The Grand Option: Personal Transformation and a New Creation

by Beatrice Bruteau

Overview

In The Grand Option, renowned author Beatrice Bruteau advances her healing vision for humankind. This collection of beautifully written essays encourages readers to seek personal transformation based on heightened consciousness and Christian spirituality. Bruteau contends that this transformation will produce a profound sense of personal freedom, thus enabling individuals to commune with the Divine and with each other.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780268010416
Publisher:	University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date:	07/11/2001
Series:	Gethsemani Studies in Psychological and Religious Anthropology Series , #3
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Beatrice Bruteau (1930–2014) was a pioneer in the integrated study of science, spirituality, philosophy, and religion. She was the founder of Schola Contemplationis and the Fellowship of the Holy Trinity, and an author of numerous books, including Radical Optimism, What We Can Learn from the East, The Easter Mysteries, and God’s Ecstasy.

Editorial Reviews

“Every now and then there arises a prophet in our midst marked by a voice that is distinctly new and totally different than the familiar. The Jesuit scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was one such voice and Beatrice Bruteau, a disciple of Teilhard, is another. In this collection of essays written over a period of twenty years, Bruteau offers us a luminous vision of a new social order in an evolutionary world. This is a profound book, written by a scholar of wisdom. It is a book that can appeal to a wide variety of people–academics and nonacademics alike–because of its depth and breadth. [A]ll those who read The Grand Option will not only be lured by Bruteau’s vision and insight but will return time and again to this book, for it is itself an evolution in thought.” —Spiritual Life
 

“A book as luminous as it is deep, The Grand Option presents us with a global spirituality for the future. Reading it, one cannot help but be seized by the wish that every person on the planet would take Dr. Bruteau's profound vision to heart.” —Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Dance of the Dissident Daughter and When the Heart Waits

“Written with great lucidity and ease, this book brings together a rich harvest of intellectual reflection, lived experience, and contemplative insights gathered over many years. It is a book of great vision and inspiration, inviting us to enter into deep engagement with the "grand option" of creating a future linked to a new image of humanity animated through and through by the living spirit of love, both human and divine. A great contribution to contemporary thinking in religious anthropology.” —Ursula M. King, Director, Centre for Comparative Studies in
Religion and Gender, University of Bristol
 

“Building on the work of Teilhard de Chardin, The Grand Option masterfully provides the pathway to a new social order based on universal inclusiveness and the unique value of each individual. A modern classic of practical spirituality for the twenty-first century.” —Rabbi Lewis D. Solomon, Washington, D.C.

From the Publisher

Every now and then there arises a prophet in our midst marked by a voice that is distinctly new and totally different than the familiar. The Jesuit scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was one such voice and Beatrice Bruteau, a disciple of Teilhard, is another. In this collection of essays written over a period of twenty years, Bruteau offers us a luminous vision of a new social order in an evolutionary world. This is a profound book, written by a scholar of wisdom. It is a book that can appeal to a wide variety of people–academics and nonacademics alike–because of its depth and breadth. [A]ll those who read The Grand Option will not only be lured by Bruteau’s vision and insight but will return time and again to this book, for it is itself an evolution in thought.” —Spiritual Life

Spiritual Life