Awakening

Even if all of the elements we know to be significant in the process of reconciliation were present, reconciliation would not necessarily take place. Reconciliation is a nonlinear, nonalgorithmic process that involves "matters of the heart." From emergent creativity and its links to mysticism, to the evolution of emotions as drivers of thought, Awakening weaves cutting-edge discoveries in complexity theory with philosophical reflections on consciousness and language, drawing on Lonergan and Wittgenstein. Awakening as a phenomenon takes on a vibrant vitality as an aspect of transpersonal psychology and it manifests as imperatives to take responsibility for our relationships, to address complex challenges of justice, and to adopt a heart-based approach to peacebuilding.

Vern Neufeld Redekop is professor of conflict studies at Saint Paul University.
Gloria Neufeld Redekop is author and researcher in spirituality and religious social history.

Acknowledgments
1 The SECR Story: The Narrative and Key Concepts behind the Spirituality, Emergent
Creativity, and Reconciliation Research Initiative
Vern Neufeld Redekop
I. SCIENCE, EMOTIONS, AND RE-ENCHANTMENT
2 The Re-Enchantment of Humanity: The Implications of "No Entailing Laws"
Stuart Alan Kauffman
3 Microscopes and Mystics: A Response to Stuart Kauffman's Call to "Re-Enchantment"
Neil Theise
4 Natural Spirituality and the Biology of Emotion
Katherine Peil Kauffman
5 Scientific Investigation and Spiritual Awareness: Stuart Kauffman, Bernard Lonergan, and
Spiritual Re-Enchantment
Jamie Price
II. THE EMERGENCE OF THE ETHICAL
6 Prophetic Reading and Emergent Creativity in Genesis 1
Sandor Goodhart
7 Reinventing Natural Law as a School of Virtue: Towards a Global Ethic in the Context of Emergent Creativity
Nadia Delicata
8 The Emergence of both Torah and Jesus: Sources of Hope in the Face of Desperation
Vern Neufeld Redekop
III. RELIGION, EMERGENCE, AND WELLBEING
9 Spiritual Awakenings and Subsequent Rigidity in Evangelical History
Gloria Neufeld Redekop
10 Revelation Through Diversity in Creation: A Muslim Alternative to the Modern Liberal
Paradigm of Diversity
Matthew A. MacDonald
11 What Linguistic Philosophy and Abrahamic Faith Can Teach Us About Embodied
Peacemaking and the Authentic Use of Peace Language
Barbod Salimi
IV. CONSCIOUSNESS, RELATIONSHIPS, JUSTICE, AND PEACE
12 Profound Transformation in Relationship and Creativity in Spiritual (and Secular)
Awakening: Implications for Reconciliation
Kelly A. Kilrea
13 Intentional Peace: The Role of Human Consciousness in the Emergence of Peace and Conflict
Megan Price
14 Practices of Reconciliation and Relational Responsibility
Borislava Manojlovic and Andrea Bartoli
15 Justice Displaced or Justice Restored?: The emergent properties of apology as a means of
addressing past wrongs
Neil Sargent
16 The Relational Ecosystem for Peace: An Integrated Heart-Based Approach to Peacebuilding
Brigitte Gagnon and Patrice Brodeur
Index
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