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A page from Prayer Evolving by Dennis Rivers -- www.newconversations.net/prayers/
Rainbow Bodhisattva
painting by Vijali on the wall of a cave in Tibet
PART TWO
Steps Toward a Theology of
Continuing Incarnation
In this essay I invite you to join me as I explore two kinds of new
thinking in relation to the spiritual dimension of life. First I want to push
beyond the boundaries of thing-related thinking (tree, moon, spoon) and
think about God as flow, movement and pattern. Although this may sound
impersonal, these flows and movements can be quite intimate: life-giving,
energizing, connecting, forgiving, awareness-expanding, insight-
awakening, and more. One ongoing problem in theology is that the word
for “person” is a noun in European languages, so that God as a person gets
placed in the same part of our brains as pots, pans and planets: separate
objects in space and time.
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