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The Four Vision Quests of Jesus

Charleston, Steven · 2015

A Native American Christian theology that interprets the four vision quests of Jesus through the lens of traditional Native American spirituality and the author's personal struggle to reconcile his Choctaw heritage with Christian faith.

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What this book knows

Native American vision-quest practice reframes the gospel: Jesus sought God as an indigenous person would, and that changes everything.

Sex: Absent
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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faith-and-doubt

I came to read and interpret the Bible through the eyes of traditional Native American religion… my book is about the Native traditions of North America as a living Covenant.
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I stood alone beneath brightening skies, determined to find out if God was different than what I had been raised to believe… I began a vision quest.
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self-and-identity

Jesus is not Galahad. He was a person, a human being, just like you and me when he felt the call to make a quest.
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I had to find myself, my whole self, before I could even consider being ordained… in the Native way a person cannot become a holy man just by going to school.
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transformation

The Ghost Dance did not fail, even though many of Wovoka's believers were martyred. The vision of Jesus did not fail, even though many of its believers died.
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Vision can release us from our isolation… when we openly acknowledge that we live in a world of deep mystery and tell our stories to one another.
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