Participation and the Mystery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Participation and the Mystery write by Jorge N. Ferrer. This book was released on 2017-04-12. Participation and the Mystery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Participation and the Mystery is both an introduction to and expansion of Jorge N. Ferrer's groundbreaking work on participatory spirituality, which holds that human beings are active cocreators of spiritual phenomena, worlds, and even ultimates. After examining the impact of his work since the publication of Revisioning Transpersonal Theory, Ferrer discusses the relationship between science and transpersonal psychology, the nature of a fully embodied spirituality, and the features of integral spiritual practice. The book also introduces a participatory philosophy of education and applies it to the academic teaching of mysticism and a novel approach to embodied spiritual inquiry. Critically engaging the influential work of Stanislav Grof, Ken Wilber, and A. H. Almaas, Ferrer concludes with an original solution to the problem of religious pluralism that affirms the ontological richness of religious worlds while avoiding the extremes of perennialism and contextualism, offering a hopeful vision for the future of world religion. Participation and the Mystery is an invaluable resource to anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of participatory approaches to transpersonal psychology, integral and contemplative education, contemporary spirituality, and religious studies.
The Participatory Turn
The Participatory Turn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Participatory Turn write by Jorge N. Ferrer. This book was released on 2008-12-04. The Participatory Turn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cuts through traditional debates to argue that religious phenomena are cocreated by human cognition and a generative spiritual power.
Revisioning Transpersonal Theory
Revisioning Transpersonal Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revisioning Transpersonal Theory write by Jorge N. Ferrer. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Revisioning Transpersonal Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A participatory alternative to the perennialism and experientialism dominant in transpersonal psychology.
Efficacious Engagement
Efficacious Engagement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Efficacious Engagement write by Kimberly Hope Belcher. This book was released on 2011. Efficacious Engagement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The long-standing tradition of baptizing infants suggests that the sacraments plunge our bodies into salvation, so the revelation of God's love in the sacraments addresses the whole person, not the mind alone. In this work, the contemporary Roman Catholic rite of baptism for infants becomes a case study, manifesting the connections between the human body, the ecclesial body, and the Body of Christ. The sacramental life, for children as for adults, is an ongoing journey deeper into the life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. By examining the church's practice of infant baptism, Kimberly Hope Belcher asks how human beings participate in God's life through the sacraments. Christian sacraments are embodied, cultural rituals performed by and for human beings. At the same time, the sacraments are God's gifts of grace, by which human beings enter into God's own life. In this study, contemporary ritual studies, sacramental theology, and trinitarian theology are used to explore how participation in the sacraments can be an efficacious engagement in God's life of love. Kimberly Hope Belcher is an assistant professor of theology at Saint John's University, where she teaches sacramental theology and ritual studies. She is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy and writes for the liturgical blog Pray Tell.
Heavenly Participation
Heavenly Participation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heavenly Participation write by Hans Boersma. This book was released on 2011-02-01. Heavenly Participation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Surveying the barriers that contemporary thinking has erected between the natural and the supernatural, between earth and heaven, Hans Boersma issues a wake-up call for Western Christianity. Both Catholics and evangelicals, he says, have moved too far away from a sacramental mindset, focusing more on the "here-and-now" than on the "then-and-there." Yet, as Boersma points out, the teaching of Jesus, Paul, and St. Augustine -- indeed, of most of Scripture and the church fathers -- is profoundly otherworldly, much more concerned with heavenly participation than with earthly enjoyment. In Heavenly Participation Boersma draws on the wisdom of great Christian minds ancient and modern -- Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, C. S. Lewis, Henri de Lubac, John Milbank, and many others. He urges Catholics and evangelicals alike to retrieve a sacramental worldview, to cultivate a greater awareness of eternal mysteries, to partake eagerly of the divine life that transcends and transforms all earthly realities.
