Religious Literacy

[Mtheory]

Harvard Divinity has launched the Religious Literacy Project/Pluralism Project.

Their motto is Traditions often blind us from the Truth.

If you are a teacher or clergy, deadline for applications is March 28th. This free 1 week course also includes travel expenses.

 

[OnAJourney]

Their motto is Traditions often blind us from the Truth.

While I’m sure they mean well, I think that motto is a bit silly.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Their motto is Traditions often blind us from the Truth.

This motto is an instant turn-off. It sounds like if you follow any tradition then you’re not a truth-seeker. Also, that if you believe you already have the truth, as Catholics do, then you’re either outright wrong or at the very least are going to have your view challenged a lot.

Not sure who they’re trying to attract with that, but it sounds uncomfortably like a lot of the Catholic clergy from the 1970s when it seemed like many just wanted to throw out anything that happened prior to Vatican II, including the Rosary and other devotional practices.

I would avoid such a project based on the motto alone.

 

[truthnlife]

I would avoid such a project based on the motto alone.

As I might also, being a non-academic. But, the study of theology, is an academic pursuit rather than spiritual. Applied Theology only takes on spirituality. So, like any university course or project, the base knowledge of the endeavor will not in itself weaken one’s application of theological belief, but rather might strengthen it.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I would note that the OP of this thread is posting elsewhere that the Bible is forged and Stanford U says prayer is a lie and all kinds of other claptrap.

OP, you appear to have an agenda going on here, likely in violation of the forum TOS.

https://forums.catholic-questions.org/t/arguments-for-christianity/541928/2

 

[AlaricB]

It seems so. It’s ironic that the aim of M-theory is an attempt at unification (of quantum mechanics and general relativity and also of the five different versions of string theory). Very different from what we seem to have here.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

There is nothing unifying about coming onto a forum simply to insult everyone’s beliefs.

 

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[Fauken]

I’ll go cry bitter tears into my BSEE degree now because mighty academia – using the university system created by the Catholic Church – has people who say that the Bible is hocus pocus.

And here academics wonder why academia is referred to as an ivory tower.