Sentence examples for authoritative tradition from inspiring English sources

Because of this enlargement of the bounds of law and because of Abū Ḥanīfah's somewhat rationalist orientation and his reserve about traditions that were not highly authenticated, his school was sometimes erroneously denounced as the school of raʾy (independent opinion), as opposed to that of Ḥadīth (authoritative tradition).

For Dan, there is no authoritative tradition in the Bible.

She offers a path out of the tyranny of the perpetually open mind by presenting authoritative traditions and teachings.

December 25 , 1831Warsaw, Poland March 7, 1914 Christian David Ginsburg, (born Dec. 25, 1831, Warsaw, Pol., Russian Empire [now in Poland] died March 7, 1914, Palmers Green, Middlesex, Eng.) Hebrew and biblical scholar who was the foremost authority in England on the Masorah (authoritative Jewish tradition concerning the correct text of the Hebrew Bible).

It is the Talmud, the authoritative oral tradition for Rabbinic Judaism, which explains what are to be bound to the body and the form of tefillin.

that traditional literature can be accepted as authoritative just insofar as it exhibits the property of "being rooted in the Vedas" (vedamūlatvam)—even if that means, in some cases, inferring the reality of a no-longer-accessible Vedic text as the basis for retaining manifestly important traditions that do not obviously stem from any extant Vedic text.

Srotriyam (knower of the sruti) is the requirement of deep training in the authoritative canons of the tradition, as well as in traditional principles of reading and exegesis.

The Talmud, the authoritative collection of Jewish tradition, teaches that Israel is subject to no star but only to God.

Reviews are a curious journalistic animal, at once highly subjective, the opinionated expression of a particular taste, and an authoritative appraisal, steeped in tradition and mindful of contemporary practice.

As committed Christians and scholars, we found the book to be a major contribution to the scholarly endeavor of examining our long and rich traditions in light of social arrangements and moral challenges unanticipated by even the most authoritative voices of those traditions.

Hugo Grotius is probably the most comprehensive and formidable classical member of the tradition; James T. Johnson is the authoritative historian of this tradition; and many recognize Michael Walzer as the dean of contemporary just war theorists.