Sentences with phrase «with other traditions»

Though it shares its name and mythology with other traditions, the Kripalu Warrior was received by divine inspiration during Swami Kripalu's practice in the 1950s.

But in a broader sense, as we compare our Judeo - Christian heritage with other traditions we do see that it is a life - affirming one.

With Thomas Berry, I believe that we need spiritual leaders who will assume the global human heritage as [their] own individual heritage,» who through contact with other traditions will come to know their own traditions very deeply, and through whose «own self - integration a healing comes to all [humankind]... and the human community is brought into the divine presence.»

What we can assume, however, is that our indwelling of the clues that comprise our revelatory tradition can lead us to break out into a much more adventurous encounter with other traditions than we have allowed in the past.

This point is particularly important when we are placing our own religion's sense of life's meaning, allegedly given to us by a special historical revelation, into an encounter with other traditions» sense of life's meaning, given to them by their own symbolic traditions.

And at the same time, it is the indispensable condition for honest dialogue with other traditions.

Regardless of a faith's sacramental peculiarities it is still possible to recognize some overlapping with other traditions on the question of what needs to be done in our world today.

In our dialogue with other traditions, the key to sustaining conversation (rather than cutting it short by claims that others will interpret as arrogant) is to keep before ourselves the possibility that in some way or other all religions may be relative, culturally specific ways of looking toward an ineffable mystery.

But then he said, «If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all other traditions.

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.

Not exact matches

More from the South China Morning Post: Kim Jong - un wife's fashion sense a hit with China's public China's secrecy over Kim Jong - un's visit was part of a long - standing tradition US and China in talks to shield soybeans and other farm products from trade war tariffs

She's also focusing on other family traditions they have around the holidays, such as baking cookies with her grandkids and her annual Christmas party.

It is time for political leaders and their advisors to consider these and develop other practical policies to deal with inequality and our economic problems in a way consonant with America's broad - based ownership tradition.

While it's true that some employers have traditionally bargained with employees looking to work from home, job share, or have other flexibility, companies increasingly are offering salaries and benefits that put that tradition to rest.

Marilyn Burns has continued the firm's proud tradition of political activism, finishing second in the 2005 Alberta Alliance leadership race and co-founding the Wildrose Society (which became the Wildrose Party) with Link Byfield and others in 2007.

Beyond the special visit of Senator Collins, highlights included: • Intense and probing pre and post-dinner conversations about the economy and the world on the deck (along with wonderful wine and hors d'oeuvres — part of the tradition is that each participant ships several bottles of excellent wine to share with others) • Participation in a financial forecast survey of key factors for the upcoming 12 months as well as a review of the prior year's financial forecast survey — including distribution of funds that the prior year's attendees «bet» on the accuracy of the forecasts.

That was the last time Stelios had an active role in shipping, parting with the family tradition that has many other Haji - Ioannou family members actively involved in that activity.

What is really fascinating is the theory that the Hebrew and Muslim deity figure derive from a war god in an ancient Semitic pantheon whose association with the other gods was lost in the confusion that time and oral tradition bring.

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.

crazy that when i was watching the news it had a split screen with 1 guy saying the buried him with all the muslim traditions to show respect to islam and on the other side of the screen it had people singing na na na na hey hey hey goodbye!!!

It was Arendt's remarkable ability to face the double tradition from which she emerged with a sharp - eyed focus that characterizes much of her work: its generosity for the practice of democracy and her fierce determination to explain for herself as well as for others the failure of her former culture to endure despite its qualities.

The demographic breakdown between the two denominations is difficult to assess and varies by source, but a good approximation is that greater than 75 % of the world's Muslims are Sunni and 10 — 20 % are Shia, [1][2] with most Shias belonging to the Twelver tradition and the rest divided between several other groups.

This global compilation of traditional wisdom shows that none of the great, classical religious traditions conceived of God as a mere intelligent Designer, or as a First Cause within nature, or as a highly moral Personality who happens to be divine as well, or any kind of all - powerful agent that has a primus inter pares relationship with other, less powerful Superbeings and Incredibles.

Maybe you could bring in Christians from another church tradition or from the other side of the world to come and find fault with how your church is accomplishing (or not accomplishing) your mission.

In the end, playing nice with other religions — even if we're not religious ourselves or find ourselves devoted exclusively to our own faith traditions — is the best way to go.

