Sentences with phrase «traditions of men in»

The traditions of men in their prime youth being preferred for marriage is obsolete in Filipine.

Gubmints involved in God's business of joining is just plain ol' fashioned traditions of men in action.

Not exact matches

Rather than meet in a pub, per longstanding Irish tradition, the two men laced up their sneakers and went for a run, a picture of youthful energy as they discussed shared concerns about climate change, NATO, and Europe.

While many viewers complain about NBC's tape - delay tradition, the network maintains that the practice is better for ratings as NBC claims female viewers (who actually make up the bulk of the Olympics» audience) watch sports differently than men do, with women investing more in coverage showing athletes» journeys to the games than in the actual results.

The brand's «striding man» logo is a reference to its historic association with travel, Diageo attorney Raskopf argues in his briefs, and he contends that the new Johnnie Walker Explorers» (with an apostrophe) Club Collection label and its accompanying airport lounges all spring from that homegrown tradition and not from any conscious emulation or evocation of the The Explorers Club (without an apostrophe).

And again, in 2009, in a Maclean's profile of the Bay's new boss: «With her blond bob, grey Alexander McQueen sweater dress, ballsy black Yves Saint Laurent boots, and willingness to playfully tweak tradition, Brooks offers a stylish foil to the sober gallery of white men in dark suits who trace the company's lineage back to 1670.»

Against those who hold humanity in contempt, I, too, want to declare myself a humanist and join in the most elevated and elevating tradition of a culture that celebrates man as «the crown of creation.»

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

As in liberal Protestantism, the Father was Good; the Son, being human, even better and more philanthropic (well, the Jews and Muslims dropped this bit); and keeping God's commands involved less tradition or ritual and more love of our fellow - men, all men being sons of the one Father.

The Virgin Mary, the Holy Family, the Transfiguration, the Crucifixion, and the like — not an abandonment of traditions at all, but a devotion to them by a man in social transition.

Over the next fourteen years the Braatens and the Jensons (both men's wives participated actively in the center's work) collaborated in activities» conferences, seminars, and, most notably, production of the journal Pro Ecclesia» that expanded from a Lutheran core to give ecumenical witness to the great tradition of catholic theology.

day to day life of a muslim revolves around these beliefs and traditiopns.as far as christianity is concerned or a christian is concerned he or she is just a christian on traditions and stories told in man - made bible and their life does not revolve around any true beliefs or traditions and they do not take them seriously as well.

There is one further point to be made, however, to bring these remarks into relation with the deepest insights of the Christian tradition in its best moments, and into relation with the convictions of the wisest men and women — past and present, in our own family, of our own acquaintance or within our own awareness and observation.

Though later wise men from the East come to Herod's palace to pay homage to the newborn «king,» they find him in the only place consistent with the rest of the biblical tradition: among the lowest of the low.

Our recognition of the mystery of salvation in men and women of other religious traditions shapes the concrete attitudes with which we Christians must approach them in interreligious dialogue.

Its importance is that it establishes the methodology of enquiring into the history of the use of Son of man in the tradition, and by so doing immediately renders out of date any work not using this methodology.

Maybe that is why they have that tradition that says there is no way into heaven unless you kneel and take the body of another man in your mouth?

In the Hebrew - Christian tradition the presupposition is that the universe does contain satisfaction for man's highest desires, that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are blessed and shall be filled, that there is living bread and water for the spirit, not, in a negative peace of renounced desire but in the positive achievement of triumphant personality, both here and in an eternal kingdom of soulIn the Hebrew - Christian tradition the presupposition is that the universe does contain satisfaction for man's highest desires, that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are blessed and shall be filled, that there is living bread and water for the spirit, not, in a negative peace of renounced desire but in the positive achievement of triumphant personality, both here and in an eternal kingdom of soulin a negative peace of renounced desire but in the positive achievement of triumphant personality, both here and in an eternal kingdom of soulin the positive achievement of triumphant personality, both here and in an eternal kingdom of soulin an eternal kingdom of souls.

