Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword Ilia Delio xiii
Introduction 1
Catholicity: The Whole Body Breathing Together 2
Overview 4
Part I Discovering Catholicity from Within
1 Catholicity from Within 9
From a "Below-Above" Paradigm to a "Within" Paradigm 10
Teilhard de Chardin on Christ's "Third Nature" 12
Panentheistic Theologies 14
Spirituality and the "Within" of Experience 17
Spirit as "Field" 20
2 Discovering Spirit in Human Experience 25
Wind 26
Breath 27
Spirit 29
Religious and Spiritual Experiences 30
Patterns of Spiritual Experience 34
Discovering the Larger Questions 40
The Rhythm of Spirit and the Story of Our Lives 42
Part II In Search of Catholic Personhood
3 The Crisis of the Anthropocene 49
The Early Twentieth Century 50
Characteristics of Modernity 52
The Mechanization of Time and Its Disembedding from Place 56
The Technologization of Communication and the Permeation of Daily Life by Media 58
The Commodification of Everything 62
Can Humanity Survive? 67
Young Adults Today 71
4 Selfhood and Catholicity 75
Helpful Categories 76
Critique of the Modern Substantial Self 78
The No-Self Debate 80
Reclaiming the Self in Postmodernity 82
The Contribution of Relational Psychological Theories 85
The Storytelling Self 87
The Plural Self 91
The Dialogical Self 94
5 Science, Spirituality, and the "Greening of the Self" 99
Quantum Reality 102
Lothar Schäfer 106
Gregory Bateson and Cosmic Wisdom 107
Bateson's Four Levels of Change 112
Science and Religious Experience 117
6 Breathing Spirit: A Model of Human Personhood 123
The Christian Notion of the Person 124
The Theologians' Problem 128
The Apophatic Self 130
Pneumatological Anthropology: Biblical Perspectives 133
Contingency, Wholeness, and the Field of the Spirit 137
A Model of Personhood 140
Implications for the Rhythm of Spiritual Practice 143
Part III Living in the Catholicizing Rhythm of the Spirit
7 Breathed In: The Way of Emptying 147
Denys Turner and Experience 148
Union: Devotional or Ontological? 150
John of the Cross 152
Meister Eckhart 158
Jan Ruusbroec 167
8 Breathed Out: The Way of Remembering 175
Memory and Selfhood 175
Participating in the Memory of the People of God 180
Augustine's Confessions 182
Julian of Norwich 185
Trauma and the Way of Remembering 190
Ignatius of Loyola 196
9 Breathing with the Spirit into Mission 203
The Mission of the Spirit 203
Discovering Our Charisms 206
Spiritual Experiences as Expressions of the Spirit's Mission 208
The Individual in Community 210
The Spirit and Social Change 211
The Way of Dialogue 215
Exemplars of Catholicity 220
Select Bibliography 231
Index 235
