“You stand on the threshold of a new spiritual era, a new axial age," the author was told in prayer, inspiring him to start the Theology Without Walls project, which explores religious thinking in an intercultural age. Martin’s own approach does not begin with established religions, but with the personal journey of the seeker. The divine reality is available to us all, but we have to find our own best access to it and how to orient our lives in relation to it. This book is a definitive guide to how to develop one’s own radically personal “theology without walls.” He starts as we all should with personal spiritual experiences, then reflects on them using sources he has come to admire after a lifetime of study. A true gift to anyone who wants to learn a new way to see divine reality more clearly and love it more dearly. —Jeanine Diller, Editor, Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities Martin is the founder of Theology Without Walls and tells that story with verve. He then explains his own vision, by reciting an amazingly broad range of positions and thinkers. This book is astoundingly erudite! He closes with God speaking to him in prayer, commanding the piety beneath his vision of theology. —Robert C. Neville, Author, Ultimates Martin has been the animating spirit of “theology without walls.” He has fostered a breadth of diverse approaches to the root conviction that those who seek divine reality must reckon with the content of all religious traditions. This book will stretch its readers, as he has long been stretching those of us privileged to be his conversation partners. —S. Mark Heim, Author, Salvations: Truth and Difference in Religion “In this brilliant volume, Martin argues for a powerful alternative to the dry approach to knowledge in the contemporary academy.. I hope this book changes the conversation about the validity of religious experience as a source of authentic knowledge.” —Jeffery D. Long, Author, A Vision for Hinduism This is a deeply personal meditation that demonstrates how thoroughly personal reality actually is. Martin does not shy away from including his own glimpses of the whole. He gives us confidence that we can trust the intimations that punctuate our lives and enlarge our hearts. —David Walsh, Author, Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being