by Richard Rohr
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The Author
Fr. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province. He founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1987, where he presently serves as founding director. He is the author of more than twenty books, now translated into many languages. An internationally known speaker to thousands of people a year, Richard has traveled to many parts of Europe, Asia, Australia, and South Africa. Teaching on such themes as adult Christian spirituality, Scripture as liberation, male spirituality, politics and spirituality, nature and earth care, Franciscanism, interfaith dialogue, and the Enneagram, Richard uses these many platforms to communicate a life-changing worldview based on the Gospels.
Richard is also well known for his numerous recorded teachings and his articles in the Center's quarterly publication, Radical Grace. He is a regular contributing writer for Sojourners and Tikkun magazines. To learn more about Richard's work and the Center for Action and Contemplation, please visit http://cacradicalgrace.org.
Index
Abraham (biblical figure)
Adam and Eve
Adolescence
Aeneas
Albertz, Rainer
Alcoholics Anonymous
American Idol, heroism and
Amish, as true conservatives
Amnesia: about divinization; consequences of; divine union and; healing of; identity and
Anger
Animas Institute
Anxiety
Apostle's Creed
Archimedes
Art, religious
Art of Loving, The (Fromm)
“As Kingfishers Catch Fire” (Hopkins)
Atheism
Atonement
Augustine
Authority
Balance
Barfield, Owen
Beatitudes
Beck, Don
Becker, Ernest
Belief, versus knowing
Bible, translations used
Blake, William
Bonaventure (saint)
Both-and thinking
Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky)
Brueggemann, Walter
Buddhism
Butcher, Carmen Adevedo
Calling, first and second
Campbell, Joseph
Catholic Church: as accountability community; as bride; communion and; conservatism in; father wounds and; good old days in; institutionalization in; liturgy and; necessary suffering and; as paradox; scandal in; Second Body of Christ and; as unified field; wisdom of nuns in; worldview of
Catholic Workers, as true conservatives
Cavafy, C. P.
Center for Action and Contemplation
Change, resistance to
Childhood: conditional and unconditional love and; law and limits and
Chodron, Pema
Church, universal: early Christianity and; Eastern Church fathers and; elitism and egalitarianism in; emerging Christianity and; Jesus’ definition of church and; repeated crucifixion of Christ and
Church fathers, on divinization
Clare of Assisi
Clement, Olivier
Clergy
Cloud of Unknowing, The (Butcher)
Common good, heroism and
Conscience, internalized
Conservatism
Contemplation
Contentment
Conversion
Covetousness
Criminal justice. See also Jails and prisons
Culture
Dalai Lama
Dance: cosmic; general; survival versus sacred
Dante
D'Arcy, Paula
David (biblical king)
Day, Dorothy
Death: acceptance of; avoidance of; denial of; mystery of; of self; as subject in literature; transition between halves of life and
Democracy
Depression
Dillard, Annie
Dionysius
Disability
Divine Comedy (Dante)
Divine gaze
Divinization
Doubt
Down-up pattern: faith and trust and; falling upward and; in legends and literature; perfection and goodness and; resistance to; in science; as secret of the soul; in spirituality; tragic sense of life and; trampoline effect and
Dualism: bipartisanship versus transpartisanship and, ; versus both-and thinking; creation and evolution and; immaturity and; law and freedom and; versus peace; sequencing of; in Thomas Merton's writings
Duns Scotus, John
Education, grade inflation and
Ego: boundaries and; deconstruction of; economy of merit and; egocentrism and; failure and; foil for; limitation of; loyal soldier and; pick-and-choose morality and; status-quo preference of; structure of; superiority complex and; undercutting of; wheel of development and
Einstein, Albert
Elders: as “grand” parents; hereness of; human fullness of; mirroring and; stages of development and
Eliot, T. S.
