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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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The Human as Human | |
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By the Grace of God... | |
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Dualistic Overtones | |
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Grace and the Fundamental Flaw | |
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Grace Revisited | |
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Our Graced Story | |
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Our Graced Orientation | |
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Creatures of Imagination | |
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The Cult(ure) of Rationality | |
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The Suppressed Imagination | |
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Invoking the Imagination | |
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Imagination as We Trace Our Origins | |
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Imagination and Paradox | |
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The Wisdom to See Differently | |
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Gazing into Deep Time | |
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Chimp or Human? | |
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Chimp or Bonobo? | |
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The Counter-Culture of Deep Time | |
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The Joy of Sex | |
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Factoring in Another Time Scale | |
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Interdependence and the Will to Life | |
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The Urge to Explore | |
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The Living Planet | |
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The Tradition of Gifting | |
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What about Sexual Interdependence? | |
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Relating Nonviolently | |
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Our Home in Africa | |
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The African Connection | |
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Walking on Two Feet | |
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Africa: Our Collective Home | |
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The Upright Stride | |
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Creative Innovation and the Awakening Artist | |
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Oldowan Technology | |
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The Awakening Artist | |
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The Cave Walls | |
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Strange Statuettes | |
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Art and Spirituality | |
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Religious Endorsement of Our Creativity? | |
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An Original Synthesis | |
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Working Our Way with Paradox | |
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Our Delight in Work | |
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Man the Hunter | |
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Befriending Ambiguity | |
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Learning from Ergaster | |
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The Wise Species | |
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Intelligence Revisited | |
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Humans Appropriate the Enveloping Intelligence | |
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Enter Synaesthesia | |
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The Communal Challenge | |
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The Peril of European Promise | |
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Developed Skills | |
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Colonial Arrogance | |
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Is There a European Archetype? | |
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Can the Neanderthals Inspire Us Today? | |
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The Discovery of Language | |
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Proto-language | |
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Theories of Language | |
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Language and Social Bonding | |
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Pagan Spirituality | |
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Paganism Reinstated | |
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Ritualizing the Spiritual | |
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Enter the Great Mother | |
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Earth Spirituality Today | |
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Wisdom from Deep Within | |
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Agriculture and Its Discontents | |
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Agriculture as an Axial Moment | |
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The Rise of Anthropocentrism | |
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Religious Validation | |
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Agriculture and Ancestral Grace | |
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The Human as Christian | |
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Jesus, Disciple of Ancestral Grace | |
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Creatures of Ancestral Grace | |
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Rescuing Jesus from Patriarchy | |
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Jesus as Archetypal Human | |
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The God Who Incarnates | |
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The Divine as Spirit Power | |
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The Divine as Creator | |
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The Feminine Face of God | |
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Jesus as a Model of Inspired Birthing | |
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Wisdom Has Set Her Table | |
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Jesus as an Archetypal Human | |
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Reclaiming the Human Face of God | |
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Soulful Living | |
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Reclaiming the Dream | |
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Jesus in Evolutionary Context | |
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The Two-Thousand-Year Benchmark | |
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Jesus in the Big Picture | |
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Savoring the Enlarged Context | |
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Humans at Home in God's Creation | |
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Exile and Alienation | |
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A New Metaphor | |
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Coming Home to Our Human Story | |
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The Kingdom Reenvisioned | |
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Healing and Empowerment | |
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Creation and the Kingdom | |
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Jesus beyond Patriarchy | |
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Dislocating Stories | |
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Disrupting Regimes of Normalcy | |
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Is Jesus Still a Dangerous Memory? | |
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Being Human-Being Person | |
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The Person in Aristotle | |
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An Alternative Paradigm | |
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What Kind of Person Was Jesus? | |
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Incarnation Embracing Paradox | |
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Naming Our Reality Afresh | |
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Jesus Embracing Paradox | |
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Humans Embracing the Paradox | |
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Christian Incarnation and Other Religions | |
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Parallels in Other Faiths | |
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Commonalities Rather Than Differences | |
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Jesus among the Religions | |
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Through Religion and Beyond | |
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Jesus as Ritual Maker | |
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A Culture of Ritual | |
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Ritualization in Word | |
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Ritual in Our Time | |
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Wholesome Holines-Incarnational Spirituality | |
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Jesus: Religious or Spiritual? | |
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Christian Spirituality and Ancestral Grace | |
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From Orthodoxy to Orthopraxy | |
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The Human Lured Toward the Future | |
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The Grace of Evolutionary Becoming | |
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Beyond the Limits of Old | |
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Enter Evolution | |
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Human Emergence | |
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Co-creating the Future | |
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Adapting to a New Way of Being | |
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Technology and the Protean Self | |
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Mechanizing the Human | |
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) | |
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Altering Human Behavior | |
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Posthuman, Protean, or Transhuman? | |
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Transpersonal Wisdom | |
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The Shadow Side | |
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Conclusion | |
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Toward Bioregional Networking | |
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The Dwindling Nation State | |
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Beyond the Nation State | |
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Global Governance | |
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When the Time Is Ripe | |
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Embracing the Adult | |
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The Adult in Creation | |
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The Adult and the Inner Child | |
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Beyond the Preoccupation with the Child | |
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Being Adult for the Future | |
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Learning and Transformation | |
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Learning to Relate Laterally | |
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Commonalities and Differences | |
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The Identity Question | |
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Relational Dislocation | |
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Relating Laterally | |
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Apocalyptic Cataclysm or Eschatological Breakthrough? | |
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A Lurid Fascination | |
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The Apocalyptic Mind-Set | |
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The Eschatological Outlook | |
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Christian Hope | |
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The Spirit Will Lead You Forth | |
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The Inspiring Life Force | |
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Our Spirit-Filled Age | |
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The Spirit That Lures Us Forth | |
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Fulfilling the Promise | |
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Dreaming an Alternative Future | |
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Preoccupied with Death and the Afterlife | |
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The Demonization of Death | |
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Befriending Death | |
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Death in the Cosmic Matrix | |
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Death and Our Graced Future | |
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Will We Actually Make It? | |
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Possible Scenarios | |
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Beyond Our Denial | |
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Hanging On to Hope! | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |