Sentences with phrase «valued tradition in»

It has been a long and valued tradition in the United States to allow state and local communities to make decisions about curriculum and teaching methods.

Not exact matches

Despite criticisms against religion, every major faith tradition in the world has core principles and values that can serve as an anchoring ethos for entrepreneurs and leaders.

It was created by Reboot, an organization dedicated to affirming Jewish traditions that everyone can apply — in this case, the value of slowing down and enjoying a Sabbath.

Now this is not to say that we should assume there is no value in teaching and tradition.

China, a country deeply rooted in Confucian tradition with emphasis on family and social order, values meritocracy and the ability to get things done.

New Canadians work hard to learn our languages, our values, and our traditions, and in turn, are welcomed as equal members of the Canadian family.

Big - name brands such as Mitsubishi, an industrial conglomerate that includes a trading company, real - estate, jet manufacturing and financial group, are revered in Japan, a nation that values tradition.

The disposal of unsound religious beliefs and practices through the resolute application of knowledge leading to common acceptance of their fatal flaws is a well - established and time - honored tradition whose constructive value is populated with hundreds of noteworthy precedents that serve as benchmarks in the continuing enlightenment of the human race.

Institutions offering separate women - only swim hours demonstrate that they seek to include in their community people from many different cultures, faiths, and traditions, representing a range of values, beliefs, and experiences.

«It is through the humanities principally,» says Coughlin, president of Gonzaga University from 1974 to 1996, «that the culture, values, and moral principles of the Judeo - Christian tradition are kept alive in Western society.

We envy our Orthodox Jewish friends for understanding the value of tradition, instead of throwing it overboard in pursuit of «relevance.»

Powell a Christian, points out in The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism that constitutional rhetoric «is a language of permanence, of settled decision, of absolute political value».

Even patriarchy's deepest plots have not wholly» silenced women in the biblical tradition, nor does our knowledge of these infamous «proceedings» have to cancel other values of Scripture for us.

In my earlier years I had little doubt about not only the moral superiority but also the historical future of the values of the liberal democratic tradition.

McConnell explored the value of tradition generally — as a coordinating mechanism, a democratic check on state power, and a depository of values that endure over time — and then moved to a discussion of tradition and change in constitutional interpretation.

I'm underscoring the fact that the 11th Tradition was put into place after hard - won lessons in the 30's and 40's to protect both individuals and the program in general, and that to completely disregard it is a dis to the rest of us who value the wisdom of traditions.

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

His predominant theme is the rise of a liberal model of civilisation which he traces from Protestantism, with its «rejection of the normative significance of tradition in the field of Christian dogma» (p. 6), followed by the Enlightenment, which placed an absolute value on the individual.

For the tradition of Jesus» sayings has been purged of all traces of the Church's kerygma, and therefore could seem of little value in comparing Jesus with the kerygma.

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.

(The doctrine of the tradition that God is not simply better than other even possible beings, but is better than goodness itself, better than «best,» since he transcends the concept of goodness altogether, does not alter the necessity that he be better - than - best in some, in none, or in all dimensions of value; or negatively, that he be surpassable in all, some, or no dimensions.

«1 But despite Plato's insight that power is involved in both the ability to affect and the ability to be affected (with its implication that reality and value might involve both), there has been a persistent tendency to favor what Bernard Loomer has called unilateral power — the ability to affect while remaining unaffected.2 Although this tendency is evident in every field of human thought, it will be appropriate to examine it first in the philosophical tradition, where it goes hand in hand with the valuation of being over becoming.

As we attempt to reconnect with our own history, which is after all a sacred history as far as the Divine Liturgy is concerned, the value of the Church's liturgical traditions are once again being emphasised not just as expressions of sacredness and beauty in the public work of God, but as the embodiment and carriers of the Church's faith.

Often the values that shape their lives seem so self - evident, that they feel no need to ground them in a larger tradition.

The only creative God we recognize is the creative event itself, So also we ignore the transcendental affirmation in the Greek tradition of the reality of Forms of value, uncreated and eternal, having causal efficacy to constrain the shape of things without themselves being events at all.

From William: My question: How do you cope, as a female minister in the broadly «Reformed» spectrum, with the conservative - types in your tradition who neither value nor validate you as a genuine minister or even as being genuinely «Reformed»?

