Questions and Comments

1.  Introduction

Part I: What God is Doing

2. God Chose to Grow Us

3. Becoming Like God through Expansion

4. Our Job is to Become the God-Self Within Us

5. Evil is twisted Good

6. Evil and the Ultimate Enemy

7. A Picture of the Highest

Part II: Life in the Age of the Spirit 

8. Liberation in the
Age of the Spirit

9. Sex in the Age of the Spirit

10, Death in the Age of the Spirit

11. Love in the Age of the Spirit

12. Radical Reformation in the Age of the Spirit

13. Religions in the Age of the Spirit

14. Ethical Decisions in the Age of the Spirit

15. Social Justice in the Age of the Spirit

16. The Bible in the Age of the Spirit

17. Providence in the Age of the Spirit

18. Tracing God’s Trajectory in the Age of the Spirit

19. Theology in the Age of the Spirit

20. Summing Up

Appendix A

Appendix B

Bibliography (you are here)

Questions and Comments

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