“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.” WorldMindFormArtistOrderBeautyPrinciplesTakenParticularMaterialsPureShadowIdealsTraditionAbsolutesHarmonyMereInspiredBoundsCosmosIdealismDefectsRepresentingPlatonic Author:John Walford
“Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The Great Tradition (orthodox doctrine) has a vote but not a veto.” TraditionVoteAbsolutesScriptureDoctrineOrthodoxNormControversyVeto Author:Roger E. Olson
“I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university, but I had a series of absolute career disasters and found myself making television programs about the nature of religion and about Christian history and started to discover about other religious traditions, and that was an absolute eye-opener for me.” EyeChristianFoundLiteratureReligiousCareersTelevisionProgramTraditionAbsolutesAimSeriesUniversityDisasterProfessorsHistorianEnglish LiteratureReligious Traditions Author:Karen Armstrong
“The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.” PeopleHandsGovernmentChoicesPrinciplesDemocracyFateDependsAuthorityTraditionOppositesAbsolutesRestraintSovereigntyAbsolute PowerLegality Author:Lord Acton
“The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can. Experience, dialogue, feelings, and conversations are equated with Scripture while certitude, authority, and doctrine are to be eschewed! No doctrines are to be absolute and truth or doctrine must be considered only with personal experiences, traditions, historical leaders, etc. The Bible is not an answer book.” BookFeelingsAnswersLeaderSourceConversationAuthorityTraditionAbsolutesHistoricalScriptureDoctrineDialogueEtcAccuratePersonal ExperiencesCertitude Author:Brian D. McLaren
“You can't relate to an absolute or it wouldn't be absolute, it would be relative. On an intellectual level, that's easy. However, you hear theologians in the theistic traditions talk about absolute God, and I saw God, or God spoke; speaking, being seen, these are all relational things. So what is absolute about such a being, wouldn't actually be absolute.” Would BeEasyLevelsSawsIntellectualTraditionAbsolutesRelateSpokesRelativeTheologian Author:Robert Thurman
“Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.” WorldDoeMatterStatesSpiritualYogaTraditionAbsolutesObjectivesRealizationIsolationSublimeWorldlyExalted Author:Rod Stryker
“Every other country where there's absolute chaos now, what is it? They're pluralistic without consensus. Look at almost every single country, from Syria, to Iraq, to Iran, Ukraine, no matter where it is. I just think it is totally counter to our tradition.” ThinkingLooksCountryMatterTraditionAbsolutesChaosIraqIranOther CountriesSyriaConsensusUkraine Author:Joe Biden
“In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.” ViewsHappenedTraditionAbsolutesOriginalsIslamProphetCultMessengers Author:Salman Rushdie
“We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to our religious traditions...We must no longer use the Bible as the Pharisees used the Torah when they gave it absolute and final status. Christian biblicism is no different from Jewish legalism. It is the old way of the letter, not the new way of the Spirit.” PeopleWayDifferentUseChristianUsedSpiritReligiousBibleTraditionLettersAbsolutesFinalsProofBiblicalNew WaysBondageOld WaysTorahReligious TraditionsLegalismPhariseesPotpourri Author:Robert D. Brinsmead
“Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.” PeopleWorldPresidentEffortPovertyProjectsPercentTraditionAbsolutesHungerPatternsBillionsDiscriminationOur WorldRealisticHolmesHunger And Poverty Book:The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics Source: The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics