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The Grand Option: Personal Transformation and a New Creation (Gethsemani Studies in Psychological and Religious Anthropology) [Paperback]

Beatrice Bruteau (Author)
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July 28, 2001
"A book as luminous as it is deep, _The Grand Option_ presents us with a global spirituality for the future—an immense and exultant vision of transformation and communion consciousness. Reading it, one cannot help but be seized by the wish that every person on the planet would take Dr. Bruteau's profound vision to heart; there would surely be a New Creation." —Sue Monk Kidd, author of _The Dance of the Dissident Daughter_ and _When the Heart Waits_

"Building on the work of Teilhard de Chardin, the _Grand Option_ masterfully provides the pathway to a new social order based on universal inclusiveness and the unique value of each individual. A modern classic of practical spirituality for the twenty-first century." —Rabbi Lewis D. Solomon, Washington, DC

"I know of scarcely anybody," Bede Griffiths has said, "who goes to the heart of reality as profoundly as Beatrice Bruteau does." Here Bruteau develops a Trinitarian anthropology with the potential for healing our conflicted planet by transforming us from riven and conflicting individuals, into open, sharing, interpenetrating persons of the New Creation. In transcendent freedom, a profound communion consciousness gives birth to global, wholistic community.

Bruteau’s integral vision is as compelling as it is concrete. In this work of philosophical, theological, and psychological anthropology, she presents a cogent spiritual praxis that possesses the power to initiate a psychic revolution. "A new way of seeing," Teilhard has exclaimed, "combined with a new way of acting—that is what we need." This is precisely what Beatrice Bruteau offers in _The Grand Option._

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"Bruteau brilliantly evokes the cosmic dimension of evolution and morphs Christian theology into a razor-sharp and inspired theory. . . ." -- What is Enlightenment?, Fall 2002

"[A] luminous vision of a new social order in an evolutionary world. This is a profound book. . . ." -- Spiritual Life, Fall 2002

"[It] combines a rich legacy of intellectual wealth with her own valuable personal experience and mystical contemplation." -- Prabuddha Bharata, August 2004 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

BEATRICE BRUTEAU is a pioneer in the integrated study of science, spirituality, philosophy, and religion. She is the founder of Schola Contemplationis and The Fellowship of the Holy Trinity, and is the author of, among others, _Radical Optimism, What We Can Learn from the East, The Easter Mysteries,_ and _God’s Ecstasy: The Creation of a Self-Creating World._ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 180 pages
  • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press; 1 edition (July 28, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0268010420
  • ISBN-13: 978-0268010423
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #610,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting challenge for our minds, October 30, 2002
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Roland M. Poirier (Bures sur Yvette France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Grand Option: Personal Transformation and a New Creation (Gethsemani Studies in Psychological and Religious Anthropology) (Paperback)
Beatrice Bruteau tells us about a possible new social order based on the change from the current domination paradigm to a future communion paradigm.
In the domination paradigm, individuals are more like objects identified by a number of attributes with which they tend to identify themselves and which make them different from other individuals.
In the communion paradigm, persons are made in the image of the Trinity. They are indescribable subjects, who continuously give and share their life with others and live by the life of the whole.
As far as I am concerned, I think that the most enlightening idea she puts forward in order to help us understand this fundamental change is the shift from the particle metaphor to the field metaphor.
In the domination paradigm, she compares individuals to particles that tend to live an autonomous type of life, where they fight or ignore one another, or sometimes associate, but always remain external to each other.
In the communion paradigm, she compares persons to fields, in the sense of interacting patterns of energy. This image makes it easier to understand the mutual indwelling of persons, which she claims to be the basis of the new communion paradigm.
When you add to this, the fact that she identifies this radiated energy with pure unmotivated creative love, you have a lot to meditate in order to tune your own mind to this radically new way of thinking ourselves and our world.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting challenge for our minds, October 30, 2002
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Roland M. Poirier (Bures sur Yvette France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Grand Option: Personal Transformation and a New Creation (Gethsemani Studies in Psychological and Religious Anthropology) (Paperback)
Beatrice Bruteau tells us about a possible new social order based on the change from the current domination paradigm to a future communion paradigm.
In the domination paradigm, individuals are more like objects identified by a number of attributes with which they tend to identify themselves and which make them different from other individuals.
In the communion paradigm, persons are made in the image of the Trinity. They are indescribable subjects, who continuously give and share their life with others and live by the life of the whole.
As far as I am concerned, I think that the most enlightening idea she puts forward in order to help us understand this fundamental change is the shift from the particle metaphor to the field metaphor.
In the domination paradigm, she compares individuals to particles that tend to live an autonomous type of life, where they fight or ignore one another, or sometimes associate, but always remain external to each other.
In the communion paradigm, she compares persons to fields, in the sense of interacting patterns of energy. This image makes it easier to understand the mutual indwelling of persons, which she claims to be the basis of the new communion paradigm.
When you add to this, the fact that she identifies this radiated energy with pure unmotivated creative love, you have a lot to meditate in order to tune your own mind to this radically new way of thinking ourselves and our world.
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