Sentences with phrase «christian wisdom tradition»

In fact, by confusing Tradition with traditionalism and radically opposing the Scriptures to Tradition, much of the Christian wisdom Tradition, beginning with the writings of the early Church Fathers (& Mothers) and continuing even into modern time, the Protestant Reformers have cut much of the Western Church off from the ongoing Revelation of the Christian wisdom Tradition.

Not exact matches

«In the Christian tradition, loss, collapse and failure have always been seen as not only unavoidable, but even necessary on the path to wisdom, freedom and personal maturity,» Blaszczak said.

I have been enlightened by the life and wisdom of Gandhi, but I have not experienced intimacy with God through the Hindu Tradition, although I recognize that Krishna is a Christ figure and have no doubt that there are Hindus that have spiritually experienced the intimacy with God that I as a Christian have experienced.

The goal would then seem to be to step outside of our Christian tradition into the shoes of the scholarly or philosophical observer, identify the elements of wisdom in each community, and weld them into a new whole.

As I considered the teachings of the Christian Religion, I was also seriously studying the wisdom of the Zen Buddhist spiritual tradition.

Building on but moving beyond psychological understandings of guilt, and excavating the reality of wrong «being that underlies our wrong» doing, Pieper brings the wisdom tradition of Plato, Augustine, and Aquinas into conversation with moderns, both Christian and anti-Christian, who try to make sense of sin and evil in the human condition.

Faith of our Fathers is a spirited defense of Catholic ritual, discipline, and communal observance» of the ways in which the collective wisdom of Christian tradition is passed on from one generation to another.

In practical terms, I suspect that this means that Christians must make an ever more concerted effort to recall and recover the wisdom and centrality of the ascetic tradition.

Driven by her conviction that «the practices of living religious traditions have great wisdom to impart,» Dorothy Bass examines Christian practices in «both their ancient grounding and the fresh and vibrant forms they take today.»

Some issues in the debate are so modern that older Christian tradition has no wisdom to offer.

Both Christian and Native religions must share the best from their respective traditions and symbols and point to a common wisdom for which the earth and our peoples so desperately cry.

Yet she does see in the figure of Sophia (Wisdom) an appearance of the divine feminine archetype in the Judeo - Christian tradition.

My assumption is that all Christians are inevitably engaged everyday in existential responses to the world, and that theology concerns the wisdom by which one brings the resources of a religious tradition to bear on the world.

It will certainly mean that one brings questions and insight formulated out of the wisdom of the Bible and the Christian tradition to bear.

The judeo - christian tradition had associated Wisdom with King Solomon and hence the authorship of some of these books was attributed...

Perhaps the Eastern Christian Tradition can provide a way to preserve the material blessings of Western technology and scientific insights without losing the intuitive spiritual wisdom gained earlier when Religious Traditions experienced Grace more deeply by their participation in the natural rhythms of life.

I am trying — haltingly and amateurishly — to incorporate some of his wisdom, but for the present I am still more comfortable dealing with my life - situation in the more familiar terms of the Christian tradition.

Christians rightly enter into public life, seeking to leaven our laws with the wisdom of Scripture and church tradition, not asserting claims on the basis of church authority, but arguing for them in the give - and - take of civic discourse.

Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge Nelson, 224 pages, $ 14.99 The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine by Sue Monk Kidd HarperOne, 272 pages, $ 13.95 Chasing Sophia: Reclaiming the Lost Wisdom of Jesus by Lilian Calles Barger Jossey - Bass, 256 pages, $ 18.95

Theodore Hesburgh said, «Here is an apostolate that no secular university today can undertake» for they are largely cut off from the tradition of adequate knowledge which comes only through faith in the mind and faith in God, the highest wisdom of Christian philosophy and Catholic theology.»

We also do well to turn to the wisdom of the Christian tradition.

I am also confident that when issues are probed at this deep level, the religious questions will be prominent, and Christians will be able to bring the wisdom of our tradition to bear upon them.

The judeo - christian tradition had associated Wisdom with King Solomon and hence the authorship of some of these books was attributed to him.

To be Christian theology at all, a statement must draw strongly on the wisdom of the tradition, but to be effective in our time, it must not be a defense of that tradition.

The test is whether in fact one can integrate the wisdom of alien traditions into one's Christian vision.

I found deep wisdom (and errors) in all of the Great Religious Traditions; but nowhere did I find as great an affirmation of the human person as the Judeo - Christian Tradition and especially in Christian mystery of the Incarnation.

Understanding those paths, as well as taking the wraps off our own Judeo - Christian tradition, has provided rich resources that can help a person go to the depths — through the conscious mind, through the world of feelings, through the unconscious to deep wisdom and inner knowing.

It is in the Old Testament's wisdom literature that Updike's fictional world finds its closest analogue in the Judeo - Christian tradition — in Job, Ecclesiastes and Proverbs.