Integral Christianity

A 2 day workshop probing into the depth of Christianity from an integral point of view. With Fr. Tim Mansfield.

Integral Christianity is not a new form of Christianity, with a new set of beliefs. Instead, Integral Christianity is a disposition, an attitude, that starts with the radical embracing of all forms of Christian rigorous practice and understanding. Then, taking these practices on both individual and collective levels, we embody them within our faith communities and move into our broader society.

Practicing ceaselessly "the presence of God", in the words of that beloved spiritual classic, and at the same time also practicing our Lord's second great commandment – to love our neighbour as our self. Gently probing if these poles collapse into a non-dual mode that touches the very origins of our faith.

In embracing those prior and current forms, without getting tied up between "orthodox" versus "heretical", and adding the insights of modernity and science, we need to develop new modes of discernment and openness to experience. And doing this with a hunger for authenticity, righteousness and truth that celebrates life and avoids the mushy theological soup in which everything is equally true, but nothing truly matters.

This two-day workshop will draw out some perspectives of what such a broad, discerning embrace might look like.

We will introduce some possibilities of the kinds of rigorous practice that support our discernment. We will create open space amongst the participants to collaboratively explore how we can authentically continue to bring the fullness and richness of our beautiful tradition to life in the 21st Century.

Join us! We need your voice, your head, your hands and your heart.

What will I get from the workshop?
- An embodied sense of the ways in which Christianity has and might evolve alongside society into a premodern, modern, post-modern and integral forms
- A more spacious way to hold the polarity of orthodoxy and heresy.
- An experience of the Christian tradition at different depths: the body, the soul and the spirit.
- An understanding of ways in which tradition grapples with the unconscious aspects of the self and our relationship with our psychological shadow.
- A revisit and reframing of core Christian concepts like the Trinity, sin, the Kingdom of Heaven, salvation, church and Eucharist.
- A renewed grasp of and a renewed passion for the deep, relational character of Christianity.

Event listed by Auckland Integral

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