An important part of such development is to participate in the great historic faiths and in contemporary religious traditions other than one's own. (religion-online.org)
Progressives disagree and put their trust in personal experience, even if that requires them to «resymbolize historic faiths according to the prevailing assumptions of contemporary life.» (firstthings.com)
The existence of special religious symbols — sacraments, rites, holy books, sacred institutions — is the basic argument by which the particular historic faiths support their universal claim. (religion-online.org)