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1. Good Christian Religion as a Social Project
How to view the Jesus Christ happening as the central Illumination
of my life without becoming a bigot
by Gene Marshall
Contents
Chapter 1 Loving God and Neighbor
1. Who is my Neighbor?
2. Loving the Infinite Neighbor
3. Spirit Love and the Infinite Expansion of the Self
4. Spirit Love and the I--Thou Dialogue in Time
Chapter 2 Jesus: Facts, Fictions, and the Eternal Truth
1. Jesus: the Person of History and the Literary Creation
2. Jesus: his Model Prayer and the Kingdom of God
3. Jesus and the Inversion of the Christ Symbol
4. Jesus Christ as Healing Event and as the Picture of Health
Chapter 3 The First Exodus of Christian Community
1. The Jewishness of Primitive Christianity
2. The Contentless Trinity and Christian Religious Content
3. The People of God
4. The Tasks of Love
Chapter 4 The Next Exodus of Christian Community
1. The Continuing Story of Exodus Happenings
2. The Future Sociological Shape of Christian Community Life
3. The Future Religious Practices of Christian Community Life
4. More than Friends and Less than Angels
2. Christianity in
Change: an invitation to deeper dialogue by Gene
Marshall
Contents
Introduction: What Sort of Change?
Part One: An Overview of the Changes
1. A Transformation in Theology
2. A Transformation in Communal Life
3. A Transformation in Mode of Service
4. A Transformation in Liturgical Practice
Part Two: Probing Key Theological Topics
5. Knowing the Unknown God
6. Christianity Beyond Beliefs
7. The Gifts of Christian Heritage
Afterword: An Invitation to Perpetual Transformation
3. Meditations upon the Metaphorical
Translation of the Gospel of Mark is a commentary on each
passage of this Gospel with discussion questions for group and individual
use by Gene Marshall.
4. Listening to the Infinite Silence:
is three books on the Bible by Gene Marshall:
- The
Infinite Silence Speaks: poetic discourses on the book of
Genesis
- Speaking
Back to the Infinite Silence: rediscovering the Psalms as
oral poetry
- The
Infinite Silence Walks Among Us: dialogues with the Gospel
of John
5. The Reincarnation of Paul: a
fictitious dialogue with the New Testament letter writer by Gene Marshall
The aim of this imaginative 31-page essay is to allow
this often misunderstood figure from the first century to be heard in
the 21st century.
6. Teaching Poems a collection of
poems for the communication of Spirit useful for both teaching and personal
inspiration
7. Pets, Children, and Spirit Maturity:
reflections on the inner journey by Gene Marshall
This accessible book defines the appearance of Spirit
in human beings and describes three steps toward Spirit maturity: (1)
Leaving the Herd, (2) Adopting a Religious Practice, and (3) Being your
Being, along with Jesus, the Buddha, and the Shaman Samantha.
8. Stages of Consciousness & the
Experience of Spirit: clarifying discourses for the
Spirit explorer of the 21st century by Gene Marshall
Contents
Introduction: the solitude of the Spirit explorer
1. Some Basic Definitions
2. Knowing, Doing, and Being Spirit
3. "God" as a Relationship Word
4. Scientific Rationality & Spirit Experience
5. Depth Psychology and Spirit Depth
6. Spirit and the Ecological Self
7. Awe and the Spirit Leader
8. Solitary Religious Practice
9. Communal Religious Practice
10. Stages of Consciousness
11. Ken Wilber's Stages of Transpersonal Consciousness
12. The Arrow of Time and the History of Religion
9. Space/Time
and the Living Here/Now:
a philosophical inquiry into scientific knowledge and personal experience
Contents
Introduction: Repicturing Space/Time
1. Physics, Metaphysics, Space/Time, & the Living Here/Now
2. Space/Time in Post-Einsteinian Physics
3. Aliveness and the Living Here/Now
4. The No-Longer and the Not-Yet of History
A Non-Concluding List of Open Questions
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