Feminist theology is a movement that reconsiders the traditions, practices, scriptures, and theologies of religions from a feminist perspective.
That "diaspora mentality" is a source of hope, because it is often the case that people living away from "homelands" produce more creative interpretations of their religious practice and scriptures.
As an illustration of Milton's process, this essay probes his practice of rendering scripture into Latin, which brings out the complexities of the agency that engaging in this process of charitably liberated interpretation requires.
You might read Scripture, practice centering prayer, write a psalm, make a gratitude list, or go on a hike with God.
Although the 1998 conference had declared both practices "incompatible with Scripture," they were subsequently promoted by some congregations of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA)—which elected the Anglican Communion's first openly gay bishop in 2003.
The prominence of a Brahmin in Indian society was directly related to his virtues, values, knowledge and practice of the scriptures.
Whereas John F. Kennedy's Catholicism had been a liability in the 1960 presidential campaign, Carter's evangelicalism in 1976 was a curiosity, and secular reporters trekked south to learn about the candidate's peculiar practices: He read Scripture.
And, indeed, at the 1998 Conference conservatives, with the support of the Africans, pushed through a resolution declaring that homosexual practice is "incompatible with Scripture" and church teaching.
Judaism is a religion, even if many Jewish humorists don't practice it, and its Scripture sometimes expresses an outlook that is saturated with paradoxes.
Just because, intellectually, we disagree about how to read that part of Scripture, in practice, one is weak where the other is strong, and we need each other in our decisions.
