The first element is the religious significance of careful study
of faith traditions in their particularity.
Not exact matches
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of the nature
of eels
in all strands
of Christianity, and if possible its fellow Abrahamic
faith traditions.
They come from a variety
of Christian and non-Christian
faith traditions in the U.S. and beyond.
Further, they are already aware
of «disagreement about some theological matters» and the CCCU schools are committed to «certain essentials
of the
faith once for all delivered to the saints» simultaneously adhering to particular theological postures
in one's particular school and its theological
tradition.
Institutions offering separate women - only swim hours demonstrate that they seek to include
in their community people from many different cultures,
faiths, and
traditions, representing a range
of values, beliefs, and experiences.
It was a genuine extending
of a hand to build a future where we find unity
in our diversity, where
faith, religion and
tradition can be taken seriously while engaging one another respectfully.
This superior epistemology enjoys the firm foundation
of divine revelation as treasured by Church
Tradition and enlightened by
faith and the prophetic inspiration
of the Holy Spirit, as the Church, with all her members, engages the world
in history.
Commenting on criticism surround the Virgin Birth, Very Rev Michael Sadgrove said: «He wasn't deconstructing the meaning
of the Gospel, he wasn't
in any way devaluing what the
tradition has to say about
faith.
The Christian
tradition is full
of those who have suffered death and persecution as a result
of their
faith and,
in some cases, for no discernible reason whatsoever.
For 1000 years or more, Roman Catholicism WAS Christianity
in most
of Europe, and pretty much all
of Protestantism has its roots
in the Catholic
faith tradition.
On the contrary, on the one occasion when Luther's theological proposals received a halfway careful hearing from a representative
of the Roman Church, at his meetings with Cardinal Cajetan
in Augsburg
in 1518, the conclusion reached was that his doctrine
of justifying
faith was not obviously heretical or
in clear opposition to the
tradition of the Church.
As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence
of Scripture and
tradition:
tradition is not a second source
of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood
in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life
of the community
of faith.
In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems developed from this western, Christian
tradition, he is free to insult people
of faith as much as he wishes.
Pelikan summarized the Protestant way
of putting the argument: «If the Holy Trinity was just as holy as the Trinitarian dogma taught, and if original sin was as virulent as the Augustinian
tradition said it was, and if Christ was as necessary as the Christological dogma implied, then the only way to treat justification
in a manner faithful to the Catholic
tradition was to teach justification by
faith.»
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In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems developed from this western, Christian
tradition, he is free to insult people
of faith as much as he wishes.»
Touchstone provides a forum where Christians
of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis
of a shared commitment to the Great
Tradition of Christian
faith as revealed
in the Holy Scriptures and set forth
in the classic creeds
of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,»
of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book
of that title is among the most influential religious volumes
of the past one hundred years.
Without denying the place that Protestant reformers occupy
in evangelical
faith, it should be said that classic Christian teaching, whether
in the realm
of doctrine or ethics, is best defined not against the backdrop
of the sixteenth century, but rather
in the light
of the broader apostolic
tradition.
Also, Indian theists therefore have lacked the conceptual tools to express adequately their
faith in terms
of their intellectual and cultural
tradition.
It is this conviction that Yahweh is recognized by his intervention on behalf
of the poor that explains the denunciations
in the Jeremiah
traditions of the falsehood
of Judaite
faith.3 For prophets to speak words
of peace
in the name
of Yahweh to a people who practice injustice is to speak a lie, for it is not Yahweh who has sent them (Jer.
The problem
of Christian
faith may be complicated by the rise
of secular rationalism, and Wesley was quick to repudiate its manifestations
in his own time, but the basic problem
of Christian
faith, at least as perceived by the Wesleyan
tradition, remains the same both before and after the Enlightenment.
Although these Abrahamic
traditions share a lot
in common, from their stories
of shared ancestries, to their patriarchal roots, to various figures and prophets like Jesus, Moses, the Angel Gabriel, and so on, many understand these
faith traditions as rivals.
But even the more conservative wings
of the Wesleyan
tradition (which because
of their basically orthodox stance and their commitment to a «supernatural» articulation
of Christian
faith, have often felt some affinity with the fundamentalist wing
of modem Protestantism) have not been able to find a home
in the circles
of either modem fundamentalism or more recently
in neo-evangelicalism.
But any genuine recovery
of a «particular language
of faith» will entail developing and appropriating a theological
tradition and embodying that
tradition in faithful living — a project that necessarily requires motivations and insights deriving from a quite different kind
of authority than the sociologists possess.
