Sentences with phrase «traditions of acknowledgment»

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Or consider Walter Benjamin's willingness to rethink the classic traditions he so loved, now guided by the hermeneutical acknowledgment that «every great work of civilization is at the same time a work of barbarism.»

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

While it has become common over the last several decades for theological enquiry to generally ignore the contributions of Thomistic thought, the tide seems to be turning in favor of an acknowledgment of St. Thomas as the true «common doctor» of the Catholic theological tradition.

With rising interest in wellness comes responsibility to preserve the traditions and knowledge our teachers and our teachers» teachers shared with us — many of them come from ancient lineages that deserve reverence and proper acknowledgment, even if they are mysterious or unknown to you.

I say this in acknowledgment of the fact that though a majority of the earth's nearly six billion human beings may claim allegiance to one faith tradition or another, the influence of religion on people's lives is generally marginal, especially in the developed world.

The reference to mythology as a source of inspiration; using abstract composition as a way to evoke literary and lyrical stories; the control of the design so as to achieve a delicate balance between the freshness of gestural strokes and the clearness of drawing; the reference to the tradition of art history as an endless process of acknowledgment of the meaning of artistic practice; the attention paid to the sign itself as a multi-linguistic mark of the artist's expression; these are all constant features of Twombly's work, and have been since the very beginning of his career in the late 1940s.

(a) by Black CJ that a finding that at some point in the past there has ceased to be any real acknowledgment and observance of laws and customs based on tradition needs to overcome difficulties of a formidable nature [26], including: