Tradition holds that the text was written by Luke the companion of Paul ( named in Colossians ) and this traditional view of Lukan authorship is “ widely held as the view which most satisfactorily explains all the data .” The list of scholars maintaining authorship by Luke the physician is lengthy, and represents scholars from a wide range of theological opinion.

Tradition holds that, in that era, the year began on the first new moon after the winter solstice.

Tradition holds that the text was written by Luke the companion of Paul ( named in Colossians ).

Tradition holds that Habakkuk was buried here, but the site may actually be the tomb of a local sheikh of Yaquq, whose name was misunderstood to sound like " Habakkuk ".

Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture ; in the famous words of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells: " As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.

Tradition holds that he made enough money to go into the nautical business, but that the venture collapsed.

Tradition holds that his final words were " treason, treason, treason!

Tradition holds that Ninian was a Briton who had studied in Rome, that he established an episcopal see at the Candida Casa in Whithorn, that he named the see for Saint Martin of Tours, that he converted the southern Picts to Christianity, and that he is buried at Whithorn.

Tradition generally holds that if the betrothal fails because the man himself breaks off the engagement, the woman is not obliged to return the ring.

Tradition holds that Charlemagne granted a charter to the Andorran people in return for their fighting the Moors.

Tradition holds that she was born on the Feast of the Epiphany, but there is no documentary evidence ( d. 1431 )

Orthodox distinctives ( shared with some of the Eastern Catholic Churches ) include the Divine Liturgy, Mysteries or Sacraments, and an emphasis on the preservation of Tradition, which it holds to be Apostolic in nature.

Tradition holds that this was given to St. Simon Stock by the Blessed Virgin Mary, who appeared to him and promised that all who wore it with faith and piety and who died clothed in it would be saved.

Tradition holds that following the Roman departure, Roman customs held on into the 5th century in southern Wales, and that is true in part.

Tradition holds that she served as a Maid of Honour to Margaret of Anjou, but the evidence of this is uncertain.

Tradition holds that during his papacy he determined the various prerogatives of the clergy and defined the grades of the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

Tradition holds that a congressman was particularly disgusted by the appearance of a midshipman returned from cruise.

Tradition also holds that he died at nearby Llanrhos, and was buried there.

Tradition holds that he died of the ' Yellow Plague ' of Rhos, but this is based on one of the Triads that was written much later.

Tradition holds that the Quakers purchased several tracts on Apple-pie Ridge from the natives, who did not disturb those settlements.

Tradition holds that Jean Joseph LeKintrek and Joseph Blainpain, who had formed a partnership to trade with the Opelousas Indians, came in the early 1740s.

Tradition holds that it was at the Middlebrook encampment that the first official flag of the United States was unfurled, after a law to adopt a national flag had been passed by Congress on June 14, 1777.

Tradition holds that three of the tribe's villages were located in the town.

Tradition holds — and archeological evidence bears it out — that the crest of the ridge, which runs from the southwest some 50 miles to present-day Reidsville in the northeast, was well used by Native Americans.

In his catechism ( entitled Explanation of the Apostles ' Creed ) ( 1533 ), Erasmus took a stand against Luther's teaching by asserting the unwritten Sacred Tradition as just as valid a source of revelation as the Bible, by enumerating the Deuterocanonical books in the canon of the Bible and by acknowledging seven sacraments.

Eastern Orthodox Tradition mentions " thousands of archangels ; however, only seven archangels are venerated by name.

* Water: Tradition holds it that the medicinal plants mentioned above are most effective when dipped in water collected from seven different springs.

The Tradition was his again in 1995, in a year where he made the top 10 in all of the seven tournaments he entered in.

Tradition says that he memorized the Qur ’ an at the age of seven ; by ten, he had memorized the Muwatta of Imam Malik ; he was a mufti ( given authorization to issue fatwa ) at the age of fifteen.

For the next seven years Ajahn Chah practiced in the style of an ascetic monk in the austere Forest Tradition, spending his time in forests, caves and cremation grounds.

Tradition holds it to be one of the seven Christian communities in Kerala founded by the Apostle Thomas.