Evangelicalism,
in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological
tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation
of Christian
faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be
in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees
of accommodation to modernity.
Faith in God frees me from bondage to any human teaching, including that
of the Christian
tradition.
Thompson grew up
in a fundamentalist Christian home and his acclaimed 2003 autobiographical graphic novel Blankets tells not only the story
of his first love but also his coming - to - terms with the Christian
tradition of his family, culminating
in a crisis
of faith.
Should we say, as some inclusivists do, that it is because
of Christ's saving mystery, offered to all, that salvation is available to the Hindu, for example,
in the sincere practice
of his or her
faith — that
in Christ salvation is mediated to Christians through the church and to non-Christians through other
traditions of faith?
As Jacques Dupuis put it, Vatican II affirmed positive elements not only
in the personal lives
of people
of other
faiths but
in the religious
traditions to which they belong.
If and when it happens, we might even start baptizing people from alien backgrounds, as the early Christians did, and find our comfortable
traditions shattered by the disconcerting presence
of strangers
in the
faith — including Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus.
It might then be helpful to gather together those principles and ideas about priesthood that have been distinctive within the
Faith Movement while being rooted
in the theological
tradition of priesthood and its practice within the Church.
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.
The purpose
of the
Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradi
Faith Movement,
in harmony with the Trust Deed
of the
Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradi
Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314
in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic
Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradi
Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship
of Jesus Christ
in a living, sacramental practice
of their
faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradi
faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development
of, and further insight into, the Catholic
Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradi
Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and
Tradition.
The Conference examined the way sacred music has evolved
in Jewish, Christian and Muslim
traditions, its different modes
of expression, its contribution to deepening religious experience, and its place
in wider musical and general culture
of the three
faith traditions.
Such theological thinking will be grounded firmly
in a Christian context and
in the language
of commitment particular to the Christian
tradition, interpreting the dimensions
of our
faith for the Christian community.
The confusion on the Assembly floor
in Vancouver reflected the fact that Christians have not been enabled to think theologically about the religious
faith of their neighbors, as believing and praying (or meditating) people with a spiritual history and
tradition of their own.
Questions also are raised about the identity
of the church that plays such a major role
in the Radical Orthodox account
of history, about whether there is a doctrine
of providence implicit
in it, about the dismissal or ignoring
of Protestantism, about the role
of Jesus
in its Christianity, about the role
of Socrates
in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge
of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other
faith traditions are related to this version
of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.
Upon the basis
of Paul's teaching, taken alone, Christianity might possibly have foundered a century later
in the rising sea
of Gnosticism; possessing Mark's compilation
of the historic
traditions, later amplified by the other evangelists, the church held true to its course, steering with firm, unslackened grip upon the historic origins
of its
faith.
We speak
of the «deposit
of faith» which is found
in Scripture as authoritatively interpreted
in the apostolic
tradition under the promised guidance
of the Holy Spirit.
How do you help your children have confidence
in their
faith tradition and
in what they believe when you, as a parent, have questions and doubts
of your own?
Not direct «Paulinism,» then, but the leaven
of Paul's teaching influencing the common
faith of the earliest church
in the West, and hence affecting the
tradition as it came to Mark some years later — that is what we may reasonably look for
in Mark's Gospel.
As the Pope demonstrated
in Fides et Ratio
in good Catholic
tradition,
faith and reason can not function apart from one another
in the mystery
of redemption.
The factors
of chief importance
in the development
of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the
tradition of religious thought
in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience
of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the
tradition of the
faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience
of Christ — only
in theory to be distinguished from the preceding —
in worship,
in preaching,
in teaching,
in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation
of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.
«3 Theology today must attempt to reappropriate Christian
tradition and biblical
faith in terms
of our contemporary situation and language.
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.
Although the Church has preserved a
tradition as a patron
of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals
in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission
of the
faith.
For this reason I would engage now
in more detail with his presentation
of a prominent philosophical
tradition from the point
of view
of the different one presented by the
Faith movement.
Sometimes this has meant that various historic Christian
traditions have affirmed the legitimacy
of each other's differences
in articulating the
faith.
Although Eriugena himself is a marginal figure, he is the inheritor
of an interesting and far from marginal
tradition in the Church's theology, which is
of particular interest to those involved
in the
Faith Movement.
The real test
of love as seen
in the deeper moral
traditions of mankind, and
in the Christian
faith, is the willingness
of persons to commit their lives and sexual being faithfully to one another «till death do us part».29
Rather, Russians see
faith as inherently public and political, and a Russian does not need to embrace the current state
of Russian Orthodoxy as the de facto state religion
in order to take these
traditions seriously.