I was reviewing some of the many pithy passages in Richard Rohr's book, Falling Upward, this morning. Read it back in 2012. So many concise, thoughtful insights that get me in the gut. Here's one sample lifted from my Kindle:
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (Richard Rohr)
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The gift of living in our time, however, is that we are more and more discovering that the sciences, particularly physics, astrophysics, anthropology, and biology, are confirming many of the deep intuitions of religion, and at a rather quick pace in recent years. The universe really is “inspirited matter,” we now know, and is not merely inert. Now we might call it instinct, evolution, nuclear fusion, DNA, hardwiring, the motherboard, healing, growth, or just springtime, but nature clearly continues to renew itself from within. God seems to have created things that continue to create and recreate themselves from the inside out. It is no longer God's one-time creation or evolution; rather, God's form of creation precisely is evolution. Finally God is allowed to be fully incarnate, which was supposed to be Christianity's big trump card from the beginning!
For many years I could not perceive how this could be. The beginning of my breakthrough was reading The Marriage of Sense and Soul by Ken Wilber in the fall of 1999. Another important step was reading A New Kind of Christian by Brian McLaren followed by his other books. And also thanks to Teilhard du Chardin with help from his interpreters John Haught (eg. Deeper Than Darwin) and Ilia Delio (The Emergent Christ and Christ in Evolution), as well as Philip Clayton (The Re-Emergence of Emergence), Harold Morowitz (The Emergence of Everything), The Language of God by Francis Collins and the Biologos Website and many others, it makes sense to me.
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