Theology Without Walls: Transreligious Explorations
At the intersection of faith, philosophy, and cultural inquiry, Theology Without Walls is a pioneering project that transcends traditional theological boundaries. In partnership with Caladium Publishing, renowned for its dedication to serious and thoughtful works on religion and spirituality, we are proud to present the groundbreaking series: Theology Without Walls: Transreligious Explorations.
This collection brings together some of the most innovative voices in contemporary spiritual thought. Each publication offers a unique perspective, embracing diverse traditions and charting new pathways for understanding the divine. Whether you are a seeker, a scholar, or simply curious about the deeper questions of life, this series invites you to explore, reflect, and grow.
Discover the five visionary titles in this series, each providing fresh insights and perspectives on spirituality and theology in a pluralistic world.
Featured Books
Theology Without Walls Founding Essays
It started as an exploration of the implications of what I call the Ineluctable Syllogism: If the aim of theology is to know all we can about the divine or ultimate reality, and if insights into that reality are present in multiple religions and traditions, then what we need is a Theology Without Walls, without confessional boundaries. Here, for the first time under a single cover, are the founding essays of the Theology Without Walls project.
Rita Sherma and Christopher Denny
Rita Sherma has added an introductory essay that brings the project up to the present moment. Christopher Denny provides a survey and assessment of criticisms and controversies the Theology Without Walls project has engendered.
Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age
The book not only provides an impressive intellectual foundation for the theology without walls movement. It combines a testimony of direct religious experience with a rigorous philosophical case for the inclusion of such testimony…” -S. Mark Heim
Jerry L. Martin
You stand on the threshold of a new spiritual era, a new axial age the author was told in prayer, inspiring Jerry L. Martin to start the Theology Without Walls project, which explores religious thinking in an intercultural age. Martin’s own approach does not begin with established religions, but with the personal journey of the seeker. The divine reality is available to us all, but we have to find our own best access to it and how to orient our lives in relation to it.
Philosopher and author of the true story, God: An Autobiography, As Told To A Philosopher. Martin has served as the head of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Colorado philosophy department and is the founding chairman of the Theology Without Walls group at the American Academy of Religion and editor of Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative.
Martin has published on epistemology, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, transreligious theology, and public policy issues. Martin can be contacted at theologywithoutwalls.com.
Confessions of a Young Philosopher
In this remarkable and deeply instructive memoir, a gifted woman philosopher … explores to the limits of liveability a string of contemporary world-views. Profoundly philosophical as her argument is, the book is a page-turner.” -Bernard Harrison, Blaming the Jews: Politics and Delusion, 2020
Abigail L. Rosenthal
Abigail Rosenthal sought to live a full life as a philosopher and as a woman at a time when there was no space for that combination. In pursuit of truth both with regard to philosophy and a woman’s life, she believed in testing ideas, not just intellectually, but by living them. Lived out, did they prove to be truthful? Or were errors and limitations uncovered?
Pulitzer-nominated author of A Good Look at Evil, Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and author of a weekly blog at: dearabbie-nonadvice.com.
Life Seeking Understanding: How Spiritual But Not Religious and other Seekers Can Construct Their Own Theology
If you are a religious ‘none, a ‘done,’ or a spiritual but not religious person hoping to make sense of your journey, this book is for you. Hans le Grand offers new intellectual tools to help spiritual seekers come up with a liberal, open-ended, ‘well-considered’ position.” -Linda Mercadante
Hans Le Grand
This book is for seekers who find truth in many traditions but follow none exclusively. Proposing a theology for this kind of faith, it uses Imaginative Construction and Aporetic Pluralism to explore six steps from agnosticism to a considered faith, embracing diverse insights and the ambiguities of spiritual exploration, providing a richer, deeper way to answer life’s ultimate questions.
A Dutch citizen, Hans holds PhDs in physics and theology and is a minister recognized by the British General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches. Initially a solid-state physicist specializing in superconducting X-ray detectors for astronomical satellites, he later pursued a PhD in theology while caring for his father and exploring religious liberalism. Hans found his scholarly home in the Theology Without Walls initiative.
Except by his theological research, Hans practices his religious ministry by taking guest services and giving lectures in liberal churches combining inspiration from Christianity, Buddhism, Humanism, Celtic religions and science. In his free time, Hans is an avid singer and piano player, and likes to play board, card and role playing games with his girlfriend Helen, his children and friends.
The Sacred/Secular Binary: Challenging the Divide in University Culture and Democratic Societies
How can democracy itself become a new contemplative practice, a “beloved community that deconstructs and then transcends the very binary of the secular and the sacred that presently runs so many of our institutions and worldviews—be they secular, scientific, or religious? Like this.” -Jeffrey J. Kripal
Rory D. McEntee
A call to once again consider the “aliveness of Life” in educational and cultural institutions, especially university life. Today, that aliveness is expressed through many different idioms of religious, cultural, and spiritual milieus. Yet this aliveness is often unintentionally smothered, its power gutted by an anachronistic sacred/secular binary. What would it mean to reimagine such a binary given the profound religious diversity of contemporary cultural conditions?
A philosopher-theologian and President and Executive Director of the Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & Interspirituality. He has taught world religions, theology, contemporary spirituality, and philosophy at multiple universities, and is co-author of The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living.
Rory did doctoral work in Theology and Philosophy at Drew University, and Applied Mathematics at the University of Southern California, and taught mathematics and physics at secondary and university levels. Rory has also worked extensively in interspiritual dialogue, including as administrator for the Snowmass InterSpiritual Dialogue Fellowship—a 30-year project convened by Father Thomas Keating, engaging contemplatives from varying religious traditions in intimate dialogue and shared spiritual practice.