• Introduction

    A Theology for Today’s Realities

An Overview of a Theology of Meaning

A Theology of Meaning is a post-denominational approach to Christian thought, designed to address the realities of a post-Christian, post-secular age.

The theology of meaning proposes a core revisioning of Christian theological expression, not as abstract dogma but through its existential significance—focusing on how Christian claims address the human search for meaning, wholeness, and wisdom.

This approach centers on rendering the existential meaning of Christian claims without prematurely settling debates over their underlying metaphysical or historical truth. This suspension of judgment allows space for dialogue with contemporary minds that may question traditional theological assertions.

The project frames this theology epistemologically through an integrated use of evidential reasoning, Historical Jesus scholarship, mythopoesis (the creative shaping of myth), and metaphorical understanding.

The result is a theology that honors the Christian tradition but translates its core insights into a contemporary mindset. It offers a powerful, practical, and transformative renewal of Christian thinking and living by making the tradition’s timeless wisdom accessible and meaningful to today’s culture, promoting a lived Christianity that addresses the crisis of meaning characteristic of modernity.

The Underlying Spirituality

Such a theology lends itself to a minimalist, contemplative form of Christianity, shaped by practices of discernment, mindfulness, and simplicity.

In it, Jesus is encountered as a wisdom teacher whose life and instruction embody kenotic love—self-emptying, non-coercive, and oriented toward mercy, reconciliation, and peace. The Gospels offer a way of seeing and a guide for living, not as dogma or metaphysical assertion, but as a narrative grammar that forms attention, conscience, and response.

As an immanent theology vision, this wisdom is inhabited through availability and hospitality, attentiveness to land and season, and a sacramental sense of the ordinary, in which meaning is encountered through presence, attention, and belonging rather than transcendence or escape.

Within this framework, Christian theology itself is re-visioned as a disciplined practice of uncovering meaning. It articulates patterns of depth, value, and orientation within lived experience. 

Truth shows itself in its effects: it recollects what is scattered, softens what has hardened, and enhances life without inflating the ego. What is good, beautiful, and true does not overpower or command; it invites, forms, and returns the person back to themself, enhanced, healed, and not estranged or fragmented.

In this sense, theology serves as a reflective companion to practice. Its task is interpretive rather than declarative: to name what calls for attention, what demands response, and what fosters human wholeness and communal flourishing.