Religious Life in the 21st Century: The Prospect of Refounding - Softcover

O'Murchu, Diarmuid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626982074 ISBN 13: 9781626982079

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2016

Synopsis

This seminal work which surveys the historical rise and fall of religious orders and congregations reveals the fundamental dispositions that these institutions need to integrate into a new spirituality and sense of mission.

About this title

About the Author:

Diarmuid O'Murchu is a priest and social psychologist currently based in London. He lectures internationally and writes extensively on new paradigms from a multidisciplinary point of view. His works include Quantum Theology: Reclaiming Spirituality, Evolutionary Faith, Ancestral Grace, Adult Faith, In the Beginning Was the Spirit, God in the Midst of Change, and Inclusivity.

Review:

"A powerful resource for those founding/refounding spiritual communities today. Its style and language exude the creative energy which it describes." --Dr. Bernadette Flanagan, All Hallows College (Dublin City University)

"An important book. . . . O'Murchu clearly lays out the path consecrated life has traveled and describes new fields emerging through shifting paradigms. Following Christ in an unfinished universe can be dark and daunting but O'Murchu sees hope and promise up ahead for those who can surrender themselves into the chaos of God's uncontrollable love." --Ilia Delio, OSF, author, Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, and Consciousness

"Diarmuid O'Murchu's finest book. Historically and theologically he extends and furthers the refounding insight which demands that we relive the paschal mystery of death and resurrection." --Gerald A. Arbuckle, SM, author, The Francis Factor and the People of God

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1626982074
• ISBN 13: 9781626982079
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264