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Ritualization Of Texts And Textualization Of Ritual In The Codification Of Taoist Liturgy, Catherine M. Bell
Ritualization Of Texts And Textualization Of Ritual In The Codification Of Taoist Liturgy, Catherine M. Bell
Religious Studies
Early in the fifth century in China, the Taoist master began to edit a set of scriptures that had been "revealed" years earlier. These were the Ling-pao or Spiritual tures, considered to be the second major scriptural development of medieval Taoism. 1 In reconstructing corpus of Ling-pao scriptures from among a multitude and forgeries, Lu worked to present these texts as revelation of the Tao in history, thereby inhibiting further and securing some closure on an early canon. At however, Lu began to codify the ritual material contained scriptures to fashion the liturgical directives that for much of the subsequent …
Foreword To Landscapes Of The Sacred: Geography And Narrative In American Spirituality, Sandra Marie Schneiders
Foreword To Landscapes Of The Sacred: Geography And Narrative In American Spirituality, Sandra Marie Schneiders
Jesuit School of Theology
The reader of Belden Lane's fascinating study, Landscapes of the Sacred, cannot escape a sense of encountering, in one and the same moment, insights which are both highly original and yet somehow so inevitable that one wonders at not having thought of them before. It is an experience of wandering into new territory and recognizing it as home, which is precisely the experience the book is trying to describe. In that sense, this work is a medium which is its message.
Religious Life: The Dialectic Between Marginality And Transformation, Sandra Marie Schneiders
Religious Life: The Dialectic Between Marginality And Transformation, Sandra Marie Schneiders
Jesuit School of Theology
Thomas Merton began, early in his monastic career, to explain religious life and especially the enclosed contemplative form of that life, to what he then regarded as “the outside world.” At first his attitude toward the “world” was more than tinged with the contempt and even arrogance of someone who saw himself as having chosen the better part in contrast to those who did not have the spiritual wisdom or moral courage to abandon the sinful context of ordinary life for the purity of the cloister.(1) Toward the end of his life he came to realize that “leaving the world” …