Then we will attempt to identify parallels
of Wisdom Tradition in the Indian Literature especially in the Telugu literature.
In its wider sense, it includes from an artisan to an astrologer, and with reference to the handing over
of wisdom tradition, it includes from a parent to a philosopher.
The secular, and the more general or universal character
of wisdom tradition which had been hitherto considered as a liability, has now been recognized as an asset.
With this introduction, we will look at the extent
of the Wisdom Tradition in the Biblical books, the renewed interest of the scholars in the wisdom studies, and the Wisdom parallels in the Ancient Near Eastern Cultures.
The Egyptian and the Mesopotamian parallels have initially suggested that Israel owes a lot to her neighbours for the development
of her wisdom tradition.
However, the modern scholarship has demonstrated that the origin
of Wisdom Tradition in Israel goes back to the period much earlier than Solomon and that the OT Wisdom Literature was composed much later than Solomon's period.
Our future understanding depends on the outcome of new research on the relation
of wisdom tradition to the cult and of both to the prophets.
There is a commonality as far as the nature, function and form
of the wisdom traditions and the wisdom instruction.
Not exact matches
In all the great spiritual
traditions and all the great
wisdom schools, part
of the journey
of becoming more human is often totemed against this notion
of sort
of waking up and coming out
of these illusions.
These would include
tradition, guidance by accumulated
wisdom, constitutionalism, and a civic republican vision
of the orator as an ethical representative
of the formation and endurance
of a beneficial community.
But that is neither here nor there with respect to Smith's main point, which is to propose, against the innumerable «spiritualities» with which we are culturally inundated, that ultimate
wisdom and human flourishing are to be discovered in the historically grounded and communally normative religious
traditions of the world.
In the best
tradition of all religious «
wisdom literature» or scriptures, as true believers like to call them, are widely common source or plagiarized as non-believers like to call it.
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.
This global compilation
of traditional
wisdom shows that none
of the great, classical religious
traditions conceived
of God as a mere intelligent Designer, or as a First Cause within nature, or as a highly moral Personality who happens to be divine as well, or any kind
of all - powerful agent that has a primus inter pares relationship with other, less powerful Superbeings and Incredibles.
On the level
of authority, the Scripture is set over against reason and
tradition (understood both ecclesiastically and as the cumulative and collected
wisdom of personal experience).
I'm underscoring the fact that the 11th
Tradition was put into place after hard - won lessons in the 30's and 40's to protect both individuals and the program in general, and that to completely disregard it is a dis to the rest
of us who value the
wisdom of traditions.
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.
The title, then, should be understood as Smith's own highly personal understanding
of how Christianity is true within the frame
of his larger understanding
of the world's religions as great
wisdom traditions.
the reminder that Orthodox theology continually refreshes its thinking by reference to the early Church Fathers, who were much concerned with the question
of God's activity in the other sects and
traditions and in the
wisdom of humankind.
Indeed, I am convinced that the true interests
of the poor will be served better as the situation is viewed in an inclusive context and that there is often much
wisdom in their own
tradition to support such an approach.
Written toward the end
of a long career dedicated to the study
of religion» his The World's Religions: Our Great
Wisdom Traditions has been a staple on college syllabi since it first appeared in 1958» this book has a definite valedictory feel.
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.
She edits «The Monastic Way,» a monthly periodical
of daily meditations, and is the author
of several books, including The Story
of Ruth, Twelve Moments in Every Woman's Life; The Friendship
of Women: A Spiritual
Tradition; and
Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule
of St. Benedict Today.
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.
We know that there is also
wisdom to be found, much
of it similar to Biblical
wisdom, in the sacred texts and stories
of other faiths and
traditions and we are glad to have those, also, to help us discern the direction
of our lives and paths.
And in this context the word «conservative» means in principle something quite positive, for it also includes the courage to affirm continuity, clear principles, detachment from ephemeral fashions, fidelity to the Word
of God which endures for ever, respect for
tradition, for what has organically developed, for the
wisdom and experience
of our ancestors.
In response, let us momentarily suppose, with the teleologically biased
traditions of religious and philosophical
wisdom (the so - called «perennial philosophy»), that the universe is a hierarchy
of «levels,» or «dimensions» (or «fields»
of influence, if we wish to employ a more contemporary metaphor).
And in this task we will always be impoverished if we do not honour and respect the insight,
wisdom and contribution
of those who, from many
traditions and cultures over the centuries
of the history
of the Church, have also brought their understanding to this sacred conversation.
I see Torah as a mirror for our own spiritual development, a roadmap for our spiritual journey, a repository
of our
tradition's
wisdom teachings.
One might go to another who has provided a
wisdom about personal transformation absent in Jesus»
tradition and teaching whose teaching is also capable
of assimilating much that comes from Jesus.
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.»
Burhoe's point is that if cultural evolution is the subject for discussion, then the religious
traditions whose
wisdom has survived millennia
of selective pressures can be left out
of the discussion only at the cost
of scientific adequacy and competency.
After Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII corrected the Kantianism and Hegelianism
of some early - nineteenth century Catholic intellectuals» namely Georg Hermes and Anton Günther» a
tradition - oriented ethos developed in which Catholic thinkers, by and large, resisted the temptations
of modernity and instead harvested the
wisdom rooted in ancient and medieval sources.
At a time when both the pastoral counselor and the spiritual director are borrowing profusely from the psychiatrist, the social worker and the psychologist, Lifton is going in another direction and challenging the secular therapist to reclaim some
of the
wisdom of these more ancient
traditions of the cure
of souls.
Where the wonder
of the natural world is celebrated in the Bible itself, this is dismissed as the influence
of Baal worship or as the theologically inferior
wisdom tradition.
Rather than deploying inherited
wisdom as a means
of associating itself with traditional elites, the university has been disparaging
tradition, in order to become one with popular taste.
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.
Gary, the Gospels are also different because, in ancient cultures, and many contemporary tribal cultures, the oral
Tradition was a means
of transmitting experiential
wisdom through stories than historical facts (modern historicism) or systematic theologies.
It will certainly mean that one brings questions and insight formulated out
of the
wisdom of the Bible and the Christian
tradition to bear.
He recognizes that the doctrine
of retribution (so central to the
wisdom tradition), in which the righteous are rewarded and the evil punished, does not always work out in practice.
That it should be open to transformation through the insights
of the various
traditions, that it should be open to the possibilities
of creative transformation by contact with the
wisdom and vision
of other sources, is highly...
The judeo - christian
tradition had associated
Wisdom with King Solomon and hence the authorship
of some
of these books was attributed...
In some ways more shocking than the renewal
of the demand to take other great religious
traditions seriously and appreciatively, is the awareness
of the truth and
wisdom in the supposedly «primitive» religions.
As long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices
of our
tradition that speak about the importance
of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits
of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms
of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms
of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak
of freedom in terms
of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive
wisdom in terms
of detachment and transcendence.
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.
It is a limitation
of New Thought that, like most
traditions that trace their evolutionary roots in terms
of the ancient Greek philosophers, it does not acknowledge the African (Kemetic) contributions to the Greek
wisdom teachings.