In the next several newsletters, I will share quotations and paraphrases from one of my root teachers, Thomas Keating, whose approach is at the heart of RCMR5.
The Western Model of God [self-outside-of-God and God-outside-of-self] would suggest to someone engaged in trying to be united to God, or make oneself pleasing to him, that this would require efforts on our part in order to please God. And these efforts, since God is out there someplace, would obviously be the result of our natural capacities, efforts, and talents.
Now with this model in mind goes certain attitudes. And these attitudes have been delineated, it seems to me, rather accurately [for those who received this kind of religious education in their childhood] by a professor of Creighton University, Fr Richard Hauser:
1) IN CHRISTIANITY MOTIVATION IS EVERYTHING
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3) THE IDEA THAT WE MUST EARN GOD’S LOVE IS CONTRARY TO SCRIPTURE
These dispositions counter the Western Model of God syndrome that says external acts are more important than internal motivations. The emphasis on external acts is clearly contrary to the whole of the Gospel, starting with Jesus’ battle with the Pharisees.
–Thomas Keating
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