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Title: Reclaiming Spirituality: A New Spiritual Framework for Today's World by Diarmuid O Murchu, Diarmuid O Murchu ISBN: 0-8245-1723-7 Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: toward an Wholistic Ecumenicism
Comment: O'Murchu applauds the growth of spirituality and the waning of formalized religious practice. We must think in evolutionary time spans and reject the self-denying dualisms of the Church in its 2000 year history.By embracing a feminist consciousness we become life affirming and escape the control of the white male church.
Rating: 1
Summary: Where is the "framework" for reclaiming spirituality?
Comment: I expected this book to present a path to reclaim spirituality and present "new" possibilities for a more integrated worldview of spirituality. Instead it is a book on what seems to be exploration and more condemnation of patriarchal based religious views. I'm disappointed in that there is no real fundamental presentation of the advantages of reclaiming spirituality. It seemed that he has reiterrated views that have already been expressed by numerous other authors.
Rating: 1
Summary: A Case-In-Point Of DeMan's 'Blindness And Insight'
Comment: O'Murchu has managed to succeed in the highly non-trivial task of writing a book that is both trivial and profound. _Reclaiming Spirituality_ is trivial in the sense that it is one more in a dreary series of books berating 'patriarchy' with an almost-fundamentalistic fervor, and espousing a no-less-fundamentalistic vision of 'The Imminent End Of Western Civilization As We Know It.' But the book is also profound in that O'Murchu's blindness to his own discursive irony gives us a glimpse of why, in a kind of convolutedly self-referential way, his thesis about dualism leading to a blind alley is correct - a blind alley his very advocacy of this thesis inscribes in his book. Despite his repeated, and eventually, boringly repetitive, perorations against either/or 'duality,' O'Murchu's own text is founded upon an enormous either/or duality: formal institutional religion vs. spirituality. In fact, so central is this duality to the book that the book, which would collapse if this duality were ever resolved, is actually at base (neo-)Gnostic. Other either/or dualities abound, despite O'Murchu's ostensible disavowal of them: patriarchy vs. egalitarianism, linear/logical thinking vs. intuitive. What O'Murchu doesn't seem to realize is that, in empirical fact, where you find one half of each dichotomy you inevitably find the other, and that an attempt to subvert either/or dualities that is itself predicated on an either/or duality necessarily subverts only itself.
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Title: Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics by Diarmid O'Murchu ISBN: 0824516303 Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Evolutionary Faith: Rediscovering God in Our Great Story by Diarmuid O Murchu, Diarmuid O'Murchu ISBN: 1570754519 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Religion in Exile: A Spiritual Homecoming by Diarmuid O Murchu, Diarmuid O'Murchu ISBN: 0824518411 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Our World in Transition: Making Sense of a Changing World by Diarmuid O Murchu, Diarmuid O'Murchu ISBN: 0824518624 Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Poverty, Celibacy, and Obedience: A Radical Option for Life by Diarmuid O Murchu, Diarmuid O'Murchu ISBN: 0824514734 Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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