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REVIEW: The Religious Experience Of Revolutionaries, Eugene C. Bianchi [1972]

REVIEW The Religious Experience Of Revolutionaries Eugene C. Bianchi By Will Davison To look for the religious experience common to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., D.D., the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., and even Malcolm X is a reasonable…

Revolutionaries and religion

“The religious experience can be found in its deepest dimensions within the secular experience. The religious experience is the secular experience of self‐transcendence."

God as a verb

I have devoted many of my poems to reflections on spirituality after a career of teaching and writing about religion. I have hoped to nudge readers into the present moment.

Ecology and our religious consciousness

Honesty demands that in the realm of doctrine, Christianity does not lend itself easily to becoming a nature spirituality. Ecology has hardly penetrated the shell of modern Christianity. The new challenge calls us far beyond recycling, or a few prayers for the earth at Mass, or turning the church garden into a bird sanctuary.

The divine in every molecule

A Heretic’s Christmas “For unto us a child is born…and his nameshall be called the Mighty God, the everlasting Father.” (Handel’s “Messiah”) I respect the Christmas traditionsof song, music and mythic stories,but the early…