The Dionysian Naturalist: Complete Essay Catalog by Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D
The Dionysian Naturalist: Complete Essay Catalog Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. 2008–2025 Dionysian Naturalism: From Instinct to System, from Ecstasy to Public Theology The theological project that comes to be named Dionysian Naturalism does not begin as a system. It begins as a pressure. A bodily, affective, and existential insistence that something essential has been exiled from modern life: celebration, ecstasy, embodied meaning, sacred excess. What distinguishes this body of work from many contemporary spiritual projects is that it never abandons reason to reclaim rapture, nor abandons rapture to appease reason. Instead, it undertakes the harder task of holding both together across time. The earliest ...