Sentence:  We have aligned ourselves with that `` liberal '' <WSD>tradition</WSD> in Protestant Christianity that counts among the great names in its history those of Schleiermacher , Ritschl , Herrmann , Harnack , and Troeltsch , and more recently , Schweitzer and the early Barth and , in part at least , Bultmann . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an inherited pattern of thought or action