Sentences with phrase «way different traditions»

The variety of approaches to authority is illustrated in the way different traditions try to put an exclamation point on their teaching.

Not exact matches

The Conference examined the way sacred music has evolved in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, its different modes of expression, its contribution to deepening religious experience, and its place in wider musical and general culture of the three faith traditions.

In fact, Dan and I spent a good part of the drive home time talking about the environment in which he grew up, the different ways in which his brothers and sisters have adopted, adapted, or changed some of those original traditions as they develop their own parenting styles, and how we planned to bring up our kids — should we ever get around to having them!

In chapter 2 we traced four different Christian traditions regarding what it is to understand God: understanding God by, respectively, the way of contemplation, the way of discursive reasoning, the way of the affections, and the way of action.

The bulk of this scholarly volume treats the distinctive and different ways that the Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican traditions adapted what the author identifies as the medieval model; the Catholic tradition, with its insistence that marriage constitutes a true sacrament of the new dispensation, thus serves as something of a foil for the book's extended argument.

The present setting of this saying is editorial, as are all settings in the tradition, and in this instance the setting is at least as old as Q, since both Matthew and Luke use the saying and its setting in different ways: Matthew to interpret the exorcisms of Jesus as a present manifestation of the eschatological future, «spirit» being «in primitive Christianity, like the «first - fruits» (Rom.

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.

These are two comprehensively different ways of envisioning the Christian tradition, and what it means to be a Christian at the beginning of the third millennium.

So what I will be talking about, this morning in particular, is two different ways of seeing the Christian tradition, of seeing Christianity.

Other traditions have different ways of expressing this truth: There must be an impregnable zone of privacy if we're to feel free to expose the secrets of our souls.

In some ways, they are very different from one another — different in size, in denominational tradition, and in their particular histories, opportunities and burdens.

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.

This lack is doubly troubling for the woman writer who is a feminist, because feminism as a movement for transforming patriarchal structures and relations of domination understands change in a quite different way from that of the individualistic biographic tradition presupposed by the question of how one's «mind has changed.»

Some knowledge of the history and forms of political organization of other nations is also desirable, as a source of suggestions for improving American governmental processes and of warnings about tendencies to be avoided, and as a basis for understanding the different ways of people with other traditions, resources, and problems.

Although his way of working this out may not appeal to us, with our quite different scientific knowledge, and our own philosophical idiom, the point here is that Aquinas, like the other theologians of the great Christian tradition, was no «spiritualist», denying or minimizing the material world and the physical body and their ways of working.

I claim that Vosper, rather than blowing her own horn or trying to make a buck off the church while she can — as some have accused — is actually working in the spirit of Bishop Pike to bring about this same honest re-examination of traditional beliefs, polity, and social awareness and action as someone who appreciates the tradition and all it holds dear, but only in a different way than the church would wish.

Jeremy i agree with what you have written many of the traditions in the church have come from pagan beliefs.I thought some of the comments were judgemental of others especially towards those who are pagan.There response was respectful we can learn alot about having a good attitude towards others and responding to others kindly.I think using scripture in a legalistic way is no different than what the pharisees did to Jesus in his day and he disarmed them by rebuking them saying you without sin cast the first stone.regards brentnz

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

Informationally speaking, the pluralist theological option radically relativizes the importance of distinct religious boundaries, proposing that different religious traditions may all be equally valid ways of experiencing the revelation of an ultimate reality transcending the comprehension of any particular tradition (See the essays in John Hick and Paul Knitter, eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).

The Confucian tradition offers a different way of evaluating these struggles.

He shows how critics rooted in one philosophical tradition typically interpret other traditions in ways that are different from the interpretations of those who inhabit those traditions.

Secondly, the opposite danger exists, that of cultural leveling... In this way one loses sight of the profound significance of the culture of different nations, of the traditions of the various peoples, by which the individual defines himself in relation to life's fundamental questions.

Ecumenical theology's task is to discern when the traditions are saying the same thing in different ways, when they are disagreeing on a point that need not be church - dividing, and when the disagreement truly threatens communion.

For it to be such a place, we would need, for example, to form students in the tradition of learning — and taking seriously — the different ways in which Jews and Christians understand the Hebrew Scripture or Old Testament.

