24 25-Minute Talks on 8 Audio CDs - Called Into Being
- God is Love
- The Trinity
- Creation: An Unfolding Story of Life
- Jesus Christ: The Beloved of God
- Jesus Christ: The Humility of God
- The Centrality of the Cross
- Jesus Christ: You and Me
- What is Good About the Good News
- Spirituality and Desire
- Conversion
- Poverty: The Art of Letting Go
- Obedience: The Art of Listening
- Humility: The Art of Loving
- Suffering and Love
- The Mirror of the Cross
- Image and Identity
- Contemplation and Compassion
- Contemplation and Compassion, Part 2
- Transformation
- Spiritual Motherhood
- Prophetic Witness
- Costly Discipleship
- What Are We Becoming?
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| Christian Life: An Adventure in Love, 24 25-Minute Talks on 8 Audio CDs Speaker: - Chair and Professor of Spiritual Studies, Washington Theological Union
- Director of Franciscan Studies
What Does it Mean to be a Christian Today?
What is "good" about the good news we profess? Join leading spirituality scholar, author, and teacher Sr. Ilia Delio in exploring the Christ adventure. Through this unique 24-topic series you will explore the meaning of Christian life in the twenty-first century. As we enter into a period marked by the science of evolution and quantum physics, global consciousness, technological connectedness and religious pluralism, the question of Christian life becomes urgent. Does Christian life make a difference or is it simply a program of duties and obligations, a life that anticipates an otherworldly heaven? In these talks, you will explore the heart of Christian life as an adventure in love. Christian life is an invitation to love. It begins in the love of God, emerges out of this love, and is destined to share in God's love in a new way.
How Do We Understand God?
To explore these ideas, you will begin with a discussion of God, who calls us into life. What is God and who is God as Trinity? How is the new creation story today, especially through the lens of evolution, helping us to see the triune God in a new way? What does it mean to speak of God in a world in the process of becoming something new? In a universe billion of years old with a future of potentially billions of years to come, the significance of life today finds renewed meaning in light of the primacy of Christ. Explore the traditional view of Christ as redeemer of sin and the alternate traditional view of Christ as first in God�s intention to love. Seeing Christ as the goal of the universe puts a new focus on the life of Jesus. Professor Delio will speak of Jesus� life in view of the humility of God and highlight the centrality of the cross as the mark of Christian life that sets it apart from other religions.
How Do We Live the Christ Adventure?
Professor Delio will then turn your focus to Christian life as a spiritual life asking, how does the Gospel help shape spirituality? What is the place of sin and conversion? Examine Christian spirituality as the art of living in poverty, obedience, humility and compassion. Probe the place of suffering in this adventurous life. Does God suffer with us? Does God know the pain of human existence? You will examine a spirituality of transformation through the cross, using the lens of Franciscan spirituality, and explore the relationship between contemplation and compassion as the deepening of love. The final section will take up the challenging question, where is Christian life going as the dawn of a new age draws upon us? Explore the meaning of being transformed in Christ and becoming co-creators in the universe. Engage the meaning of Christian life, especially in view of world religions, and the relationship between Christian life and prophetic witness. Finally, we will ask, do Christians have a particular responsibility for the world and for the future of the universe?
This is a challenging series not only because it engages Christian life in the twenty-first century but because it impels us to set aside the formulas of dogma and to take seriously the meaning of Jesus as the Christ, the way, the truth and the life. Mahatma Gandhi, a devout Hindu, was impressed by the Christian message but claimed it had never been tried. This Christian Adventure in Love is an invitation to try Christian life as the way to proclaim it.
|  Sr. Ilia Delio, O.S.F.
Ilia Delio, OSF, a Franciscan Sister of Washington D.C., is a former Professor and Chair of Spirituality Studies at Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC. She is also a research fellow of Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. She holds a doctorate in Historical Theology from Fordham University and a doctorate in Pharmacology from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She has written extensively in the area of Franciscan theology and spirituality, as well as on various themes in science and religion. She lectures nationally and internationally in Franciscan theology, contemporary spirituality and science and religion. Her books include Simply Bonaventure, The Humility of God, Care for Creation and Christ in Evolution. |
| Christian Life: An Adventure in Love, 24 25-Minute Talks on 8 Audio CDs |
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| Christian Life: An Adventure in Love, 24 25-Minute Talks on 8 Audio CDs |
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