Freedom Glorious Freedom: The Spiritual Journey to the Fullness of Life for Gays, Lesbians, and Everybody ElseFreedom, Glorious Freedom is the third volume in John McNeill's landmark trilogy on gay and lesbian spirituality. It deals with the presence of the Spirit of God, the Spirit of love in our daily experiences, and how to arrive at the glorious freedom of the children of God. McNeill shows how lesbian and gay Christians can achieve full spiritual maturity and self-acceptance. McNeill discusses freedom of conscience and discernment of spirits, ancient teachings of the Christian church that have a special urgency for lesbian and gay people who need to free themselves from all the homophobic authorities and deal with God on a direct and personal basis. The liberating process of coming out of the closet is seen as a spirit-filled effort to achieve the glory of God by becoming fully alive. McNeill offers a twelve-step spirituality as a spiritual process of liberation from all addictions in order to experience the love of God in its fullness. The epilogue expresses in detail a philosophical vision, looking both to the past and to the future, of how gay liberation fits into the Spirit-directed evolution of human history and its role in the ongoing struggle for human liberation. |
Contents
Preface to the 2009 Edition by Rebecca Mertz | 9 |
Acknowledgements | 17 |
The Gay Spiritual Journey | 29 |
Freedom of Conscience and | 40 |
Discernment of Spirits | 51 |
A Case History of Discernment | 65 |
My Personal Experience | 77 |
Coming Out | 93 |
A Means of Liberation | 147 |
Opening A Dialogue Between The Feminist | 176 |
The Gay Love Of | 195 |
Gods Love Of Gays | 214 |
The Special Nature Of The Gay | 227 |
Emerging from the Heart of the World | 233 |
Appendix 1 | 281 |
Appendix 2 | 294 |
Creating the Authentic Gay Self | 104 |
The Second Passage into Intimacy | 119 |
A Public Passage | 130 |
Notes | 313 |
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