What I mean by a contemplative tradition is a tradition that belongs to a community which assumes that there is more to reality than can be grasped with the five senses. It assumes that there is an unseen world, which permeates but also extends beyond the sensible world to an ultimate reality, or world, which no one created.
Suzie was sitting by the pond in the park with her grandmother. It was a beautiful Fall day. They were watching the geese and the ducks swim. Two of the ducks paddled over to the edge of the pond, and began waddling over to them, or at least in their direction.
Catholic New Times | July 01, 2001 | Kaiser, Robert Blair
This is a great book by the Anglican theologian, John Macquarrie. Very helpful in sorting through Eastern vs. Westerns views of God, atheism, fundamentalism, and more. Complete text is below. There is a one-page summary right after the biography.
Biography
A sermon on John 10:22-30, preached at Bishop Cronyn Memorial Church (Anglican) in London, Ontario on April 25, 2010
(stage center: intro)
"There are two kinds of people in the world..." Have you ever heard someone make a claim that started with a statement like that?
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