Sentences with phrase «valued tradition of»

There is a long and valued tradition of anonymous speech, practiced among others in the U.S. by the authors of the Federalist Papers.

He was admitted to Honorary Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin (the oldest and most valued tradition of the University) in 2009.

We value the traditions of Germany and the high quality standards - whether it's a pint of beer, a loaf of bread, a well - built house, or a beautifully made wooden toy.

The award, which is administered by the state bar and the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism, recognizes lawyers who continue to value the tradition of community service and who measure their success in ways other than financial gain.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

It is no surprise that the Emperor Constantine created the belief / church / assembly of Roman peoples that embraced the «universal / καθολικη» values of the Roman Empire, a popular mix of «compromised Christian» and non Christian beliefs and traditions.

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.

Thus he was part of the broad, humanistic, and stoic (and, later, Christian) tradition of the West — one that valued basic natural rights and was incessantly called into question by variations of utilitarian and utopian thinking.

«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.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

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

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.»

What makes Wasserstein's formulation eccentric is his insistence on Arendt's tendencies to accept at face value, without explanation, neo-Nazi historical formulations of the Jewish question and plain old Leninist approaches to the imperial tradition.

We have different values and traditions, we fight, love and communicate differently, and we expect different things out of our marriages.

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.

But the Wesleyan vision includes a high respect for the tradition of the church as a source for theological formulation and a willingness to be judged by it, though flexibly, with Scripture as the final judge of the value of tradition.

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.

It also breaks with the entire moral tradition of humankind by rejecting the existence of values independent of the goals of material progress.

We commit ourselves to live by the values of simplicity, love, peace, and reverence for life shared by all religious traditions.»

The term culture refers to the entire complex of customs, laws, institutions, beliefs, values, traditions, and artifacts that constitute the common man - made environment of a group of people.

The most important contribution of the churches, called for by those who newly look to it with hope, is to affirm the values of our tradition.

They want to retain humane values of tradition.

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.

Only a fully observant and theologically Orthodox medical school would train and nurture truly religious and traditional physicians whose medical practice expresses the humanistic values of the tradition.

I mean it when I say I respect and value the fellowship of Christ - followers from all traditions.

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.

The tradition or position is valued as a true construal of the Christian thing.

Thus we have every reason to take seriously, as the tradition has plainly not done, the hypothesis (at present merely that) of open dimensions of value, even for the perfect one.

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.

We have lost the feeling of security that our forebears experienced when their society was still permeated by the social and moral values provided by the religious tradition concerned.

Having recognized the values of other traditions, they regard the position to which they are drawn as outside of faith.

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.

Some attend to the growing recognition of the intrinsic value and validity of other great religious traditions.

Second, he has thought deeply on the subject and comes from a charismatic tradition that often values the roles of Ephesians 4 highly, so I think it makes for an interesting viewpoint.

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

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.

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition?

The draft supports these values not just by pragmatic calculations but by a kind of «spiritual vision,» conceived broadly enough to elicit support from many different religious traditions.

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.

Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical 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.