Also, the Bible and Church Tradition ( not mere customs but the ancient tradition that made up part of the Catholic faith ) were equally authoritative.

As Solomon Schechter noted, " however great the literary value of a code may be, it does not invest it with infallibility, nor does it exempt it from the student or the Rabbi who makes use of it from the duty of examining each paragraph on its own merits, and subjecting it to the same rules of interpretation that were always applied to Tradition ".

The Apostolic Tradition, attributed to Hippolytus of Rome ( died 235 ), describes how to perform the ceremony of baptism ; it states that children were baptised first, and if any of them could not answer for themselves, their parents or someone else from their family was to answer for them.

Ultramontanism is not recognised by either Eastern or Oriental Orthodox churches, which see it as unsupported by Scripture or Tradition ; these Churches regard the Pope as having been primus inter pares when the two churches were in communion, and do not recognize the doctrines of infallibility or the Pope's alleged jurisdiction over patriarchates or autocephalous Churches other than that of Rome, except insofar as this is part of the concept of primus inter pares

Tradition tells that the citizens were offered the choice between a university and a certain exemption from taxes and chose the university.

Tradition specified that the Sarmatians themselves were descended from Japheth, son of Noah.

" These churches also believe that "' he task of giving an authentic interpretation of the Word of God, whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition, has been entrusted to the living teaching office of the Church alone [...]'", in part because it was the Church that selected which books were to be in the biblical canon.

They were recorded by Buddhaghosa in his Visuddhimagga and later became significant in the practices of the Thai Forest Tradition.

Zinn regularly included it in his lists of recommended readings, and after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, Zinn wrote, " If Richard Hofstadter were adding to his book The American Political Tradition, in which he found both ' conservative ' and ' liberal ' presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, maintaining for dear life the two critical characteristics of the American system, nationalism and capitalism, Obama would fit the pattern.

Tradition associates the image of Venus in Botticelli's painting with the lovely Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci, with whom it is suspected both Lorenzo and his younger brother, Giuliano, were much enamored.

" Tradition says a certain Drummond and McKelpin, Loyalists, were very early settlers, but left as the Revolutionary War came closer to the area.

Tradition holds that Hernando DeSoto and his group of Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to travel through the area around year 1540.

Tradition says they were attracted to the flat coastal terrain that reminded them of their homeland ( although the heat most certainly did not ).

Tradition has it that the Kelly family were the only ones in Roxbury who could not speak German.

Among articles included were: " The Secession Tradition in America " by Donald Livingston ; " The Ethics of Secession " by Scott Boykin ; “ Nations by Consent: Decomposing the Nation-State ” by Murray Rothbard ; " Yankee Confederates: New England Secession Movements Prior to the War Between the States " by Thomas DiLorenzo ; " Was the Union Army's Invasion of the Confederate States a Lawful Act?

The singles " Good Tradition " and " Twist In My Sobriety " were Top 10 hits in Europe, the latter accompanied by an award-winning sepia coloured video set in a rural village in the Bolivian Altiplano and directed by Gerard de Thame.

It posits that the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke were based on the Gospel of Mark and a hypothetical sayings collection from the Christian Oral Tradition called Q.

In 2005 Steeleye Span were awarded the Good Tradition Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, while the 2005 book, Electric Folk by Britta Sweers devotes much space to the band.

Tradition places Jews in contemporary southern Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, and Georgia since the Babylonian captivity, and records exist from the 4th century showing that there were Armenian cities possessing Jewish populations ranging from 10, 000 to 30, 000 along with substantial Jewish settlements in the Crimea.

The Cardinal even somewhat defended the Council, as long as it was interpreted in the light of Tradition, though he did remark that, " If the Church were not divine, this Council would have buried it ".

* By declaring that the teachings of the Second Vatican Council contradict the Church's Tradition, they either repudiate the teaching of the First Vatican Council on the infallibility of even the ordinary and universal magisterium of the Pope and the bishops, or they implicitly deny that the Pope and bishops at the Second Vatican Council were truly the Pope and truly Catholic bishops.

Among Bullock's other works were The Humanist Tradition in the West ( 1985 ), and The Life and Times of Ernest Bevin, a three-volume biography of British Labour Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, who had a similar background to Bullock.