The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for, and Believe
Written by Richard Rohr
Narrated by Arthur Morey
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About this audiobook
From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited audiobook exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives.
In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus was, but who was Christ? Is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center.
Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world.
“God loves things by becoming them,” he writes, and Jesus’s life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God — except by its own negative choice. When we recover this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet.
Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, The Universal Christ is a landmark audiobook from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and an invitation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that is.
Richard Rohr
Fr. Richard Rohr is a globally recognized ecumenical teacher bearing witness to the universal awakening within Christian mysticism and the Perennial Tradition. He is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fr. Richard's teaching is grounded in the Franciscan alternative orthodoxy—practices of contemplation and lived kenosis (self-emptying), expressing itself in radical compassion, particularly for the socially marginalized. Fr. Richard is the author of numerous books, including Everything Belongs, Adam’s Return, The Naked Now, Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, Immortal Diamond, and Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi. Fr. Richard is academic Dean of the Living School for Action and Contemplation. Drawing upon Christianity's place within the Perennial Tradition, the mission of the Living School is to produce compassionate and powerfully learned individuals who will work for positive change in the world based on awareness of our common union with God and all beings. Visit cac.org for more information.
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Reviews for The Universal Christ
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Challenges a conventional view of Jesus Christ related to the individual with a much more expansive view of the Christ related to all of creation.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A wonderful treatise on the holiness of the cosmos. Intelligently written and tenderly read. A doorway to clear seeing in The Christian Way. My heartfelt gratitude to Richard Rohr and his collaborators for the precious offering.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The author, so far as I understand his work, supports Christian theology that is one babystep short of pantheism. He minimizes the significance of sin and Christ's death, and almost entirely disregards individual sin. He talks about Christ in most of the book almost as if He is a different person from Jesus and one with Creation in a far more literal way than the Bible supports. He misinterprets multiple passages. For example: the author says God calls Himself the I AM because He doesn't care what He is called rather than that He is and always has been the only God of a singular nature; also, the author implies Jesus uses His title as the Son of Man to show He doesn't claim divine power, while that is the exact opposite of what the title means per the passage in Daniel. This on top of an odd fascination with mysticism and Buddhism makes me hesitant to trust any new theological idea from the author.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I liked his comparison between transactional vs transformational Christianity. Some other parts rubbed me a little weird. I'll probably reread it.