Sentences with phrase «dialogue with other traditions»

And at the same time, it is the indispensable condition for honest dialogue with other traditions.

In our dialogue with other traditions, the key to sustaining conversation (rather than cutting it short by claims that others will interpret as arrogant) is to keep before ourselves the possibility that in some way or other all religions may be relative, culturally specific ways of looking toward an ineffable mystery.

Not exact matches

Our recognition of the mystery of salvation in men and women of other religious traditions shapes the concrete attitudes with which we Christians must approach them in interreligious dialogue.

Dialogue must be an interaction in which each participant stands with full integrity in his or her own tradition and is open to the depths of the truth that is in the other.

Such a defense seems to come down to this: the local church is preserved from suffocating provincialism when it intentionally engages in dialogue with other churches and when it remains steadfast in appropriating and witnessing to the «apostolic tradition.»

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

In the early Church, which thought of itself as a communio of sister Churches, the vital bonds between these Churches were manifested in mutual exchanges or, in other words, in dialogue with one another and in the reception of traditions or confessions of faith which each then made its own.

In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.

Dialogue between these traditions not only helps us to live peacefully with the rest of creation but also helps us to live peacefully with people of other faiths.

The dialogue between religious traditions not only helps us to live peacefully with the rest of creation but also helps us to live peacefully with people of other faiths.

We have valued especially the cultural and religious traditions of Asia and India which have helped us to open ourselves to the dialogue with other cultures and religious.

In the twentieth century, dialogue with representatives of other traditions has advanced greatly.

Christians committed to dialogue with the people who live according to other faiths can never be content with the «library» versions of those traditions.

Fidelity to the spirit of Jesus» teachings is realized not in possessive clinging to one's own tradition but in placing it in dialogue with others.

Emphasis upon an «unbound» Christ already present among people of various religious faiths may sound as though it fits more congenially with traditional mission language; and emphasis upon the saving action of God's spirit with people of other faiths may sound more congenial to those of the dialogue tradition, who are concerned that the dialogue partners be affirmed in their own right.

Colonized by Portugal (and other empires including France and the Netherlands) during 1500 to 1822, the production of art (in the Western perspective) in Brazil was always in dialogue with European classical traditions.