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“The Kingdom Within” with Dr. Gerry Crete

Reflections on our inner worlds.

Souls and Hearts is excited to bring you a new monthly feature — The Kingdom Within. Each month, Dr. Gerry reflects on passages from the Bible, the writings of the saints, Church documents, and the writings of noteworthy theologians, philosophers, and spiritual writers from a parts work perspective. The Kingdom Within comes to your email inbox every third Monday of the month.

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The Temple of the Self: Holiness as Wholeness — The Temple, Defilement, and the Healing of Exiled Parts (Part 2)

May 27, 2026

Welcome back. If you were with us in Part One, you will remember that we began to explore a striking convergence: the biblical theology of the Temple, as illuminated by the scholars in the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology’s Temple and Contemplation, and the inner architecture of the human self-system as described by Parts Work [Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Ego State Therapy]. We saw that the Temple's concentric zones of holiness, moving from the outer courts to the Holy of Holies, mirror the layered structure of our inner world: from the outer-facing manager parts, through the more guarded... READ MORE

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