Sentences with phrase «uses of the tradition»

The tendency of contemporary evangelicals to appeal to tradition to support conservative positions would be checked by Wesley's far more selective use of tradition, and much greater openness to current evidence.

Or else they are based on narrow and arbitrary uses of the tradition.

At any rate it should by now be obvious that this norm is both formal and material, and that it is central to the Biblical witness to the reality of» God as well as to the uses of tradition in the Bible.

Selective use of tradition is

Since my approach to worship betrays a dependence on early church tradition, it is incumbent upon me to defend my use of tradition in relationship to the Scripture.

They come with strong revulsion to authoritarian use of tradition and the continuation of pre-Enlightenment symbolism and practices.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

Adams makes use of the tradition of Vanitas paintings to create delicate, symbolic images featuring found animal carcasses, dead insects and flora.

Not exact matches

The worlds of Formula One, cycling, and darts have a long tradition of using pretty, scantily - clad women as window - dressing on the sidelines and podiums.

There's a long tradition of presidential candidates and late night TV hosts using each other.

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The fields of academia and education are one of the most conservative fields — there are centuries - old traditions and conventional that has remained in use to the detriment of new technology.

One of the simplest things to go around by the oral tradition is the use of animals for transportation, which, in turn, is passed down from generation to generation.

When Americans who are respectful of tradition speak of religion as a synonym for theism, they limit their use of the First Amendment to defensive purposes only.

Better yet, prove that your particular brand of Christianity is the true faith of Christians without using the Bible as your source since most Christian faith traditions use the same exact Bible.

Isn't this what so many of us don't like about people who use religious tradition as a means for explaining their behavior... they're not CONSISTENT?

The debate on the final statement concerning the war — which took nearly all the time allotted for discussion of public issues — saw the Assembly initially adopt a repudiation of the Christian moral tradition that justifies the use of force in «last resort» circumstances in favor of a pacifist approach.

While the priesthood of all believers was used by the reformers to buttress an evangelical understanding of the church over against the clericalism and sacerdotalism of medieval Catholicism, the ecclesial context of this Reformation principle has often been eclipsed within major sectors of the Protestant tradition.

The very categories of thought you're using to make yourself look dumb, emerge from that very tradition!

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.

The effect of such radically transformative grace, according to the Augustinian tradition and the young Luther, is that the heart loves God above all things for His own sake; in Augustine's terms, we come to enjoy God and use created things for God's sake, rather than attempting to «use» God for the sake of created enjoyments.

Never mind that the Christian intellectual tradition is more than «Western» in the usual use of the term, and never mind that there is nothing more uniquely Western than the pattern of self - criticism that easily turns into self - denigration, it is true that Christianity is undeniably and foundationally entangled with the West, and that is enough, in the minds of many writers, to put it beyond the pale.

Sorry to disagree with you but I have no problem with putting muslim «tradition» on the back burner and if you don't like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims get a pass, Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time tradition» on the back burner and if you don't like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims get a pass, Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time to do so.

As a result, anyone who sees the value of tradition is forced into a conscious role of being «conservative,» or to use Eliot's term, «orthodox.»

(Thomas Aquinas gets only one mention in more than sixty pages of text, and then with a reference to his «using the terminology of the philosophical tradition to which he belonged.»

Moreover, if this were done through the use of a system philosophically equal to that of Shankara, theism's rightful claim to a place in the Indian tradition might again be clear.

There are clearly things to contest in Thompson's views about Scripture here» but his use of Scripture in communion with the tradition will be a model for all those who understand the importance of his struggle.

In other words, «liberalism» is used by these thinkers with a more inclusive meaning, according to which the tradition of political Liberalism dates back at least to the philosophy of John Locke and numbers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Milton Friedman, and Reinhold Niebuhr among its spokesmen.

I am always amazed at how people want to use just one sentence out of a letter to Jewish Christians (Heb 10.25) to make a supposed supreme command for people to conform to a tradition of temple style gatherings.

A group of apologists in training put that information together using catholic dogma and tradition.

Much of the distinctive way in which the Wesleyan tradition uses Scripture is wrapped up in theological context and method.

My impression of these religious leaders was that they used tradition and their external «holy appearance» as a means of authority to simply govern people's lives and not truly lead them to God.

Each of the three will denote the good for a human individual.1 Because of its long association with the liberal tradition, «interest» is so often used to mean an individual's private happiness that the phrase «private view of interest» may seem redundant.

It may be that as a practical matter religious use of mind - altering drugs will be limited to groups that can point to some substantial tradition and that limit the use of drugs to structured worship service.

Less polemically but still in the Enlightenment tradition, Montesquieu used the example of the reducciones in his Spirit of the Laws to work through questions about the common good and the role of the state in procuring human happiness.

«By using the Quran as the basis for debate he also demonstrates that ISIS does not actually base themselves in Muslim traditions, but in the language of hatred and rage.»

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;

Writing in the Journal of Religious Ethics, they make clear enough, as it used to be said, where they are coming from: «Just war theory is properly understood as an expression of a tradition in Christian political thought that can broadly be described as Augustinian.

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

«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.»

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.

As Robert Louis Wilken has noted on more than one occasion, Maximus the Confessor's use of the phrase «blessed passion of love» evokes ideas that were important to Christian tradition.

Our «early traditions about Jesus» (to use the title of a little book by the late Professor Bethune - Baker) are not interested so much in what has been called the «biographical Jesus» as they are concerned with what Jesus did and said as he was remembered by those who believed him to be their Lord, the Risen Messiah, and who were therefore anxious to hand on to others what was remembered about him.

My great grandfather was a Baptist minister and on New Year's Day, so runs the family tradition, he used to call on all the members of his parish, and at every house, according to the hospitable custom of the time, he took his whiskey, until at night, happily mellow, he returned home amid the benedictions of his flock.

Another tradition, using the same Scripture, believes nothing of the sort.

We find in the Qur» an many verses which mention reasoning, or thinking, or knowing — verses which exhort us to make use of our brains instead of following blindly the traditions which our ancestors followed.

There are two main schools of thought on how to determine which variant is the right one, but both approaches use a tradition that has developed over time.

Moses had commanded them to honor their parents, but they used the so - called «tradition of the elders» to evade the commandment.

But it is quite possible to teach liturgical theology today, making use of sources from every tradition — Orthodox to Quaker.

Among the criteria that scholars use, one of the most problematic is, paradoxically, also one of the best» the principle of embarrassment, which claims that those traditions about Jesus that would have been most embarrassing to the early Church have the greatest possibility of being true.