Tomorrow’s God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge
About This Book
Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge is Walsch's investigation into the kind of relationship with the divine that humanity requires for its next evolutionary stage — arguing that the 'yesterday's God' of the prevailing religious traditions (characterised by separation, exclusivity, requirement, judgment, and competition among traditions for divine favour) is not adequate to address the specific civilisational challenges of the twenty-first century, and that a genuinely new understanding of God is both possible and necessary. The 'tomorrow's God' that the dialogue describes is characterised by five essential qualities: no separation from any part of creation, no favorites among human beings or traditions, no requirements for human behaviour as conditions of relationship, no judgment and no condemnation, and a perfect compatibility with the full diversity of human spiritual expression.
The book is Walsch's most forward-looking and visionary — addressing not the personal spiritual development of the individual but the collective spiritual evolution of the species. The specific challenge of the title is the question of whether humanity can develop, in time, the understanding of God that would make possible the forms of cooperation, compassion, and global solidarity that the civilisational challenges of the current era require. Walsch's answer is cautiously hopeful: the shift is possible, the understanding is available, and the question is whether a sufficient number of individuals will choose to adopt it and embody it in their own lives and communities.
What You'll Learn
• Understand the five characteristics of tomorrow's God: the specific qualities that Walsch identifies as constituting a genuinely adequate understanding of the divine for the next stage of human evolution — no separation, no favorites, no requirements, no judgment, compatibility with diversity — and how each of these qualities contrasts with the corresponding quality of the 'yesterday's God' of the prevailing religious traditions
• Grasp the civilisational urgency: how Tomorrow's God situates the theological question within the context of specific civilisational challenges — environmental degradation, global conflict, the persistent failure of international cooperation — and why Walsch argues that these challenges cannot be adequately addressed without the shift in understanding of God that he is describing
• Recognise the spiritual evolution framework: how the book presents the religious history of humanity as an evolutionary process in which the understanding of God has progressively developed from the primitive tribal deity through the universal God of the great traditions toward a more mature understanding that transcends the specific cultural forms that have embodied it — and what the next step in this evolution looks like
• Learn the individual-collective relationship: how Tomorrow's God addresses the relationship between the individual's adoption of a new understanding and the collective cultural shift that Walsch is describing as the necessary next step — the understanding that cultural evolution is always the accumulation of individual choices, and that the choice to embody the tomorrow's-God understanding in one's own life is both the most individual and the most world-relevant choice available
• Appreciate the ecumenical vision: how Tomorrow's God, despite its critique of specific theological positions within existing traditions, also honours the genuine wisdom and the genuine spiritual transmission that each tradition has preserved — and how the tomorrow's-God understanding, in Walsch's presentation, would not eliminate the existing traditions but would strip away from each the specific features that have made religion a vehicle of division rather than a vehicle of unity
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