Prayers to an Evolutionary God Author:William Cleary Your image of God has evolved from a distant, all-knowing father to a creative force of the universe. Now its time to update your prayer, too. An evolutionary God is the one whose fingerprints and embraces and music we find in the evolutionary patterns in the unfinished world around us, the elusive mother and inventor of this ever-changin... more »g milieu. It is a God who pretendsfor some purpose we do not comprehendnot even to exist, but whom we can reach out for and give thanks to, if we wishas most of our race has done throughout its history.
from the Introduction In this unique collection of eighty prose prayers and related commentary, William Cleary invites you to consider new ways of thinking about God and about the world around you. Inspired by the spiritual and scientific teachings of Diarmuid OMurchu and Teilhard de Chardin, Cleary reveals that religion and science can be combined to create an expanding view of the universean evolutionary faith. Prayers to an Evolutionary God inspires you to discover your own place in the story of the universe, challenges you to rethink life in new ways, and enables you to express yourself in words that make senseto an evolutionary God.« less