Development of the True Identity of the Human Being in the Message of the Gospel of Luke
About the book:
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Already a few decades after Jesus, it had been forgotten that
Christianity is a spiritual path on which the image of God, our deepest
essence, which is threatened with suffocation under our false,
egocentric nature, is again awakened to life.
- Jesus
himself lived this path as an example. Anchored in the divine forces,
he brought the true self, the Kingdom of God, to appearance in the
measure that he recognized and weakened the false self--the pharisaic
self-righteousness and the demonic forces of the striving for power,
honor, and possessions.
- The disciples of Jesus
followed this path in the powers of their master. All miracles, events,
and sayings in the gospels are stations of a precisely structured inner
development.
- Those who read the Gospel of Luke with
this perspective, experience a foretaste of the spiritual path of Jesus
and his disciples, which can also become their path.
About the author:
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Dr. Konrad Dietzfelbinger (sociology and German studies) has been
occupied for decades as a translator and author of religious and
spiritual books. His scientific work has brought him in touch with
manifold traditions of western humanity.
- Raised in
an especially religious environment, he already noticed as a child that
under the Christian faith as he encountered it there, there had to be
hidden a much deeper spiritual Christianity. One of his main concerns is
to make this original Christianity visible again.
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Those who go back to the roots of the gospels and thus free the path of
Christianity from all leveling and encrustation will first recognize the
place of this religion among the other world religions. They will
experience that Christianity when rightly understood is especially for
the Westerner the gate to the realization of the true self in the human
being.