A Creed for Today: Faith and Commitment for a New Earth Awareness By Donal Dorr
Available: https://www.veritasbooksonline.com/a-creed-for-today-faith-and-commitment-for-a-new-9781847309389-45152/
‘A joy to read, beautifully written, availing of poetry and rich
symbolism to inspire its readers.’ These are the words used by Professor
Jim Corkery SJ of the Gregorian University in Rome to describe Donal
Dorr’s book A Creed for Today: Faith and Commitment for a New Earth
Awareness which has just been published by Veritas. He goes on to say
that the book ‘offers a vibrant spirituality based on a re-reading of
Christian tradition through a lens of love for the Earth and all its
creatures.’ Peadar Kirby, retired professor of International Politics and
Public Policy in the University of Limerick says: ‘This is more than a book.
It is a companion to nourish, inspire and deeply challenge us.’
What Donal gives us in this book is an ecological spirituality which
touches people’s hearts warmly and makes their Christian faith come alive
and be exciting. He shows how we can experience God in the trees, the
flowers, the seas, the lakes, the animals and the people all around us. His
book is about the fundamental aspects of Christian faith—God the
Creator, the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the
Church, and life everlasting. He shows how we have to rethink each of
these in the light of our new Earth awareness.
Donal has included a lot of poems in the book because poems touch
something deep within us, appealing to the heart even more than to the
head. Poetry can convey the sense of the mystery that is God far more
effectively than prose.
In the final chapters Donal goes on to write about what we might
call the action side of an ecological spirituality. Here he draws on the work
of some very important ecologists and economists who are challenging
the present mainstream economic pattern which, as Pope Francis often
points out, is destroying our world and widening the gap between the rich
and the poor, between those who have power and the powerless.