The Future of Wisdom

Toward a Rebirth of Sapiential Christianity

Bruno Barnhart, Cyprian Consiglio, Cynthia Bourgeault

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English

Monkfish Book Publishing Company
24 April 2018

Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Christian spirituality & religious experience; Christian mysticism; Christian life & practice; Personal Christian testimony & inspirational works

Communicates the depth and power of the Christian 'wisdom tradition', and the promise of its dramatic rebirth in our time.

'Barnhart seeks and desires no less than a wholehearted rediscovery and reinvigoration of the mystical wisdom tradition that was once a powerful component of Christian spirituality.' - Library Journal

Much like Thomas Merton's writings, this book recalls that a sapiential (wisdom) consciousness is central to the New Testament and remained the primary mode of theological understanding for more than twelve centuries. It proposes a new birth of this theology and understanding but with a new scope and new power for our time.

By: Bruno Barnhart
Afterword by: Cyprian Consiglio
Foreword by: Cynthia Bourgeault
Imprint: Monkfish Book Publishing Company
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Second Edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781939681829
ISBN 10: 1939681820
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 24 April 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents INTRODUCTION 1. A Preliminary Overview 2. The Bias 3. The Taste 4. Thinking about Wisdom 5. The Christian Wisdom Tradition 6. The Eclipse of Wisdom in the West 7. The Time of Vatican II: Toward a Rebirth of Christian Wisdom 8. The Way of Wisdom 9. Four Historical Moments 10. Four Movements 11. Spirit and History MOVEMENT I: THE SAPIENTIAL AWAKENING 1. Wonder and Awakening 2. The Sapiential Event and Its Eclipse 3. The Sapiential Awakening of the Twentieth Century 4. Henri de Lubac: The Anatomy of Christian Wisdom 5. fean Leclercq: The Two Medieval Theologies 6. Cipriano Vagaggini: Between Two Wisdoms 7. The Quaternary Unfolding of the Christ-Mystery 8. The Revolution of |esus 9. Rationalization of the Mystery 10. Thomas Merton: Opening Christian Wisdom (I) 11. Karl Rahner: Opening Christian Wisdom (II) 12. The Paradox of Christian Wisdom: The Word of the Cross 13. Conclusion MOVEMENT II: THE EASTERN TURN 1. The New East-West Relationship 2. Nonduality 3. Christian Nonduality I 4. Baptismal Initiation: Point of Contact with the East and Pivot of Identity 5. Theological Corollaries of the Principle of Nondual Baptismal Identity 6. (I) Breaking through the Container of Dualistic Christianity 7. (II) Unitive Interpretation of the Christ-mystery 8. (III) Unitive Interpretation of the New Testament 9. (IV) A New Theology Centered in the Explicit Unitive Principle 10. (V) Unitive Anthropology 11. (VI) Fullness at the Beginning 12. (VII) The Trajectory of Life: From Baptism to Eucharist 13. (VIII) Contemplation as Conscious Experience of Baptismal Identity 14. (IX) History Understood in the Light of Unitive Self- realization MOVEMENT III: THE WESTERN TURN 1. Modernity 2. The Vocation of the West 3. The Shape of Western History 4. Renaissance 5. The Modern Individual 6. Freedom 7. |esus' Revolution and the History of the West 8. Participation and History 9. Wisdom and the West 10. The Shadow and the Destiny of the West MOVEMENT IV: THE GLOBAL TURN l. Postmodernity 2. Interpretations of Globalization 3. Toward a Global Consciousness 4. Resistance to Incarnation 5. The Descent of History 6. Globd Christianity: The Southern Turn 7. Christian Nonduality Ift lncarnation 8. The Incarnation of Wisdom EPILOGUE NOTES BIBLIOGR,APHY INDEX

Bruno Barnhart was an author, spiritual director and monk of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California. He is the author of several books including ""The Good Wine: Reading John from the Center"" and ""Second Simplicity: The Inner Shape of Christianity."" He died in 2015. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, is an author and a monk of New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California, where he currently serves as prior of the community. His most recent book is Spirit, Soul, Body: Toward an Integral Christian Spirituality. Cynthia Bourgeault is the author of nine books including ""The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three"", ""The Meaning of Mary Magdalene"", and ""The Wisdom Jesus.""She has also authored or contributed to numerous articles and courses on the Christian spiritual life. She is a past Fellow of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural research at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, MN, and an oblate of New Camaldoli Monastery in Big Sur, California.

Reviews for The Future of Wisdom: Toward a Rebirth of Sapiential Christianity

"""Barnhart seeks and desires no less than a wholehearted rediscovery and reinvigoration of the mystical wisdom tradition that was once a powerful component of Christian spirituality."" --Library Journal ""There is a new day coming in Christian spiritual theology, and Bruno Barnhart is posting bulletins marking its progress and explaining its meaning. Christianity's opening to the East has sparked a resurgence of its own wisdom tradition, the Christ-centered nondualistic consciousness of the mystics, through which it touches in appreciative fellowship the other wisdom traditions of the world. Father Bruno traces how this renewed consciousness is breaking out of the conventional containers of Christian and Western religious experience and creating a new realization of the depth and dynamism of the divine incarnation in the human and in the world."" --Beatrice Bruteau"