Several new schools are breaking
with tradition so that they can deliver a more personalized experience to students.
Not exact matches
Trump's team has,
so far, broken
with the
tradition.
One theory (alluded to in the Clarkson report) has to do
with managing for the long run: a company rooted in a family's history,
tradition and reputation may well be less susceptible to the short - termism that is
so notoriously a factor at most corporations today.
1880 Gold Coin and 1881 Silver Dollar «I have Greek heritage, and in Greek
tradition, it is good luck to carry a gold coin
with you,
so I always have these on me.
Mother and son broke
with tradition by living at Trump Tower in New York since the inauguration
so that Barron, now 11, could finish the school year uninterrupted; the president lived and worked at the White House.
Since I have been involved
with the Veterans Community Store in San Antonio, I have learned
so much about military
traditions and military life.
What I find
so incredibly offensive about this is that the LDS community is not only taking liberty
with sacred
traditions that do not belong to them, but actually prohibiting real Jews from buying the real wine they need for their authentic, Jewish seders.
did it occur to anyone that «stories» passed down via oral
tradition, and done
so with great care to preserve actual meaning and intent, may be true (i.e. humanity prior to the past century).
So, not wanting to lose favor
with the King he told them they could do their
tradition of bloody sacrifice of the first born in the stable.
Sorry to disagree
with you but I have no problem
with putting muslim «
tradition» on the back burner and if you don't like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims get a pass, Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time
tradition» on the back burner and if you don't like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims get a pass,
Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time
Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time to do
so.
Those latter steps require attention not just to Bayles, and what she learned (
with help from Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison) about the Afro - American musical
tradition, but also to the sort of socio - cultural analysis we do
so much of here at pomocon, which derives from we've learned from Tocqueville most of all.
I see that this tendency to jump to conclusions that are stark black and white issues has become a hall mark of the conservative christian community that feels the need to condemn anything that conflicts
with the
traditions they hold
so dear.
Instead of accommodating its usage» and
so its ideas and assumptions» a translation of Holy Scripture should serve the end of conversion by employing principles that recognize Christianity as its own culture
with its own language and practices, raising readers up and rooting them in a rich
tradition of translation, transforming them through the creative rationality, beauty, goodness, and truth reflective of the triune God who speaks his Word.
So for him to respect their spiritual ways and demand that Osama be buried
with Islam
tradition, I found was a very powerful statement from him and I agree that no matter how terrible of a man he was, the Islam
tradition must still be respected to have good ties.
So good that someone like Richard is writing history
with such a huge amount of knowledge about the Catholic Church and its
tradition.
If you are RC, and are becoming disillusioned
with that
tradition, but still wish to live one's life as a small «c» catholic Christian, there are alternatives (the Eastern Orthodox, the Anglicans or Episcopalians, and
so on).
Each of the three will denote the good for a human individual.1 Because of its long association
with the liberal
tradition, «interest» is
so often used to mean an individual's private happiness that the phrase «private view of interest» may seem redundant.
Many of us, myself included, are finding ourselves increasingly drawn to high church
traditions - Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Episcopal Church, etc. - precisely because the ancient forms of liturgy seem
so unpretentious,
so unconcerned
with being «cool,» and we find that refreshingly authentic.
Perhaps the major difference is that, whereas the dominant
traditions see this critique as freeing theology to function as an independent discipline
with little attention to the sciences, the process
tradition sees this as an opportunity to reconstruct both theology and the sciences
so as to bring them into a new synthesis.
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.
I once spoke
with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline
tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school,
so what was the point?»
So one might say there is nothing new in the study, except that increased «fluidity» might be bad news for those
traditions, such as Catholicism,
with a strong connection between religious identity and ecclesial adherence.
So the
tradition (described in various documents, finally compiled in the Codex Calixtinus) records James's preaching in Hispania (sometimes
with little success, as when, discouraged, he implored help from Our Lady, who appeared to help him enthroned upon a pillar, in the city now called Zaragoza.)
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.
In the same period, the systematic theology
tradition in Scotland suffered something of a decline, and when it began to revive in the 1990s it was
with the help of several English theologians,
so that there has been considerable convergence
with England and Wales.
Familiarity
with stories of cures by similar methods in Jewish and pagan literature may have influenced the
tradition of this miracle,
so different from Jesus» usual practice in the Synoptic narratives.
