In what ways can world religions contribute to answering the question, “What is sacred?”
A4. My remarks at Midwest Research Institute’s Mag Center 1983 May 4 outline a response to this rich and fascinating question. Here let me say, in briefest terms, that the religions of the world can be seen as falling into three families, the Primal, the Asian, and the Monotheistic. In general, primal traditions find what their lives depend on in the world of Nature, the Asian religions find it in the world of the Infinite Self, and the Monotheistic faiths find it in the sphere of human history and social relationships. Q5. So that’s the origin of another CRES mottos: “Primal Faiths, restored with nature; Asian Faiths, the self made whole; Monotheistic Faiths, relationships reclaimed, Liberation movements, finding the sacred afresh.” A5. Yes. While it can be argued that every major religion has elements of the others, the differing emphases given by different faiths can awaken us to dimensions of our own traditions to which we might otherwise be blind. In our time, meaningful survival
