What Do Classic Christian Writers Say about How We Follow the Golden Rule? Matthew Henry argues that theMatthew 7:12passage indicates not only that we should treat people fairly, but, read alongside other Bible passages,it shows that blessings and righteous living and spiritual disciplines go hand...
Yes, agnostics, “spiritual-but-not-religious,” and even some atheists who are drawn to careers in service, activism, justice, and community organizing have opted to go to divinity school. This SofP gained the author admission to many of America’s most competitive programs: Yale Divinity S...
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Simultaneously, his biblical allusions (e.g., “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred”) connect civil rights to spiritual traditions deeply respected by both Black and white Americans in the 1960s. These interwoven allusions create...
(against the body) and similarly adopted the concept of the divine soul—the pneumatic, or spiritual, soul, as the gnostic would say, of the same substance as the divinity—that is destined to free itself from thetyrannyof a material, cosmic demiurge (or subordinate deity). Certain gnostics...
Europeans and, later, Euro-Americans prohibited and attempted to erase American Indian cultures, languages, and spiritual beliefs and practices, including gender and sexual variance. With the forcedChristian educationof American Indian children, those cultural and spiritual beliefs—including the roles of...
In Christian thought, for example, this is illustrated by the tendency to define the church in terms of such exterior elements as its social structure, rituals, and the obligations it imposes on the faithful, rather than to view it as an essentially spiritual entity. Historically, extrinsicism ...