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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of the vital world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus used to be known as “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives.“Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda GatesIn his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus used to be, but who used to be Christ? Is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too continuously, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center.Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work on this planet. “God loves things by becoming them,” he writes, and Jesus’s life used to be meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God—aside from by its own negative choice. When we get well this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus used to be God, and more about learning to recognize the Writer’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet.Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, The Universal Christ is a landmark book from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and a call for participation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that may be.
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