“God of Holy Dreaming”: A Retrospective Appreciation of an Aboriginal Prayer and Spirituality in A Prayer Book for Australia
Journal of Anglican Studies March 31, 2026 Fergus J. King, Lenore Margaret Porter
On the thirtieth anniversary of her prayer being included in the Anglican Prayer Book for Australia, the author describes the dreaming process that gave rise to it. She compares the value of dreams in Aboriginal culture with the privileged role of dreams and visions as altered states of consciousness in early Christian texts. This comparison raises questions about how such experiences are valued within Christian theology and spirituality, particularly because Western and Northern resistance to these phenomena in the modern period has made them seem suspect.