Atheist here... If marriage is «God's Law» and you, deviated humans... want to engage in that tradition, why do you want to
engage in a religious tradition?
Not exact matches
Yet such theological thinking must be undertaken
in full awareness that theologians and thinkers of other
traditions not only «listen
in» on our conversations, but also are
engaged in interpreting
religious plurality
in the context of their own
traditions of faith.
Religious virtuosos, on the other hand,
engage in ressourcement: they draw on the resources of profound
traditions and project them into the future, calling for action
in light of what the ancient texts themselves project.
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.
«Contrary to popular perceptions, the vast majority of American adolescents are not spiritual seekers or questers of the type often described by journalists and some scholars, but are instead mostly oriented toward and
engaged in conventional
religious traditions and communities.»
With the group there is a distinction between those members who will
engage in religious activity from personal choice or
in deference to
tradition such as converts and parishioners of a local congregation, and those who are actively
religious — temporarily or consistently — such as lay - deacons or the participants
in a procession.
In mine (Unitarian Universalism), members are expected to
engage with their own beliefs and those of extant
religious and spiritual
traditions, ideally developing a «questioning faith» - One based not on doctrine or creed but on deep, sustained inquiry.
Religious leaders, I think, face alternatives not easily reconciled: to try to form communities in which biblical imagery and ideas provide an alternative vision to our cultural ones, or to engage in a process of mutual critique, edification, correction and revision of frameworks that are informed both by our religious traditions and by the sciences and
Religious leaders, I think, face alternatives not easily reconciled: to try to form communities
in which biblical imagery and ideas provide an alternative vision to our cultural ones, or to
engage in a process of mutual critique, edification, correction and revision of frameworks that are informed both by our
religious traditions and by the sciences and
religious traditions and by the sciences and culture.
The Christian theology that
engages us
in Asia must have must have room, yes, plenty of room, for people of different walks of life and of diverse
religious traditions and cultural backgrounds.
In searching for a worthy response, Rollins says he is drawn to Christian mystics like Meister Ekhart, «for while they did not embrace total silence, they balked at the presumption of those who would seek to colonize the name «God» with concepts... By speaking with wounded words of their wounded Christ, these mystics helped to develop, not a distinct
religious tradition, but rather a way of
engaging with and understanding already existing
religious traditions: seeing them as a loving response to God rather than a way of defining God.»
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