Process Spirituality - Christian and Transreligious Resources for Transformation

American culture is in a state of critical fragmentation. The author argues that we will solve neither the ecological crisis nor our social estrangement from each until we transform our perception of life as embodied and interconnected, and rediscover what is sacred through transformative lived experiences of wholeness. Using an embodied theological framework supported by comparative, hermeneutical, and constructive methodologies, A Process Spirituality synthesizes theoretical, empirical, and practical resources to construct a hopeful and holistic understanding of God, the world, and the self. Interweaving Alfred North Whitehead's vision of a relational cosmos with Carl Gustav Jung's integrated, relational psyche, and a powerful spiritual praxis of dream work creates a generative matrix through which to perceive a God-world reality characterized by value, relationality, and transformation in which individuals matter, belong, and can experience positive change. Such a Christian and transreligious vision of hope offers individuals the possibility and capacity to move from a state of fragmentation to one of psycho-spiritual wholeness and flourishing.

List of contents

List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One Fragmentation
1A House Divided
2Integrating Resources
Part Two Integration: Theoretical, Empirical, Practical
3Theoretical: An Integrated, Relational Cosmos
4Empirical: An Integrated, Relational Psyche
5Practical: The Integrative Power of Dreams
6Synthesis
Part Three Transformation
7Construction
8Transformation
References
Index
About the Author

About the author

Sheri D. Kling is associate dean and executive director of the Beecken Center of the School of Theology at the University of the South, a faculty member of the Haden Institute, and a visiting lecturer with Palacky University in Social and Spiritual Determinants of Health.

Product details

• Authors: Sheri D Kling, Sheri D. Kling
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781793630421
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-042-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Fundamentalism, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Philosophy of religion, Religious Fundamentalism, Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Jungian