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    <![CDATA[Beyond the God Delusion: How Radical Theology Harmonizes Science and Religion]]>
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    <![CDATA[It is ironic but true that most theologians do not understand God in the same way as is being criticized so heavily in such works as Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion. In fact, argues Richard Grigg, most theologians left behind an unalloyed, classical theism about two hundred years ago. <br/><br/>Yet, Grigg argues, the many efforts to reconcile contemporary scientific worldviews with Christian faith stop shy of the radical reconception of God begun in contemporary theology and made necessary by contemporary science. Grigg's erudite and provocative book calls for a more radical theology, in which notions of divine transcendence and immanence, personhood, power, and role in the evolving universe are radicalized and reconceived. Building on the work of such theologians as Sallie McFague and Gordon Kaufman, and with a strong grasp of the particulars of contemporary cosmology and biology, Grigg's exciting work challenges us to an intellectual honesty as sturdy as our faith.]]>
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    <![CDATA[To Re-Enchant the World: A Philosophy of Unitarian Universalism]]>
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    <![CDATA[Since the seventeenth century, Western culture has been undergoing what historians and sociologists call secularization, the process via which religious institutions lose more and more of their power in society.  Whereas Western society was once held together by the Christian Church, it is now held together by the rational procedures dictated by modern capitalism.  But the rules of capitalism, whether ultimately helpful or harmful to our society's development, are not values or spiritual principles.  Instead, they are simply technical dicta about the most efficient means to an economic end. One visible aspect of the process of secularization is the weakening, and perhaps eventual withering away, of traditional religious institutions.  This process is already fully visible in Western Europe, and is evident, on a more subterranean level, in American society as well.  Secularization threatens to &quot;disenchant&quot; the world (Max Weber), to cut us off from the sense of the sacred and of Mystery.  But the withering of the old religious institutions does not mean that religion and spirituality themselves will simply disappear.  Rather, they can take on new forms, as is evident in the New Age movement in American society.  Yet, there is a difficulty with New Age sorts of spiritualities when compared with the old-time religion: these new spiritualities tend to be very individualistic, if not idiosyncratic.  Sociologists point out that our spiritual practices will never appear fully real to us unless they have inter-subjective validity, unless they are supported by a social &quot;plausibility structure&quot; (Peter Berger).  That is, my view of the world has the aura of reality as long as most of the people around me acknowledge that view and reinforce it.  But individualistic New Age pieties seem to have no such social reinforcement underpinning them. Hence the central argument of To Re-Enchant the World: the Unitarian Universalist community accomplishes the unique task of re-enchanting the world by bringing a host of individual spiritualities into a single community where all of them are affirmed and thus granted social plausibility.  The U.U. community, then, is a particularly powerful site for the re-enchantment of the world: it puts us back in touch with the sacred and with what the book labels the Mysterious Depth of reality. While Unitarian Universalists can bring many different spiritual ways into the U.U. community, five are analyzed in depth in the book, namely, humanism, a focus on nature, engagement with the arts, commitment to social justice, and devotion to a Source/Creative Abyss of the universe.  The book also considers rituals common to the U.U. community and the experience of sacred space, sacred time, and sacred word in that community. Finally, To Re-Enchant the World makes some predictions about the future of Unitarian Universalism and even touches on the delicate issue of U.U. proselytizing.  The book as a whole attempts to present a philosophical analysis of Unitarian Universalism that draws upon the most important intellectual currents in contemporary Western culture.  The book operates with the conviction that while other American religious denominations can have their &quot;systematic theologies,&quot; there is no reason why Unitarian Universalists cannot have philosophies of U.U. pluralism.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Gods After God: An Introduction To Contemporary Radical Theologies]]>
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    <![CDATA[<em>An erudite but eminently readable guide to contemporary radical theologies.</em>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Imaginary Christs: The Challenge of Christological Pluralism]]>
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    <![CDATA[What should those attracted to the figure of Jesus Christ make of all the different Christs available to them? Amidst today's pluralism, we encounter Christ as liberator, the cosmic Christ, feminist Christs, Black Christs, Christ as the object of mystical longing, and various New Age versions of Christ, to name but a few. Imaginary Christs discusses the challenges arising from christological pluralism and suggests evaluative criteria for sorting through this abundance of competing Christs without falling into either a narrow dogmatism, on the one hand, or an uncritical relativism, on the other.    <p>With an eye to the pluralism that has always been part of the Christian tradition, the book investigates the benefits of confronting the Christs of White American churches with Black Christs. It poses important questions about the future of pluralistic christological consciousness, exploring the possibilities of devoting oneself to several genuinely different Christs and the possibilities of combining commitment to the Christ with commitment to another venerable religious figure, such as the Buddha.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Imaginary Christs: The Challenge of Christological Pluralism]]>
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    <![CDATA[What should those attracted to the figure of Jesus Christ make of all the different Christs available to them? Amidst today's pluralism, we encounter Christ as liberator, the cosmic Christ, feminist Christs, Black Christs, Christ as the object of mystical longing, and various New Age versions of Christ, to name but a few. Imaginary Christs discusses the challenges arising from christological pluralism and suggests evaluative criteria for sorting through this abundance of competing Christs without falling into either a narrow dogmatism, on the one hand, or an uncritical relativism, on the other.  <p>With an eye to the pluralism that has always been part of the Christian tradition, the book investigates the benefits of confronting the Christs of White American churches with Black Christs. It poses important questions about the future of pluralistic christological consciousness, exploring the possibilities of devoting oneself to several genuinely different Christs and the possibilities of combining commitment to the Christ with commitment to another venerable religious figure, such as the Buddha.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[When God Becomes Goddess: The Transformation of American Religion]]>
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    <![CDATA[While a large percentage of Americans still report they believe in God, Grigg shows that this belief can no longer mean what it used to. When God Becomes Goddess suggests that one way in which Americans may keep the traditional Western idea of God alive is to embrace the Goddess of feminist theology.]]>
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