Sentences with phrase «christian mystical tradition»

Perhaps there is also a sense in which the Christian mystical tradition echoes the life of Christ himself.

In Christian mystical tradition there is the same emphasis on discovering God as our deepest inner reality.

It must be made quite clear that he who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first, in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably speak henceforth in an incomprehensible tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»

Not exact matches

Many Christian's don't, either — especially within the more mystical traditions.

Understanding Hinduism can help Christians recover their mystical traditions and allow the Church to communicate with people today at the level of experience rather doctrine.

Ultimately, then, God would be conceived as Other and as Holy; perhaps as the «normative» Judeo - Christian - Islamic tradition has asserted all along in its much maligned dogmatic theology; while leaving mystical assertions of identity and oneness suspect.

I am attempting to furnish a very broad sketch of the variety of Indian Christian perception of God - Christ relations as a background for a more detailed appraisal of insights on the same subject from a mystical tradition of Islam.

The key to Calvin's vibrancy is linking desire for God with a homey simplicity that mirrors both the great Christian tradition of mystical experience and the small - town sensibilities of historic American Protestantism.

Their ways of doing this are most varied, ranging from a sense of acting in accordance with the «rightness in things» (as in much Chinese religion), through a mystical identification of the deepest self or atman with the cosmic reality or brahma (as in Hinduism), or a «blowing - out» of individual selfhood by sharing in the bliss of Nirvana (as in most varieties of Buddhism), to the sense of fellowship or communion with God found in our own Jewish - Christian religious tradition.

The Protestant tradition as a whole, in reaction to perceived abuses, downplayed virtually all mystical aspects of the Christian life — there was little if any room for miracles / supernatural gifts of the Spirit.

Many in the Christian west have been attracted to the non-theistic and more humanistic character of the Buddhist tradition, or to the deep mystical spirituality of the Hindu tradition; others have been attracted to the more physical practice of spirituality to be found in Chinese tradition.

It is true that Dostoevsky personally assented — despite occasional episodes of doubt — to the creeds of the ancient church, and that he believed deeply in the mystical and sacramental traditions of the Orthodox church, and that in general his vision of things was shaped by traditional Christian understandings of sin and redemption.

How far the renewed interest of some Christians in the mystical and contemplative traditions is indebted to Hinduism it is hard to say, but Western Christians can still be helped to discover a deeper dimension to life by encounter with the authentic spiritual teaching and practice of Hinduism.

Drawing inspiration from his fascination with mystical traditions (most notably Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism and Christian mysticism), Viola's work largely deals with fundamental human experiences.