Knowing God in the depths isn’t easy. And putting what it is we find into words is even harder. Talk about God by its very definition stretches language beyond its limits, as we attempt to describe infinite truths in very finite words.
This series will explore all of these themes, not only knowing God, but also our need and inability to put this knowledge into words and actions. It won’t be a how-to guide — I most certainly am unqualified for that — but I hope it will at least provide something of a map to help your own journeys of life and faith.
The problem and possibility of knowing God
- Knowing God (Introduction)
- The Map is not the Territory
- GOD: Three Letters and a World of Problems
- We’re all Liars
- A Feast of Confounded Expectations (Epiphany 2020)
- The God Who Can Be Known
Mysterious Encounters: Meeting God in the Hebrew Bible
- Mysterious Encounters
- Entertaining Angels (An Integral Reading of Genesis 18.1-15)
- Symbols and the Knowledge of God
- Naming Fire (An Integral Reading of Exodus 3.1-18)
- Symbols and the Divine Feminine
- Facing the Whirlwind (An Integral Reading of Job 38-42)
- Geography of the Sacred
Mystical Encounters: Meeting God in the Christian Tradition
- Ascent or Transformation?
- Three Movements in Knowing God (An Introduction to Mystical Theology)
- A Drop of Water Poured into Wine (St Bernard of Clairvaux)
- Saints Behaving Badly
- The Night that was my Guide (St John of the Cross)
- There is no Map
- Fire Breathing Green (St Hildegard of Bingen)
- Humility or Humiliation?
- Step by Step (St Gregory of Nyssa)
- Unsatisfied: The language of more
- The Journey Within (St Teresa of Avila)
- Knowing God in 7 Easy Steps, and other lies
- Everything that is Good (Julian of Norwich)
Toward an Integral Approach to Knowing God
- Pit Stop
- God in Three Perspectives
- God as Other: God in Second Person
- Jesus and the Second-Person Perspective of God
- God Within: God in First Person
- Jesus and the First-Person Perspective of God
- Everywhere Present and Filling All Things: God in Third Person
- Jesus and the Third-Person Perspective of God
- Being, Following, and Seeing Christ
- Knowing God together: Community
- Knowing God together: Worship