Not exact matches
Through these further human relations Christ leaves
other principles which will endure in the Church: Petrine (Office and Sacraments), Pauline (missionary character and charisms), Johannine (unity,
contemplative love and the evangelical counsels) and Jacobine (continuity of old and new covenant —
Tradition, Canon Law).
The
tradition of lectio divina — a
contemplative reading of scripture — was lost to the Protestant Church, which preferred
other ways of reading the scriptures.
On the
other hand, there are numerous points of entry into the biblical canon — whether the Gospels in
contemplative traditions or Paul's letter to the Romans in Lutheran churches.
However Yang renders contemporary China as a pastiche, excerpting imagery and techniques as diverse as film noir on the one hand and the
contemplative tradition of Chinese gardens on the
other.