Sentences with phrase «of other traditions»

Yet the image of members of other traditions as living across the sea is still the dominant one.

It should be capable of appropriation by people of other traditions.

Having recognized the values of other traditions, they regard the position to which they are drawn as outside of faith.

After we have learned from the wisdom of the other tradition and been transformed by what we learn, we are in much better position to be heard when we speak.

How is modern Western medicine related to the healing arts of other traditions?

They may find that their own traditions can benefit from the stories of the heroes and saints of other traditions.

I am respectful of others tradition and culture, I am ready to meet, learn and understand my new friend / partner.

The particular value of this approach for a Christian theology of religions is that it recognizes truth in the convictions of these other traditions in the terms concretely stated arid believed by those within those traditions, and it recognizes their status as true alternatives to Christian faith.

Disunity in Christ is an excellent read for all Christians, but especially church leaders who are serious about engaging in healthier dialog with Christians of other traditions, perspectives, and cultures and working toward reconciliation.

Their colleagues of the future include these adherents of other traditions.

For the person who is open to how other people think and feel, encounter with members of other traditions can be an occasion for extending the range of experience, understanding a variety of ways of being human, and seeing new possibilities for realizing his own humanity to which he may have been blinded by the limitations of his culture.

While there has certainly been an increase in collaboration between evangelicals and Catholics in recent years, there has not been an attendant growth in understanding of the other tradition's actual theology.

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 challenge of pluralism is to think through our understanding of Christ so that we see Christ's ultimate importance in ways that do not block our deepest appreciation of other traditions.

It arises when we suppose that recognizing the religious achievements of other traditions works against our claims for Christ's uniqueness and finality.

There was little desire to compare them with mystics of other traditions and times or even to discuss serious debate within Sufism itself.

This further suggests that, whilst we are primarily nourished spiritually by the scriptures and teachings of the community of which we are a member, we can find inspiration in the writings of other traditions.

They therefore can appreciate more fully the deeply human character of their own tradition as well as the authentically human character of other traditions — above all, Judaism.

It closely resembles the spirit of other traditions, such as that expressed in this beautiful poem from Zen Buddhism:

They may be willing to work with people of other faiths on practical matters and to ensure good religious community relations, but because they do not accept the spiritual authenticity of other traditions they are unwilling to come together with them in prayer.

Does it make sense to continue to talk about Christian theology without the context of the other traditions?

Sometimes when we look at our neighbors of other traditions, it can be as if we see in their eyes a reflection of what we see; they do not have the words we have, but something is deeply recognizable.

Other than admiring the beauty of other traditions, what is it that someone who is on this path REALLY believes?

If we see that the very generation of such effective concrete lures is the incarnation (in this extended sense) of divine aims, then there is a deeply Christian reason for affirming the positive valuations of other traditions on their own terms.

If Christians use logical or natural explanations to explain the rise of other traditions, such as the foundation of Mormonism on the visions of Joseph Smith, these explanations must be applied to the Judeo - Christian tradition as well.

Advocates of one tradition learn how to think in terms of another tradition» — and then they learn to identify the unresolved issues characteristic of the other tradition.

Ear from being its death rattle, as some would claim, this accent on openness and humility represents a healthy hearing of other traditions as well as a guard against salvationist imperialism and «inappropriate closure» (John B. Cobb, Jr.).

Part of our new modesty about the authority of word in theology is the willingness to live into the experience of other traditions as we plumb our own theological sensibilities.

It is open to dialogue with other traditions and willing to have Christian faith enriched by ecumenical encounter and exposure to the sacred texts of other traditions.

When I spoke at Wheaton College during a public conversation on Christian and Muslim perspectives on religious diversity, I was impressed again and again by the students who stood up during the Q&A session and shared experiences they'd had meeting deeply religious peers of other traditions.

We were almost a thousand strong, representing over forty nations on six continents, with Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and a huge variety of other traditions.

Insofar as realization of relation with God in one of the dimensions we have discussed excludes communion as a permanent, coequal dimension, it leads to something other than salvation, And, of course, so long as Christians insist on clinging to distinct identities, relations and communion, they will fail to realize the distinctive religious ends of other traditions.

It respects the integrity of other traditions and the presence of irreducible differences.

On the negative side, insofar as either tradition depends on the other, it may also be subject to long - standing criticisms and weaknesses of that other tradition, as, for example, the problem of justice.

Still, I have noticed that when reference to Jesus is postponed or downplayed, conversations between Christians and people of other traditions tend to become arid, but when the figure of Jesus is brought to the fore, either by the Christians or — as sometimes happens — by the others, the dialogue comes alive.

Even students who are critical of other traditions appear interested in discussions of interreligious dialogue and the role of religion in peacemaking.

Arguably, the leader's greatest vulnerability has been his reluctance to acknowledge the place of other traditions in the Labour party beyond his own heterodox brand of socialism.

Although all of our teachers have been influenced and / or trained in the Iyengar style of yoga, each teacher's development may reflect influences of other traditions as well.

She has unearthed historic images, like this one of Marcel Duchamp talking to ICA board chair Lally Lloyd at the opening of The Other Tradition (1966).

Like Christians of other traditions, we, too, have a certain body of teachers whom we trust and a certain history of teaching we respect.

The inclusivist approach in Christian theology, however, without denying the value of other traditions, is more concerned with boundary maintenance.

I would also try not to base my theological reading of current world history so narrowly in my own Christian tradition, but would try to draw on the insights of other traditions, as we must all increasingly do at a time when the world religions elbow each other in unprecedented closeness.

This means that in the twenty - first century the tension between wholehearted commitment to Jesus Christ and wholehearted openness to the wisdom of other traditions and communities will fade into the past.

Along with this deepening of faith through each student's own heritage should go a broadening of perspective through continuing conversations with persons of other traditions.