Sentences with phrase «upon the traditions of»

Furthermore, translations often reflect the theology of the translator as well, which also is dependent upon a tradition of church beliefs and doctrine.

Whereas Rorty relies exclusively upon philosophical writings that have subverted the foundationalist project, Palmer draws primarily upon Christian classics and upon a tradition of Christian spirituality that he traces back to the desert fathers.

Building upon the tradition of excellence in Catholic education, we take a holistic approach to educating each child.

«Jonathan's diverse experience in education leadership will allow him to dive in and continue to build upon the tradition of excellence of the Honor Societies,» said NASSP Executive Director JoAnn Bartoletti.

Building upon our tradition of excellence in emergency medicine, AES added specialty services to our repertoire, including surgery, rehabilitation, and radiology.

Acclaimed internationally as a rejuvenating destination spa, experiences both distinctive and ceremonial draw upon the traditions of the land.

Jacob El Hanani's work draws upon the tradition of micrography in Judaism, a technique utilized in decoration and transcribing holy texts.

Building upon the tradition of Hammer Invitational exhibitions, Made in L.A. 2012 will feature roughly 60 artists with an emphasis on emerging and under - recognized artists.

Like many artists in the exhibition, Deana Lawson (American, born 1979) draws upon the tradition of the family portrait and snapshot for much of her work, whether her photographs depict her own family members or that of others.

With a particular focus on an examination of subculture communities, Opie's photographs unite current day politics and societal structures with a classical art aesthetic, culminating in a body of work that expands upon the tradition of documentary photography as well as the greater art historical canon.

As an artwork, Eichhorn's gesture built upon the traditions of artistic withdrawal of labour established by the Art Workers» Coalition and Art Strikes in New York in the 1970s, which enabled artists to understand and articulate their positions as cultural workers.

The work draws upon the traditions of landscape painting and natural science illustration, and incorporates the visual language of maps, diagrams, and artifacts, as a way of exploring our connection — many times via objects — to specific places and occurrences.

Dobliar's practice strongly recalls and builds upon the traditions of German expressionism.

Adam's work first debuted at the Hole in «Not a Painting», a group show that looked at paintings made without paint; essentially wall works made from everything but paint that referred to painting or were contingent upon the tradition of painting for their logic.

A contemporary and nuanced composition, Grey Red effectively builds upon the tradition of transcendental abstraction and geometry.

Melikyan's art is multilayered, drawing upon the traditions of rug and textile weaving in his native Turkey, American abstract painting, and the possibilities of computer graphics.

Their gesture touches upon the traditions of indoor earthworks from the 1960s and 70s and its foray into a history of institutional critique.

Drawing upon the tradition of 18th - century travel books, Smithson here presented «anti-monuments,» tributes to suburban sprawl and urban growth that exemplified the decay and deterioration of all things: «One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.»

CAM LLP continues to build upon its tradition of legal excellence through a compassionate commitment to individualized personal injury services.

Today, we continue to expand upon this tradition of leadership, creativity and extraordinary client service.

At Breslin & Breslin, our personal injury lawyers draw upon a tradition of service to Bergen County and northern New Jersey that goes back to the 1930s.

Not exact matches

On what he wants to see happen next: «I would advise [Obama] personally call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous «State Secrets» privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years in office for any wrongdoing.

«The experience of the broad oriental tradition of a married clergy could also be drawn upon,» he writes, without specificying what that means in the context of the debate over married clergy in non-Eastern traditions.

He said: «Within our Christian tradition there have been century upon century of these terrible, terrible hatreds.

Restorative punishment, much like other practices of reconciliation, retrieves the distinctive logic of a religious tradition and brings it to bear upon modern liberal democracy.

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

Hence, White insists upon the doctrine of the «hypostatic union» as guarantor of the Tradition's confession of Christ's uniqueness — as well as upon the legitimacy, indeed the necessity, of reason's probing of the essential traits of human nature, notwithstanding the deformation wrought by the Fall.

Another connection is possible, I think, one that draws upon the Attic tradition of crowning the victor of the Pythian games with a laurel wreath and, more likely still, its Christian acception, symbolizing death's defeat in Christ.

They fail to distinguish two types of religious persons who may be part of this group: the first, who depend completely upon the literal interpretation of Scripture and tradition by an authoritarian pastor, and second, those who undertake rescue activity as the command of God, based upon a thoughtful and self - ratified interpretation of the ethical imperatives of the gospel.

