In the final episode of this season of searching for the seeds of Secular Christianity, we travel to the 20th century to learn from the German Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

We explore his concept of religionless Christianity which developed as he sat imprisoned in Berlin by the Nazi regime for his resistance, and before his execution. McGrath continues to link back to Augustines idea of the invisible church and coins the term invisible Christianity.

What Meister Eckhart learnt, and we can learn, from The Beguines.

S3E5 Secular Christ | Meister Eckhart & Beguine Mysticism.

In this episode we travel back in time to the city of Alexandria, the cultural Mecca of the Roman Empire to learn from the Christian theologian and philosopher Clement of Alexandria (150-215 AD), about how to build resilience in our present age.

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We need to reclaim the future for Christian consciousness, and to recognize that the first Christians were looking towards the future, looking towards the fruition of something. They were not commemorating something that was past. They were actually witnessing something that is coming to be.

- Sean J McGrath and Jakob Lusensky go seeking for the seeds of Secular Christianity.

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The Christian teaching is that we are not yet human. We are on the way towards humanity. Humanity is still to come.

- Sean J McGrath and Jakob Lusensky go seeking for the seeds of Secular Christianity.

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Sean J McGrath together with Jungian Analyst Jakob Lusensky go seeking for the seeds of Secular Christianity.

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In our third season of Secular Christ with Sean J. McGrath we go searching for the seeds of Secular Christianity. The series will go live in early 2024.