The Universal Christ

I have started reading The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr. Rohr wants to give a vision of Christ that is cosmic and huge. Here is what he says:

1.  What if Christ is a name for the transcendent within of every 'thing' in the universe? What if Christ is a name for the immense spaciousness of all true love? What if Christ refers to an infinite horizon that pulls us from within and pulls us forward too? What if Christ is another name for everything---in its fullness? (p.5)

2.  G. K. Chesterton quote----"Your religion is not the church you belong to, but the cosmos you live inside of" (p.6). Albert Einstein quote, "There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle" (p.7)

3. Creation is the First Bible, and it existed for 13.7 billion years before the second Bible was written (p.12). The incarnation, then is not only "God becoming Jesus" but when God joined in unity with the physical universe and became the light inside of everything (p.13). Light is not so much what you directly see as that by which you see everything else (p.14)

4.  Our faith became a competitive theology with various parochial theories of salvation, instead of a universal cosmology inside of which all can live with inherent dignity (p.17). Jesus came to show us how to become human more than how to be spiritual (p.23).

All of this is just the first chapter!