- 356 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
The Great Open Dance offers a progressive Christian theology that endorses contemporary ideals: environmental protection, economic justice, racial reconciliation, interreligious peace, gender equality, and LGBTQ+ celebration. Just as importantly, this book provides a theology of progress--an interpretation of Christian faith as ever-changing and ever-advancing into God's imagination. Faith demands change because Jesus of Nazareth started a movement, not a tradition. He preached about a new world, the Kingdom of God, and invited his followers to work toward the divine vision of universal flourishing. This vision includes all and excludes none. Since we have not yet achieved the world that Jesus describes, we must continue to progress. The energizing impulse of this progress is the Trinity: Abba, Jesus, and Sophia, three persons united by love into one perfect community. God is fundamentally relational, and humankind, made in the image of God, is relational as a result. We are inextricably entwined with one another, sharing a common purpose and a common destiny. In this vision, we find abundant life by practicing agape, the universal, unconditional love that Abba extends, Jesus reveals, and Sophia inspires.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Unifying Love
- Chapter 2: God of Infinite Relatedness
- Chapter 3: Joy in the Earth
- Chapter 4: The Abundance of Life
- Chapter 5: To Marry Heaven and Earth
- Chapter 6: Sophia, the Animating Power of Wisdom
- Chapter 7: Suffering, Love, and Joy
- Chapter 8: Living Community in a Lonely World
- Chapter 9: Agape and Inexhaustible Meaning
- Chapter 10: Now Is the Beginning
- Afterword
- About the Artist
- Bibliography