- Preface
- Introduction
I. Three Beliefs
1. Three Beliefs
- Expansion of Fundamental Beliefs
- Discussion
- What God is Not
- The Limitations of God, and Our Personal Responsibility
- Confusing “Bad Things” with the Nature of God
- "Good Things,” "Bad Things” and Spiritual Growth
2. God and Creation – Devising a Pre-Creation Theology
3. Our Relationship with God
4. God and Jesus
II. A Socially Sustainable God
5. Two Questions
6. A Loving-God Theology
- Evolutionary Concepts of God
- Loving-God Concepts of Jesus
- Revising Paul's Interpretation of Jesus' Life and Death
- A Rationalization and Justification For Paul's Interpretation
- Paul’s Most Obvious Mistake of Logic
- The Death of Jesus as a Management Decision
- God's Commitment to the Inviolability of Our Decisions
- Sacrifice, Atonement, and Redemption Removed
- Christian Shame and Guilt
- Two Continuing Errors Maintained by Most Christians
III. A Socially Sustainable Christian Religion
7. Religions and Churches
8. Designing a Socially Sustainable Christian Church
- Introduction
- Clinics for Sustainable Families
- Overcoming Recurring Social Dysfunction
- A Sustainable Christian Church Organization
- Priorities of Sustainability (See illustration above)
- Organizational Design of Sustainable Christian Churches
9. Re-Inventing Christianity
- Introduction
- The Religion OF Jesus
- Values given by the Creator
- The Seven Organic Values of Our Species
- Characteristics of these Values
- These Values Create an “Organic” Morality 1
- A Socially Sustainable Christian Morality
- Socially Sustainable Christian Doctrines
- Addendum
- Human Motivation
- The Raphael Unified Theory of Human Motivation
- Values, Value-Interpretations, Human Needs, and Social Change
- Bibliography
- Author’s BIO
- Illustrations
- Priorities of Decision-Making in a Socially Sustainable Society
- The Seven Values of Our Species
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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1 Raphael, Daniel. ORGANIC MORALITY, Answering the Critically Important Moral Questions of the 3rd Millennium.
(An unpublished, 91 page manuscript available as a PDF via email from the author.)
