Philosophy Spirituality
Is Your God Big Enough, Close Enough, You Enough?
Jesus and the three faces of God
Subtitled 'Jesus and the three faces of God', this book owes its structure to the work of Ken Wilber in the study of integral theory in Christianity and reinterprets the Trinity in terms of the first, second and third person dimensions of reality itself, as reflected in the title. These aspects are explored in the three parts of the book where God is first beyond, then beside, then within. The transcendent God is infinite being in love-drenched radiance, the I AM of Moses; the son becomes the cosmic Christ, and the spirit infinite consciousness. The second part is personal and relational, even intimate. The third is immanent, and explores various dimensions of awakened consciousness, also in the Bible as well as its results. This section proposes four stages of becoming the Real You: becoming somebody, then nobody (emptiness), then beginning to embody God and finally non-dually everybody, realising that the transcendent God is also the deepest self, as mystics like Meister Eckhart have long affirmed. This is a systematic treatment that will appeal to Christians interested in the transpersonal.