Wholeness and holiness : a study in human ethology and the Holy Trinity

264 Pages·2003·16.2 MB·English

by  Trotter, James Douglas

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J.D. TROTTER
This disconcertingly original book is the result of
the conjunction of two apparently disparate factors
some fifty years ago. The first is the Peckham
Experiment - an experimental investigation into
the nature and cultivation of health and wholeness
in the structure of human society. The other is the
restlessness of a young theologian disturbed by
the modern tendency to divorce spiritual life from
natural life — a divorce which has resulted for the
majority of people in the apparent irrelevance of
God.
Douglas Trotter recognised in the hypothesis
investigated in the Peckham Experiment, which lay
behind the Peckham experience of community,
insights corresponding to those embodied in the
experience of the early church and ultimately
expressed in the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, in
which community and communion were so closely
intertwined as to form a unitary vision of all life and
all creation. Here he explores this correspondence as
a means of recovering the original experience and
the significance of its unitary vision of man and
the cosmos in terms which are consonant with
contemporary science and culture.
This quite extraordinary book offers the most
radical challenge to the divorce of science from
human culture to appear for a century or more. It
is astonishing in its novelty and disturbing in its
attempt to reshape our whole conceptual frame¬
work. Since the collapse of traditional metaphysics
before the onslaughts of positivism there have been
few attempts to construct a unified interpretation of
reality as a whole. Here is a daringly novel attempt
to recall us to that ultimately unenviable task.
Beginning from the Peckham understanding of
parenthood and family nurture, it ends with
pointers to a unified understanding of the total
universe in which we live, move and have our being.
‘This could be an epoch making book.’
Allan D. Galloway, University of Glasgow
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WHOLENESS
AND HOLINESS

WHOLENESS
AND HOLINESS
A Study in Human Ethology
and the Holy Trinity
J.D. Trotter
PIONEER HEALTH FOUNDATION
GLASGOW
First published in 2003 by Pioneer Health Foundation
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ISBN 0-9545730-0-5
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