Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Building on the foundations of Teilhard de Chardin, this dynamic work elegantly explores the ongoing challenges of the next leap in human development.
-I know of scarcely anybody, - Bede Griffiths has said, -who goes to the heart of reality as profoundly as Beatrice Bruteau does.- Here Bruteau develops a Trinitarian anthropology with the potential for healing our conflict-ridden planet by transforming us from riven and conflicting individuals, into open, sharing persons of the New Creation. In transcendent freedom, a profound communion consciousness gives birth to global, wholistic community.
Bruteau's integral vision is as compelling as it is concrete. In this work of philosophical, theological, and psychological anthropology, she presents a cogent spiritual praxis that possesses the power to initiate a psychic revolution. -A new way of seeing, - Teilhard has exclaimed, -combined with a new way of acting--that is what we need.- This is precisely what Beatrice Bruteau offers in The Grand Option.
Synopsis
In The Grand Option, renowned author Beatrice Bruteau advances her healing vision for humankind. This collection of beautifully written essays encourages readers to seek personal transformation based on heightened consciousness and Christian spirituality. Bruteau contends that this transformation will produce a profound sense of personal freedom, thus enabling individuals to commune with the Divine and with each other.
Table of Contents
Activating human energy for the grand option -- Neo-feminism and the next revolution in consciousness -- From dominus to amicus : contemplative insight and a new social order -- Persons in communion : perichoresis -- Trinitarian personhood -- The whole world : a convergence perspective -- Global spirituality and the integration of East and West -- The living one : transcendent freedom creates the future -- Freedom : "If anyone is in Christ, that person is a new creation".