{"id":529,"date":"2022-07-19T04:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T04:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2022-07-19T04:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T04:15:54","slug":"the-thinking-christian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/the-thinking-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thinking Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Thinking Christian<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/images\/thethinkingchristian.jpg\" alt=\"primer\" width=\"230\" height=\"333\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/h3>\n<p><i>Twenty-three Pathways of Awareness<br \/>\nHumanness and Religion<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Gene W. Marshall<br \/>\nWipf and Stock Publishers<\/p>\n<p>This book, three years in the making, is a pull together of key edges worked on for the last 36 years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Part One on Profound Consciousness<\/b>\u00a0is a five-chapter philosophy of religion that probes why religion appears in human societies, and how good religion can be distinguished from its perversions.<\/p>\n<p><b>Part Two on Christian Theologizing<\/b>\u00a0is a fresh statement of a radical thoughtfulness beyond the death of the heavenly realm metaphor toward a relevant expression of Christian faith in this interreligious era, including the meaning of revelation and a recovery of Scripture.<\/p>\n<p><b>Part Three on Christian Practices<\/b>\u00a0includes ethical guidelines for our love of justice in the wide world, the Christian mission of witness and justice, and communal practices for our life together.. These chapters assume that we are facing a radical shift in the practice of the Christian religion.<\/p>\n<p>The practice of Christianity is going through a transition that is deeper than the Reformation. These chapters are communal and activist guidelines for general readers. Such union of the profound and the practical pertains to the needs of scholars as well.<\/p>\n<h3>Table of Contents<\/h3>\n<p>Part One: Profound Consciousness<\/p>\n<p>1. Out of Your Mind &#8211; What is Mind?<br \/>\n2. Seven Swirls of Consciousness &#8211; What is Consciousness?<br \/>\n3. Creating Your Four Minds of Truth &#8211; What is Truth?<br \/>\n4. The Paradoxes of Being Awake &#8211; What is Profound Consciousness?<br \/>\n5. The Roots of Religious Practice &#8211; What is Religion?<\/p>\n<p>Part Two: Christian Theologizing<\/p>\n<p>6. The Death of Heavenly God-Talk<br \/>\n7. A Contentless Monotheism of Devotion<br \/>\n8. The Great Goddess and other Poetry<br \/>\n9. The Meaning of Revelation<br \/>\n10. Re-reading the Old Testament<br \/>\n11. A Doorway called Despair<br \/>\n12. Who Created Christianity?<br \/>\n13. An Inter-religious Trinity<\/p>\n<p>Part Three: Christian Practices<\/p>\n<p>14. The Friendliness of Trees<br \/>\n15. His-story, Her-story, and a New Story<br \/>\n16. Post-Civilization Christianity<br \/>\n17. The Dead End of Christendom<br \/>\n18. Witnessing Love and the Echo of Eternity<br \/>\n19. The Mind of Commonality and the Love of Justice<br \/>\n20. The Bioregional Parish of Responsibility<br \/>\n21. The Mind of Intimacy and the Co-Pastors Circle<br \/>\n22. Building a Network of Co-Pastors Circles<br \/>\n23. A New Public Face for Christianity<\/p>\n<p>A 10-session study guide, one for each of the three parts of this book can be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/blog\/study-outlines\/\">Realistic Living blog site &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book can be ordered from Wipf and Stock or from Amazon in e-book, paperback, and hardback.<\/p>\n<p>For still further information and sample chapters on The Thinking Christian, See Amazon.com: then books: then Marshall: The Thinking Christian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thinking Christian Twenty-three Pathways of Awareness Humanness and Religion by Gene W. Marshall Wipf and Stock Publishers This book, three years in the making, is a pull together of key edges worked on for the last 36 years. 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