A New Coherence

In the 2004 book The Death of the Mythic God. author Jim Marion says that what has really died is our myth of God, our worn-out notion of the deity in the sky, separate from us, who intervenes in our lives only when petitioned strenuously. God still exists, but we need to update our interpretation of God's nature. The mythic sky God was never real, says Marion. It was only a concept of God, now outdated. The real God is in the human heart, within the world, operating as the engine of evolution. God grows us from within into ever higher levels of awareness."

On May 2-4, 2025 the Center for Christogenesis had their virtual 2025 Conference: Rethinking Religion in an Age of Science: From Institution to Evolution. This conference "aimed to suture the relationship between religion and spirituality by relocating religion at the heart of cosmic life. Religion has not gone away but it is advancing in new ways. Formal or institutional religion has sidetracked the modern person by placing constraints around religion and segregating its core energies in creeds and doctrines."

Robert Nicastro, Executive Director of the Center for Christogenesis, at their 2025 Annual Conference, made the case for a new coherence.

From...

The Big Five Fundamentals of Faith

1. The inspiration of scripture as literal word of God.

2. The virgin birth of Jesus as miraculous and literal - the means by which the divine nature of Christ has been guaranteed.

3. The substitutional view of the atonement.

4. The certainty of the physical bodily resurrection of the dead.

5. The certainty of heaven and hell.

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The New Coherence

1. God is described as a creative energy of love on all levels of matter and life.

2. God is not stable or unchanging, but works through the movement, rhythm, pattern and restlesness - within the evolving nature of life itself - as a hyper-center of immeasurable depth.

3. God serves as the principle of individuation, in which each organism, including God, retains unique identity and is enhanced through a deepening of creative union and wholeness.

4. The future is metaphysically foundational in our efforts to understand the world and God.

5. The primary context of divine revelation is the unfolding process of creation and not formal religion.

“Since Charles Darwin, static creeds have become an unlivable place.” ~ Hans Kung