Sentences with phrase «within other traditions»

I hope that thousands of conversations will break out between those in the Word of Faith movement and those within other traditions.

Not exact matches

Speaking for myself, although the same would be true for most of the others, I was working within a broadly Augustinian way of thinking about these matters» a tradition that sharply distinguishes between the city of God and the city of man, and insists that the one can never be transformed into the other.

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.

The solution to this problem in the Catholic moral tradition has been to point out that a difference of ends need not make for a conflict of ends if the one end is appropriately subsumed within the other.

Of course, within this unified tradition, there are traditions that move in different directions on other matters.

Because Fred and I are ordained within intrinsically different traditions, our constant questions about the other person's tradition fueled perpetual interest in God.

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

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

The stories of the appearances of Christ combine traditions about a «spiritual body» such as Paul speaks about (the Lord appears suddenly within a room) with others which tell of a tangible body, capable of being touched or grasped and of the physical process of eating.

They can turn to underemphasized traditions within the Judeo - Christian heritage, both biblical and post biblical, highlighting the motif of stewardship; they can turn to contemporary developments in any and science; and they can turn to feminism and to other world religions.

Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

My own thoughts are occasioned by two essays I read recently: one by Avery Cardinal Dulles in a volume called Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition and the other by Christopher J. Molloy, an essay titled «Subsistit In: Nonexclusive Identity or Full Identity?»

within ourselves and our traditions as well as the reality of others waiting, no longer patiently, to speak.

Liberals, on the other hand, aim to increase women's power and expression by working within traditional contexts, rereading, redefining and reclaiming traditions in light of women's reality.

While students of ecclesiology will recognize in these perspectives an unflagging congregationalism, Volf is sensitive to areas in which the free church tradition is especially vulnerable: the unity within the Christian communities; the bonds that connect one congregation to others; the accountability of congregations and clergy; and the ever - present threat to neglect or abandon the apostolic tradition.

Within the common tradition, the meaning of the phrase becomes clear if we make a necessary distinction between authority and other forms of social control; in particular, domination, manipulation, and persuasion.

Does not every spiritual tradition recognize that care for others is respect for the numinous in every person, as well as a manifestation of the divine within the one who cares?

The polarity of withdrawal and approach, or distance and identity, seems to be present within the experience of the sacred, though for different individuals and traditions one aspect or the other may be more prominent.

There are many books on the development of liturgy in which the discussion is principally about what is happening within one liturgical tradition while taking into account influences from other traditions.

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

Once the resurrection of Jesus came to be proclaimed by way of a narrative set within an historical context, it is not surprising that, after the death of the apostles, Christians of the latter part of the first century expanded this tradition and produced others.

Afraid of the slippery slope, afraid of nuance, afraid of anything other than a literal black - and - white reading of Scripture, afraid of the breadth of tradition within orthodox Christianity, afraid of science, afraid of education, afraid of university, afraid of Michael himself even.

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

Those very features that have made us different from other advanced welfare states, that have even made us seem «backward» at times — the variety of our racial and ethnic groups, the opportunities for creative innovation and experimentation inherent in our sort of federalism, our tradition of voluntarism, and even, within bounds, our attachment to a gambling, risk - taking, profit - making economy — may turn out to be conducive to the implementation of an ecological approach to social policy.

When, in the first decade of the 19th century, Thomas and Alexander Campbell immigrated from the north of Ireland to western Pennsylvania, the division and disarray within their own Presbyterian tradition as well as in the other Protestant churches of the frontier profoundly disturbed them.

The New Delhi WCC Assembly (1961) rightly observed about culture within the pluralistic context: The assumption that Western culture is the central culture, and that therefore «Christian Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread of the gospel and a stumbling block to those of other traditions.

And some subsystems within a tradition are stricter about doctrinal constraints than other subsystems.

We may believe that greater creativity is required to avoid negatives in the Spinozistic tradition than in the Whiteheadian, but that all of us are engaged in selective interpretations within our own traditions, and selective interpretations of others, is surely correct.

within virtually all modern nations - between people who are prepared to live with others who are different, on terms of equal respect, and those who seek the... domination of a single religious and ethnic tradition.

The particular value of this approach for a Christian theology of religions is that it recognizes truth in the convictions of these other traditions in the terms concretely stated arid believed by those within those traditions, and it recognizes their status as true alternatives to Christian faith.

Here we have a phenomenon not without parallel in the history of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation of believers; and it is all the more striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those of the capital city.

But it is one of at least four that compete with each other, both within and outside the Christian tradition.

What are some other ways of answering the same question from within the Christian tradition or from other sources?

others will argue with it, desiring the role of tradition to be enhanced, or a christocentric concentration within biblical interpretation, or desiring the Holy Spirit to provide our theological entry point.

And, third, the reason - centred reflectivity of the enlightenment, which lead to the blossoming of a spirit of critical reconstruction within traditional religions.3 Hindu representatives who found themselves at the locus of these dynamics had to advocate for their traditional religion and talk - back to the western imperialists in order to undercut missionary interpretation of Hinduism, deny the silence of the eastern Other and engage in a process of re-presenting their own faith tradition in a changing world.

The task of a non-Muslim scholar writing about Islam is that of constructing an exposition that will do justice to the Western academic tradition, by growing directly out of the objective evidence and by being rationally coherent both within itself and with all other knowledge, and at the same time will do justice to the faith in men's hearts by commanding their assent once it is formulated.

The real myth, in other words, may be that there can be religious freedom at all in the modern state without a strong religious tradition acting both as a curb to the state's power on behalf of believers and nonbelievers alike and also as an alternative narrative within which people can work out their individual visions of the good life.

Finally, Whitehead's methodology of descriptive generalization would, on the micrological view, be seen as belonging within a particular tradition, i.e., as involving what might be called a «metaphysical reduction» of the empirical world to some foundational and actual element, on the same methodological lines as Leibniz's monads, Bradley's substrative feeling, Alexander's space - time matrix, or Heidegger's Being.12 In other words, Whitehead's actual entities are conceived as having a special kind of actuality of their own as the ground or foundation from which the empirical world derives.

Within the Christian tradition, however, the millennium is also regarded as significant for reasons quite other than the supposed birth - date of Jesus Christ.

If tradition may specify limits to community action within biblical norms, then tolerance should emerge among Christian groups whose group customs - say, the weekly day of worship - may oppose each other and yet lie within biblical standards.

On the other hand, a person who has heard the message may not feel the vocation to become part of the church but to remain a witness within his or her own religious tradition.

I might enjoy and admire other traditions very much, but I will never be fully at home within them.

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Still others are exploring the life of the spirit within a denomination and a tradition.

«While the tradition of being stingy on defense continues, the ability of the team to attack more aggressively is directly related to the boys understanding of how best to capitalize on each other's strengths within the system,» Curtis said.

Here, five celebrated teachers from different traditions (Anusara, Ashtanga, Kripalu, Iyengar, and Viniyoga — with apologies for others we had to leave out) share their own instructions and inspiration to help you deepen your understanding of Virabhadrasana I so that you can access the power of the warrior within you.

In the Mood for Love continues Wong's tradition of capturing moments within a potentially isolating and disconnected environment and bears resemblance to his other 1960s homage Days of Being Wild, which is believed (through Wong's own statements on both films and popular perception) to be the first instalment to In the Mood for Love.

Each fundamentalist movement has emerged independently and is a law unto itself, sometimes differing from (or in violent opposition to) other fundamentalist movements within a single faith tradition.