Navigating the Interregnum (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Urantia Book Films Press, 2026
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Paperback. NAVIGATING THE INTERREGNUM argues that our civilization is passing through a prolonged crisis of disorientation: old spiritual centers have weakened, yet no new morally adequate integration has emerged to replace them. The result is a culture strained by fragmentation, mistrust, ideological substitution, institutional brittleness, and a growing tendency to seek salvation through politics, identity, technology, and control. Reading The Urantia Book alongside social theory, history, and Christian reflection, this book interprets the interregnum not simply as a period of decline, but as a crisis of displaced ultimacy-a loss of the vertical axis of spiritual values by which persons and societies remain inwardly ordered. At the heart of the book is a central claim: Only persons generate spiritual values. Institutions, systems, and movements may preserve, distribute, and formalize values, but they cannot create them. Recovery therefore cannot begin with campaigns, branding, recruitment, or structural redesign alone. It must begin upstream, in the re-anchoring of persons to God, conscience, worship, moral seriousness, and the slow transformation of character. From that interior source, values migrate outward through relationships, communities, practices, institutions, and finally culture itself. This pattern is developed through the book's "Social Genesis Sequence," a framework for understanding how genuine renewal actually spreads.The book also offers a sober strategy for dissemination of The Urantia Book under late-modern conditions. It argues that overt promotion, enlistment, and identity-based movement-building are counterproductive, especially in a suspicious age quick to interpret new religious energies as cultic. In place of recruitment, Navigating the Interregnum advocates quiet infrastructure: wide availability of the text, secondary and mediating works, non-coercive inquiry spaces, small communities of formation, and a distributed ecology of spiritual practice in which the revelation can be discovered rather than pushed. The aim is not to build a movement, but to make a life-giving framework quietly accessible to serious seekers. Ultimately, this is a book about Soulcraft: the cultivation of persons whose inner lives are re-centered on the will of God and whose transformed values can become socially consequential downstream. It is both diagnosis and strategy, warning and hope. For readers concerned with the future of civilization, the crisis of modern culture, and the role The Urantia Book may play in a planetary spiritual renewal, Navigating the Interregnum offers a deeply considered vision of how lasting transformation begins. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …
N° de ref. del artículo 9798234016461
- Título
- Navigating the Interregnum (Paperback)
- Autor
- David A. Kantor
- Editorial
- Urantia Book Films Press
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798234016461
- Interregnum: the turbulent interval between the end of one king’s reign and the beginning of another, characterized by widespread instability and uncertainty.
This book treats Western civilization as passing through a prolonged crisis of increasing disorientation: Old spiritual centers have weakened, yet no new morally adequate integration has emerged to replace them. The result is a culture strained by fragmentation, mistrust, ideological substitution, institutional brittleness, and a growing tendency to seek salvation through politics, identity, technology, and control.
Approaching The Urantia Book through a lens combining social theory, history, and Christian reflection, this book interprets the interregnum not simply as a period of decline, but as a crisis of displaced ultimacy—a loss of the vertical axis of spiritual values by which persons and societies remain inwardly ordered.
At the heart of the book is a central claim: Only persons generate spiritual values. Institutions, systems, and movements may preserve, distribute, and formalize values, but they cannot create them. Recovery therefore cannot begin with campaigns, branding, recruitment, or structural redesign alone. It must begin upstream, in the re-anchoring of persons to God, conscience, worship, moral seriousness, and the slow transformation of character. From that interior source, spiritual values diffuse outward through relationships, communities, practices, institutions, eventually expressing as enlightened civilization. This pattern is explicated in the book’s “Social Genesis Sequence,” a framework for understanding how spiritual values actually spread through a population.
The book also offers a sober strategy for dissemination of The Urantia Book under late-modern conditions. It argues that overt promotion, enlistment, and identity-based movement-building are counterproductive, especially in a suspicious age quick to interpret new religious energies as cultic. In place of recruitment, Navigating the Interregnum advocates cultivating quiet infrastructure: wide availability of the text, secondary and mediating works, non-coercive inquiry spaces, small communities of formation, and a distributed ecology of spiritual practice in which the revelation can be discovered rather than pushed. The aim is not to build a movement, but to make a life-giving framework quietly accessible to serious seekers.
Ultimately, this is a book about the importance of Soulcraft: the cultivation of persons whose inner lives are re-centered on the will of God and whose loyalty to spiritual values can become socially consequential downstream. It is both diagnosis and strategy, warning and hope.
For readers concerned with the future of civilization, the crisis of modern culture, and the role The Urantia Book may play in a planetary spiritual renewal, Navigating the Interregnum offers a deeply considered vision of how lasting transformation might take place.
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