Sentences with phrase «written tradition»

And, you'll find that this is true, even if you don't write a tradition series, per se.

The violent technique, while at odds with the unhurried manner of their maker, enabled Anatsui to ally method with metaphor: Fan, and similar works from this period, not only mourns the «historic vandalism» of colonialism, to quote Olu Oguibe, but also ennobles the «plethora of writing traditions» that Anatsui devoted his early career to learning.

here's a baffling question... if it's good theology to believe that Paul was chosen after the others for a reason, then why is he the earliest NT writer... what wd be the purpose of all that seemingly more primitive understanding of the gospel (the synoptics) coming together as written traditions after the Pauline high water mark?

Islam's earnest goal, set forth in the Qur «an (references given herein are from three versions) and Hadith (Islamic written tradition), remains the same: to bring all mankind into submission (that's what «Islam» means) and to kill or enslave all «infidels» (i.e., unbelievers in Allah and Muhammad his prophet — Surah 2:190 - 92; 4:76; 5:33; 9:5,29,41; 47:4, etc.).

Admittedly, David, it took me a while to get past the idea of the scriptures being free of error or myth, but perhaps what I find true about the lot of it was that it was important to some people to pass it down through an oral tradition and then through written tradition (alongside the oral).

But from time to time, our esteemed judges take an opportunity to remind us of the law's great written tradition, whether by powerful rhetoric, meticulous reasoning, devastating pithiness, or simple humor.

It's success lies in the innovation of the written tradition.

The innovation that drove Christianity was inclusiveness, and it's success is the combination of inclusiveness and written tradition.

One Jewish rabbi admonished another as follows: «O keen scholar, open your mouth and read (the written tradition), open your mouth and repeat (the oral tradition) so that (your knowledge) may be maintained in you and that which you have learned may live.»

All these stories were passed on orally from not just prehistoric, but from times immemorable before man committed them to written tradition.

Because of the written tradition's fundamental impact upon culture, not all Greeks embraced it gladly.

They are merely the THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS OF MEN that have been passed down through verbal and written traditions.

In the travel - writing tradition that made Paul Theroux's reputation, Dark Star Safari is a rich and insightful book whose itinerary is Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town: down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda, and ultimately to the tip of South Africa.

He follows the movement from the oral to the written tradition in the law.