Coming from
a variety of traditions, their achievements varied greatly.
Having lived in China, Germany, and the Netherlands it's no surprise that the work of Evelyn Taocheng Wang is influenced by
a variety of traditions and cultures.
As an artist who first developed his craft in South Korea in the seventies, and spent most of his adult life in New York, one can clearly understand Lee's coming out of
a variety of traditions.
Our talented chefs deliver sumptuous cuisine from
a variety of traditions.
a colonial house that offers you a wide
variety of traditions and experiences tailored made to you.
I was raised Christian, but I've also studied with spiritual teachers from
a variety of traditions — Kabbalah, Kashmir Shaivism, Buddhism, Sufism, and indigenous spirituality.
She quickly became a devoted yoga practitioner, exploring
a variety of traditions, including Vinyasa Flow and Ashtanga.
Rebecca soon became a devoted yoga practitioner, exploring
a variety of traditions, including Vinyasa Flow and Ashtanga.
At the Waldorf School of Princeton, we celebrate festivals throughout the year to sustain and renew ourselves, from
a variety of traditions and geographies.
The diversity among the evangelicals in these three phases of the new dialogue leads to an important conclusion regarding the continuation of the discussion While the evangelical participants can generally be described as moderate, they come from
a variety of traditions.
These books represent
a variety of traditions, styles, beliefs, methods, and theological homes — and so every single one has something to teach me.
Evangelicals must take with increased seriousness
the variety of traditions from which they spring, for here is one major source of conflict in their present theological formulations.
It is important to acknowledge that, like most congregations, they are very aware of the way in which they are free to shape their own particular lives around a wide
variety of traditions and practices.
Not exact matches
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it means accepting a wide
variety of faith
traditions with respect.
They come from a
variety of Christian and non-Christian faith
traditions in the U.S. and beyond.
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.
One place to see easily the
variety of theological norms coming into play is in Wesley's Plain Account
of Christian Perfection, perhaps both the key text for those who wished to sustain continuity with the spiritual experience
of classical Wesleyanism and a source
of much controversy with outsiders who found the key doctrine
of the Wesleyan
tradition offensive.
Under the influence
of the recent
varieties of liberation theologies we are learning to appreciate this way
of theologizing, and some
of the more creative work in the interpretation
of Wesley and the Wesleyan
tradition has drawn on correlations
of theological method with the liberation theologians.
The
variety of approaches to authority is illustrated in the way different
traditions try to put an exclamation point on their teaching.
Such cultural pluralism is consistent with the requirements
of human nature for a determinate social matrix, and it provides for continued enrichment
of the life
of mankind through a
variety of contrasting
traditions.
The argument
of socialism's impracticality is nonsense which can be sustained only so long as one is ignorant
of the
variety and complexity
of the socialist
tradition.
The document recognizes a certain problem in that «Scripture comprises a
variety of diverse
traditions, some
of which reflect tensions in interpretation within the early Judeo - Christian heritage.»
But we must make our case in publicly accessible terms that appeal to people
of good will from a
variety of religious
traditions and those
of no religious
tradition.
In the present Discipline the church affirms its openness to divergent theological
traditions and projects, declaring that the UMC's «theological spectrum... ranges over all the current mainstream options and a
variety of special interest theologies as well.»
Jewish
tradition holds that Torah has 70 faces, which tells me that Torah has many facets and can be understood in a
variety of different ways — indeed, it's that very richness and multiplicity which allows us to continue to experience it as holy.
The author, warden
of Greyfriars and lecturer in history and doctrine at Oxford, clearly poses the question
of his title, examines the answers to the question proposed by Scripture, authoritative
tradition, and a wide
variety of contemporary thinkers, and then presents his own conviction, persuasively giving the reasons why.
In any case, these words about painting are a fitting description
of Davies's own narrative art, provocative in its «farcing out»
of Christian
tradition and powerful in its evocation
of our human depth and
variety.
