Evolutionary Faith: Rediscovering God in Our Great Story [Paperback]

Diarmuid O Murchu (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 3, 2002

The author uses the insights of science and the convictions of environmentalism to suggest that humanity's next evolution will both unite humanity with the life of the planet and bring us closer to God.

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O'Murchu is a London-based priest and social psychologist whose previous works include Quantum Theology and Our World in Transition; his latest uses the insights of science and the convictions of environmentalism to suggest that humanity's next evolution will both unite humanity with the life of the planet and bring us closer to God. O'Murchu is, in effect, a post-Teilhardian theologian, and as Teilhard de Chardin is rather little discussed nowadays, O'Murchu's ideas may be of great interest to the spiritual seeker.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Orbis Books (October 3, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570754519
• ISBN-13: 978-1570754517
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best blend of science and theology I've ever read, November 20, 2003

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Emelie McNett (Burien, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Evolutionary Faith: Rediscovering God in Our Great Story (Paperback)

I had long ago left the Christian faith because of its incongruity with science, the environment and the cosmos. O'Murchu has clarified in writing what I have instinctively, intuitively felt for decades but could not express as eloquently as he. Quantum Theology has resurrected what I thought was my spiritually dead self.

It is difficult reading, but well worth the effort. I find myself looking at the universe and life from a new and refreshing perspective.

Randy Herring's review must have been written by an intellectual show-off. One of the major premises of the book is not how one deals with the world, but rather, how the world deals with us. Our control is imaginary and our understanding ridiculously lacking, and that was one of O'Murchu's major points.

23 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Non-Teilhardian and pantheistic, February 9, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Evolutionary Faith: Rediscovering God in Our Great Story (Paperback)

This is a very informative book, since the author spreads his net far and wide as is obvious from the biliography. His views are novel and interesting, but definitely part company with Teilhard de Chardin and traditional theism. Pere Teilhard's vision is convergent; O'Murchu's is divergent. He presents us with a universe having no beginning and no end. Also, God exists within this universe, but not outside it. These two concepts are consistent with pantheism. A more traditional and more awe-inspiring view is that the universe exists within God.

Pere Teilhard's system focuses on the Omega point as the point of convergence for all evolution and all space-time. This is really missing from O'Murchu, since his universe never really gets to Omega.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars golden wedding, September 5, 2008

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Greg Zimmerman "Questist" (Downers Grove, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Evolutionary Faith: Rediscovering God in Our Great Story (Paperback)

This is an excellent wedding of science and theology. Far too long have we seen the struggle between the two for gaining real insights to understand more clearly our lifelong responsibilities to ourselves and our environment. The author clearly puts this before us giving us a more complete story that is both current and credible. As he states "it is time to embrace the cosmic and planetary context within which our life story and the story of all life unfolds. We belong to a reality greater than ourselves, and it is within that enlarged context that we will rediscover the benign mystery within which everything is endowed with purpose and meaning." This book will give you the satisfaction that comes with understanding how everything is connected. This is a short book that is worth more than many volumes.