The Universal Christ

A Divine Sympathy for all of Reality. Or what some have called the “Divine Pity.” And it will even fall on us. Whatever is fully ...

This is full-access seeing—and being seen: Most have named it “heaven” And it begins now. Let this Divine Mirror fully receive y ...

Epilogue You can take my word for it too that Greece, Egypt, ancient India and ancient China, the beauty of the world, the pure ...

Afterword: Love After Love Our unveiled gaze receives and reflects the brightness of God until we are gradually turned into the ...

LOVE AFTER LOVE The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, an ...

APPENDIXES Mapping the Soul’s Journey to God In the two appendixes that follow, I present schemas that may help those who still ...

APPENDIX I The Four Worldviews Each one of us operates out of an implicit worldview, a set of assumptions that are usually not c ...

always limited. The spiritual worldview characterizes many forms of religion and some idealistic philosophies that recognize the ...

In Christian history, we see the incarnational worldview most strongly in the early Eastern Fathers, Celtic spirituality, many m ...

substituting for—yet surely longing for—in-depth experience of God or the Infinite. The essential Gospel of God’s loving union w ...

APPENDIX II The Pattern of Spiritual Transformation Even inside an incarnational worldview, we grow by passing beyond some perfe ...

just thanking Jesus for what he did on the cross, instead of actually imitating him.) Disorder or change is always to be avoided ...

saying. Such universal cynicism and skepticism become their universal explanation, their operative religion, and also their grea ...

To move toward greater wholeness, both groups, each in a different way, must let go of their false innocence. Both liberals and ...

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