CHRISTMAS SHOCK: The Human Experience of God

THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF GOD
In this book, which can be considered as one of the most original,
daring, and signifi cant contributions to contemporary spirituality in
general and to Christian theology, philosophy, and anthropology in
particular, Dr. Maalouf 's method is neither to build an abstract or
utopian system nor to preach or sermonize. His approach is to question,
explore, suggest, and invite the reader-erudite or not, Catholic or
not, politically correct or not-to a new level of comprehension and
way of seeing things. Whoever, however, and wherever we are, our
everyday lives could become the place and time where the sacred
and the secular meet. He proposes that our challenge, then, is how
to be Christlike, and not just "Christian." Then the true miracle of
Christmas can become the miracle of transformed messengers and
a transfi gured world in which "all things [come] into being through
him" ( John 1:3).