Carrying on family names has again become a popular tradition, though in a slightly different way that allows parents to set out some very original baby names.

In a period when it has been fashionable to love to hate President Bush and the US, these authors, in different ways, comment on, explain and defend a larger America rich in ideas and democratic traditions.

For Marquand, both traditions, Thatcherite Tory nationalism and Cameronite Whig imperialism, seek «to defend and sustain authority, social and political, but they saw that task in profoundly different ways».

«It's different than Europe, where people have a way of respecting traditions, and it's less groundbreaking.

There are many different ways to enjoy tradition and a sense of the past in North Ayrshire and a trip to the Ship Inn is one of the most pleasurable ways.

When your loved ones are exposed to different beliefs, food and traditions even if it is in small amounts can change the way they see other races and broaden their knowledge.

In the tradition of the platoon drama, they represent different types — the young Student, the hearty Bavarian, the protective Lieutenant, and the married man Karl (the only one to be called by name)-- and have bonded as friends under fire, but the film chronicles the way the war grinds them up and leaves them dead or broken.

Remember, students respond to trauma in different ways, and their responses may be influenced by cultural traditions, religious beliefs or familial relationships.

They could respond in two different ways to a text that the whole class had read — a folktale depicting a family's annual tradition from another culture.

A pervasive curiosity, an objective tolerance that finds all shades of opinion interesting and respectable as long as they do not interfere with liberty of inquiry and belief, a systematic pursuit of truth in spite of traditions and doubts — these, much more than a taste for sentimental botany and rhapsodical astronomy, were the product of the five years or so that Voltaire spent in active pursuit of science at Cirey with Madame du Châtelet; like his heroes, he has learned from science, and achieved in his own way a synthesis, quite different from that of the seventeenth century.

Celebrating the diversity of its cultures, Berlin's spring festival offers the best way to experience as many as 80 different traditions of the city's inhabitants.

Showing people — especially friends — around some my favourite sights and destinations in South Africa is a way to not only let them into the place I call home, but into South Africa's history and future, into South Africa's different cultures and traditions.

Travel is about embracing new cultures, exploring culinary traditions and religious differences, education, and learning to look at life in a different way.

Mother's Day is a tradition that's celebrated all around the world, with different countries showing their love and appreciation sometimes in very unique ways.

Adversely, other games have reacted to tradition in a different way — by taking away all the gimmicks and novelty away and returning to the focus of a boss battle: the combat.

In different ways the artists follow a tradition of the «Fool» that is more familiar in the written word, starting perhaps with Rousseau, Hölderlin and Dostoyevsky, and then continuing through Nietzsche, Conrad, Rilke, Walter Benjamin, and Sartre.

Each artist engages 20th - century traditions, albeit in markedly different ways.

The show brings together several of the gallery's artists, drawing overlooked connections between them and illustrating the ways in which different traditions and ideas collide within their practices.

According to the gallery, her work is «dense with visual complexity that reflects an awareness of a vast array of both formal and inherited traditions while exploring their aesthetic, sensual, and visual content to assert a different declaration, and a new way of making art.»

They couldn't be more different from the traditions of the Studio School and Queens College, where he studied in the late 1970s, and where the predominant way of working involved a heroic wrestling with form.

The painting, whose reclining figure «has a sensuous, alluring posture, looks back at the classical traditions of the nude in a very different way» than in the treatment of similar subjects by other artists.

The three artists in this exhibition — Carrie Moyer, David Reed, and John Zinsser — are prominent abstract painters who in very different but vital ways continue the tradition of abstract painting.

Is it because of some kind of tradition with showing the graphs in this way, or because nobody has ever thought about doing it different, or both?

And according to aboriginal legal scholar Hannah askew, for non-Indigenous learners, understanding Indigenous legal traditions will require not only finding a way to access the content of these traditions, but also learning how to interpret a completely different style of legal system − one that substitutes «a set of interlocking and overlapping processes» for rigid rules, and that requires that those processes be understood via the full range of senses: sound, touch, sight, taste and smell.

This manifests itself in different ways, whether it be the new temples of India (shopping malls) or in the clash between Indian tradition and Western modernity, exemplified, rather oddly by Rajasthani Rap and Techno Hindi.