
A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness
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Mark Vernon
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Mark Vernon
Christianity is in crisis in the West. The Inkling friend of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield, analysed why. He developed an account of our spiritual predicament that is radical and illuminating.
Barfield realized that the human experience of life shifts fundamentally over periods of cultural time. Our perception of nature, the cosmos, and the divine changes dramatically across history.
Mark Vernon uses this startling insight to tell the inner story of 3000 years of Christianity, beginning from the earliest biblical times. Drawing, too, on the latest scholarship and spiritual questions of our day, he presents a gripping account of how Christianity constellated a new perception of what it is to be human. For 1500 years, this sense of things informed many lives, though it fell into crisis with the Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment.
But the story does not stop there. Barfield realised that there is meaning in the disenchantment and alienation experienced by many people today. It is part of a process that is remaking our sense of participation in the life of nature, the cosmos, and the divine. It's a new stage in the evolution of human consciousness.
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The book does what the other reviewers said that it does. The author discusses why people are staying away from the church in droves. He describes how the writer Owen Barfield believed that humanity has gone through stages of evolution of our consciousness in the past and the evolution continues to the present and the future. The author, Mark Vernon, uses Barfield's work as a jumping off point. He says people are staying away from the church because it operates and provides worship services that would have been appropriate for humanity during earlier stages of our evolutionary consciousness but are not appropriate for us now or in the future.
Vernon continues with a church history that highlights the evolution of human consciousness. He doesn't say a lot about Barfield's work for a lot of the book. Then Vernon brings Barfield back in toward the end of the book when provides his conclusion in which poetic imagination will make the church relavent again.
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