In other words, «liberalism» is used by these thinkers with a more inclusive meaning, according to which the tradition of political Liberalism dates back at least to the philosophy of John Locke and numbers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, Milton Friedman, and Reinhold Niebuhr among its spokesmen.

Now this Tradition lives on side - by - side with the Bible — each confirming the other... and of course, we still have our conscience!

As for the Tree maybe it can be a Holliday Christmas Tree, we should not take frome each other let us keep our traditions and you yours with out takeing from each other.

I find that most of my Christian friends who talk about homosexuality are either determined to not think about the issue because of tradition and fear or are on the other end and choose not to think about the issue because the pressure of contemporary culture (in our part of the world) is to equate my sexuality with the colour of my skin which is, in light of history, a silly equation but we should just adjust our understanding to accomodate.

No longer is he a boy wrestling with the legalism that hampered his childhood, but an artist delving into a tradition wholly other than what he was brought up in.

and he probably identifys with a liberal christian tradition more than any other.

Our task was to reformulate our liberal heritage in light of liberation thinking but also with a view to rethinking the relation of Christianity to the natural world and to other religious traditions.

Lutheran theology's antinomian tendency makes it perhaps more vulnerable than the other Reformation traditions in spite of the countervailing forces of its sociology and its doctrinal tradition, although here and there an older methodology, which understands that the Gospel does not negate the commandments, lives side by side with neo-Lutheranism and makes possible at least a tentative no to the likes of the task force.

The WEA plans to «help and train our people to overcome prejudices against other Christian traditions and not to confuse things from the past with present realities,» secretary general Efraim Tendero said.

Christians stand to learn a great deal not only from each other, crossing denominational lines with «generous orthodoxy,» but also from those who pray in other traditions.

the reminder that Orthodox theology continually refreshes its thinking by reference to the early Church Fathers, who were much concerned with the question of God's activity in the other sects and traditions and in the wisdom of humankind.

Similarly, other religious traditions should be studied critically, but with no prejudice against them because of unfamiliar features of their thought or practice.

What is needed, however, so as to reassure the Eastern Orthodox is some mechanism whereby a pope who departs from Tradition by teaching error, or what may be construed as error, can be inhibited by a form of ecclesiastical enquiry or trial — as is the case with any other bishop in the Church.

But in other cases, encounter with Buddhist - based meditation has led Christians and Jews to a newfound appreciation for the riches of their own traditions, including a revival of neglected meditation techniques from Western religious history.

«Motivated in large part by their religious traditions of protecting the vulnerable and serving «the least of these,» as Jesus instructed his followers to do in the Gospel of Matthew,» writes Eric Marrapodi, «World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army are stepping up efforts and working with law enforcement to stem the flow of human trafficking, which includes sex trafficking and labor trafficking.»

There was little desire to compare them with mystics of other traditions and times or even to discuss serious debate within Sufism itself.

I am hopeful that now, in our encounter with other great religious traditions, we will respond creatively and transform ourselves again through the encounter.

Our recognition of the mystery of salvation in men and women of other religious traditions shapes the concrete attitudes with which we Christians must approach them in interreligious dialogue.

Our «early traditions about Jesus» (to use the title of a little book by the late Professor Bethune - Baker) are not interested so much in what has been called the «biographical Jesus» as they are concerned with what Jesus did and said as he was remembered by those who believed him to be their Lord, the Risen Messiah, and who were therefore anxious to hand on to others what was remembered about him.

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

Upon the basis of Paul's teaching, taken alone, Christianity might possibly have foundered a century later in the rising sea of Gnosticism; possessing Mark's compilation of the historic traditions, later amplified by the other evangelists, the church held true to its course, steering with firm, unslackened grip upon the historic origins of its faith.

The only limitation of this Catholic tradition which I now believe to be important is that the pattern of relations it emphasized did not include relations to the land and to the other creatures with which we share it.

No wonder some don't believe it works and have a hard time trusting when those with long term sobriety don't follow the traditions put forth by Bill W. and others.

I write from the standpoint of a Church of England parish priest and many of my examples are from that tradition, but I recognize that the Church of England is one church amongst many churches, just as Christianity is one religion amongst many world religions which are slowly learning to share with each other their spiritual treasures and to work together for peace, the relief of human need and the preservation of the planet.

Traditions with a stronger sense of the common good, a better understanding that we need each other and will not make it all alone — in one way Judaism, in another Catholicism.