That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study
of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the
varieties of the shape and content
of the common lives
of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form
of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance
of property, service to neighbors; what is the role
of scripture in all this, the role
of traditions of theology, and the role
of traditions of worship?
They not only challenge the consensus
of several decades but also suggest the historical conditioning
of Holiness theology, raise questions about the
varieties of theologies in the New Testament, and focus issues about the historical and theological relationships between Holiness and Pentecostal
traditions.
I am attempting to furnish a very broad sketch
of the
variety of Indian Christian perception
of God - Christ relations as a background for a more detailed appraisal
of insights on the same subject from a mystical
tradition of Islam.
At one point McLaren compares the
variety of faithful Christian
traditions to the
variety of ethnic foods one might eat — shouldn't we enjoy all
of them?
Little has been accomplished, it appears, other than demonstrating that individuals generally do have an interest in the topic
of meaning and that they draw on a
variety of thematic
traditions in their attempts to construct meaning.
Their ways
of doing this are most varied, ranging from a sense
of acting in accordance with the «rightness in things» (as in much Chinese religion), through a mystical identification
of the deepest self or atman with the cosmic reality or brahma (as in Hinduism), or a «blowing - out»
of individual selfhood by sharing in the bliss
of Nirvana (as in most
varieties of Buddhism), to the sense
of fellowship or communion with God found in our own Jewish - Christian religious
tradition.
We have noted that historically there have been a
variety of subjects whose study has been taken to be the best indirect way to come to understand God more truly: scripture,
tradition, «salvation history,» liturgy and the dynamics
of worship, religious experience, the historical Jesus, and so forth.
When it comes to grayer areas like determining what TV is suitable for Christians, our consciences,
traditions and tastes lead us to a
variety of convictions and comfort levels.
In the process, Barr exposes other foibles
of more recent efforts to maintain that
tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style
of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process
of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements
of a
variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations
of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.
From the perspective
of James Madison's observations about factions and freedom in Federalist No. 10, for example, the respect for
tradition and the flourishing
of faith is not a glitch but a feature
of a free society, which encourages the development
of a
variety of human types.
In spite
of the diversity in the resurrection narratives there is one important common theme which C. F. Evans draws to our attention when he says, «The one element which the
traditions, in all their
variety, have in common is that the appearance
of the risen Lord issued in an explicit command to evangelize the world, yet the early decades
of the history
of the church, in so far as they are known to us, make it difficult to suppose that the apostles were aware
of any such command.»
In spending time with Christians from a
variety of church
traditions this week, I was reminded
of the degree to which theological and ecclesiological diversity strengthens the Body
of Christ.
The cumulative Christian
tradition is now spreading out so widely, both geographically and in shape, that it is coming to include a
variety of forms which are inconsistent with others.
Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the
variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort
of federalism, our
tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation
of an ecological approach to social policy.
The writers represent a
variety of religious
traditions and styles
of campus ministry.
In framing arguments that are truly public and not limited to Christians, we have,
of course, a powerful resource in
varieties of natural law
traditions.
It can make marriage more interesting to have a
variety of religious ideas,
traditions, and customs from which to draw in creating the family's own style
of belief and practice.
I found these prayers in the Psalms, in the Book
of Common Prayer, from church history, through the Daily Office, and in the writings
of other followers
of Jesus from a
variety of church
traditions.
Among the various longer - range challenges facing church music in the «90s, four seem to be occupying center stage: the challenge
of providing church musicians in sufficient numbers to meet the needs
of parishes throughout the land in almost every denomination; the continued search for musical roots in many denominations; the ongoing debate between those advocating the worship and musical
tradition of the church catholic and those advocating a
variety of trendy fads; and the impact
of pragmatism and consumerism in determining worship practice and musical style and substance.
There is an old
tradition of antiradical violence in America and there have been periods, such as the First World War and its immediate aftermath and the McCarthy period after the Second World War, when radical thought
of all
varieties has been severely persecuted.
Many contemporary Holiness leaders have come to think
of their
tradition as a
variety of «evangelicalism» with a slightly different belief structure.