Artists and theologians coming together -- Walking the stations of the cosmic Christ -- Part one. "In the beginning was the...Word...fireball...flaring forth...big bang...void..." ; "I am the light of the world" ; Nativity ; Baptism ; "I am the living bread (the bread of life)" ; The transfiguration ; "I am the vine" ; "Do it to the least and you do it to me" (Mt. 25) ; "I am the good shepherd" ; "I am the door (the gate, the way)" ; "I am the way, the truth and the life" ; The crucifixion ; The resurrection ; "I am the resurrection and the life" ; Ascension ; Pentecost -- Part two. Additional "I am" statements ; The Eucharistic words ; Chanting Christian mantras ; Chanting the "ah" sound among divine names ; The sixteen stations depicted by artists from Italy and Poland.
Summary:
"Many people are familiar with the devotional practice within Christian churches of praying the 'Stations of the Cross.' In this book Bishop Marc Andrus and spiritual theologian Matthew Fox challenge believers and non-believers alike to develop a new practice based on very ancient teachings and the new cosmology : The stations of the cosmic Christ...Artists M. C. Richards and Ullrrich Javier Lemus join the authors in offering a Way and series of practices that moves the heart and awakens us to the Blessed Being who resides in us all and whether that eternal spark be called the 'Cosmic Christ' or the 'Buddha Nature' or the 'Image of God'"--Jacket flap.
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