Prayers to an Evolutionary God - Softcover

Cleary, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683365518 ISBN 13: 9781683365518

Publisher: SkyLight Paths, 2004

Synopsis

Your image of God has evolved from a distant, all-knowing father to a creative force of the universe. Now it's time to update your prayer, too.

An evolutionary God is the one whose fingerprints and embraces and music we find in the evolutionary patterns in the unfinished world around us, the elusive mother and inventor of this ever-changing milieu. It is a God who pretends―for some purpose we do not comprehend―not even to exist, but whom we can reach out for and give thanks to, if we wish―as most of our race has done throughout its history.
―from the Introduction

In this unique collection of eighty prose prayers and related commentary, William Cleary invites you to consider new ways of thinking about God and about the world around you. Inspired by the spiritual and scientific teachings of Diarmuid O’Murchu and Teilhard de Chardin, Cleary reveals that religion and science can be combined to create an expanding view of the universe―an evolutionary faith.

Prayers to an Evolutionary God inspires you to discover your own place in the story of the universe, challenges you to rethink life in new ways, and enables you to express yourself in words that make sense―to an evolutionary God.

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From the Inside Flap

This Creative Day—When Giving Thanks

Strong, evolutionary God,
we bless you for this creative day,
for all the novelty and variation
that surrounds each moment
with possibility and hope.
We bless you for the life we have.
We bless you for energy and intelligence,
especially the energies of love and inventiveness.
We bless you for the future,
for each self-reproducing molecule in our bodies
that sweetly carries from one generation to the next
the instructions for the design of future living things
linked to us
and encompassed in our love.
We desire today to be instruments
of your open-ended dreams.
May it be so.

About the Author

William Cleary was former assistant editor at the Catholic weekly America and the author of many books on spirituality. He is a former Jesuit priest, filmmaker, and composer. His musical Chun Hyang Song was performed at the Seoul Olympics. Cleary was married to a Unitarian Universalist minister and was the father of two musician sons. His website is www.clearyworks.com.

Diarmuid O'Murchu is a priest and social psychologist currently based in London. He lectures internationally and writes extensively on new paradigms from a multidisciplinary point of view. His works include Quantum Theology: Reclaiming Spirituality and Our World in Transition.

Edition details

• Publisher: SkyLight Paths
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1683365518
• ISBN 13: 9781683365518
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208