible in that context, to those who give simplistic traditional understanding of the Bible, and to those searching the perplexities and mysteries of quantum thought.

This post looks at what is wrong with the traditional understanding of the death of Jesus, and how we can understand it differently.

The Supreme Court, meanwhile, has declared the traditional understanding of marriage anathema, and left wide open many vexing questions about the standing of individuals, groups, and institutions who continue to uphold that understanding.

Ed, you're speaking more from a traditional understanding of the Scriptures than you are speaking from the Scriptures themselves.

Let it be said here and now, however, that we need not conclude that the very sciences which are forcing us more and more to abandon as invalid our traditional understanding of the nature and destiny of man, have thereby solved the riddle of life and of the mystery of man.

You do realize that if God exists and is anything like the traditional understanding of God, he doesn't exist in time at all.

The essential elements in the traditional understanding of tradition were left intact by the Second Vatican Council but it was made a more fluid reality to be defined as much by the people of God as by the magisterium.

The issue with plural marriage, whether it is the somewhat traditional understanding of one man, multiple women, or the more modernized take that can be any mix of men and women together, is in the complexity of financial and legal entangling of more than two lives.

Moked, a leading portal for Italian Jews, praises recent statements by Benedict XVI and Paris» chief rabbi, Gilles Bernheim, in defense of the traditional understanding of marriage.

The second question about my thesis is whether it is consistent with the traditional understanding of Jesus» divinity.

That is, they have set aside the traditional understanding of God as a unique spiritual substance in which all three persons somehow share and have moved to a more contemporary understanding of God as an interpersonal process or a community of three coequal persons.1 In effect, they have abandoned the Aristotelian world view in which individual substance was the first category of being and have accepted (even for the doctrine of God) a process understanding of reality.

Representatives from liberal church groups in the USA have responded to the Nashville Statement, a document affirming the traditional understanding of marriage and sexuality.

But I pointed out that there was new evidence — from biblical studies and from various empirical studies in the human sciences, especially psychology and sociology — that completely undermined the traditional understanding of homosexuality as a chosen and changeable state.

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson once said that Obama distorted the traditional understanding of the Bible «to fit his own world, his own confused theology.»

Furthermore, it serves as a major alternative and corrective principle to the traditional understanding of mission.

Both the traditional understanding of substance and my understanding of process allow for functioning totalities greater than the sum of their constituent parts.

A native of Antigua reared in British Methodism, he offered a robust explanation of Methodism's traditional understanding of salvation.

After thirteen years of daily Mass and wide reading, this was the first I had heard of the traditional understanding of the Church: that not even a tiny particle of the sacred Host should be accidentally stepped on or brushed away.

Within the traditional understanding of the teaching function of the church, it is possible for authoritative noninfallible teaching on specific moral issues to be wrong.

You may want to consult this article by Peter Enns (Perhaps you already have): http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peterenns/2012/07/john-piper-on-why-its-right-for-god-to-slaughter-women-and-children-anytime-he-pleases-and-why-i-have-some-major-problems-with-that/ It offers a good challenge to the traditional understanding of violence in the OT.

His indictment is largely based on a traditional Christian moral framework and a traditional understanding of the family that centuries of hypocrisy have undermined for many.

Rather than accepting as authoritative Scripture's total witness, the interpreter uses either his subjective experience with the Christ, or his contemporary sensibility, or the church's traditional understanding of the gospel, or perhaps some combination of these to judge what reasonably the «whole Bible» might be saying.

You were one of the first people I read when I came out of a traditional understanding of what «church» was all about.

On the one hand, we wish to challenge the implicit individualism inherent in the traditional understanding of the Risen Christ as a separate individual existing apart from his Christian followers, either in some resuscitated form during those forty days Luke speaks of (Acts 1:3) or as assimilated within the Godhead.

The notion of divine persuasion entails a twofold expansion of our traditional understanding of freedom.

Editor: The case for a traditional understanding of marriage has faced several reversals in the courts and parliaments of the West in recent years.

The traditional understanding of this is that all humans need to be saved.