Christ-Consciousness: Christian Living Beyond Supernaturalism
What if Christian faith could move beyond the tired battle between supernaturalism and scientific naturalism?
In Christ-Consciousness, Chad Bahl offers a fresh vision of Christian living rooted in process philosophy and inspired by Friedrich Schleiermacher. Drawing on Whiteheadian thought, Bahl frames Christ-consciousness as the “feeling of absolute partnership”—a relationship in which God and creation mutually influence one another. With Christ as the center of divine relationality, this book invites readers toward a faith that is intellectually credible, deeply relational, and practically transformative: a way of following Christ without abandoning either reason or wonder.
About the Author(s)
Chad Bahl, DThM is a graduate of Northwind Theological Seminary and specializes in the study of Open and Relational Theology. Bahl is the author of God Unbound: An Evangelical Reconsiders Tradition in Search of Truth, the author/editor of Deconstructing Hell: Open and Relational Responses to the Doctrine of Eternal Conscious Torment, Mornings with Schleiermacher: A Devotional Inspired by the Father of Modern Theology, and, most recently, The Death of Supernaturalism: The Case for Process Naturalism.
Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer, poet, farmer, and the director of Sky Meadow Institute, an organization dedicated to promoting systems-based thinking about the things that matter most. He holds a BA in religious studies from the University of Vermont and a master’s in religion and art from Yale University. He is the author of the 7-volume Metamodern Spirituality Series as well as Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics. His primary interests include theorizing developments in culture after postmodernism, productively bridging the divide between science and spirituality, and developing sustainable systems for life to flourish. All of these lead through the paradigms of emergence and complexity, which inform all of his work.
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