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Society and the sacred

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Society is inherently religious, and without religious criticism and concern society can become demonic. Religious myths answer the deepest questions of our identity: our origins, our destiny and the meaning of our life as individuals and as a society. No social order can be challenged and refashioned without challenging its underlying myths. In this scientific age, faith is inescapable, necessary and fully possible. The Christian faith is eminently adequate and appropriate to meet the needs of a society in this age. The symbolic system in our nation that must be challenged by healthy religion includes "the American way of life," "America, love it or leave it," and the myth of progress. Such a religion must let go of any claim to absoluteness in its moral laws, forms, doctrines, or institutions. This puts us in a paradoxical position. No longer can we claim that healing force exists only in our religious response to the true Absolute. We must at one and the same time affirm our own faith and yet recognize that of the other traditions. This sea is uncharted. If we are able to navigate this journey, our encounters with other religions (such as Buddhism) can uncover both creative elements and demonic aspects of our own tradition. Either way, our faith can thereby become deeper.

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261 GIL s

Z. HANDIMAN

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Call Number

261 GIL s

Publisher

New York : Crossroad., 1981

Collation

xii, 170p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-8245-0089-X

Classification

261

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Subject(s)

CHRISTIANITY AND CULTURE

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