Second Simplicity: The Inner Shape of Christianity

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Paulist Press, 1999 - 281 pàgines
"Bruno Barnhart's new book uncovers the contours of a Christian wisdom and explores the ways that a Christian faith often bound by rule, structure, and order can open itself to the unitive vision at its root." "This book proposes an opening of consciousness beyond thought, of theological vision beyond rational knowledge, and of Christianity beyond the perimeter of church. Bruno Barnhart invites us to move into a fuller experience of Christianity, an experience of wisdom that brings all created reality into unity with God. Therein lies the "second simplicity.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
 

Continguts

1 Apophatic Spirituality
12
2 Unitive Reality Unitive Experience
16
Meaning of Meanings
19
4 The Perennial Philosophy
21
5 The Unitive Self
24
6 Monasticism
28
7 Baptism and Christian Spirituality
30
8 Unitive Reality in the New Testament
33
6 Human Energy
114
7 Divinization and Creativity
115
8 New Creation as Continuing Event
118
9 The Fire of History
121
10 Music and Spirit
123
11 Poetry and Wisdom
131
A Meditation
135
The Dance
141

A Meditation
37
The Word
39
The Human Condition
44
2 The Word in the World
45
3 The Gospel of the Word Incarnate
47
4 Christian Wisdom
51
Its Container and Shadow
55
6 Institutional Christianity
61
7 The ChristQuantum and the Dominance of the West
66
8 The West Today
71
Shadow and Light
73
Redshift
77
Christianity as the New Torah
81
A Meditation
82
The Music
87
The New Testament
91
The Divine Movement
94
3 The Third Age
98
4 Third Order Emergences Today
101
Human and Divine
106
1 The Missing Fourth
147
2 Return to the Ground
154
3 The Body of Christ
161
Mandala and ChristMystery
167
5 Contemporary Encounters at the Frontier of Four
174
6 Work
175
7 Marks Gospel and the Cruciform ChristMystery
182
8 Eucharist and Omega
187
Sophia
198
A Meditation
206
Epilogue
209
From Old to New Glossary of Terms
215
Quaternity Mandala
221
The Christian Mandala and Its Variants
227
Notes
237
Bibliography
255
Abbreviations
267
Index of Authors
270
Index of Subjects
273
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