Not exact matches
In place of one individual's interpretation of Christ we have a tradition which shines like a shaft of light through the refracting, expanding prism of a rich and varied religious experience, and by its many - splendored radiance begins to prove how much was contained in the apparently simple and single, but really complex and manifold, manifestation of the divine mystery — the revelation of the mystery hid from past ages, the message of God through Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lor
In place of one individual's interpretation of Christ we have a
tradition which shines like a shaft of light through the refracting, expanding prism of a rich and varied
religious experience, and by its many - splendored radiance begins to prove how much was contained
in the apparently simple and single, but really complex and manifold, manifestation of the divine mystery — the revelation of the mystery hid from past ages, the message of God through Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lor
in the apparently simple and single, but really complex and manifold, manifestation of the divine mystery — the
revelation of the mystery hid from past ages, the message of God through Jesus Christ, his Son, our Lord.
It should be emphasized that this position does not at all imply a lack of respect for or even theological interest
in other
religious traditions, but it follows the great majority of historic Christian theologies
in denying the possibility of salvific
revelations anywhere outside the biblical orbit.
Although they may begin
in priestly, mystical or communal
religious traditions, fundamentalist - like movements seem to be found more frequently
in those religions that claim to have received through
revelation or great discovery a grand message of new truth, which must be delivered and which turns all ordinary understandings on their head.
Ramadan is the most sacred month
in the Muslim year, commemorating the
revelation of the Holy Quran - the sacred
religious text of Islam - by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammed, according to Islamic
tradition.
«Ramadan is the most sacred month
in the Muslim year, commemorating the
revelation of the Holy Quran — the sacred
religious text of Islam — by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Mohammed, according to Islamic
tradition.»
Informationally speaking, the pluralist theological option radically relativizes the importance of distinct
religious boundaries, proposing that different
religious traditions may all be equally valid ways of experiencing the
revelation of an ultimate reality transcending the comprehension of any particular
tradition (See the essays
in John Hick and Paul Knitter, eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).
And we fail to appreciate the notion of
revelation as it comes down to us
in later
religious traditions, including the Christian religion, if we forget its primal connections to the visionaries of pre-literate societies.
The idea of
revelation in history is intrinsically bound up with Western theistic
religious traditions.
Because our
religious tradition finds the heart of divine
revelation in the Holy taking human form, Christians have a powerful theological basis for understanding and learning from the arts.
De Lubac's thesis is that Catholicism alone is capable of fulfilling our tormenting desire for the universal, the desire that breaks the heart of an unstable and uncertain modern West, which
in the twentieth century wished to see itself as achieving a non-
religious universality based on reason, without resort to
religious traditions or appeals to
revelation.
Orthodox Judaism is the approach to
religious Judaism which subscribes to a
tradition of mass
revelation, and adheres to the interpretation and application Essentially the Orthodox Church shares much with the other Christian Churches
in the belief that God revealed himself
in Jesus Christ, and a