In place of the testimony of one man, we have the «social» tradition of a whole community, the widely shared possession of a whole group — of two groups, in fact, the Palestinian and the RomaIn place of the testimony of one man, we have the «social» tradition of a whole community, the widely shared possession of a whole group — of two groups, in fact, the Palestinian and the Romain fact, the Palestinian and the Roman.

It is noteworthy that Luke omits the whole pericope, also that the outlook of the pericope is the same as that of the passion announcements, and even agrees with them in style: the Son of Man is to «rise,» not — as elsewhere in the primitive tradition — to «be raised»; but first he is to «suffer many things» — a5 in 8:31.

It reflects the theology of those who thought of Jesus exclusively in apocalyptic terms, and were prepared not only to go through the tradition and substitute «the Son of Man» for his simple «I,» but also to insert appropriate quotations or paraphrases of their favorite apocalyptic texts in order to give his life its appropriate setting — as they assumed — and his teaching its proper interpretation.

Suddenly, reporters and plenty of others who've tuned into the wildly popular «Two and Half Men» want to know about the Seventh - day Day Adventist tradition, which Jones says in the online video he has recently joined, connecting his conversion to his new outlook on the show.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

Sabyasachi Mukherjee, J. as he then was, expressed himself thus in Ramsharan vs. Union of India, (AIR 1989 S.C. 549, paragraph 13): «It is true that life in its expanded horizons today includes all that give meaning to a man's life including his tradition, culture and heritage, and protection of that heritage in its full measure would certainly come within the encompass of an expanded concept of Article 21 of the Constitution».

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

Asked in The Kingdom of God in America, this question was reframed in Christ and Culture as a relationship between a social tradition that seeks to conserve its customs and «the power and attraction Jesus Christ exercises over men.»

Women can lead rituals (and in many traditions are actually above men) and participate as equals (or superiors) in 99.9 % of all «Pagan» traditions.

I have a theory that SBNRs are so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides / traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).

Noddings finds the Judeo - Christian tradition especially culpable in women's denigration: there is the Adam and Eve story, with Eve held responsible for accepting the serpent's temptation and leading man to sin; the Old Testament «uncleanness» references and practices; the long history of burning witches; even the veneration of the Virgin Mary.

it's more important that they do their evil in darkness due to keeping the traditions of men.

To warrant this radical revision — one might almost say reversal — of the Catholic tradition, Father Concetti and others explain that the Church from biblical times until our own day has failed to perceive the true significance of the image of God in man, which implies that even the terrestrial life of each individual person is sacred and inviolable.

But the emergence of the «problem» is symptomatic of underlying changes — changes away from traditions that made the family pre-eminent over the individual, and gave the man unquestioned authority over his wife — all in the name of family stability.

The illusion that the now is either so insignificant and commonplace as to be unworthy of study, or that it is so well known anyhow — without analysis, critical reflection, or even systematic observation — as to be beneath serious notice, has become all too characteristic of a theological tradition that knows perfectly well that we can not understand either God's grace or man's sinfulness without in some fundamental sense understanding the other first.

The experience of the whole man, evaluating Scripture, tradition, and reason, through the vital action of the Holy Spirit, becomes the ultimate authority in religious certainty.

In every field of endeavor — in scientific inquiry, manners, family life, politics, and all the rest — man is not his own judge and master; he is «under orders,» he is answerable to principles of «propriety,» he is responsible for the preservation, improvement, and perpetuation of the «traditions of civility.&raquIn every field of endeavor — in scientific inquiry, manners, family life, politics, and all the rest — man is not his own judge and master; he is «under orders,» he is answerable to principles of «propriety,» he is responsible for the preservation, improvement, and perpetuation of the «traditions of civility.&raquin scientific inquiry, manners, family life, politics, and all the rest — man is not his own judge and master; he is «under orders,» he is answerable to principles of «propriety,» he is responsible for the preservation, improvement, and perpetuation of the «traditions of civility.»

