
Contemporary Biblical Scholarship on Our Being “Sons/Daughters of God”
A long history in Christianity proposes that Christmas and Advent are about our birth as other Christs, Cosmic Christs, sons and daughters of God. Amidst
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A long history in Christianity proposes that Christmas and Advent are about our birth as other Christs, Cosmic Christs, sons and daughters of God. Amidst

Are Advent and Christmas meant to be reminders of Divinity and the Christ being born in us? Meister Eckhart invokes Clement of Alexander who writes: “The baptized,

We are meditating with Meister Eckhart on a deeper and more adult understanding of Advent and Christmas, and how both commemorate how humans are to

For Meister Eckhart, the meaning of Christmas is our being born as the sons or daughters of God. He says: It would mean little to

Longing and waiting are integral to Advent, a time of awaiting a cosmic-shattering birth—our own and the Christ born in us. When Julian talks about love—including

Merton spoke of his life as a circle: “Our destiny is to go on beyond everything, to leave everything, to press forward to the End

Julian (1342-c.1429) develops a feminist theology that includes the Motherhood of God the Creator, God the Liberator, and God the Spirit more fully than any

An early name for Christ, celebrated at the solstice time, was “Sol justitiae,” the “Light of Justice” that arrives anew each year. It would be

I don’t know any Christian writer who has more fully understood and developed the distinction between honoring the birthday of the historical Jesus and honoring

For Christians, this is the season of Advent. The word adventus in Latin means Coming. A great coming is on the horizon, a great coming
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