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    The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe
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    The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe
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    The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe

    Written by Richard Rohr

    Narrated by Arthur Morey

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    About this audiobook

    From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited audiobook exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives.

    In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus was, but who was Christ? Is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center.

    Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world.

    “God loves things by becoming them,” he writes, and Jesus’s life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God — except by its own negative choice. When we recover this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet.

    Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, The Universal Christ is a landmark audiobook from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and an invitation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that is.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 5, 2019
    ISBN9780525588382
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    The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe
    Author

    Richard Rohr

    Richard Rohr was born in Kansas in 1943. He entered the Franciscans in 1961, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. He received his Master's Degree in Theology from Dayton that same year. He now lives in a hermitage behind his Franciscan community in Albuquerque, and divides his time between local work and preaching and teaching on all continents. He has written numerous books including: Everything Belongs, Things Hidden, The Naked Now, and more.

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    • 5/5
      Challenges a conventional view of Jesus Christ related to the individual with a much more expansive view of the Christ related to all of creation.
    • 5/5
      A wonderful treatise on the holiness of the cosmos. Intelligently written and tenderly read. A doorway to clear seeing in The Christian Way. My heartfelt gratitude to Richard Rohr and his collaborators for the precious offering.
    • 1/5
      The author, so far as I understand his work, supports Christian theology that is one babystep short of pantheism. He minimizes the significance of sin and Christ's death, and almost entirely disregards individual sin. He talks about Christ in most of the book almost as if He is a different person from Jesus and one with Creation in a far more literal way than the Bible supports. He misinterprets multiple passages. For example: the author says God calls Himself the I AM because He doesn't care what He is called rather than that He is and always has been the only God of a singular nature; also, the author implies Jesus uses His title as the Son of Man to show He doesn't claim divine power, while that is the exact opposite of what the title means per the passage in Daniel. This on top of an odd fascination with mysticism and Buddhism makes me hesitant to trust any new theological idea from the author.

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    • 3/5
      I liked his comparison between transactional vs transformational Christianity. Some other parts rubbed me a little weird. I'll probably reread it.