Martin Buber was the great spiritual interpreter of relationships
Gustavo Gutierrez of liberation
Karl Rahner of ordinary experience
Paul Tillich of cultural trends
Ken Wilber of everything
Wilber and Tillich:
everyone has a spirituality: an ultimate concern:
– archaic spirituality (food/sex/survival)
– magic spirituality (rituals/voodoo/Santeria)
– mythic spirituality (fundamentalism/literalism/exclusivism)
– rational spirituality (reason/materialism/science)
– pluralist spirituality (postmodernism/relativism/skepticism)
– systems spirituality (deep ecology/Gaiaism/interconnectedness)
– integral spirituality (inclusivism/developmentalism/
inner and communal transformation)
Buber: “Spirituality and life is about community
not the lone individual”
in a Christian society, people produce goods and services
for the good of all/the common good
not for the profits of the owners
all work is done for a transcendent purpose:
building the kingdom/queendom/kindom of God
where all people and creatures are taken care of
However, Christianity is not the only place of God’s rule:
Chakravartin, the universal Hindu king in India
Ashoka, the first Buddhist monarch in Buddhism
Shih Tuang Hi, the first Taoist emperor of a united kingdom in China
all governed by Heaven’s Mandate
under Heaven’s Law
so Mother Teresa taught her sisters
never to try to convert a Muslim/Hindu/Buddhist
by talking about Jesus
or promoting Christianity
but rather by being Jesus to them.
Intelligent Christian Spirituality 