Diarmuid O'Murchu offers pentrating and original insights into the changing spiritual awareness of our time. He believes that we are rapidly out-growing the time honored but exhausted vision of formal religion.
Ó Murchú, Diarmuid. The God Who Becomes Redundant. Cork / Dublin, The Mercier Press, 1986. 20.4cm. x 13.8cm. 168 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Out of print. Includes for Example: Homo Religiosus: Origin and Destiny/ How the Religious Story began to Unfold/ The Human Capacity for Belief/ Sacred Dance and Ritual Play/ Cherishing our Sa…
The author brings science and spirituality together to reveal a universe with Christ at the center, and an environment caught in the balance.
Award-winning theologian Sallie McFague here develops a striking and novel vision of the universe, one that takes seriously and radically both contemporary science and the incarnational commitments of the Christian tradition.
"Tracing the Way is the product of a lifetime of experience. In researching and compiling this book, Hans Kung has travelled to every corner of the globe in search of God in his many guises. Kung casts an analytical eye over the major world religions and offers a view of the present and its meaning when measured against the past. Kung surveys the historical stages of each of the major world rel…
This book explores several issues in the emerging field of science and religion which are of common interest to different religions. The main idea underlying this book is that modern science poses challenges shared by religions. As such, discussing them in an interfaith setting is expected to offer new perspectives to those issues. The first of four parts of the book addresses issues which ofte…
The second edition of this major book on the social analysis of religion incorporates a substantial new introduction by Bryan S Turner. Religion and Social Theory assesses the different theoretical approaches to the social function of religion. Turner discusses at length the ideas of key contributors to these approaches (including Engels, Durkheim, Weber, Nietzsche, Freud, Parsons, Marcuse, Hab…
Maura O'Neill explores what happens when women of different faiths and varying positions on an ideological spectrum enter into both inter- and intra-religious dialogue on issues of concern to us all.