Dancing with the sacred : a missionary spirituality /
Percy Juan G. Bacani.
- Quezon City, Philippines : Claretian Communications Foundation, c2016.
- 280 p.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Chapter 1. Dancing with my shadows The inner journey Facing the shadows Being a Christian Shadows and mission Reimaging the divine Chaos and birthing REST Soul acceptance The poor anoint us Chapter 2. Dancing with the Lord of the dance Who is Jesus Where one is Deep consciousness Kenosis: Jesus as the heart of God Kenosis as three levels of liberations Mystique- why and whereby The Magnificat (three levels of liberation) Kenosis and mission Kenosis and creation Chapter 3. Dancing with the local culture: a challenge to religious life Inculturation Reclaiming the local cultures Liberating values, symbols, myths and rituals The church of the poor Dancing through sacred spaces Three inner resources in the Filipino: Faith in divine providence-- Inter-relatedness (Pakikipagkapwa na may dama at malasakit)-- Enormous hope (Puno ng Pag-asa) and sense of celebration (Pagdiwang) Chapter 4. The dance between sexuality and spirituality Dualism Passion, creativity, and generativity The dance between eros and agape Eros Some markers Sexuality and spirituality Sexual conversation with God Love meets the poor Love meets women Love meets the land In dialogue with Asia's multi-religious context and traditions Right relations-- born of prophetic mysticism Missionaries called to be mystics Contextual love-- the locus of mission spirituality Chapter 5. Dancing with the cosmos Immediate context Birthing- God's and Mary's Epiphany The grandmothers creation story The challenges of Laudatu si' Evolutionary paradigm Expansion of the image of God Evolving Christ Creation and salvation are one The radicality of the Sabbath A new cosmology New way of looking at ourselves Cosmogenesis Shamanism Rereading the Genesis narrative Rereading of the Genesis narrative from the "Earth's perspective" Chapter 6. Dancing with dark matter Deep evolutionary roots To dance with the dark side Evolutionary brain Different paths to the divine Ecological conversation-four integral movements-- Begins with gratitude-- recognize our pain for the world-- seeing with new eyes-- Going forth-- "let us sing as we go" Dancing with the sacred in a world of open systems Faith seeking cosmos Ecozoic era Faith seeking the divine in and through the cosmos Experience of oneness World as lover Chapter 7. Dancing with the poor: The other challenge of Laudatu si' A sense of deep communion Solidarity with the poor Climate is a common good/ universal destination of goods The principle of the common good and the principle of subsidiarity The principle of intergenerational solidarity/ Intergenerational justice Ecological citizenship- communities of celebration and resistance: reimaging our inner journey-- celebrate biocentric consciousness-- circles of care and political actions-- on-going articulation of eco-spirituality
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