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.