After reading the authors latest work, Enduring Doubt, available only through Barnes and Noble, it is suggested that the reader then takes a closer look at the early research behind the claims and conclusions made therein. Written to fulfill the requirements of Nathan Rawlins' Masters in Theology (for Lourdes University in Sylvania Ohio) this work, Vocation & Communion, demonstrates and makes available the research behind the author's claims regarding the nature of the Church, the relevance of faith in Christ, the human vocation, evolution and the Sacraments, and many other topics in the realm of ecclesiology.
With the work of nearly three dozen modern theologians, scholars, scientists and mystics as well as insight that reaches back to the dawn of the age of Covenant, we can understand in a new way what the Church has always been: alive and One.
We live in a world that advances in complexity exponentially at the turn of each moment. As our world grows in complexity we experience change as a species and as individuals. This change, I am certain, has found a fullness of expression in a distinct and advanced relationship system. But what makes human relationships advance in nature to the degree that we find ourselves to be pioneers in new levels of existence and reality? This question is not answered with technology or politics but by spirit and love: by sacrament and ritual we come together lifted in consciousness and advanced in nature. Speaking in evolutionary terms: becoming something new.
