Tag: John Powell

• Unconditional Love (ii)

  I wrote in a previous post that, for me, the symbolic image of Jesus with his arms outstretched on the cross, is a movingly powerful symbol of ‘unconditional love’, which I see as the ‘beating heart’ of Christianity, and its greatest gift to the world. I also noted that my own journey towards this persuasion…

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  7th Sep 2022

  Christianity, Consciousness, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion

  Abelard, Christianity, Crucifixion, Divine, Hellfire, Jesus, John Powell, Liberation, Love, vision

• Unconditional Love (i)

  There was a time when I was a conservative evangelical minister, fervently believing in the complete historicity and literal factuality of the Gospels, and accepting therefore the historical, traditional, orthodox, Christian interpretation of them. I don’t regret that, because it means that I know about this way of seeing things – I’ve been there –…

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  5th Sep 2022

  Buddhism, Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Archetypes, Buddhism, Christianity, Gospels, Jesus, John Powell, Literalism, Myth, Salvador Dali, Unconditional Love

• Why am I afraid to tell you who I am?

  The question, in this post’s heading, is the title of a book by John Powell S.J. who, in the 1960/70s, wrote a series of movingly insightful and constructively practical studies in interpersonal relationships. What does this have to do with Yeats’s poem? Read on ….. When W.B. Yeats writes about “the heavens’ embroidered cloths“, he…

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  3rd Feb 2021

  Literature, Poetry

  Interpersonal, John Powell, Love, Sharing, Unconditional, Yeats