# A Wild Christianity  ## Metadata - Author: [[Paul Kingsnorth]] - Full Title: A Wild Christianity - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/03/a-wild-christianity ## Highlights The holiest of the cave Christians, it seems, achieve such a level of *theosis*—union with God—that they approach again the Edenic state in which humanity was at peace with the rest of creation. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz223dh6j5t2xtdmaajbt4hz)) In a time when the temptation is always toward culture war rather than inner war, I think we could learn something from our spiritual ancestors. What we might learn is not that the external battle is never necessary; sometimes it very much is. But a battle that is uninformed by inner transformation will soon eat itself, and those around it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gz22qmvr1vyjvdk0e2c83fn5))