Challenge us and ask us about the differences between Yahwistic vs. Elohimistic traditions in Old Testament canon), but this shows the tragedy — or perhaps the irony — of faith: in America, if not elsewhere, the concept of faith is kept at such a simplistic level that most people just plain «believe» without having any form of knowledge (in spite of the Bible stating, «Where is the wise man?

Biblical understanding, in the tradition of Calvin, teaches that the will of man can not choose God without God first choosing the man, and neither once chosen by God can the man ultimately refuse our savior.

I was amazed and moved when several of the men responded positively to this material, since I was all along well aware that — to the extent that some of them had Christian backgrounds or had even become Christians in jail — such traditions of silence within Christianity would be far removed from the affective and sometimes noisy spirituality of much African - American Protestantism.

There is an Assyrian tradition that the wise men who came from the East to visit infant Jesus were from Edessa and that they went to Bethlehem in fulfillment of a prophecy made by Zoroaster in the seventh century BC.

In the present text of this narrative, Moses goes up and down Mount Sinai no less than three times, and for a man reputed in the biblical tradition to be in his eighties, that is no small chorIn the present text of this narrative, Moses goes up and down Mount Sinai no less than three times, and for a man reputed in the biblical tradition to be in his eighties, that is no small chorin the biblical tradition to be in his eighties, that is no small chorin his eighties, that is no small chore.

If he knows it and lives in it as the tradition of the great Church he has an authority in the local and the contemporary Christian community which the man who represents only the tradition of a national or denominational or localized community can not have.

Our major tradition is one in which men have had the courage to be free and to uphold the sacredness of individual personality because of their religious convictions.

Then there are the dangerous questions that challenge the tradition itself, like why can't women teach men, why can't I teach your children in Sunday school if I'm not straight, what's this head of the household crap, why can't we have marriage equality, why is the church so myopic, and isn't it possible that the whole human race is connected and one and that there is no separation illustrated by the ancient paradigm of heaven and hell.

In the spring of 1952 Buber was awarded the Goethe Prize by the University of Hamburg for his «activity in the spirit of a genuine humanity» and for «an exemplary cultural activity which serves the mutual understanding of men and the preservation and continuation of a high spiritual tradition.&raquIn the spring of 1952 Buber was awarded the Goethe Prize by the University of Hamburg for his «activity in the spirit of a genuine humanity» and for «an exemplary cultural activity which serves the mutual understanding of men and the preservation and continuation of a high spiritual tradition.&raquin the spirit of a genuine humanity» and for «an exemplary cultural activity which serves the mutual understanding of men and the preservation and continuation of a high spiritual tradition.»

We know tradition now not only in the form of social rigidities resistant to change but as the dynamic structure of modifiable habits without which men do not exist as men.

Again, a story from the Jewish tradition: Based on circumstantial evidence, a character - assassinating lie was told of a much - respected elderly man in a particular community.

It has grown out of the wrestlings of ministers with their problems, out of the experiences of the times and the needs of men, yet it has its roots in the Bible and in the long tradition of the Church.

The Christian theological tradition has created in «God» a uniquely monstrous transcendence «whose very sacrality is absolutely opposed to the life and immediacy of man's existence in the world»... a feat unequaled even by Muslim or Jew!

The job of a Christian preacher, he said, is to «proclaim the given gospel to the given world,» The given gospel — that is to say, the gospel which has come to him from the Christian tradition which he represents and for which in his preaching function he speaks; the given world — that is to say, men and women in their actual concrete situation, with their interests and worries, their concerns and their problems, And the two are to go together, so that the gospel will be heard and (one hopes) accepted by those who hear its proclamation as directly relevant to their own lives.

For all the difficulty of understanding his thought, he can be more readily grasped and appreciated by Western man than can, for example, Oriental thought, because Whitehead's thought is built upon what is already familiar to us in our own Western culture and tradition.