This week we begin at the beginning in both the Hebrew Scriptures (Genesis) and the New Covenant (The Gospel of John). Diana Butler Bass contends that our understanding of God and Jesus in the role of Creator (i.e., Genesis as the original act of creation and as a dynamic creative process that extends throughout history) is drifting away from the dominant theology of top-down, vertical institutions that describe God as the “majestic, transcendent, all-powerful, heavenly Father, Lord, and King” to a more mystical and experiential notion of a God that inhabits life itself as a full participant of the human condition and created order. In other words, a spiritual revolution has begun that focuses on the divine presence in ourselves, our neighbors, nature, animals, plants, and things – rooted in what Bass calls the “language of divine nearness,” – God With(in) the World – “the very heart of vibrant faith.”
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