I have a theory that SBNRs are
so because one or more or a combination of the following: (1) they can't justify their spiritual texts - and
so they try to remove themselves from gory genocidal tales, misogyny and anecdotal professions of a man / god, (2) can't defend and are turned off by organized religious history (which encompasses the overwhelming majority of spiritual experiences)- which is simply rife
with cruelty, criminal behavior and even modern day cruel - ignorant ostracization, (3) are unable to separate ethics from their respective religious moral code - they, like many theists on this board, wouldn't know how to think ethically because they think the genesis of morality resides in their respective spiritual guides /
traditions and (4) are unable to separate from the communal (social) benefits of their respective religion (many atheists aren't either).
All my life I've been taught that the Church is at its best when the theology is consistent and everyone agrees
with one another, but when my very faith was on the line, it was the diversity of the Christian
tradition that offered me
so much hope.
Such a new vision is never unrelated to older visions — that is why
tradition is
so important; but neither is it identical
with them — that is why ecstatic reason must also be involved.
And
so too
with the particular election of these baby boys, which, according to the Church's
tradition, at least, was an election to heaven as the first martyrs for Christ.
On the other hand, there is no God of a religious
tradition cut off from critical reflection
so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation
with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness;
with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.
In response, let us momentarily suppose,
with the teleologically biased
traditions of religious and philosophical wisdom (the
so - called «perennial philosophy»), that the universe is a hierarchy of «levels,» or «dimensions» (or «fields» of influence, if we wish to employ a more contemporary metaphor).
How could American Lutherans make an idol of a nation whose philosophical assumptions (enlightenment liberalism) and dominant religious
tradition (revivalist Calvinism) were
so fundamentally at odds
with their most basic understandings?
(Using the lowercase «c»
with reference to «christianity» is a spiritual discipline for me as a member of a religious
tradition so arrogant and abusive in its exercise of power over women, lesbians and gays, indigenous people, Jews, Muslims and members of nonchristian religions and cultures.)
As
with many
traditions of the church, and more
so than most, indulgences have waxed and waned in prominence.
So the fundies who say God is giving knowledge to them are just part of a great
tradition which I disagree
with, though I use to believe.
Furthermore, despite the emphasis by such theologians as Augustine, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Reinhold Niebuhr (
with whom Schlesinger enjoyed a personal association) on the need to distinguish between divine and human authority, it is a gross distortion of all of their views for Schlesinger to impute to them the kind of relativism which makes the existence of God and the reality of revelation (the basis of all western religious
traditions)
so utterly irrelevant for public life.
(11) The real argument, however, was not
so much
with tradition as
with a church which used
tradition authoritatively.
He therefore relates openly to the charismatic
tradition, participates in Vatican dialogues
with the Pentecostals, and
so forth.
I mean the idolatry that successfully tempts
so many religious people into thinking that they possess the ultimate truth of God — the idolatry of the evangelical
tradition that equates the words of Holy Scripture (usually the King James Version)
with the eternal, life - giving Word of God.
Public dialogue in the U.S. about the Persian Gulf war has drawn heavily on the language of the just war
tradition — more
so than has been the case
with any war since at least the 1860s.
If you wonder why I am
so severe
with the theological
tradition, as well as
with the classical scientific scheme, I reply: our terrible human difficulties in this century suggest that our religious and ethical
traditions are inadequate to our formidable tasks in a fast changing and dangerous technological world.
So go all out
with Christmas decorations, but use those symbols and
traditions that point to the Saviour's birth, person and work.
I never would have thought that I would have to do
so in connection
with anti-Semitic laws promulgated by a French government — which are a denial of the
traditions and the spirit of my country.
Second, the logic of the classic just war
tradition is reversed,
so that within the jus ad bellum several recently invented prudential criteria are employed as if they were the most important,
with correspondingly diminished attention to the fundamental deontological criteria, those described as «necessary» by Aquinas.
The problem
with trying to reconcile these two conceptions of Catholic ethics regarding war — the «peace
tradition» of the religious life and the just war
tradition of secular life — is precisely that they are
so fundamentally different.
The fact is that * both * religious texts have passages that can be read as justification for abhorrent acts, and
so * both * religious
traditions have a responsibility to examine and deal
with those issues.
In the other model are seven «liberal - free» characteristics in the philosophers»
tradition, which Kimball summarizes thus:» (1) Epistemological skepticism underlies (2) the free and (3) intellectual search for truth, which is forever elusive, and
so all possible views must be (4) tolerated and given (5) equal hearing (6)
with the final decision left to each individual, (7) who pursues truth for its own sake.
Faithfulness to the gospel and continuity
with Christian
tradition are also at stake,
so critiques such as the ones voiced in Speaking the Christian God deserve consideration.
Furthermore, whatever was the case
with his «Messianic consciousness,» Jesus, in
so far as we know him from the Synoptic
tradition, did not summon his disciples to have faith in Christ.