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Magnificent Journey

Magnificent Journey

Deacon, F. Jay

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Religion General

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ISBN10: 0983829721
ISBN13: 9780983829720
Publisher: Groundwave Pub
Published: Sep 27 2011
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
As a resurgence of religious fundamentalism drives or shackles the course of human events, the author insists that religion always functions as either a lock on an outmoded past or a creative engine of the evolution of human consciousness. Preferring in dangerous times a hopeful view of human possibility, he proposes an evolutionary spiritual vision for our time, and for an uncharted future. The stakes are high. The fragile ecosphere of a rare life-friendly planet will not survive if its most powerful actor goes on applying its godlike powers to its greedy project of ecocide. But what kind of world would it be if we, the human presence, understood ourselves differently, and abandoned the pursuit of things that are calamitously unworthy of what he calls this strange amalgam of god and dust ? What if we reckoned differently with our place in this evolving universe? F. Jay Deacon describes himself as a refugee from Protestant fundamentalism who now finds himself inspired by the Transcendentalism of Emerson and the swelling company of those extending their vision into the leading-edge integral spirituality and evolutionary enlightenment. In a career that transcended the limitations of his former faith, he served as Director of the Unitarian Universalist Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns. He has served as parish minister of UU congregations including, for a decade, the historic Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois. Currently, he serves as minister of Channing Memorial Church, UU, in Newport, Rhode Island. In Magnificent Journey, he examines fundamentalism, the idea of God, human sexuality and marriage equality, the depths and heights of both our failings and our potentialities, the climate emergency that threatens our future; and he offers a serious spiritual alternative for postmodern people, and for our times. He suggests the creative power of communities organized around such a vision, now, just as the consequences of humanity s most destructive possibilities might seem inescapable.

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