Beyond Religion
‘The living presence of God reverses spirituality ‘mediated’ by religion to knowing God immediately. Instead of a ‘dead idea of God’ one is at-one-with God.
Asked to go beyond oneself to be oneself, the ‘beyond human’ turns from an external and adaptive existence to inward and self-transcending existence with an awesome responsibility of leading Nature to perfection.
Theandric (a.) Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation within the Word, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature.
As Nicolas Berdyaev said, “Who believes in the force of the spirit? Do Christians? . . . Truth must out: the overwhelming majority of men, and among them the Christians, are materialists. Not, mark you, materialists in their doctrine, but in their life.”