Just as she's done in her
previous books, Cynthia Bourgeault asks us to take a look at an idea from
traditional Christianity—this time the formula of Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit—as though we're looking at it for the first time. And as usual, she
reveals it to be something we hadn't expected at all. She finds in the idea of
the Holy Trinity a striking vision of the nature of reality. What she claims,
in a nutshell, is that embedded within this theological formula that Christians
recite mostly on autopilot lies a powerful metaphysical principle that could
change our understanding of Christianity and give us the tools so long and so
sorely needed to reunite our shattered cosmology, rekindle our visionary
imagination, and cooperate consciously with the manifestation of Jesus'
"Kingdom of Heaven" here on earth. She looks to the history of
Christian theology, to her own years of contemplative practice, and to the
ideas of G. I. Gurdjieff. Her tone is, as ever, as accessible as it is
compelling, and it's a wild ride. "I will do my best to make the ride as
smooth as possible," she says, "but in the end, my commitment is to
getting there, because I know beyond all personal doubt that there is indeed a
ham radio concealed inside this Trinitarian tea cupboard. And in the midst of
this long winter of our Christian discontent, when spiritual imagination and
boldness are at an all-time low and the church itself hovers at the edge of
demise for lack of an animating vision, perhaps now more than ever the time is
ripe to remove the packing boards from this tea cupboard and release its
contents."
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