Second Simplicity: the Inner Shape of Christianity by Bruno Barnhart

The Reverend George M. Maxwell, Jr, Vicar of The Cathedral of St. Philip, recently recommended this book in his series of classes on Experiencing the Presence of God.

Bruno Barnhart's new book uncovers the contours of a Christian wisdom and explores the ways that a Christian faith often bound by rule, structure, and order can open itself to the unitive vision at its root.
This book proposes an opening of consciousness beyond thought, of theological vision beyond rational knowledge, and of Christianity beyond the perimeter of church. Bruno Barnhart invites us to move into a fuller experience of Christianity, an experience of wisdom that brings all created reality into unity with God. Therein lies the "second simplicity."