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Tables of Contents for Quantum Theology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Part One THE INVITATION
You Are Invited
3
4
What Do We Mean by Theology?
7
16
Theology and Religion
9
3
Theology and Spirituality
12
1
Contemporary Theology
13
8
Conclusion
21
2
What Is the Quantum All About?
23
16
The Classical Model
24
3
The Quantum Theory
27
2
Do We Create Our Own Reality?
29
3
Wholistic Consciousness
32
7
Part Two THE DANCE
Energy, Movement, and Rhythm
39
13
Dancing to Our Sacredness
40
3
Dance of the Gods
43
1
Dance as a Scientific Metaphor
44
3
The Symmetry Within
47
1
Music as a Pulse of Creation
47
2
The God Question
49
3
Wholes and Parts
52
13
Beyond the Mechanistic Metaphor
53
1
Wholes and Parts
54
2
Our Holographic Universe
56
2
The World as Subject
58
2
Wholeness and Uniqueness
60
5
Part Three THE RELATIONSHIP
The Horizon of Belonging
65
13
Fields of Influence
66
3
In Relation to the Whole
69
3
Whither Revelation?
72
6
Beyond Our Isolation
78
15
Trinitarian Relatedness
80
4
Individual Uniqueness
84
2
The Search for Community
86
7
Part Four THE STORY
In the Beginning
93
17
The Potential for Self-Organization
95
1
The Gaia Hypothesis
96
4
Propensity for Self-Regulation
100
2
The Creative Vacuum
102
1
The Anthropic Principle
103
2
Humans and Gaia
105
1
Theological Implications
106
4
Stories Generate Meaning
110
13
Stories Stretch the Imagination
111
2
The Word as Story
113
2
The Central Myth of the Christian Story
115
2
Interpreting Sacred Texts
117
2
Story in Peril?
119
4
Part Five THE SHADOW
Embracing the Dark
123
14
Black Holes
124
3
The Theory of Chaos
127
4
Being and Nothingness
131
2
Salvation and Redemption
133
4
Integrating the Shadow
137
16
The Power of Dualisms
139
2
Integrating the Shadow
141
3
Sins of Our Time
144
9
Part Six THE LIGHT
The Search for Enlightenment
153
11
The Light That Shines
154
2
The Path to Enlightenment
156
3
The Sacrament of Light
159
2
The Sacramental Process
161
3
Reaching toward Infinity
164
13
Resurrection from the Dead
165
2
The Universal Will to Life
167
2
Whither Afterlife?
169
3
World Without End?
172
5
Part Seven THE FUTURE
The Promise and the Peril
177
9
Our Calvary Moment
178
3
Quantum Yearnings: Within and Without
181
2
God and Creation in Process
183
3
No Greater Love
186
11
Power of Love or Love of Power?
187
1
The Embodiment of Love
188
2
New Horizons of Human Sexuality
190
2
The Spirit as Friend
192
2
The Love That Liberates
194
3
Appendix One: Principles of Quantum Theology
197
7
Appendix Two: Doing Theology in a Space-Time Continuum
204
5
Notes
209
4
Bibliography
213
8
Index
221