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Love for the Future - A journey (Paperback)
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Love for the Future - A journey (Paperback)
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Loot Price R485
Discovery Miles 4 850
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Environment * Spirituality * Personal growth * Virtue ethics
Climate change, pollution and diminishing resources mean that the
future will be difficult for life on earth. We face an
environmental crisis. Clearly we need technological solutions to
some of our problems, and appropriate political and social
programmes. But to meet the challenge we must also change
ourselves. We need the courage to face up to what is happening, the
determination to work at the problems and the freedom to let go of
the old ways of living which are causing such damage to the earth.
And that is hard. The scale of the problem can feel overwhelming.
We may be drained by fear or worn down by our seeming lack of
progress. In this book David Osborne tells of a long pilgrimage on
foot to the island of Iona, an ancient centre of Celtic
Christianity. In telling the story he draws on the Bible, the
Christian tradition and other sources of wisdom to suggest the
qualities we need to develop in ourselves for the journey we face
into the future. He points to some of the spiritual resources
available to us and suggests ways to develop our spiritual lives in
order to grow in compassion, faith, hope and wisdom, while tapping
into the energy of the Creator to work for the healing of the
creation. The book contains material for personal reflection and
group discussion, pointers for further reading, and practical
suggestions for a way of living in which we can make our own
journey into the future with love. Using the thread of a long walk
from Shropshire to Iona, David Osborne weaves together
autobiography, spiritual reflection, and passionate concern for the
future of the earth threatened by irreversible climate change. A
rare resource for all those people struggling to keep faith and
hope going in the face of what feel like insuperable odds. - Tim
Gorringe, St Luke's Professor of Theology, Exeter University
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