Sentence examples for holy tradition from inspiring English sources

In Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy locates its authority in "Holy Tradition," which is fixed and guided by the dogmas proclaimed by the ecumenical councils.

The consequent belt tightening included reducing to one from two the number of summer productions of Shakespeare in Central Park, a holy tradition created by Papp.

Many Germans find the Vatican's demand of priestly celibacy completely alien, and we recognize it as a historical, rather than holy, tradition, going back to a decree by Pope Benedict VIII in 1022.

Any person's conversion is by nature an individual and idiosyncratic journey, and Mr. Oren's reflected not only his visceral sense that Orthodoxy had a "core of holy tradition" but also his intense concern over theological concepts like giving the Eucharist to baptized infants, which may not animate other believers quite the same way.

Their common characteristic is the make that the scriptures are always seen within the context of holy tradition that gave birth to scripture.

By Holy Tradition, the manger was located in a cave near that town.

To rub more salt in the wound, we are also the worst place in the EU to be a smoker or wine-drinker due to various taxes and regulation, which, as you don't need reminding – seeing as you are currently chuffing on four cigarettes at once and sipping your afternoon wine – are two of our most sacred, holy traditions.

The Holy Week tradition models Jesus's call for humility when he washed the feet of his Apostles at the Last Supper.

Through themes of technological bodily extension or prosthesis, vicarious theurgical practice, and displaced "presence and immediacy," Blanton captures the essence of the healing and transformative powers of the Holy Ghost tradition in the Pentecostal South (184).

Jesuits like Luis de Molina identified the holy war tradition in which Punch stood as a Scotist one, and insisted that the Scotists had confused the natural and supernatural spheres.

Linares said it's generally rare for Mexicans to choose a foreign figure as the effigy to burn in the Holy Saturday tradition.