In other words, anything resembling "systematic" theology or philosophy -- the attempt to coalesce one's worldview into a concise set of concepts -- puts us in danger of creating fodder for the perpetuation or justification of injustice.
Precisely. The problem with codification into a set symbology is that the tendancy to think of the words as the way themselves rather than the words as a necessarily limited (because language encompasses so very little of thought) description of a way to find the path. From my understanding, following the laws and rituals is not equal to salvation, but a way that the heart/spirit or whatever you want to call it could become open to whatever term one wants to use to describe the inherent dignity of all creation and the principle of universal connectedness. Too ridgid a belief in the laws/rituals as being the equivalent of "salvation" would close off the possibility of finding the very thing one is claiming to try to seek.
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Date: 2006-06-07 04:28 am (UTC)Precisely. The problem with codification into a set symbology is that the tendancy to think of the words as the way themselves rather than the words as a necessarily limited (because language encompasses so very little of thought) description of a way to find the path. From my understanding, following the laws and rituals is not equal to salvation, but a way that the heart/spirit or whatever you want to call it could become open to whatever term one wants to use to describe the inherent dignity of all creation and the principle of universal connectedness. Too ridgid a belief in the laws/rituals as being the equivalent of "salvation" would close off the possibility of finding the very thing one is claiming to try to seek.