People can be related by marriage, meaning people who gets married from the Church are related through religion. Being close to God can be a form of relationship to others. According to Paul J. Contino, in his article, “Engagements, Illuminations, and Connections: Writing Out of Religious Experience and Tradition,”
An encounter with and engagement of a hermeneutic of suspicion most often by way of thinkers like Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud can lead to a mature insight into and critique of the ways religion can sometimes take the distorted, idolatrous forms of resentment, economic oppression, or puerile fear. At times, however, perhaps after this experience of struggle and wrestling, occasions emerge in which the authoritative and internally
An encounter with and engagement of a hermeneutic of suspicion most often by way of thinkers like Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud can lead to a mature insight into and critique of the ways religion can sometimes take the distorted, idolatrous forms of resentment, economic oppression, or puerile fear. At times, however, perhaps after this experience of struggle and wrestling, occasions emerge in which the authoritative and internally