The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation
224The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation
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Overview
What if changing our perception of God has the potential to change everything? God is not what you think. Visions of an angry, distant, moral scorekeeper or a supernatural Santa Claus handing out cosmic lottery tickets to those who attend the right church or say the right prayer dominate our culture. For many others, God has become irrelevant or simply unbelievable. In The Divine Dance, Fr. Richard Rohr (with Mike Morrell) points readers to an unlikely opening beyond this divinity impasse: the at-times forgotten, ancient mystery of the Trinity—God as utterly one, yet three. Drawing from Scripture, theology, and the deepest insights of mystics, philosophers, and sages throughout history, Fr. Rohr presents a compelling alternative to aloof and fairytale versions of God: One God, belovedly in communion, as All-Vulnerable, All-Embracing, and All-Given to you and me. The Divine Dance makes accessible and practicable the Christian tradition's most surprising gift... God as Community...as Friendship...as Dance. Are you ready to join in?
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781629117294 |
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Publisher: | Whitaker House |
Publication date: | 10/04/2016 |
Pages: | 224 |
Sales rank: | 326,766 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Fr. Richard Rohr is a globally recognized teacher and the author of numerous books, including Everything Belongs, The Naked Now, Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi. A Franciscan priest, he is the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC.org) and is Academic Dean of the Living School for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fr. Richard’s teaching is grounded in Franciscan practices of contemplation and self-emptying, expressing themselves in radical compassion, particularly for the socially marginalized. Mike Morrell is the Communications Director for the Integral Theology think tank Presence International, cofounder of The Buzz Seminar, and a founding organizer of the justice, arts, and spirituality Wild Goose Festival. He is also a futurist, an avid writer, freelance journalist, author coach, publishing consultant, and the curator of the book-reviewing community at TheSpeakeasy.info. You can read his ongoing exploration of Spirit, Culture, and Permaculture at MikeMorrell.org. Mike lives with his wife and two daughters in North Carolina.
Table of Contents
Foreword William Paul Young 19
Introduction: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast 25
Trinity; MIA 26
A Space at God's Table 28
A (W)hole in God 30
Part I Wanted: A Trinitarian Revolution
Spiritual Paradigm Shift 35
Dusting Off a Daring Doctrine 40
Math Problems 42
The Relationship Is the Vehicle 44
Metaphors Be with You! 47
A Mirrored Universe 49
Vulnerability 57
Weak Wisdom 59
The Delight of Diversity 61
The World in a Word 64
Reshaping Our Image 66
Atomic Bonds 68
Creator and Destroyer of Worlds 70
Aristotle and Boethius: The Price of an Invading Noun 74
Scotus and Merton: Time to Re-verb 75
The Perfect Freedom of God 76
Creative Continuation 78
Paradigms Lost 79
Distinct Union 83
Tide Boxes at Kmart 86
Loving All the Wrong People 88
Emptiness Alone Is Prepared for Fullness 90
The Space Between 91
How the Law of Three Changes Everything 92
Is the Trinity a Boy or a Girl? 94
The Power of Concentric Circles 95
Richard of St. Victor and the Joy Supreme 98
The Paradox of Restlessness and Contentment 102
Body-Based Knowing 104
The Many Belong in the One 108
Accessing the Divine Force Field 111
Always Creating Otherness 113
Next 117
Part II Why the Trinity? Why Now?
Three Reasons for Recovery 121
What Holds Us Back from Genuine Spiritual Experience? 122
Two Ways to Break Through 124
Suffering's Surprising Sustenance 127
At-One-Ment 131
What About the Wrath of God? 136
Expanding Our Horizons 140
Silence: Father 142
The Living Manifestation: The Christ 145
The Dynamism Within and Between: Holy Spirit 146
TDD-Trinity Deficit Disorder 147
Absentee Father 148
Son: Have You Seen Me? 149
The Relentless Drive of the Spirit 150
Inside-Out Prayer 151
Primal Prayer 154
Transcendence Deficit Disorder 155
Interfaith Friendship 157
Do We Have to Talk About Sin? 160
Entering By Another Door 161
Being There 163
An Amazing Chain of Being 164
Trinity in Eternity Past 164
The Wildest Wave Alive 167
Real Presence 169
Being and Becoming 169
Essential Ecstasy 170
Too Good to Be True? 172
The Incarnation Is the Gospel 174
Bleeding and Forbearing 176
The Great Attractor 179
Part III The Holy Spirit
Wholly Reconciling 185
The Divine Energy 186
Everything Is Holy Now 189
Acknowledgments 195
Appendix; Experiencing the Trinity: Seven Practices 199
About the Authors 219
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