Not exact matches
We couldn't shake the feeling that maybe we weren't supposed to Go To Church anymore, like we were meant to forge ahead on a broader quest, redefining church and community and finding our
faith again
outside the confines
of church
tradition.
Having recognized the values
of other
traditions, they regard the position to which they are drawn as
outside of faith.
Niebuhr provides a helpful analogy illustrating how relation to a community's «internal history» can connect contemporary believers with the saving events that are often
of little interest to those
outside of the Christian
faith tradition.
«116 Nevertheless he believes that Hartshorne's arguments for God's existence are fully relevant to those
outside these
traditions because these arguments appeal to
faith assumptions which are neutral, that is, aspects
of general secular experience.
Can one really understand the «rule
of faith» (standardized in the Apostles» Creed) as a «canon within the canon,» or is all
tradition rather (to use the words
of James Dunn) a «canon
outside the canon»?
We may get away with it in so far as poverty, oppression, and injustice are concerned, but we will hardly find room for those
faiths, cultures and ideologies
outside the sacred
tradition of the church.
We find some men — the Sufis — putting their
faith in the «unveiling»
of the mystic, others placing theirs in the transmitted
tradition, and the philosophers continuing their old neglect
of the objective study
of the
outside world.