Sentences with phrase «whole traditions of»

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

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.

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

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.

The only way to avoid arriving at the final, shocking conclusion to that argument is to reassert the principle that informs Humanae Vitae and the whole tradition of the Church «steachings on the sixth and ninth commandments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

OK, so now the whole tradition of which Kiehl / Trenberth is a part is proven wrong.

Not exact matches

«This is really a power grab and it's a phony bill because the whole intention is to take it up to our state supreme court to overturn the constitutionality of the no income tax that has been the tradition of our state, as well as state laws,» Hutchison told CNBC.

And in keeping with a tradition of perfection, Blue Bottle will send out their online orders of whole bean products within 24 hours of roasting, and 48 hours for the rest — because that's when the coffee is at its peak flavor.

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.

Souter is not one of them, in part because he is steeped in Episcopal tradition, which has historically resisted the «proof text» method of fundamentalists in the name of reading the Bible as a whole.

Suppose, further, that this issue was logically related to matters of principle at a deeper level, so that one could not commit oneself on this issue without also making significant commitments about the internal logic and character of the tradition as a whole.

Religion is a central part of the society and tradition as a whole; and as such, is hard to break away especially without hurting the people we love.

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.

For monks in the Benedictine tradition, daily prayer structures the entire day and the whole of their life in community.

The conservative believes that we need to guide ourselves by the moral traditions, the social experience, and the whole complex body of knowledge bequeathed to us by our ancestors.

My concern remains that we exorcise this ghost of anti-Catholicism from the debate by recognizing that historically the claim that «the Protestant tradition as a whole was cessationist» is bound up with anti-Catholic polemics.

My only problem with your article centers on the Traditions violation and in that the Traditions are based upon humility of the individual and primacy of AA as a whole, perhaps they would be worthy of consideration.

Wesley plumbed the whole of the Christian tradition and the Scriptures but bent this work to practical rather than speculative purposes - to issues of the shape of Christian life and existence.

The goal would then seem to be to step outside of our Christian tradition into the shoes of the scholarly or philosophical observer, identify the elements of wisdom in each community, and weld them into a new whole.

In truth, she models the best example of valor within the whole of Christian tradition, Jesus Christ.

This introduced a tradition that thinks of God as that toward which the whole of reality, or at least of human history, moves.

And yet they survived, reconstructed their community, and handed down a continuous and developing tradition which exerted a creative influence upon the whole of subsequent history.

These «deviations from the tradition of the Early Church... increasingly estrange Anglicanism from the Orthodox Church and contribute to a further division of Christendom as a whole».

The modern individual has too often subjugated the spontaneous to the orderly, the possible to the necessary, the enthusiastic to the reasonable, the wonderful to the regular.9 In yet another description, Keen identifies our current «dis - ease» as our inability to view life as a «story,» to integrate past, present, and future into a meaningful whole.10 The metaphysical myths of our tradition no longer confer identity upon us today.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

The Gospels have in their way met this problem, not only by placing the kerygma on Jesus» lips, but also by presenting individual units from the tradition in such a way that the whole gospel becomes visible: At the call of Levi, we hear (Mark 2.17): «I came not to call the righteous, but sinners»; at the healing of the deaf - mute, we hear (Mark 7.37): «He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.»

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

In place of the testimony of one man, we have the «social» tradition of a whole community, the widely shared possession of a whole group — of two groups, in fact, the Palestinian and the Roman.

It is noteworthy that Luke omits the whole pericope, also that the outlook of the pericope is the same as that of the passion announcements, and even agrees with them in style: the Son of Man is to «rise,» not — as elsewhere in the primitive tradition — to «be raised»; but first he is to «suffer many things» — a5 in 8:31.

AA's twelve steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole [quoted from the forward to the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions].

«For early Christianity Scripture is no longer just what is written, nor is it just tradition; it is the dynamic and divinely determined declaration of God which speaks of His whole rule and therefore of His destroying and new creating, and which reaches its climax in the revelation of Christ and the revelation of the Spirit by the risen Lord... The full revelation in Christ and the Spirit is more than what is written» (TDNT I: 761).

How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?

It requires, instead, the transformation of the tradition sketched in the preceding chapter into a political theology in the sense that it must become committed to the indivisible salvation of the whole world.

But in this country there is not the sharp black - and - white contrast between Christians and pagans, largely, I believe, because the whole life of the country has been soaked for many centuries in the Christian tradition.

Some feel it reflects a negative valuation of human sexuality based on the dualism of Hellenistic thought, which saw salvation as a freeing of the soul from the body, rather than the biblical tradition which affirms the goodness of the whole creation.

Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the romantic comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.

This might be a dark side of growing up in the whole faith - movement of charismatic tradition.

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.

Origen was able to reconfigure the whole of the Greek tradition from a Christian perspective.

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.