Overview

From the Preface: ""Get real"" was a slang term that became popular in the 1960's when Michael Hickey was growing up in East Boston. It implied that someone wasn't in touch with reality and had to change their way of thinking or living. If you put on the television today, all you might find is one of the hundreds of so-called reality TV shows. More often than not, these reality shows are illusions of reality because the ""real persons"" utilized as actors/performers are seemingly coached to act in certain ways by the directors, judges, or producers who really control the reality. Nonetheless, reality TV is a modern phenomenon; people watch it constantly, and that does indicate a high degree of the public's interest in some concept of reality. As for ""mystery,"" it seems we are approaching an age where there will be the death of mystery, and we will have only reality. Hickey believes this is because the vast majority of the populace doesn't view reality in the context of mystery. They imagine mystery to be something which is just obscure or ambiguous, which given enough time, will be solved by reason and logic and become reality. Hickey's goal is that Get Real will give the reader a fresh understanding of both reality and mystery as seen from a theological and philosophical viewpoint. Ultimately, he intends the reader to move beyond the perceived duality in order to establish that mystery is truly the home of all reality.

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Author:   Michael Hickey
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   University Press of America
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.259kg
ISBN:  

9780761856597

ISBN 10:   0761856595
Pages:   150
Publication Date:   16 December 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Section One-Reality Preface Chapter One: Reality of Being Chapter Two: Roles of Truth and Belief Chapter Three: Reality of Life Chapter Four: Imagining the Real Chapter Five: The Final Earthly Reality Chapter Six: The Ultimate Reality Chapter Seven: Self-Realizing Section Two-Mystery Chapter Eight: Mystery? Chapter Nine: Ancient Mystery Cults Chapter Ten: Early Christianity: Another Mystery Cult Chapter Eleven: Sacramentality Chapter Twelve: Revelation: The Unveiling of God Chapter Thirteen: Myth Chapter Fourteen: Old Testament Mystery Chapter Fifteen: New Testament Mystery Chapter Sixteen: Mystery of Suffering Chapter Seventeen: Miracles Mystery Chapter Eighteen: The Hidden Kingdom Chapter Nineteen: Those Peculiar Parables Chapter Twenty: Mysticism Chapter Twenty-One: Two Types of Theological Mysteries Chapter Twenty-Two: The Mystery of the Female Chapter Twenty-Three: A Beginning and End Times Mystery Section Three-Reality Meets Mystery/ ""This is That"" Chapter Twenty-Four: Unity of Opposites Chapter Twenty-Five: Personal and Universal Chapter Twenty-Six: Matter and Spirit Chapter Twenty-Seven: Nature and Grace Chapter Twenty-Eight: Natural and Supernatural Chapter Twenty-Nine: Heaven and Earth Chapter Thirty: Time and Eternity Chapter Thirty-One: Knowing and Unknowing Chapter Thirty-Two: Consciousness and Unconsciousness Chapter Thirty-Three: Humanity and Divinity: The Cross + Chapter Thirty-Four: Man the Reality and God the Mystery Chapter Thirty-Five: God the Reality and Man the Mystery Chapter Thirty-Six: Self-Transcending Chapter Thirty-Seven: Conclusion: God Mysteriously In Us and Us Really In God"

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Michael Hickey is a graduate of Northeastern University and a Master Of Divinity Studies graduate of Weston Jesuit, a Boston College theological school. He retired as a successful entrepreneur to become a full time writer and poet. He is the author of Get Wisdom (2006) and Get Goodness: Virtue is the Power to Do Good (2011). Hickey writes a weekly column called ""Words Of Wisdom"" for The Naples Daily News and teaches courses on religion, philosophy, and poetry at Hodges University, CLL and Florida Gulf Coast University. His wife, Theresa, is a published poet, and in their forty-four years together they have raised four happy and ""well-adjusted"" children into adulthood.

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