Modern Christianity has lost its heart. In place of direct encounter with the Divine, it has often substituted institutional control, rigid dogma, and theologies that reduce God to systems of debt and sacrifice. Yet at its root, Christianity is a mystical tradition: a way of transformation, illumination, and union with God.
This book invites readers to rediscover that hidden core. Drawing from the riches of Eastern Orthodox theology, the radical inwardness of the Quaker tradition, and the metaphysical clarity of computational idealism, it offers a vision of Christianity renewed. The writings of Gregory Palamas, Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, and the Desert Fathers are placed in conversation with modern philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and perennial wisdom. The result is a theology that is intellectually rigorous, spiritually vibrant, and deeply hopeful.
Readers will encounter a Christianity that is neither bound by legalism nor dissolved into abstraction, but alive with the mystical presence of non-dual Awareness. Theosis, the orthodox concept of transformation of the human person into divine likeness, emerges as the true destiny of humanity. Here, it is reclaimed as part of a spiritual path that entails no separation from God, the fundamental reality, at all. Along the way, the book addresses profound questions about consciousness, the Trinity, the nature of salvation, the problem of evil, and the meaning of mystical experience.
With non-dual philosophy and spiritual practice, Redeeming Modern Christianity through Mysticism sets out to resolve the paradoxes, incoherences, and problems within the Christian paradigm. The conclusion is that a follower of Jesus should see all as one and live accordingly, prioritizing inclusion, love, and empathy over exclusivism, fear, and judgment.