This is the Tao of Christ, and I am Marshall Davis. This is a place for Christians who suspect that spiritual truth is bigger than the forms of Christianity that dominate the American religious landscape. This is also a place for non-Christians to hear a different take on Christianity.
God has been speaking since the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, long before there were human beings, written scriptures and religious traditions. In this podcast I will be exploring that wider revelation. I will be interpreting books like the Chinese classic the Tao te Ching from a Christian perspective.
I will explore the mystical roots of Christianity, which Jesus called the Kingdom of God, which church historian Evelyn Underhill called the Unitive Life and which I refer to as nonduality or union with God. Along the way we will also listen to the critique of religion by atheists and humanists. In their own way these champions of reason and science are spiritual teachers also.
The Chinese word Tao means the Way, which is how Jesus referred to himself, saying, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” It is what the Gospel of John calls the Logos, or the Word, when he writes: “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” According to the Book of Acts the earliest Christians called their spiritual path simply “the Way.” This podcast is about this ancient and primordial Way. This is the Tao of Christ.
This episode includes an introduction to the podcast and chapters 1-21 of my book "The Tao of Christ: A Christian Version of the Tao of Christ."
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The Tao of Christ