SYLLABUS - PART II - FALL 2008

Introduction and Overview of Part I  

  Purpose of Spirituality Course 

The God concept/question

  Armstrong

A little exercise

   Vermes on Jesus' God

Quotes/Remarks

Ancient historical expressions

   Daoism - Confucius - Upanishads -

   Bhagavad Gita - Gandhi - Buddha -

   Israel - Kabbalah - Zohar -

   Celtic spirituality - Sufism

God in traditional theology

   In Quantum theology

   In evolution theology

God being above the earth?

Mysticism

   Zukav - Merton - Kabbalah

Christian Mysticism

Modern re-vised God concepts

  Borg - Tillich - Robinson -

   Meister Eckhart - Spong - Fowler

Summary

Prayer to one's God

Gnosis - Gospel of Thomas

Revelation of God

Panentheism

  Biblical Root

   Root in experiences

Meister Eckhart

  Mediatiation

Native American spirituality

  and Christened

Modern mystics/spiritual guides

  Antony de Mello

   Thomas Merton

Listening to Karen Armstrong

  Introduction - Tape: The Future of God

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SYLLABUS - SPIRITUALITY 
Part I have been revised and is now based on the works of several authors. See Bibliography.


Preliminary Note 

  Distinction: Religion/Spirituality 

Quantum Theory -Theology 

    Quantum Theory - the New Physics - Whole and Parts

   The New Cosmology - Our holographic universe -

   Wholistic consciousness

Emerging Universe 

  Sample of Quantum vision 

   The Dance 

Spiritual Universe    

  is Revelation 

Our Story 

  Humanity and the New Story 

   Celebration - Einstein's findings 

   Back to 'Our Story' 

Creation Spirituality 

  What is spirituality 

   What is creation spirituality?                         

Creation spirituality - our spirituality        

   At home with nature 

   Reconnecting needed 

Spirituality and the Creative Universe 

  Cosmic Consciousness 

   What is meant by Consciousness                     

   Nurtured by Consciousness 

Solitude - Meditation 

   Exodus experience - Liberation 

   Gifts of Freedom 

      to be grateful - to preserve - to feel young again -

        to not be self-satisfied - to be compassionate

        to give meaning to art

From Traditional to Creation spirituality 

   How to integrate 

   Creation spirituality inclusive 

Our Way into the Future 

   Fourfold wisdom our support                           

Evolutionary Faith 

   moments of grace

Faith - Religion         

   Where Religion failed us                             

World as revelation 

 Revelation as presence of God 

 Revelation experienced 'in word' 

     God 'speaking' 

Theology and revelation 

Salvation in the emerging universe 

 Reconciliation 

 Healing  

 Liberation 

Recap 

Christian salvation in the New Creation 

 No outcasts anymore                       

 The realm of Belonging

 Pure gift 

 Kingdom and Church  

 More on Jesus and the reign of God 

 Reign of God in the emerging universe 

Does the Human Race need a savior?           

 connecting Jesus with creation spirituality

 Reflection

Epilogue 

 Features of emerging World view 

 Integration of chaos - Polarity of light and darkness -

 The call to outgrow anthropocentrism - Cosmology -

Rediscovering the Feminine - Learning to perceive laterally

 Conclusion 

Final Thought