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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 6/25/2003 1:13 PM (GMT -6) |   | This is from the www.svots.edu site:
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Jaroslav Pelikan Inaugurates Annual SVS Summer Institute
Professor Jaroslav Pelikan, one of the world's most prominent and honored church historians living today, delivered the keynote address at the seminary's annual Liturgical Institute of Music and Pastoral Practice. In an elegant and thoughtful presentation, Pelikan expounded on this year's theme, "Living Tradition," in terms of creeds and confessions of faith. He was able to draw on his monumental, multi-volume study which has just appeared in publication, Credo: Historical and Theological Introduction to Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition.
Pelikan began by citing a Kenyan-Masai creed from the mid-20th century, a confession of faith about Christ which vividly illustrated the living character of Tradition. Tradition, Pelikan noted, is static and therefore dynamic. Like a stack of compact discs, Tradition can lie dormant, unopened, handed down without being "played." But precisely by virtue of that static quality, it is able to bring forth music of beauty and variety at any moment.
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 6/25/2003 1:26 PM (GMT -6) | | I wonder whether the "Kenyan-Masai creed" mentioned above is this one? (no guarantees)
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Masai Creed
We believe in the one high God, who out of love created the beautiful world and everything in it. He created people and wanted them to be happy in the world. God loves the world and every nation and tribe on the earth. We have know this high God in the darkness, and now we know him in the light. God promised in the book of his Word, the bible, that he would save the world and all nations and tribes.
We believe that God made good his promise by sending his only son, Jesus Christ: A man of flesh, a Jew by tribe. Born poor in a little village, who left his home and was always on safari doing good, curing people by the power of God, teaching them about God and humanity, and showing that the meaning of religion is love. But he was rejected by his people, tortured, and nailed hands and feet to a cross, and died. He was buried in a grave but the hyenas did not dare touch him. On the third day he rose from that grave, and ascended to the sky. He is the Lord. We are waiting for him. He is alive. He lives. And this we believe. Amen.
HERE'S ANOTHER, WITH NOTES ON ITS SOURCE:
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Congregation of the Holy Ghost in East Nigeria, The Masai Creed, c. 1960
The Congregation of the Holy Ghost, also sometimes called "Spiritans," were founded at the beginning of the nineteenth century with the establishment of a seminary. Practically from the beginning, and particularly after their merger with the Congregation of the Holy Heart of Mary, the Spiritans manifested a zeal for the foreign missions.
One of the most noteworthy of their mission fields was East Africa, present-day Nigeria, beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century.1 And it was there, through their evangelization of the Masai people, that they engaged in some of the earliest and most successful experiments in "inculturation."
The results of that inculturation are visible in their homegrown adaptations of the liturgy of the mass and other Roman Catholic services.2 Although it was composed primarily by Western missionaries, The Masai Creed, composed about 1960, consciously strove to incorporate elements of the native culture--"always on safari," "but the hyenas did not touch him"--into the fundamental trinitarian structure of primitive creeds.
SO HERE IT IS!
http://www.yale.edu/yup/creeds/sampcreed.htm
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 6/26/2003 7:04 AM (GMT -6) | |
How do you like?
Tradition. . .is static and therefore dynamic.
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