Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The ecological era .....1 The return to earth as our homeland The earth is Ill .....1 Ecological diagnoses and therapies .....5 Ecological crisis: Crisis of the paradigm of civilization ......8 What is paradigm is ......9 The emergence of the new paradigm: Planetary community ......11 The new perspective: The earth seen from beyond the earth ......13 Earth the living superorganism: Gaia ....15 The universe under the arc of time and of evolution .....20 Complexity: Characteristic of the new paradigm and of nonlinear logic ......22 The contribution of ceoferminism ...26 The spiritual depth of the universe .....28 Conclusion: Features of the emerging paradigm .....31 2. An ecological view of the cosmo .....35 Our contemporary story The stories of humankind: From the meaning of the cosmos to cosmogenesis ......35 Ecology: aource of cosmogenesis ....41 Our primordial womb: Billions of years of fruitful chaos ....42 Our cosmic homeland: The milky way, our galaxy .....46 Our cosmic city: The solar system .....46 Our house: The great mother earth ......47 Life: self-organizing matter .....50 Consciousness is cosmic and personal .....53 Human beings: Co-creators of the cosmos .....56 The uniqueness of each human being ......59 Essential bibliography for this chapter ......61 3. The ecological crisis .......63 The loss of connectedness Causes and excuses .....64 Ultimate root of the crisis: The disruption of universal connectedness .....81 4. All the capital sins against ecology .....86 The amazon The amazon: Temple of the planet`s biodiversity .....87 Undoing myths about the Amazon: neither the world`s lungs nor its storehouse ....89 The Amazon megaprojects: War on the trees .....92 The dream of chico mendes and the future of the Amazon .....100 5 Liberation theology and ecology .......104 Rivals or parthers The ecological age .....104 Hearing the cry of the oppressed .....107 The most threatened beings in creation: The poor .....110 Liberation and ecology: The bridge between north and south ......113 Sons and daughters of the rainbow ......114 6 Reclaiming the dignity of earth .....115 Reclaiming the sacred ......115 A pedagogy for globalization .....119 The permanent message of original peoples ......122 A new world ecological order and scenarios for reaching it .....127 An ethics of unlimited compassion and shared responsibility .....135 The healing power of inner ecology .....136 7 All in god, god in all .......140 The theosphere Awareness of god: First in the universe, then in the human being ......141 Quantam reality and the supreme and transcendent energy: God .....142 God within the cosmogenic process of the universe ......146 God in the cosmic dance of creation .....148 Panentheism: God in all and all in god ....152 God, interplay of perichoretic relationships: The blessed trinity ......154 The silence of the buddha and of meister eckhart ....156 8 The spirit is sleeping in the rock .......158 It dwells in the cosmos From cosmos to spirit ......159 From spirit to human spirit .....160 From human spirit to divine spirit .....161 From the divine spirit to the third person of the christian trinity ......163 The spirit in creation and creation in the spirit ......166 The spirit and the female: Divinization of woman .....169 The spirit and the future of the cosmos and humankind .....172 9 Spirit a piece of wood ....and i am there ......174 The cosmic christ From cosmogenesis to christogenesis ......174 From christogenesis to th christ of faith ......178 From the christ of faith to the historical jesus .....179 The passion of the world and the cosmic christ .....180 Resurrection: Revolutionizing evolution .....181 The ultimate foundation of cosmic christology .....184 10 Eco-spirituality Feeling, loving, and thinking as earth The need for spiritual revolutions .....187 11 All the cardinal ecological virtues .......203 St Francis of Assisi