Quotes to consider:
“The failure to treat religion ‘as religion’–that is, the refusal to ratify its claim of transcendent nature and sacrosanct status–may be regarded as heresy and sacrilege by those who construct themselves as religious, but it is the starting point for those who construct themselves as historians.”
—Bruce Lincoln (born 1948)
“The basic error of fundamentalism is that it overlooks the contribution of the receptive side in the revelatory situation and consequently identifies one individual and conditioned form of receiving the divine with the divine itself. But there are other forms.
“Even in the Bible we find differences between the priestly and prophetic writings, between early and late traditions in the Four Gospels. We find them, too, in the classics of church history and in the denominational interpretations of the Bible today. Revelation cannot be separated from them.
“…But there is no pure revelation. Wherever the divine is manifest, it is manifest in ‘flesh,’ that is, in a concrete, physical, and historical reality, as in the religious receptivity of the biblical writers.”
—Paul Tillich (1886-1965)
“Four themes are essential to the prophetic-liberating tradition of Biblical faith: (1) God's defense and vindication of the oppressed; (2) the critique of the dominant systems of power and their powerholders; (3) the vision of a new age to come in which the present system of injustice is overcome and God's intended reign of peace and justice is installed in history; and (4) finally, the critique of ideology, or of religion, since ideology in this context is primarily religious.
“Prophetic faith denounces religious ideologies and systems that function to justify and sanctify the dominant, unjust social order. These traditions are central to the Prophets and to the mission of Jesus. Hence the critical-liberating tradition is the axis around which the prophetic-messianic line of Biblical faith revolves as a foundation for Christianity.”
—Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936-2022)
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