Gail Leggio (American Arts) reminds us that we need to "engage with" tradition and history, we don't need to imitate old models. The new needs to keep the old fresh. But moving forward within a tradition is a tricky proposition.
T. S. Eliot, both a high modernist and classicist, said that we know more than those who came before us because they are what we know.
Revitalizing religion is even trickier than reviving art because religious revelation is usually set in dogmatic stone, protected by declarations of heresy. I think it is a mistake to declare that the “ leaps of being” (Kirk) at the roots of order are finished. Such great leaps can be revelations by any other name.
The Twofold Path in Evolutionary Christianity is such a leap, affirming the Outward Path of evolution to Godhood, while including the tradition of the Inward Path to the God Within. This is the way I cope with religion and philosophy dying in the West, while holding on to tradition.
T. S. Eliot, both a high modernist and classicist, said that we know more than those who came before us because they are what we know.
Revitalizing religion is even trickier than reviving art because religious revelation is usually set in dogmatic stone, protected by declarations of heresy. I think it is a mistake to declare that the “ leaps of being” (Kirk) at the roots of order are finished. Such great leaps can be revelations by any other name.
The Twofold Path in Evolutionary Christianity is such a leap, affirming the Outward Path of evolution to Godhood, while including the tradition of the Inward Path to the God Within. This is the way I cope with religion and philosophy dying in the West, while holding on to tradition.
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