Sentences with phrase «own spiritual traditions»

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.

There are other religious and spiritual traditions, that hold the vision of the future as justice and peace in Asia.

«Truth Be Known was created in 1995 by independent scholar and author of comparative religion and mythology D.M. Murdock, also known as «Acharya S.» Acharya's work is designed to bring to light fascinating lost, hidden and destroyed religious, mythological and spiritual traditions that reveal an exciting core of knowledge dating back thousands of years.

but if you are at all familiar with any spiritual tradition, especially the major ones, or any spiritualities worth their salt, then you will know that they all talk about denial of self.

The real guides in this book are the saints themselves and Tolhurst reveals a deep respect both for them and for the Catholic spiritual tradition.

Most Likely to Make You Cry (in a good way): Jan Johnson with «Weeping Prayer» [found this over at Elizabeth Esther's blog] «In Christian spiritual tradition, certain kinds of weeping are a charism, or gift of the Spirit.»

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.

What is needed, then, is ongoing conversion facilitated by spiritual traditions within Christianity as the mechanism by which one enters the Great Tradition and develops the interior disposition of discernment.

Such a position allows for no compromise or willingness to accept the validity of other spiritual traditions.

The author of this study, however, sees Eriugena as the inheritor of a spiritual tradition that, while acknowledging the influence of Augustine of Hippo, also embraces Gregory of Nyssa, Evagrius Ponticus and Maximus the Confessor.

But it is so open to be all - inclusive, all - consuming, like a unifying theory that applies to everyone from atheist to believer in any religious or spiritual tradition, that most wouldn't accept me as a part of their club.

While they serve Catholic spiritual traditions in a distinctive way, they are clearly not for Catholics only.

But reading the Bible prayerfully is a very important strand of the Christian spiritual tradition.

The venerable spiritual tradition being invoked here is that of purification through suffering, in the confidence that Fr.

The church therefore would seem to have much to offer the New Urbanist enterprise out of its own long intellectual and spiritual traditions — not least a serious and sophisticated view of human nature and human community, a pastoral mandate to serve rich and poor, and a long history of urban and architectural patronage.

That the most advanced Christian thinker of the century with a scientific background could not see the conflict in those relations is another sign of the inadequacies of our spiritual traditions, says Berry.

The same slave owners evangelized the slaves into Christian moral codes and dogmas that insisted slaves renounce their native spiritual traditions.

Don mentioned that he had met with a priest who had asked about native spiritual traditions and how they might be recovered.

Abingdon Press has recently published Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church, based on lectures regarding Catholic and Protestant spiritual traditions under the aegis of Wesley Theological Seminary and the Domincan House of Studies in Washington, D.C..

It finds its appropriate organ not in a state, but in a Church, that is to say a society which is the embodiment of a purely spiritual tradition and which rests, not on material power, but on the free adhesion of the individual mind.

One of the things that most spiritual traditions insist upon, though, is that at some stage a spiritual guide is very important.

In the spring of 1952 Buber was awarded the Goethe Prize by the University of Hamburg for his «activity in the spirit of a genuine humanity» and for «an exemplary cultural activity which serves the mutual understanding of men and the preservation and continuation of a high spiritual tradition.»

Does not every spiritual tradition recognize that care for others is respect for the numinous in every person, as well as a manifestation of the divine within the one who cares?

If my argument is correct then it is more important than ever for Christians to «batten down the hatches» and preserve the rich intellectual and spiritual tradition that they are heirs to.

Mass Production of Spiritual Teachers: There are a number of current trendy spiritual traditions that produce people who believe themselves to be at a level of spiritual enlightenment, or mastery, that is far beyond their actual level.

5) Henry Rosemont, Jr., Rationality and Religious Experience: The Continuing Relevance of World Spiritual Traditions.

[4] The sacred writings of other spiritual traditions are referenced in varying degrees by the different authors and denominations.

In mine (Unitarian Universalism), members are expected to engage with their own beliefs and those of extant religious and spiritual traditions, ideally developing a «questioning faith» - One based not on doctrine or creed but on deep, sustained inquiry.

These are important questions on which economic theory and spiritual traditions hold different views.

I fear that he is right in speculating that not only has our age lost its knowledge of our cultural and spiritual traditions, but we have even lost the sensibility by which to understand them.

As we all know, spiritual traditions describe reality in terms rather different from those of traditional economic theory.

I've done a lot of meditation and exploring of different kinds of spiritual traditions.

Indeed, as we have tried to suggest in a limited fashion, there may be reasons to conclude that elements of Amoris Laetitia are better explained by reference to Pope Francis's personal characteristics than to the spiritual tradition to which he belongs.

As Fr Bertram suggests, those who have never felt drawn to the «contemplative» spiritual tradition may find Newman's work especially helpful - but in truth, there is something in these pages for everyone to treasure.

In view of this violent trajectory of objectivism, Palmer argues, «we must recover from our spiritual tradition the models and methods of knowing as an act of love.»

Orat, which succinctly reminds us of the spiritual tradition which Newman represents.

By contrast to Rorty, Parker Palmer is quite lucid on the subject of community precisely because he, unlike Rorty, is rooted in a spiritual tradition.

Religious doctrine is interpreted as a kind of pooled subjectivity within a particular cultural and spiritual tradition.

In this, Tolkien is echoing an ancient spiritual tradition that extends back through his own Catholic faith, and the Anglo - Catholicism of his friends at Oxford, all the way through the Jewish and Christian testaments.

Imagine a world in which the deepest wisdom and values of the great spiritual traditions touch the critical questions of the age, and in which religious communities are in deep and thoughtful dialogue with experts on all those critical questions.35

So in her conclusion she highlights some of the accomplishments of Byzantine civilization: an imperial government built on a trained civilian administration and tax system; a legal structure based on Roman law; a curriculum of secular education that preserved classical learning; theological thought, artistic expression, and spiritual traditions that are still alive in the Orthodox churches; and coronation and court rituals that were adopted by other rulers.

The most important point of convergence shared by the world's great spiritual traditions is to be found in the practice and power of selfless love for all humanity.

The uniquely Christian Revelation in theTrinitarian and Christological Mysteries provide the spiritual paths that speak most deeply to me although I find many valid insights in other spiritual traditions, especially the Eastern Religions and even primitive shamanism.

With minor variations, they hold views similar to those of Brahmabandhab Upadhyay, namely that the Hindu tradition is a samaj dharma or societal tradition which is open to a variety of sadhana dharma (s) or spiritual traditions.

It is important to remember that we stand in a spiritual tradition that is 2,000 years old, and longer if we include our Jewish heritage.

In recent years there has been growing appreciation of the Aboriginals» sense of sacred space and of their rich spiritual traditions of the «dream - time».

Religion has become more of a business than a spiritual Tradition.

I began to let go of many things and embrace new and came to the conclusion that Western Church and theology has misunderstood Jesus life and teachings altogether as IMO it can only be understood from a Eastern Spiritual Tradition perspective.

Highly recommended for anyone interested in the intellectual and spiritual traditions of the early Church.