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Pluralism: Reducible or Irreducible?
Syndicated from: open source theology - collaborative theology for the emerging c on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 10:46 faith syndicated articlesAmong present commentators, how is Jesus related to other figures of religious devotion like the Buddha or Muhammad or even New Agers?
One popular response is to reduce the relationship between Jesus and, say, the Buddha, to one of Right versus Wrong. Let’s call this view the “many paths, one goal” model of thought. Usually, it turns out that Jesus is Right and the Buddha is Wrong. Ravi Zacharias, a popular Christian theologian, philosopher and commentator recently gave a talk that focused explicitly on the zero-sum relationship between Jesus and Eastern religions. And in turn, Tom Gilson over at the Thinking Christian blog used Zacharias’ insight to declare followers of New Age deities “contradictory” and wrong. For folks standing with Zacharias and Gilson, then, the empirically apparent plurality of religious figures is reducible to a single relationship of either Right or Wrong.
GOLDEN WORDS FROM SAINT POET VEMANA...........VI
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 05:19. Belief blind belief Bliss faith god idolatory inner realizationVemana a saint poet is believed to have lived in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India during 17-18 centuries. He enjoyed worldly pleasures and company of women in his youth without a check and is believed to have renounced the world at a later stage much disillusioned with the way of world. His poems are popular with common men and he spelt out his poems in simple Telugu poetey that could be very easily understood. His poems reflect the social and political conditions of that age and ills in the society. The European officer C Brown of British Government who was an officer in the related district where Vemana roamed and lived has done a great amount of research work. Some of his Telugu poems are presented as translated English poems that send an universal message to the people of the world.
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Golden words from Saint Poet Vemana....V
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 22:05. Adwaita faith god Knowledge Lingam Self realization ShivaVemana a saint poet is believed to have lived in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India during 17-18 centuries. He enjoyed worldly pleasures and company of women in his youth without a check and is believed to have renounced the world at a later stage much disillusioned with the way of world. His poems are popular with common men and he spelt out his poems in simple Telugu poetey that could be very easily understood. His poems reflect the social and political conditions of that age and ills in the society. The European officer C Brown of British Government who was an officer in the related district where Vemana roamed and lived has done a great amount of research work. Some of his Telugu poems are presented as translated English poems that send an universal message to the people of the world.................
The golden words from Saint Poet Vemana ........III
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 09:23. faith god mantra realisationGOLDEN WORDS FROM SAINT POET VEMANA.............III
Vemana a saint poet is believed to have lived in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India during 17-18 centuries. He enjoyed worldly pleasures and company of women in his youth without a check and is believed to have renounced the world at a later stage much disillusioned with the way of world. His poems are popular with common men and he spelt out his poems in simple Telugu poetey that could be very easily understood. His poems reflect the social and political conditions of that age and ills in the society. The European officer C Brown of British Government who was an officer in the related district where Vemana roamed and lived has done a great amount of research work. Some of his Telugu poems are presented as translated English poems that send an universal message to the people of the world...............
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ETERNAL RACE
Submitted by K Prabhakar Rao on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 09:38. faith mysteries nature unknownsHigh up in the sky stars twinkle
Hidden in the tress birds quackle
And feeble light cast fading shadows
As light breeze flows through the meadows
Spiritual Development According to M. Scott Peck.
Submitted by bill on Mon, 04/07/2008 - 18:11. faith m scott peck mystery stages of faithWe've discussed stages of spiritual development before. And now I want to tell you what I've learned from M. Scott Peck.1 His stages are a delicious mix of Fowler, Jung, and a hint of gnosis and mysticism, but well blended with years of psychotherapy experience. Or, Dr. Peck's stages of spiritual development are more of a simplification of Fowler, with somewhat of a grounding in Jung (who laboriously studied the ancient gnosis approach to mental healing), and is forged from his own study and experience.
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I've Changed. Moved On. It's done, and There's No Going Back
Submitted by bill on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 22:11. debate discernment faith Faith, Meaning & Purpose religion spirituality truthI've moved on. Changed. It came on slowly, almost imperceptibly, but my eventual recognition was rather swift, once I understood what was happening. Only a matter of days, it was. Now I can hardly see the path I trod to get to here from there. But I do remember that it as very long, bewildering and painful. And still there is much more of the road to travel.
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What a Long, Strange Trip it's Been
Submitted by bill on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 20:26. faith faithcommons grateful dead hoffer literalism orthodoxyWhat a long, strange trip it's been.1 After three years, an update to this thread might prove interesting. In it, I used terminology that I no longer use, nor can relate to. Brian was ahead of me, and made an important observation that is rather telling, in retrospect. If you've been following along these few years, or you're new to faithCommons and curious about the road we've traveled, then now is an opportunity to look back over the shoulder of the site called faithcommons.org
Life, Death, Grief, and Finding Meaning in the Commons
Submitted by bill on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 15:30. death faith imago dei Kingdom of God life meaning Paradox purpose in life religionMy sister lost her husband of thirty-one years last week. It all happened rather quickly and Tuesday was the quickest that we could get out to see her to share some grief, and to begin to find some meaning for it all—especially for her as she begins to forge a new identity as half of what was, toward all of what needs becoming. But to some extent, every one who had any ties of consciousness with Fred needs to readjust to the loss, because true friends and loved ones are actually a part of us in this respect—we take each other into our selves. She has received many comments, cards, phone calls, and emails as evidence to the often surprising extent to which one person can affect many others through their lives, and consequently, also in their death.
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Dealing with Mosquitoes: A Faith-based Survey
Syndicated from: Multifaith Information Gateway on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 00:31 creation faith Interfaith Dialog syndicated blogs theology NB. This is only a sample survey. Ask me for more faith-based resources.
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