Michael Dowd Quotes
Six Quotes by: Michael Dowd of Evolutionary Spirituality movement Author. What it means among other things is the more we learn about the nature of the universe, the nature of creation…if we’re not updating what we mean by God…what we mean by the gospel, we’re going to have outdated, misleading and actually trivial understandings of those.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 16th November 2010.
I believe in the necessity of Christ and the centrality of the cross" becomes . . . I know that Integrity is the key to joy and that I cannot walk this path alone; I need others. Living with no resentments, no secrets, and no unfinished business, I know the peace that passes all understanding and I do not fear death.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 3rd October 2010.
I emerge out of and still deeply value and indeed cherish the Christian tradition. And I have drunk deeply at the well of Earth-honoring spirituality and Buddhism as well. But the tradition I am grounded in most is no longer any belief-based tradition, but, rather, the worldwide, self-correcting knowledge-based tradition of science. I see science, not the Bible or any other ancient written document, as revealing “God’s Word” for humanity today. Indeed, I would argue that nothing is driving young people away from a meaningful relationship with Reality (to use religious language: nothing is driving young people away from God further and faster) than the Bible.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 13th June 2010.
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Few things are more important at this time in history than for religious people to listen to the New Atheists as if these unbelievers were speaking with God’s voice, because they are! The word “God” used to be identified with reality—indeed, ultimate reality. In all cultures and at all times, the divine was no mere person, but was a personification of reality.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 13th June 2010.
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The evolutionary version {of pentecostalism} is grounded in knowledge rather than beliefs and in the authority of cumulative wisdom rather than the authority of an ancient past. Thus, every meaningful religious meme in my tradition—God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, sin, salvation, the kingdom of heaven, the return of the Lord—I now interpret as night language. Night language is dreamlike, inspired metaphor that gives voice and meaning to real human experience—experience that may or may not be fully explicable even today but that would have been outright impossible to understand objectively prior to advances in science and technology.
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 2009.
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God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!
Source here on the Internet. Dated: 2009.
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