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Identity and Holistic Spirituality with John Kleinig

Outside Ourselves

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The Importance of Physical Life in the Christian Faith

I grew up in a very interesting area which is our equivalent to Napa Valley in California it's the primary grape growing wine producing area in Australia. It's also an area that was settled by Lutheran migrants who came from central and eastern Europe for religious reasons and that's my heritage. If you like the physical life is ingrained in me and a suspicion of theory and now living in your head you can't walk armour and go head tripping you soon go bankrupt. And so when I went to college we call it university here and even seminary I was dissatisfied with the intellectualism of academia because Christian faith was an ideology a system of ideas.

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