Awakening

Awakening illuminates key discoveries in the sciences, theology, psychology, spirituality, humanities, and peace and conflict studies. The process of awakening is seen through the lens of emergent creativity and spirituality with a view toward taking responsibility for relationships and creating justice.

Acknowledgments

1 The SECR Story: The Narrative and Key Concepts behind the Spirituality, Emergent

Creativity, and Reconciliation Research Initiative

Vern Neufeld Redekop

I. SCIENCE, EMOTIONS, AND RE-ENCHANTMENT

2 The Re-Enchantment of Humanity: The Implications of “No Entailing Laws”

Stuart Alan Kauffman

3 Microscopes and Mystics: A Response to Stuart Kauffman’s Call to “Re-Enchantment”

Neil Theise

4 Natural Spirituality and the Biology of Emotion

Katherine Peil Kauffman

5 Scientific Investigation and Spiritual Awareness: Stuart Kauffman, Bernard Lonergan, and

Spiritual Re-Enchantment

Jamie Price

II. THE EMERGENCE OF THE ETHICAL

6 Prophetic Reading and Emergent Creativity in Genesis 1

Sandor Goodhart

7 Reinventing Natural Law as a School of Virtue: Towards a Global Ethic in the Context of Emergent Creativity

Nadia Delicata

8 The Emergence of both Torah and Jesus: Sources of Hope in the Face of Desperation

Vern Neufeld Redekop

III. RELIGION, EMERGENCE, AND WELLBEING

9 Spiritual Awakenings and Subsequent Rigidity in Evangelical History

Gloria Neufeld Redekop

10 Revelation Through Diversity in Creation: A Muslim Alternative to the Modern Liberal

Paradigm of Diversity

Matthew A. MacDonald

11 What Linguistic Philosophy and Abrahamic Faith Can Teach Us About Embodied

Peacemaking and the Authentic Use of Peace Language

Barbod Salimi

IV. CONSCIOUSNESS, RELATIONSHIPS, JUSTICE, AND PEACE

12 Profound Transformation in Relationship and Creativity in Spiritual (and Secular)

Awakening: Implications for Reconciliation

Kelly A. Kilrea

13 Intentional Peace: The Role of Human Consciousness in the Emergence of Peace and Conflict

Megan Price

14 Practices of Reconciliation and Relational Responsibility

Borislava Manojlovic and Andrea Bartoli

15 Justice Displaced or Justice Restored?: The emergent properties of apology as a means of

addressing past wrongs

Neil Sargent

16 The Relational Ecosystem for Peace: An Integrated Heart-Based Approach to Peacebuilding

Brigitte Gagnon and Patrice Brodeur

Index

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