Three Faiths
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 03:24PM I'm in New York City through Friday to attend the Trinity Institute program on "Reading Scripture Through Other Eyes." Trinity Institute is run by Trinity Church, Wall Street and is a continuing ed conference offered each year in January.
http://www.trinitywallstreet.org/faith/institute/2011/
Since this year's program is on Scripture, I came into the city early to see the Three Faiths exhibit at the New York Public Library. This exhibit looks at the use of sacred texts by the three Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/threefaiths/
The exhibit begins with Revelation and looks at the principle figures who received the revealed texts or who are the subject of the revealed texts: Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed. Then, the displays turn to the Scriptures themselves, commentaries, translations, and use in private prayer and public worship.
The manuscripts on display are gorgeous. My favorite is the Harkness Gospels, which date to pre-917 from Brittany. They are illuminated with lovely early Celtic art.
However, the most profound comment to me was the observation that in private prayer, the individual believer comes closest to encountering the divine and revelation that the authors of the sacred texts experienced.
The Sacred Texts are essential to our developing relationship with God, and they not only give us a portal to the experience of the divine, but they draw us into that intimacy that Moses, Isaiah, Jesus, Paul and all the rest shared in their own friendship with God.
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