Sentences with phrase «spiritual traditions only»

Not exact matches

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

In accordance with the longstanding tradition of sobornost, a «spiritual community of many jointly living people,» many Russians believe that they can only fully acquire a sense of meaning and purpose as a people, not as separate individuals.

As we attempted to outline in our last editorial, when we search the pages of human history we do find such a line of spiritual and religious tradition that not only claims the direct authority of the Absolute Transcendent One whose name is «I Am Who I Am», but is also coherently developmental in doctrine and in providence across millennia.

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

Do we teach the tradition to our soldiers and those who may become soldiers and do we assure them of our spiritual and material support as they abide by the tradition, whether that takes the form of refusing to fight in an unjust war, or fighting in a war but only justly?

True to its Greek origins, this tradition defines the spiritual as the immaterial — this world, our bodies and our experiences are only shadows, while the real spiritual world exists someplace else where truth, beauty and justice last forever.

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.

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.

While Ataman's World treats Islamic art explicitly, addressing directly the long history of calligraphy, Y. Z. Kami's portraits deal only indirectly with Islamic mysticism, particularly the Sufi tradition of spiritual development.