Tag Archive for: ecology

Words from Rosemary Ruether, 1936-2022

" ... we can be confident that our creative work will be nourishing to the community of life, even as we relinquish our small self back into the great Self."

We Side with the Morning

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Summertime in Athens is a season to think about the relation of nature to the spirit. Everything is at its fullest and greenest, and at this age I find great comfort in seeing the natural world at its most complete.

Being good ancestors

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The idea of an ecological spirituality is a central point to the world we leave to coming generations.

An ecology of the spirit

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Humanity exists as part of an ecosystem, a web of life. In An Ecology of the Spirit (1994) I wrote that eco-spirituality is a harmony that encompasses the sacredness of nature as central to human existence.

Ecology and our religious consciousness

Honesty demands that in the realm of doctrine, Christianity does not lend itself easily to becoming a nature spirituality. Ecology has hardly penetrated the shell of modern Christianity. The new challenge calls us far beyond recycling, or a few prayers for the earth at Mass, or turning the church garden into a bird sanctuary.