Confessions of an Unorthodox Priest: Christianity Beyond the Edges: Revised and Updated Second Edition (Paperback)

Priests and medical professionals are supposed to answer questions-but Eastern Orthodox archpriest and Osteopath Very Rev. Fr. Jeremiah Loch just keeps on asking.

In Confessions of an Unorthodox Priest, Fr. Jeremiah invites us to follow his path through years of seeking a means to integrate two dynamic careers, one in medicine and the other in spirituality. In his quest to find "the only way to live life in the Resurrected Christ," he invokes and examines a train of thought that transcends ego to reach a higher state of evolving consciousness. The death of a patient prompts him to speculate on the absurdity of a physical location of consciousness, which then leads to a profound revelation about soul.

Confessions of an Unorthodox Priest is gently and kindly aimed at those who have fallen away-those who have begun to find the doctrines of today's Christianity increasingly meaningless, boring, or unbelievable-those who are about to cut and run. For Christians on the edge, Fr. Jeremiah proposes the alternative solution of casting aside ego and viewing the "tribal" teachings and institutions of traditional worship through the lens of a higher human consciousness. He urges seekers to embrace and integrate concepts of mysticism into their own personal Christianity. At this juncture of his path, Fr. Jeremiah pauses before a virtual road sign left behind by the distinguished twentieth-century Jesuit theologian and philosopher Fr. Karl Rahner. The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.