It shows the capacity of Buddhism to incorporate what is of value in other traditions and to respond to changing situations.

They value the tradition they were raised and nurtured in and it has helped to shape them into amazing people.

This show has one purpose, to paint muslim americans in a soft were all the same light, while denying the fact that their holy book quran and real actual observant muslims (not the families on this show) are completly against american values and traditions.

With this in mind Christians rightly turn to biblical authors who go beyond stewardship to stress a just treatment of animals; to Orthodox traditions with their emphases on a sacramental understanding of nature; and to classical, Western writers such as Irenacus, the later Augustine, Francis of Assisi, and the Rhineland mystics who stress the value of creation as a whole.

Culture involves specific actions or rituals to be performed in a given way at different stages of life such as birth, marriage and funerals within a community, and these acquire the value of tradition.

«Most people were poor by today's economic standards, but they were rich in moral values, family relations and social traditions.

What is important for our purposes is to recognize that he is in the tradition of Leopold, emphasizing systems rather than individuals in his treatment of nature's value.

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

It did not occur to many people in the 19th century that there might be truth, integrity or value in a religious tradition other than Christianity.

In contrast to the main drift of the modern Western tradition, which asks how we can reconstruct or represent things within us and concludes that the activity of reconstruction or representation is almost wholly a matter of our own creation and projection, the theory of value and valuation suggests a different question.

Values such as tradition, reality, obligation, beauty; nature, transcendence, nature, mystery, hope — the things whose power makes a society work — are not operational in typical postmodern institutions, the workplace, the government, the media, the entertainment industry.

While pathos, suffering and pain have found a place in Dalit theology, the rich Dalit traditions of celebrating life in the context of communitarian values seem to have been completely forgotten by Dalit theologians with few exceptions.

There are many motivations, and they are described in various ways: «(Our understanding of) God's plan for women» «Faithfulness to (our interpretation of) the Bible» «Conformity to the tradition (of our Church)» «Shared culture and values (with those like us)» «Fellowship and community (with those like us)» «Well - understood and clear - cut roles (in some areas)» «Gender - specific roles and responsibilities (again, in some areas)»

Congregations that recognize the value of that work, emphasizing the denomination's service in the world, are more likely to describe themselves as strongly shaped by the denominational tradition.

Noting that we do not live in a sacred world valuing «received knowledge» from holy writ, but in a profane world harshly criticizing that tradition, Victoria Erickson of Union Theological Seminary in New York City wondered if we dared invite our worst critics into our classrooms for dialogue.

Since the Syriac fathers see the old order of sacrifices as having lost its former value, it is curious how firmly both Aphrahat and Ephrem held a tradition which is strange to the New Testament, namely, that Christ as High Priest «according to the order of Melchizedek», actually received the Aaronic priesthood by unbroken succession of imposition of hands through John the Baptist, who was of priestly family; when the former priesthood was repudiated, the power continued in Christ and he passed it on to the Apostles.

As we shall see, the values, assumptions, and worldview of television «s «religion» are in almost every way diametrically opposed to the values, assumptions, and worldview of the historic Judeo - Christian tradition in which the vast majority of Americans profess to believe.

Yet Jewish thinkers were right in believing that they possessed in their own national tradition something of higher value than a secular civilization could offer.

Teaching in the area of values should draw on the best in the Hebrew - Christian tradition — tested, undergirded, illuminated, and implemented by the insights of the psychological sciences.

We know tradition as a living social process constantly changing, constantly in need of criticism, but constant also as the continuing memory, value system and habit structure of a society.

Many people try to solve this basic, problem by simply condemning the typical products of the scientific age and by reasserting the values of the past — that is, by a resolute renunciation of modernity in favor of the «classical» tradition.

Still, this commitment is sufficiently prominent in the tradition to provide contemporary Buddhists with a basis for protest against the economic theory that the only value of animals is the price humans will pay for them and against the factory farming that this theory supports.

It also preserves Kuhn's most distinctive contributions concerning paradigms: the importance of exemplars in the transmission of a scientific tradition, and the strategic value of commitment to a research programme.

It seems to me that, absent this, any religious movement, regardless of its rhetoric and sentiment, substantively untethers itself from the intellectual discipline of religious tradition and easily becomes prey to whimsy, faddishness, or simply adopting the values of the greater society in which it finds itself.