To start us off, we've posted a seminal statement about interfaith spirituality by Father Thomas Keating.
Guidelines for Inter-religious Understanding
By Father Thomas Keating
1. The world religions bear witness to the experience of the Ultimate Reality to which they give various names: Brahman, the Absolute, God, Al-Lah, Wakantanka, Transcendent.
2. The Ultimate reality surpasses any name or concept that can be given to it.
3. The Ultimate Reality is the source - ground of being – of all existence.
4. Faith is opening, surrendering, and responding to the Ultimate Reality. This relationship precedes every belief system.
5. The potential for human wholeness – or in other frames of reference, liberation, self-transcendence, enlightenment, salvation, transforming union, moksha, nirvana, fana – is present in every human person.
6. The Ultimate Reality may be experienced not only through religious practice but also through nature, art, human relationships, and service to others.
7. The differences among belief systems should be presented as facts that distinguish them, not as points of superiority.
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