Missionary translations of the message provided the primary impetus for this new form of Christian agency, preserving indigenous cultures by fixing them in written texts and preserving
the traditional names of God in translating the Bible into new cultures.
Not exact matches
I wandered through other church traditions,
traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you
name it, I found my way there and I found the people
of God in each place, I did.
(Exodus 3:13 - 14) In consonance with this
traditional attitude, the Jews, from reverential motives, substituted adonai, meaning «lord,» for the sacred
name in their reading
of the Scriptures; as a consequence, in the thirteenth century Christian Hebraists mistakenly used the consonants
of the
name jhwh with the Hebrew vowels
of adonai, thus getting Jehovah; but behind this later mystification lay in primitive times the recognized unwillingness
of any
god to surrender possession
of his secret
name, lest the possessor thereby gain control over him.
What the Girl Scouts decided was that if the girl in question believed in something that allowed for the same
traditional Scouting function
of religious education — religious and spiritual self - cultivation based on the principle
of a moral order
of which the Scout can be a part — she could substitute her preferred
name for that instead
of using the word «
God.»
The
traditional way
of handling the difficult question
of whether or not it is okay to call
God Allah is by comparing Christianity and Islam, and then saying that since the religions are so different, it would be wrong to
name the Christian
God Allah.
Some years ago, when revisionary theologians proposed baptizing people «in the
name of the creator, the redeemer, and the sustainer,» their opponents insisted that the
traditional biblical formula, «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,» could not be dispensed with, because it is not merely a metaphor but
God's own
name.
American radical theology, or the death -
of -
God movement, is generally seen as a negation
of traditional Christianity in the
name of honesty and modernity.
Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some
of the
name - calling and accusations
of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and
traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment
of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the
traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling
of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message
of the kingdom
of God.»
If gays begin burning infants in the
name of Ba'al there would be that
traditional conflict with the people
of God.
(4) 2:19 --»... in the garden
of Eden
God saw the animals before he
named them: in the
traditional system [
of education] children
named the animals before they saw them» (SMW 285).
We shall see, as we proceed with our narrative, that the way the Scriptures picture
God as dealing with man characterizes the history
of Christianity, not only in the preparation for the coming
of His Son in the flesh and in the reception
of His Son, but as well in the subsequent record
of the religion
named after the
traditional designation
of His Son.
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