Not exact matches
@ lionlylamb: per rightly dividing the word... the video below is what Paul was
talking about (focusing on Christ), not philosophical abstractions... «See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human
tradition and the elemental
spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»
; geography and ethnicity («if he's from Galilee, it isn't valid); government authorities (the temple police don't know what to do with him); religious and
spiritual authorities (the chief priests rule him out); legal authorities (Pharisees); and
tradition or historical authority («No one's ever
talked like this before»).
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.
If I had to guess, I would guess that most of the
spiritual abuse that you guys
talk about occurs in the reformed and pentecostal
traditions.
After lunch, Father Ed settles down to
talk to me about his remarkable
spiritual journey to the Ordinariate — the structure set up by Pope Benedict to allow former Anglicans to become Catholics, bringing with them some of their Anglican
traditions — and about what he sees as its particular mission, to revive authentic, English spirituality in the Catholic Church.
They included his 1983 inaugural, his famous keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, a
talk at Yale University in 1985, and of course, his defense of abortion rights at the University of Notre Dame that defined how «Cuomo wrestled with his Catholicism even as he became richly tied to its intellectual
traditions and
spiritual message.»