Sublime

The circulation of power-promising confessionalist ideas in the nineteenth century affected many Asian intellectuals and leaders who sought to convert their less radically transcendent and exclusivist traditions. This was the case among Hindu groups in India, Shinto sectarians in Japan, Buddhists in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Taiping Christianit

In a postmodern church we don’t really need a category of “tradition” separate from scripture as long as scripture is interpreted to reflect the sedimentation of Christian experience of the past.

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What Assmann calls ‘revolutionary monotheism’ and distinguishes from polytheism and ‘evolutionary monotheism’ (where ‘all gods are one’) had appeared with the theologization of history or historia sacra in the Judeo-Christian tradition. This historical vision challenged the polytheistic idea of the world suffused with divinity with one which is mer

It is within this perspective that the Marrow Brethren believed that the three-dimensional character and the ongoing significance of the Decalogue were mandated not by “traditionalism,” or by “proof texting,” but by a careful biblical-theological handling of the text of the whole of Scripture.

In the modern world of theology and biblical studies, scholars began believing that they had to establish first the ancient “meaning” of the text and only after that ask what doctrine, theology, or ethics modern Christians should derive from those ancient texts today.