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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 | |