Sentences with phrase «more mystical traditions»

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

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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.

There are mystical based traditions in all the major religions that are more focused that the divine lives within each one of us as our true self.

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.

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.

I want to share with you an excerpt from a letter I received from a more mature mystic when I first began my own pilgrimage of faith within the mystical tradition:

For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with religious experience, worship, spirituality, counseling, and the like over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich in offerings in ethics, sociology of religion, liberation theology, and the like than in offerings in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical traditions may reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood in action than in contemplation.