{"id":1577,"date":"2018-03-22T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunergoi.com\/?page_id=1577"},"modified":"2020-03-02T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:02:59","slug":"the-wholeness-imperative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?page_id=1577","title":{"rendered":"The Wholeness Imperative"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wendell Berry talks about the summons to wholeness like this:<\/p>\n

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be\u00a0redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.<\/p>\n

~Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Scott Redd’s recent book, entitled The\u00a0Wholeness Imperative:\u00a0How Christ Unifies our Desires, Identity and Impact in the World<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 (Amazon link\u00a0here<\/a>) picks up the thread of wholeness introduced in biblical texts like Deut 6:4-9 and follows it throughout the story of redemption. Through this study, we can see how our faith in Jesus Christ changes everything in the human life, our loves, our hot takes, our sense of self, and our efforts to interact in the world around us.<\/p>\n

~ John Scott Redd, Jr.<\/p>\n