Alexander Shaia

The Hidden Power of the Gospels

Four Questions, Four Paths, One Journey

Talking Points

For years, Dr. Alexander Shaia has been speaking at churches, conferences, and retreat centers.  Shaia’s message appeals across the spectrum of spiritual seekers—from new age audience to progressive evangelical to traditional Catholic.  For Seekers who feel spiritually drawn to Jesus but turned off by the church, he brings mysticism and creativity to the usually hyper-rational world of gospel studies.  To be sure, Shaia addresses Catholics and Protestants who are thirsty for a new way for approaching the gospels.

Description

In the tradition of such writers as Thomas Moore and Don Miguel Ruiz, Shaia reveals how the recurring cycles of change, loss, enlightenment, and maturation are illuminated by the Bible’s four gospels. Combining ancient Christian traditions, anthropology, and modern psychology, he reveals what has been in front of our eyes for two thousand years: that each of the gospels is centered on a different core metaphor and each focuses on a vital spiritual question.

Matthew begins with the question “How do we face change?” Mark poses the hard question of “How do we move through suffering?” John stirs and elevates the soul as he asks, “How do we receive joy?” And Luke moves us forward on the practical path, as he inquires, “How do we mature in service?” Shaia weaves these questions together in what he calls the quadratos journey, a recurring fourfold cycle that lives on as a constant companion throughout our lives.

Dr. Shaia unravels the divine inspiration of this mysterious sequence and links it to universal, spiritual, and anthropological as well as modern psychological understandings. By using this lens, the gospels become practical guides for creating faith-filled lives that are relevant and useful in a time that is much more complex than village life millenia ago. In the sequence Dr. Shaia discloses, the gospels become the map of our never-ending spiritual journey.