Dogmatic ,yes ,but just like "justice" the illusion can never be completely undone. A general view of the world.I'll continue to live but may well find a bit of humor in its reading.The words of others .while helpful,will color my own journey.
I found Ken Wilber's "The Religion of Tomorrow" to be a helpful, if very long, intro to the worldwide awakening that humanity is (and has been for centuries) mostly seeking the same Divinity, which I now understand to be the Perennial Tradition. From there I found both "Integral Christianity" by Paul Smith and "The Universal Christ" by Richard Rohr extremely helpful.
And the point of these books isn't to justify Christianity, or prove that it's right; but rather to explain who Jesus was within this larger context and understand how we might move forward.
Dogmatic ,yes ,but just like "justice" the illusion can never be completely undone. A general view of the world.I'll continue to live but may well find a bit of humor in its reading.The words of others .while helpful,will color my own journey.
Great post, Katharine.
I found Ken Wilber's "The Religion of Tomorrow" to be a helpful, if very long, intro to the worldwide awakening that humanity is (and has been for centuries) mostly seeking the same Divinity, which I now understand to be the Perennial Tradition. From there I found both "Integral Christianity" by Paul Smith and "The Universal Christ" by Richard Rohr extremely helpful.
And the point of these books isn't to justify Christianity, or prove that it's right; but rather to explain who Jesus was within this larger context and understand how we might move forward.
Thanks for the recs, I'm adding them to my list!