Others have argued for a «pluralist» approach, suggesting that no religion can claim a preferential position, but that the Divine Mystery, who is
revealed in each religious tradition, is never fully apprehended and that each faith tradition witnesses to aspects of the divine glory.
Not exact matches
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.
«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.
Hence, only by
revealing his own views of his place
in the cosmos - which are
religious as even such nontraditionalists as Spinoza and Einstein understood - can Schlesinger argue for the authority of «History,» or «our folkways,
traditions, standards.»
The context
in which the spirit and intention of the present book are most clearly
revealed is that of the
religious traditions of mankind.
An analysis of current
religious programming on American television
reveals the influence of this shaping effect on
religious programming also: particular
religious traditions are presented to the exclusion of others; there are apparent similarities between the content of many
religious programs and general television programming; and there are similarities
in religious program formats and content even
in programs from a range of different theological
traditions and experience.
For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with
religious experience, worship, spirituality, counseling, and the like over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may
reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich
in offerings
in ethics, sociology of religion, liberation theology, and the like than
in offerings
in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical
traditions may
reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood
in action than
in contemplation.
Orthodox Judaism is the approach to
religious Judaism which subscribes to a
tradition of mass revelation, and adheres to the interpretation and application Essentially the Orthodox Church shares much with the other Christian Churches
in the belief that God
revealed himself
in Jesus Christ, and a