There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no reason to be intimidated in the presence of later-stage modernity. Christianity has seen too many 'modern eras' to be cowed by this one.
Thomas C. OdenStichwörter: christianity theology modernity post-modernity
Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is time to end this standoff, and to reestablish a hermeneutic of trust (itself a sign of the gospel!) in place of the hermeneutic of suspicion which the church has so disastrously borrowed from the postmodern world.
N.T. WrightStichwörter: doubt christianity scripture church trust bible skepticism theology fundamentalists suspicion
The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed: the maculist position, which held that Mary was subject to original sin, in common with every other human being; and the immaculist position, which held that contrary view that Mary was in some way preserved from original sin, and was thus to be considered sinless. The maculist position was regarded as firmly established within the High Scholasticism of the thirteenth century. The veneration of the Virgin within popular piety, however, proved to have an enormously creative power that initially challenged, and subsequently triumphed over, the academic objections raised against it by university theologians.
Stichwörter: christianity theology catholicism mary middle-ages original-sin virgin-mary immaculate-conception lay-religion mariology
In short, an astonishingly broad spectrum of theologies of justification existed in the later medieval period, encompassing practically every option that had not been specifically condemned as heretical by the Council of Carthage. In the absence of any definitive magisterial pronouncement concerning which of these options (or even what range of options) could be considered authentically catholic, it was left to each theologian to reach his own decision in this matter. A self-perpetuating doctrinal pluralism was thus an inevitability.
Stichwörter: christianity theology justification catholic-church reformation
The unbiblical idea of "spirituality" is that the truly "spiritual" man is the person who is sort of "non-physical," who doesn't get involved in "earthly" things, who doesn't work very much or think very hard, and who spends most of his time meditating about how he'd rather be in heaven. As long as he's on earth, though, he has one main duty in life: Get stepped on for Jesus. The "spiritual" man, in this view, is a wimp. A Loser. But at least he's a Good Loser.
David H. ChiltonStichwörter: christianity theology christian-teleology
Zeena believes that the breaking of taboos creates access to blocked energy that is let loose in a forceful way. The left-hand path is about consciously breaking with a ‘sleepwalker orthodoxy’ to be able to act as a fully awaken and conscious individual. In her book, George Orwell (1984) is quoted: “Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” At the same time she notes that the left-hand path is the ‘way of action’. It is not about intellectual contemplation, or worse, just reading about action.'
About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger from: Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background
and role within new Western religiosity, University of Stockholm, 2004
Stichwörter: buddhism magic spirituality liberation action theology initiation magick taking-action revolutionary self-examination shamanism subversion outcasts taboos sorcery tantra dissident women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking
A certain amount of native skill and training can allow many individuals to be fairly successful magicians, achieving a surprisingly high ratio of positive results through sorcery.(...) These outer changes, no matter how dramatic, will not necessarily have a deep impact on the deepest levels of your psyche, which is where the process of initiation most meaningfully manifests.'
--Zeena Schreck for “Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background
and role within new Western religiosity,” University of Stockholm, Malin Fitger 2004
Stichwörter: buddhism magic spirituality liberation theology initiation magick self-examination shamanism sorcery tantra women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga
Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister
current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.”
-Zeena Schreck for "Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity," University of Stockholm, Malin Fitger 2004
Stichwörter: buddhism magic spirituality liberation action theology initiation magick taking-action revolutionary self-examination shamanism subversion outcasts taboos sorcery tantra dissident women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking
In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of the initiate on the left-hand path is to become ‘this bisexual twin godhead’ and activate a state of perceptual sexual ecstasy within one's own consciousness. Zeena points out that a corresponding symbolism is found in the western hermeticism in the idea of ‘the inner androgyne.’
--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004
Stichwörter: buddhism magic spirituality liberation action theology initiation magick taking-action revolutionary self-examination shamanism subversion outcasts taboos sorcery tantra dissident women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking
Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that is different and the fact that adepts on the lefthand
path seek liberation in this life.
--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004
Stichwörter: buddhism magic spirituality liberation action theology initiation magick taking-action revolutionary self-examination shamanism subversion outcasts taboos sorcery tantra dissident women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking
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