Harm Not the Earth - Brossura

McKenna, Megan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847300243 ISBN 13: 9781847300249

Casa editrice: Veritas Pubns, 2008

Riassunto

Harm Not The Earth is a wake-up call which tells us that it is time to start bearing fruit, not for personal sanctification or salvation, but for the good of all. The author, Megan McKenna, tells us that if we are to be the followers of Jesus who is the fullness of life and sanctuary for all, who loved gardens and mountains and the sea and prayed that we might all be one in God as God is in us, then it is time for us to shift our attitudes towards who we think God is, what we think we are on this earth for and what it means to live and be responsible for creation in the image and likeness of God.

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Meister Eckhart once observed: "What does God do all day long? God gives birth. From eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth." And we humans are co-creators with the Holy One, called to take care of the good Earth, to reverence and cherish all living beings on the planet. In this challenging work, the internationally known author, lecturer, retreat leader, spiritual director, and peace activist Megan McKenna laments the destruction of the earth by human selfishness, power, greed, and short-sightedness. The environmental destruction that is underway, including the extinction of many species, is staggering in its implications. It is up to spiritual people around the globe to harm not the earth and to lead the way in ecology projects. To refresh our appreciation of the scriptural backdrop to these two challenges, McKenna presents her interpretations of biblical accounts and stories the Creation, the Serpent and the Question, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Ark, Amos and Isaiah, Trees in the Bible, Jesus' Geography as Told by Water, New Heaven and New Earth, and The Eighth Day. The author, as always, includes a series of illuminating spiritual stories from many different traditions to shed light on taking care of the trees, rocks, animals, seas, and the whole creation. We commend McKenna for her poem about reverencing a snake, for her call to build new arks in these times for mistreated creatures and critters, and for her plea to begin with "the globalization of compassion and an ecology of the heart." We love her concluding prayer and the exuberance she brings to this substantive plea that we love and cherish the good Earth. --Review appeared on www.spiritualityandpractice.com, March 2007

The introduction to this book includes a wonderful inventory of the wickedness of humanity: Our world and its inhabitants are suffering the lethal effects of our behaviour and choices sins of injustice, greed, violence, sloth, war, murder and rape, revenge, thievery, covetousness, and the invention and use of weapons that have half-lives of millions of years. The positive side of this book lies in the message of its title, that we should strive to protect our planet. The acknowledgements begin with a statement of gratitude to the Indigenous Peoples of the World, their wisdom and enduring grace in their struggle to survive and to honour the earth, the skies, the waters and all creation. --Review appeared in the Irish Catholic, April 2007

L'autore:

Megan McKenna is an internationally known author, lecturer, retreat leader and spiritual director. She received her doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and has taught in Ireland, Asia, South America, Marshall Islands, Thailand and the United States, where she currently lives. She is the author of more than twenty-five books, including And Morning Came, Scriptures of the Resurrection, Praying the Rosary, Send My Roots Rain and The New Stations of the Cross.

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• Editore: Veritas Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1847300243
• ISBN 13: 9781847300249
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192