Enlightenment, tradition and
Enneagram
Entitlement, sense of
Erikson, Erik
Eros
Esau (biblical figure)
Esther (biblical queen)
Evangelicals, neoconservatism and
Eve (biblical figure). SeeAdam and Eve
Failure: balance and; ego and; God's providence and; lack of apology and; opportunity and; purpose of; redemption and; wholeness and
Faith
Family
Fear
Field, unified. See Unified field
First half of life: big three concerns of; calling and; churches’ validation of; creation of container and; done poorly; dualistic thinking and; as foundation of house; Gospel in; identity and; infantile grandiosity and; institutions in; lessons of; loyal soldier and; mirroring and; naiveté of; provisional personality in; purity and; regressive restoration of; security and; Ten Commandments and; as warm-up act, viii; wisdom in; writing the text and. See also Life transition
Forgiveness
Four Quartets (Eliot)
Fowler, James
Francis of Assisi: conditional and unconditional love and; journey of; on kissing a leper; lifetime of falling and; spirituality of imperfection and
Franciscans: as accountability community; as bride; God and humanity and, ; particular stories and; Rohr as; rules and
Frank, Anne
Frankl, Victor
Freedom: forgiveness and; inner; law and; love and; to say yes or no; self-exclusion and; in Thomas Merton's writings; truth and
Freud, Sigmund
Friendship, mirroring and
Fromm, Eric
Frost, Robert
Fundamentalism
Gandhi
Gebser, Jean
Generativity
Gethsemani monastery
Gilligan, Carol
Girard, Rene
Globalization, identity politics and
God: authentic experience of; children of; compassion of; conspiracy of; creation and; desire and; disappointment in; as Driver; failure and success and; falling into; filling of vacuums and; free will and; gaze of; goodness of; hiddenness in; inner experience of; kingdom of; love of; mercy of; mind of humanity and, ; as mysterious and outpouring; obedience to; parts and the Whole and; paths toward and away from; perfect receiving and; presence of; qualities of; as stumbling stone; superego and; Ten Commandments and; transformation and; True Self and; union with; vision of; voice of
Goodness
Gospel: big message of; creation and; in first half of life; as good news; healing and growth and; leaving home and; problem inside a solution and; spiritual journey and; tragic sense of life and; as wedding partner
Grace: versus certainty; economy of; life transition and; redemption and; stumbling and
Graves, Clare
Gregory of Nyssa
Hades, Odysseus in
Hafiz
Halves of life: metaphors for; as morning and afternoon; necessity of; no versus yes and; old and new wineskins and; outer and inner journey and; Rohr's reasons for writing about, viiviii; tablets of the law and; vocabularies of. See also First half of life; Life transition; Second half of life
Happiness, meaning and
Heaven: as charged concept; divine union and; exclusion versus inclusion and; hell and; life's journey and; now and later; practicing for; as state of consciousness
Hell: as charged concept; heaven and; life's journey and; loss of divine union and; in the present; self-exclusion and; as state of consciousness
Heraclites
Hercules
Hermes
Heroes and heroines
Hesse, Hermann
Hinduism
Holiness
Hollis, James
Holocaust
Holy Spirit
Home: being versus doing and; as goal of sacred story
Homer
Hope, Holy Spirit and
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Hospice
Hubris
Humiliation: Rohr's prayer for; self-knowledge and; shadow work and; stumbling and; tragic sense of life and
Humility, holiness and
Hypocrisy
Identity: versus commonality; divine gaze and; Japanese soldiers and; mistaken; narcissistic fix and; persona and shadow self and; as place to stand; religion and; True Self and
Indigenous people, healthy psyches of
Initiation. See Male initiation
Institutions. See also specific institutions
Integral Theory
Integrity
Irenaeus
Iroquois Nation
Isaiah (prophet)
> Islam
“Ithaca” (Cavafy)
I-Thou relationships
Jacob (biblical figure)
Jails and prisons
Japan
Jaspers, Karl
Jefferson, Thomas
Jeremiah (prophet)
Jesus: as alpha and omega; on befriending opponents; on binding and loosing; both-and thinking of; calling of disciples by; on change; church practice and; as Cosmic Christinvitation n2, ; criticism of own religion by; crucifixion of; definition of church and; on doing God's will; down-up pattern and; family and; on first and last; foolish-sounding wisdom of; on gaining the world; on God's gifts; on good trees and bad; on goodness of God; healing stories and; heaven and hell and; incarnation and; John the Baptist and; journeys and; on kingdom of God; on lamp of the body; on lamp within; on law and freedom; on least of these; on life beyond security; on living water; on losing our life; lost-and-found parables of; on obedience; on old and new wineskins; outsiders and; on pearls before swine; on Pharisee and tax collector; on plank in eye; process language and; on prodigal son; redemption and; as risen Christ; Samaritan woman and; as savior; on sowing seeds; as spiritual authority; on straining out gnats; as teacher who said yes; tragic sense of life and; transfiguration and; on unclean spirit; on wisdom; wounds of
Jews and Judaism
Joan of Arc
John of the Cross
John of the Ladder
John Paul II (pope)
John the Baptist
John XXIII (pope)
Journeys
Julian of Norwich
Jung, Carl: on goals; on morning and afternoon of life; on mysteries of life; on stumbling; on suffering; on two halves of life
Kabir
Kegan, Robert
Keller, Helen
Keyes, Kin
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kohlberg, Lawrence
Kohut, Heinz
Law and limits: broken tablets and; Franciscans and; freedom and; as goad to kick against; healthy growth and; immature responses to; institutions and; legalism and; misuse of; predictability and; presumption against; proving of purpose of
Liberation
Life transition: as adventure; crossover points and; from elitism to egalitarianism and; falling upward and; grace and; inhibition of; loyal soldier and; luck and; mystery and; pain and; sequencing and; simplicity and; wisdom and
Liminal space
Loneliness
Love: civilization of; falling in; freedom and; great; possession and; as subject in literature; unconditional and conditional