A Larger Ekumenism?
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:59 pm
Salvete sodales omnes -
Here's a topic that may or may not interest the sodality. I was raised Episcopalian Christian, have always been in awe of Christ and of the Christian idea of altruism, but have also always felt drawn to other faiths, other mythical systems, and to a reverence for the earthly. It seems that Christianity is now as Paganism was during the years stretching from Constantine to Justinian - surviving as an older, scorned faith. On the other hand, Neo-paganisms are flourishing, with the Religio Romana prime among them.
So I wanted to ask: Can there be a Universalism or Ekumenism that allows Roman Religionists, Wiccan-ites, Christians, Muslims, Stoics, Epicureans, Mystics, Animists, Agnostics, et alii, to share their perceptions of Life's Mystery, of the Eternal, and of Right Conduct, without the friction and faction that make for violence? Can the world come to a Pax Ecumenicalis without doing violence to those same individual faiths and understandings? How would it work? Or would it simply be undesirable? I wondered what our various and enlightened group might have to say.
Quid censetis?
Valete.
Here's a topic that may or may not interest the sodality. I was raised Episcopalian Christian, have always been in awe of Christ and of the Christian idea of altruism, but have also always felt drawn to other faiths, other mythical systems, and to a reverence for the earthly. It seems that Christianity is now as Paganism was during the years stretching from Constantine to Justinian - surviving as an older, scorned faith. On the other hand, Neo-paganisms are flourishing, with the Religio Romana prime among them.
So I wanted to ask: Can there be a Universalism or Ekumenism that allows Roman Religionists, Wiccan-ites, Christians, Muslims, Stoics, Epicureans, Mystics, Animists, Agnostics, et alii, to share their perceptions of Life's Mystery, of the Eternal, and of Right Conduct, without the friction and faction that make for violence? Can the world come to a Pax Ecumenicalis without doing violence to those same individual faiths and understandings? How would it work? Or would it simply be undesirable? I wondered what our various and enlightened group might have to say.
Quid censetis?
Valete.