Relational Spirituality

INTRODUCTION As the dominant discourse within Christianity, Redemption Theology creates a great divide across humanity between those who are in and those who are out. This is so because the allegorical story of Adam and Eve which is synthesised in the Old Testament book of Genesis and which introduces and conflates the ideas of sin and death is a product of its time and place; that is, of the several hundred years before the birth of Jesus even while embodying earlier tradit

In my ministry I was introduced to the work of Carl Jung when I trained in the Supervised Pastoral Education program in Canada in the late 1970’s. Following my scant reading I was directed to the books of Morton Kelsey and John Sandford, two simple but notable scholars of his work. It all made sense to me. Over the years I further read books on Jung and came to become more committed to his concepts. This was expanded when I ventured into other schools and rounded it out wit

In some of the Asian cultures there is a concept that couples Involution with Evolution. It marries the spiritual with the scientific for it accepts the science of evolution as reliable but then speculates upon the unanswerable question of evolution being formed out of nothing. This remains unconvincingly addressed by the religious traditions of the world. Even the Christian tradition remains unconvinced that it is an adequately addressed answer. An answer is by nature a spec