New Cosmologies and Its Implications for an Integral Spirituality and Christian Formation / Albina Rodrigues.

includes index and biblioraphy

The Myth, Meaning, and Mystery of the Cosmos The power of Story ......6 The evolution of Human understanding of the Universe ..........8 A panoramic View of Ancient Cosmologies........11 The philosophy of Creation ......16 Creation and God`s relationship to the World........16 Biblical Cosmology .......19 The world view of Biblical Cosmology ......26 The mysterious dimension of the Cosmos.......29 Our evolutionary understanding of the Universe ........30 2. Unfolding new dimentions of Spirituality with reference to eco-consciousness Spirituality ......35 Unfolding spirituality ........36 THe human story in three stages ..........36 Paradigms in religious life.........39 Christian spirituality ...........42 Prophets on the Margins ............43 Responding to the need of the hour ..........45 spirituality .....46 Jesus and a new paradigm .........50 A new cosmology for relevant spirituality ......52 The sacred now moment ........57 3. Emerging spiritualities and their relevance to a Cosmocentric formation Religious formation ........60 Formation through conscious evolution .............63 A mature spirituality for today ...........66 Formation .............68 Christian formation .........70 Formation for Spiritual Consciousness ............73 Formation for Wholeness.....82 Cosmo centric Formation in the Indian Context ......85 Practical Implications- Forming the Formator ..........93