reaching beyond a human-centred gospel

For several years now I have been seeking a new way of understanding what Christ achieved through his death and resurrection. I am deeply aware that Christian proclamation as it stands today is almost entirely human-centred. We are told that Christ came to offer us forgiveness, that he died in our place, that our calling is to join this human community and live a life of sharing the good news. This is all very well but I have come to see that it is very ‘thin’. It is not so much wrong as inadequate, because it fails to make any significant connections with the creation or with what it means to live well outside of ‘church’.

I want to try to put forward a constructive suggestion that might at least lie alongside the current understandings. It concerns ‘the seed that fell into the earth’. You will find the full text listed as a page on this blog. I would very much like to hear your comments.