“Barnhart seeks and desires no less than a wholehearted rediscovery and reinvigoration of the mystical wisdom tradition that was once a powerful component of Christian spirituality.”—Library Journal
Much like Thomas Merton’s writings, this book recalls that a sapiential (wisdom) consciousness is central to the New Testament and remained the primary mode of theological understanding for more than twelve centuries. It proposes a new birth of this theology and understanding but with a new scope and new power for our time.
Bruno Barnhart was the spiritual director of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California. He authored several books including Second Simplicity: The Inner Shape of Christianity. He died in 2015.
- Price: $22.00
- Pages: 256
- Carton Quantity: 28
- Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
- Imprint: Monkfish Book Publishing
- Publication Date: 24th April 2018
- Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
- ISBN: 9781939681829
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
RELIGION / Spirituality
RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth
RELIGION / Mysticism
RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic
INTRODUCTION
1. A Preliminary Overview
2. The Bias
3. The Taste
4. Thinking about Wisdom
5. The Christian Wisdom Tradition
6. The Eclipse of Wisdom in the West
7. The Time of Vatican II: Toward a Rebirth of Christian Wisdom
8. The Way of Wisdom
9. Four Historical Moments
10. Four Movements
11. Spirit and History
MOVEMENT I: THE SAPIENTIAL AWAKENING
1. Wonder and Awakening
2. The Sapiential Event and Its Eclipse
3. The Sapiential Awakening of the Twentieth Century
4. Henri de Lubac: The Anatomy of Christian Wisdom
5. fean Leclercq: The Two Medieval Theologies
6. Cipriano Vagaggini: Between Two Wisdoms
7. The Quaternary Unfolding of the Christ-Mystery
8. The Revolution of |esus
9. Rationalization of the Mystery
10. Thomas Merton: Opening Christian Wisdom (I)
11. Karl Rahner: Opening Christian Wisdom (II)
12. The Paradox of Christian Wisdom: The Word of the Cross
13. Conclusion
MOVEMENT II: THE EASTERN TURN
1. The New East-West Relationship
2. Nonduality
3. Christian Nonduality I
4. Baptismal Initiation: Point of Contact with the East
and Pivot of Identity
5. Theological Corollaries of the Principle of Nondual
Baptismal Identity
6. (I) Breaking through the Container of Dualistic Christianity
7. (II) Unitive Interpretation of the Christ-mystery
8. (III) Unitive Interpretation of the New Testament
9. (IV) A New Theology Centered in the Explicit
Unitive Principle
10. (V) Unitive Anthropology
11. (VI) Fullness at the Beginning
12. (VII) The Trajectory of Life: From Baptism to Eucharist
13. (VIII) Contemplation as Conscious Experience
of Baptismal Identity
14. (IX) History Understood in the Light
of Unitive Self- realization
MOVEMENT III: THE WESTERN TURN
1. Modernity
2. The Vocation of the West
3. The Shape of Western History
4. Renaissance
5. The Modern Individual
6. Freedom
7. |esus' Revolution and the History of the West
8. Participation and History
9. Wisdom and the West
10. The Shadow and the Destiny of the West
MOVEMENT IV: THE GLOBAL TURN
l. Postmodernity
2. Interpretations of Globalization
3. Toward a Global Consciousness
4. Resistance to Incarnation
5. The Descent of History
6. Globd Christianity: The Southern Turn
7. Christian Nonduality Ift lncarnation
8. The Incarnation of Wisdom
EPILOGUE
NOTES
BIBLIOGR,APHY
INDEX
“Barnhart seeks and desires no less than a wholehearted rediscovery and reinvigoration of the mystical wisdom tradition that was once a powerful component of Christian spirituality.”—Library Journal
Much like Thomas Merton’s writings, this book recalls that a sapiential (wisdom) consciousness is central to the New Testament and remained the primary mode of theological understanding for more than twelve centuries. It proposes a new birth of this theology and understanding but with a new scope and new power for our time.
Bruno Barnhart was the spiritual director of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California. He authored several books including Second Simplicity: The Inner Shape of Christianity. He died in 2015.
- Price: $22.00
- Pages: 256
- Carton Quantity: 28
- Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
- Imprint: Monkfish Book Publishing
- Publication Date: 24th April 2018
- Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
- ISBN: 9781939681829
- Format: Paperback
- BISACs:
RELIGION / Spirituality
RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Growth
RELIGION / Mysticism
RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic
INTRODUCTION
1. A Preliminary Overview
2. The Bias
3. The Taste
4. Thinking about Wisdom
5. The Christian Wisdom Tradition
6. The Eclipse of Wisdom in the West
7. The Time of Vatican II: Toward a Rebirth of Christian Wisdom
8. The Way of Wisdom
9. Four Historical Moments
10. Four Movements
11. Spirit and History
MOVEMENT I: THE SAPIENTIAL AWAKENING
1. Wonder and Awakening
2. The Sapiential Event and Its Eclipse
3. The Sapiential Awakening of the Twentieth Century
4. Henri de Lubac: The Anatomy of Christian Wisdom
5. fean Leclercq: The Two Medieval Theologies
6. Cipriano Vagaggini: Between Two Wisdoms
7. The Quaternary Unfolding of the Christ-Mystery
8. The Revolution of |esus
9. Rationalization of the Mystery
10. Thomas Merton: Opening Christian Wisdom (I)
11. Karl Rahner: Opening Christian Wisdom (II)
12. The Paradox of Christian Wisdom: The Word of the Cross
13. Conclusion
MOVEMENT II: THE EASTERN TURN
1. The New East-West Relationship
2. Nonduality
3. Christian Nonduality I
4. Baptismal Initiation: Point of Contact with the East
and Pivot of Identity
5. Theological Corollaries of the Principle of Nondual
Baptismal Identity
6. (I) Breaking through the Container of Dualistic Christianity
7. (II) Unitive Interpretation of the Christ-mystery
8. (III) Unitive Interpretation of the New Testament
9. (IV) A New Theology Centered in the Explicit
Unitive Principle
10. (V) Unitive Anthropology
11. (VI) Fullness at the Beginning
12. (VII) The Trajectory of Life: From Baptism to Eucharist
13. (VIII) Contemplation as Conscious Experience
of Baptismal Identity
14. (IX) History Understood in the Light
of Unitive Self- realization
MOVEMENT III: THE WESTERN TURN
1. Modernity
2. The Vocation of the West
3. The Shape of Western History
4. Renaissance
5. The Modern Individual
6. Freedom
7. |esus' Revolution and the History of the West
8. Participation and History
9. Wisdom and the West
10. The Shadow and the Destiny of the West
MOVEMENT IV: THE GLOBAL TURN
l. Postmodernity
2. Interpretations of Globalization
3. Toward a Global Consciousness
4. Resistance to Incarnation
5. The Descent of History
6. Globd Christianity: The Southern Turn
7. Christian Nonduality Ift lncarnation
8. The Incarnation of Wisdom
EPILOGUE
NOTES
BIBLIOGR,APHY
INDEX