What Does God Look Like in an Expanding Universe?

By Jim Schenk

Book Overview

WHAT DOES GOD LOOK LIKE IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE Edited by Jim Schenk www.imagoearthpublishing.org BOOK REVIEW BY JOYCE QUINLAN Be sure that this new anthology is high on your reading list for 2007. One fascinating reason for the recommendation is that the articles will leave you with an unmistakable conviction that a new human consciousness is alive and well--even flourishing-- among us in spite of these dark days of war and anxiety. As one of the contributors, Diarmuid O'Murchu puts it: "We are going forward, lured by the future that the Creative Spirit always opens up for us.... This is not the same as the utopian promise of modern consumerism, on the one hand, and evangelical religion on the other. It is the hope born out of struggle and engagement, sustained by evolutionary imagination, and nourished by communities of resistance and prophetic vision." Such expressions of trust in the creative evolutionary process of the universe pervade each of the seventy-eight essays, and with an enormous diversity of point of view. On checking the index of the volume, I discovered that the most frequently used words in the articles (other than evolution itself, were beauty, celebration, creativity, and wonder. To find the repetition of such concepts in a book which explores what God and Life are really all about, emphasizes a new consciousness, shifts one out of the paradigm of extreme individualism, hierarchy, competition into one of unity, interconnectedness, compassion. Furthermore, the seventy-eight articles come from 20 states representing the East Coast, West Coast, Middle America as well as Australia, Ireland, England, and Canada,. This geographical spread lends power to the conviction that the same Spirit, filling all time and space, is moving everywhere to tell us the ancient truth through the New Story of the wholeness of Divinity and Universe. Thomas Berry puts in this way in his interview with Jim Schenk: "The universe is the celebratory experie --Joyce Quinlan, PhD., was a Benedictine for 37 years. She has a doctorate in Future Studies from Union Institute and Univ. She was a college English professor and a counselor before retiring five years ago. She continues to lead Spiritual eldering courses

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615130798
• ISBN13: 9780615130798
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.