ABSTRACT
Arising out of the changes in God-conceptuality detailed in Chapter 3, this chapter demonstrates how this has had a flow-on effect of transforming our ideas concerning human value and purpose. Creation is being reinterpreted as the visible aspect of Divine Spirit rather than something wholly separate from and ruled by a controlling, transcendent deity. As such, the material world is being sacralised. This also calls for a new understanding of human purpose, which is being reconceived in terms of divine partnership. Such ideas stimulate greater faith in utopian possibilities, as noted in rising prosperity, ecumenical and universalist orientations. Religious synthesis is another outcome. As in Chapter 3, these claims are supported by numerous examples from across the spectrum of religious thinking both new and old.