That is, pop culture studies can not simply be about conservatives (or Christians, or Great Books educators) dwelling upon the best moments of such culture, or otherwise using it to prove the relevance of the traditions they want to convey.

In particular, we pray for peace in Ukraine, a country of ancient Christian tradition, while we call upon all parties involved to pursue the path of dialogue and of respect for international law in order to bring an end to the conflict and allow all Ukrainians to live in harmony.

Such development of doctrine, typically in response to grave error and deviant traditions built upon such error, is to be understood not as an addition to the apostolic teaching contained in Holy Scripture but as Spirit - guided insight into the fullness of that teaching.

With scant grounding in constitutional text or tradition, court majorities took it upon themselves (usually over strong dissents) to remove a number of matters from legislative and local control.

This is something that a religious morality can not do, being based upon authority, tradition, and inflexible absolutes, all of which discourage and forbid independent thought.

My only problem with your article centers on the Traditions violation and in that the Traditions are based upon humility of the individual and primacy of AA as a whole, perhaps they would be worthy of consideration.

Such thought could, of course, be understood as «church theology,» but the tendency of that rubric is to focus attention upon the traditions and current life of the church in a way that is too limiting.

Call upon the various religious groups bound by the same national fabric to address their mutual state of selective amnesia that blocks memories of centuries of joint and shared living on the same land; we call upon them to rebuild the past by reviving this tradition of conviviality, and restoring our shared trust that has been eroded by extremists using acts of terror and aggression;

And yet they survived, reconstructed their community, and handed down a continuous and developing tradition which exerted a creative influence upon the whole of subsequent history.

The Jewish basis for this hope lies especially in the Noahide Laws, a set of seven laws binding upon all humanity that were, according to rabbinic tradition, given to Noah.

Another vision of democracy; however, sees it not only in terms of its result (private freedoms) but in terms of its foundation upon the virtues known in the classic tradition as «republican» or «civic» virtues.

«We call upon them to rebuild the past by reviving this tradition of conviviality, and restoring our shared trust that has been eroded by extremists using acts of terror and aggression.»

In light of this long history of controversy it is striking that theologians representing these traditions today do not insist upon their historic formulations in a divisive way.

Theological exegesis of the Bible advances upon the assumption that the Nicene tradition, in all its diversity and controversy, provides the proper basis for the interpretation of the Bible as Christian Scripture.»

The modern individual has too often subjugated the spontaneous to the orderly, the possible to the necessary, the enthusiastic to the reasonable, the wonderful to the regular.9 In yet another description, Keen identifies our current «dis - ease» as our inability to view life as a «story,» to integrate past, present, and future into a meaningful whole.10 The metaphysical myths of our tradition no longer confer identity upon us today.

The simple fact that we have a canon of Scripture, which was compiled and organized by various early Church Fathers, and became a tradition, shows that we must, to some degree, accept and depend upon some forms of Church Ttradition, shows that we must, to some degree, accept and depend upon some forms of Church TraditionTradition.

It is a Western writing, Hellenistic, probably Roman; obviously written in Greek, and not, I believe, the translation of a completed work in a Semitic tongue; and yet resting back upon traditions that were certainly far older than its own date, undoubtedly Palestinian in origin, and circulating originally in the Aramaic language spoken by the common people of Galilee and Judea in the days of our Lord.

Upon the basis of Paul's teaching, taken alone, Christianity might possibly have foundered a century later in the rising sea of Gnosticism; possessing Mark's compilation of the historic traditions, later amplified by the other evangelists, the church held true to its course, steering with firm, unslackened grip upon the historic origins of its faUpon the basis of Paul's teaching, taken alone, Christianity might possibly have foundered a century later in the rising sea of Gnosticism; possessing Mark's compilation of the historic traditions, later amplified by the other evangelists, the church held true to its course, steering with firm, unslackened grip upon the historic origins of its faupon the historic origins of its faith.

Were such consequences to be accepted, then a process metaphysics could indeed dispense with Whitehead's God, although not with that singular function of «total affirmation» which Whitehead — the weight of ontotheological tradition bearing down upon him — valiantly attempts to grant Him.

All this is basic to contemporary work on the theology of the synoptic evangelists and their tradition; indeed, this contemporary work is consciously built upon the foundations laid by Bultmann in this most important book.

Richard Steel, an evangelical church pastor in Stratford - upon - Avon, believes the shroud stands above Protestant concerns about the veneration of relics in the Catholic tradition, saying: «If it is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, it's one of the most important relics that the Christian Church has.»