ABSTRACT

This chapter presents some concluding remarks on the concepts of Christianity and gestalt therapy discussed in the book. The author raises the issue of contact with God, and what contact is like. He asks us to consider something basic to the existential aspects of gestalt therapy: risk and trust. He has done so with a view to change, salvation and growth, and offered a very brief picture of awareness, which in Christianity is spiritual sensitivity, and availability to God, which in gestalt therapy is spontaneity. We live in a world in which the mirage of secularism no longer shimmers on the horizon. It has faded with the demanding presence of religion, if not radical, forceful, and intrusive religion, in the public square. Religious and spiritual issues are back, having never really left.