"To Have Been One with the Earth
"Nature in Contemporary Christian Mystical Experience, Janet Ruffing, PhD., RSM
. . .findings from a research project that explored individuals experiences in nature.
Repondents described both small and large epiphanies when they talked about their experiences of God in nature. . .Because for them nature is surch a profound and consistent sacrament of God's presence, they sometimes struggled for words in an effort to avoid the language of pantheism. They experienced themselves in ever deeper inter-communion with themselves, the natural world, the human community and the divine presence. God was clearly dwelling within and disclosing God's self through each of these realms of experience. They expressed gratitude both for the presence of God they enjoyed and for the places which had become their pariticular landscapes of the sacred.
"Nature in Contemporary Christian Mystical Experience, Janet Ruffing, PhD., RSM
. . .findings from a research project that explored individuals experiences in nature.
Repondents described both small and large epiphanies when they talked about their experiences of God in nature. . .Because for them nature is surch a profound and consistent sacrament of God's presence, they sometimes struggled for words in an effort to avoid the language of pantheism. They experienced themselves in ever deeper inter-communion with themselves, the natural world, the human community and the divine presence. God was clearly dwelling within and disclosing God's self through each of these realms of experience. They expressed gratitude both for the presence of God they enjoyed and for the places which had become their pariticular landscapes of the sacred.
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