Sentences with phrase «whole tradition»

The authors» chosen focus on the US leaves whole traditions of «groovy science» unexamined.

What I meant by cognitive dissonance, though, is that whole thing about the «institutional» church, throwing a whole tradition, a whole world - wide confession, millions of individual believers into some sort of barrel.

And while it may be wrong to ironize a song - and - dance number that seems intended as a nice send - off for a venerable actor and a semi-venerable character — still one notes that the whole tradition of the musical spectacular is a tradition of lavishly bankrolled excess.

But despite MacIntyre's eloquent exploration of what makes a human life coherent, theologians tended to find more compelling what he says about the narrative coherence (or incoherence) of whole traditions.

The pope's words are at the service of the whole Tradition of the Church, and not the other way around.

This has happened especially among Latin American liberation theologians, who have worked out the full gamut of Christian doctrines in a way that can lay claim to being a continuation and transformation of the whole tradition.

They maybe important to them... I just wonder where it comes from this whole tradition.

Black theology had already forced us to accept the adjectival character of what we were doing and of the whole tradition whose heirs we held ourselves to be.

When the kid asks his Sunday School class: «Can an omnipotent God make a rock too big for Him to lift» — thinking he has logically confounded their beliefs, he is demonstrating this literalist / non-literalist confusion and if he causes enough commotion he is likely to end up a refugee from the whole tradition, wonderfully proud of his atheism and logical positivism.

Whitehead's central disagreement with Kant, and with Hume, and with the whole tradition to which they belong, is that whatever account is given of presentational immediacy, it does not tell the whole story about experience through the senses.

Knowing what I do now about the Jewish religious tradition, I would not counterpose law and gospel as captivity to the past versus openness to the future, as Rudolf Bultmann and a whole tradition of German theologians taught me to do.

In fact, there is a whole tradition of renewal of the Hindu tradition from Raja Rammohan Roy through Swami Vivekananda to Gandhi and others.

The vital center of this whole tradition is its unambiguous witness to the reality of God as decisively re-presented to us in Jesus Christ.

Even so, the whole tradition of what is usually called «Christian philosophy,» whose most admirable expression is, doubtless, the imposing system of Aquinas, is but a series of attempts to make the identification; and the profound influence of that tradition, even on those who now declare its God to be dead, is proof that these attempts have enjoyed some kind of success.

What is new about the Twilight series, whose premise is that the heroine may not have physical relations with her vampire lover on pain of death, is not the theme itself: the same twisted sexuality pervades the whole tradition of literary pornography.

Granted, the «catholic» Barth reappropriates the whole tradition of orthodox Christian theology.

Nevertheless a whole tradition of moral theology took these words out of their limited scriptural context, and used them to sustain a broad and generalised doctrine with a twofold implication: marriage is for those who lack self - control; hence self - control in marriage, at least in the spouses» sexual relations, is not of special importance.

Preachers who teach the whole Bible in all its depth and beauty and who draw on the whole tradition of commentary as they prepare sermons.

The whole tradition of Nazareth as the home of Joseph and Mary could have been derived from Matthew's elusive prophecy.

On the whole these traditions have lost the ability to organize the whole of individual and social life in the modern period.

The heart of this whole tradition is that death stings because we love life.

Anyone who sets out to maintain that Jesus planned an attack on the Roman forces of occupation or on the Jewish authorities is compelled to deny the whole tradition: not only the sayings about turning the other cheek or about service, but also the promises of the Kingdom which God will bestow upon the humble - minded, those who are detached from the world and, although in the world, are cut off from it.

Critical investigation shows that the whole tradition about Jesus which appears in the three synoptic gospels is composed of a series of layers which can on the whole be clearly distinguished, although the separation at some points is difficult and doubtful.

There's a whole tradition of NBA players rocking black masks in games, too.

For that reason, I'm flirting with the idea of ditching the whole tradition of the Lunch Tray Friday Buffet.

«It cuts across the whole tradition of the area where people access services across the border the whole time,» he said.

So comprehensive are its benefits that one of India's most widely respected gurus, Neem Karoli Baba, gave just one instruction to his devotees: «Love everyone, serve everyone, remember God» — six words that encompass the whole tradition.

It's the whole experience of driving one, the whole tradition of Italian performance and elegance that sets the Maserati Levante apart from other luxury SUVs like the BMW X5.

Honestly, I'm rather embarrassed about this, that I haven't done it yet, as I'm a big fan of the whole tradition.

There's a whole tradition of optical art which you don't seem to associate yourself with, and I don't think your paintings are really in that category.

«There's a whole tradition, from Chardin through Cézanne to Braque and Bonnard, which has no part» in American painting, he said, «and that's the tradition I've held to».

Across the pond the Cambridge Footlights and Oxford Review were primarily for the lads, plus we had that whole tradition of men playing women in the theatre.

Considerably more abstract than much of Warren's previous work in this medium — though perhaps even more overtly sensual — they recall a whole tradition of manually expressive sculpture, from the early ceramics of Lucio Fontana through Willem de Kooning's bronzes and those of William Tucker to Franz West's plaster «Passstucke.»

The motionless Cunningham is as much a still life as a portrait, as are the of tables full of apples in the Hamburger film, while there's a whole tradition of romantic landscape in the changing light and effects of weather in the poet's East Anglian garden, culminating in the arc of a rainbow.

There is a whole tradition of American transcendental or sublime landscape back to Ralph A. Blakelock and George Inness.