The Future of Wisdom
Toward a Rebirth of Sapiential Christianity
2nd Edition
Published on 7. June 2018
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Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-939681-82-9 (ISBN)
Description
Communicates the depth and power of the Christian ‘wisdom tradition’, and the promise of its dramatic rebirth in our time
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2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Rhinebeck, NY
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-939681-82-9 (9781939681829)
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Persons
Bruno Barnhart was an author, spiritual director and monk of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California. He is the author of several books including "The Good Wine: Reading John from the Center" and "Second Simplicity: The Inner Shape of Christianity." He died in 2015.
Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, is an author and a monk of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California, where he currently serves as prior of the community. His most recent book is Spirit, Soul, Body: Toward an Integral Christian Spirituality.
Cynthia Bourgeault is the author of nine books including "The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three", "The Meaning of Mary Magdalene", and "The Wisdom Jesus."She has also authored or contributed to numerous articles and courses on the Christian spiritual life. She is a past Fellow of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural research at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, MN, and an oblate of New Camaldoli Monastery in Big Sur, California.
Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, is an author and a monk of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California, where he currently serves as prior of the community. His most recent book is Spirit, Soul, Body: Toward an Integral Christian Spirituality.
Cynthia Bourgeault is the author of nine books including "The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three", "The Meaning of Mary Magdalene", and "The Wisdom Jesus."She has also authored or contributed to numerous articles and courses on the Christian spiritual life. She is a past Fellow of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural research at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, MN, and an oblate of New Camaldoli Monastery in Big Sur, California.
Content
Contents
INTRODUCTION
1. A Preliminary Overview
2. The Bias
3. The Taste
4. Thinking about Wisdom
5. The Christian Wisdom Tradition
6. The Eclipse of Wisdom in the West
7. The Time of Vatican II: Toward a Rebirth of Christian Wisdom
8. The Way of Wisdom
9. Four Historical Moments
10. Four Movements
11. Spirit and History
MOVEMENT I: THE SAPIENTIAL AWAKENING
1. Wonder and Awakening
2. The Sapiential Event and Its Eclipse
3. The Sapiential Awakening of the Twentieth Century
4. Henri de Lubac: The Anatomy of Christian Wisdom
5. fean Leclercq: The Two Medieval Theologies
6. Cipriano Vagaggini: Between Two Wisdoms
7. The Quaternary Unfolding of the Christ-Mystery
8. The Revolution of |esus
9. Rationalization of the Mystery
10. Thomas Merton: Opening Christian Wisdom (I)
11. Karl Rahner: Opening Christian Wisdom (II)
12. The Paradox of Christian Wisdom: The Word of the Cross
13. Conclusion
MOVEMENT II: THE EASTERN TURN
1. The New East-West Relationship
2. Nonduality
3. Christian Nonduality I
4. Baptismal Initiation: Point of Contact with the East
and Pivot of Identity
5. Theological Corollaries of the Principle of Nondual
Baptismal Identity
6. (I) Breaking through the Container of Dualistic Christianity
7. (II) Unitive Interpretation of the Christ-mystery
8. (III) Unitive Interpretation of the New Testament
9. (IV) A New Theology Centered in the Explicit
Unitive Principle
10. (V) Unitive Anthropology
11. (VI) Fullness at the Beginning
12. (VII) The Trajectory of Life: From Baptism to Eucharist
13. (VIII) Contemplation as Conscious Experience
of Baptismal Identity
14. (IX) History Understood in the Light
of Unitive Self- realization
MOVEMENT III: THE WESTERN TURN
1. Modernity
2. The Vocation of the West
3. The Shape of Western History
4. Renaissance
5. The Modern Individual
6. Freedom
7. |esus' Revolution and the History of the West
8. Participation and History
9. Wisdom and the West
10. The Shadow and the Destiny of the West
MOVEMENT IV: THE GLOBAL TURN
l. Postmodernity
2. Interpretations of Globalization
3. Toward a Global Consciousness
4. Resistance to Incarnation
5. The Descent of History
6. Globd Christianity: The Southern Turn
7. Christian Nonduality Ift lncarnation
8. The Incarnation of Wisdom
EPILOGUE
NOTES
BIBLIOGR,APHY
INDEX
INTRODUCTION
1. A Preliminary Overview
2. The Bias
3. The Taste
4. Thinking about Wisdom
5. The Christian Wisdom Tradition
6. The Eclipse of Wisdom in the West
7. The Time of Vatican II: Toward a Rebirth of Christian Wisdom
8. The Way of Wisdom
9. Four Historical Moments
10. Four Movements
11. Spirit and History
MOVEMENT I: THE SAPIENTIAL AWAKENING
1. Wonder and Awakening
2. The Sapiential Event and Its Eclipse
3. The Sapiential Awakening of the Twentieth Century
4. Henri de Lubac: The Anatomy of Christian Wisdom
5. fean Leclercq: The Two Medieval Theologies
6. Cipriano Vagaggini: Between Two Wisdoms
7. The Quaternary Unfolding of the Christ-Mystery
8. The Revolution of |esus
9. Rationalization of the Mystery
10. Thomas Merton: Opening Christian Wisdom (I)
11. Karl Rahner: Opening Christian Wisdom (II)
12. The Paradox of Christian Wisdom: The Word of the Cross
13. Conclusion
MOVEMENT II: THE EASTERN TURN
1. The New East-West Relationship
2. Nonduality
3. Christian Nonduality I
4. Baptismal Initiation: Point of Contact with the East
and Pivot of Identity
5. Theological Corollaries of the Principle of Nondual
Baptismal Identity
6. (I) Breaking through the Container of Dualistic Christianity
7. (II) Unitive Interpretation of the Christ-mystery
8. (III) Unitive Interpretation of the New Testament
9. (IV) A New Theology Centered in the Explicit
Unitive Principle
10. (V) Unitive Anthropology
11. (VI) Fullness at the Beginning
12. (VII) The Trajectory of Life: From Baptism to Eucharist
13. (VIII) Contemplation as Conscious Experience
of Baptismal Identity
14. (IX) History Understood in the Light
of Unitive Self- realization
MOVEMENT III: THE WESTERN TURN
1. Modernity
2. The Vocation of the West
3. The Shape of Western History
4. Renaissance
5. The Modern Individual
6. Freedom
7. |esus' Revolution and the History of the West
8. Participation and History
9. Wisdom and the West
10. The Shadow and the Destiny of the West
MOVEMENT IV: THE GLOBAL TURN
l. Postmodernity
2. Interpretations of Globalization
3. Toward a Global Consciousness
4. Resistance to Incarnation
5. The Descent of History
6. Globd Christianity: The Southern Turn
7. Christian Nonduality Ift lncarnation
8. The Incarnation of Wisdom
EPILOGUE
NOTES
BIBLIOGR,APHY
INDEX