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Spirituality & Relational Theology
EXPLORING SPIRITUAL LIFE THROUGH RELATIONSHIP, PARTICIPATION, COMMUNION, GRACE, PRAYER, SERVICE, AND THE CONTINUITY OF LIFE.
How does spiritual life unfold through relationship and participation?
Research Questions
- How can spirituality be understood through participation and relationship?
- What does communion reveal about the relational nature of human and divine life?
- How do grace, prayer, recognition, and service shape spiritual participation?
- What can relational theology contribute to understandings of the Trinity and the Holy Spirit?
- How do spiritual traditions understand continuity, death, transformation, and renewal?
- What can emerge through respectful dialogue between theological and Indigenous knowledge traditions?
- How can spiritual life contribute to belonging, responsibility, and care for others?
Current Research
Relational theology
The Trinity
Holy Spirit and participation
Grace and recognition
Prayer and communion
Service and vocation
Spiritual renewal
Death and continuity
project 1
Kanyini and African Sufi Wisdom
Brings Kanyini and African Sufi traditions into dialogue around love, relationship, responsibility, and living connection.
project 2
Embodied Coherence and Human Development: A Systems Interpretation of the Chakra Tradition
Reinterprets the chakra tradition through systems theory, embodied coherence, and human development.
project 3
What Continues? Death, Destiny, and the Persistence of Participation
Explores death through continuity, participation, relationship, and the persistence of relational life.
project 4
Death as Return to Field
Examines death through Indigenous relational ontology as a transformation within continuing relationships.
project 5
The Trinity as Relational Ontology
Explores the Trinity as a relational structure of communion, participation, generation, and living reality.
project 6
The Holy Spirit and the Restoration of Participation: Toward a Relational Theology of Prayer
Develops prayer through the Holy Spirit as restoration of participation in divine, human, and communal relationship.
project 7
After Belonging Breaks: Excommunication and the Third Story
Examines excommunication through broken belonging and the possibilities of restored participation and relational continuity.
project 8
Called by Name: Grace, Recognition, and Participation in Scripture
Explores grace as recognition and calling through which persons are invited into deeper participation and relationship.