The spiritual story of humanity is at least 70,000 years old. By comparison, the formal religions have existed for a mere 4,500 years. Spirituality is, and perhaps always has been, more central to human experience than religion. Diarmuid O Murchu's purpose in writing this book has been to retrieve the long lost subverted tradition of spirituality and re-establish its primary significance in the human search for meaning and purpose in life. While the modern world continues to struggle with religious fanaticism on the one hand and religious indifference on the other, spirituality explodes with new vision and with fresh possibilities for a more integrated world view. Drawing on the modern findings of many disciplines, the author sets out to explore this new spiritual irruption, one that leaves religious allegiance waning while millions throughout the world seek meaning and nourishment in a range of new contexts, many of which transcend, circumvent and even abandon the religious certainty of bygone days. This is a challenging and provocative but, above all, reassuring book for those who are seeking spiritual meaning today. Other books by Diarmuid O'Murchu Religion in Exile.

Reclaiming Spirituality

Religion & Spirituality

O'Murchu, Diarmuid

O'Murchu M. S. C., Diarmuid

New Age & Spirituality

Gill and Macmillan

For millions throughout the world religions no longer provides hope or meaning. Exile and alienation are two words that constantly reoccur in modern literature. Religion fails to deliver on the bigger picture that is awakening in the soul of humanity. In fact, it is religion itself that is largely responsible for the exile and alienation we often experience. Following on his earlier work, Reclaiming Spirituality, Diarmuid O Murchu continues to offer some penetrating and original insights into the changing and evolving spiritual awareness of our time, one that is rapidly out-growing the time-honoured but exhausted vision of formal religion. This is a disturbing, but profoundly inspiring, contribution to the evolving spiritual consciousness of our time. It is an invaluable resource for many people who are trying to make sense of the new spiritual awakening. Other books by Diarmuid O'Murchu Reclaiming Spirituality.

Religion in Exile: A Spiritual Vision for the Homeward Bound

Gateway Books

Many people hold the view that the vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience embody laws or regulations that govern a religious or monastic lifestyle. Diarmuid O'Murchu offers a very different understanding of the vows, based on a much more ancient tradition. 
O'Murchu claims that the vows are first and foremost about values and not about laws. And in this provocative work he suggests that the Eastern concept of nonviolence is a core value of the vowed life in all the monastic traditions known to humankind.
At a time when all forms of religious commitment are being questioned, this value-oriented approach is refreshing and reassuring. O'Murchu holds up each vow like a jewel, turns it, lets light shine on it, and presents it with a new glow, a new understanding. Not only vowed religious, but everyone interested in living these core values will appreciate his insightful and challenging views.

Poverty Celibacy & Obedience : A Radical Option for Life

Christian Books & Bibles

PublishDrive

From black holes to holograms,f rom relativity theory to the discovery of quarks, an original exposition of quantum theory that unravels profound theological questions.

Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics

Crossroad

In this thought-provoking and rambunctious follow-up to Quantum Theology, English priest and social psychologist Diarmuid O Murchu celebrates the spiritual renaissance of our time as an alternative to religious fanaticism and religious indifference. He sees this phenomenon as part of the evolving spiritual story of humankind stretching back 70,000 years. The spirituality that is appealing to seekers today embodies global, inclusive, co-operative, egalitarian, and feminine values. O'Murchu outlines its linkage of the new cosmology with a respect for the natural world through the spirituality of native peoples. He points out its embrace of pre-patriarchal values of relatedness, passion, feeling, imagination, and justice. Two other accents of this new paradigm are its emphasis upon the erotic power of spirituality and its reappropriation of the shadow in all its diverse dimensions. Only time will tell what new permutations this global spirituality will take. O'Murchu has done a fine job mapping out its contemporary lineaments.

History

World

Diarmuid O'Murchu offers pentrating and original insights into the changing spiritual awareness of our time. He believes that we are rapidly out-growing the time honored but exhausted vision of formal religion.

Religion in Exile: A Spiritual Homecoming

OMurchu presents his startling and challenging theory that we live in age of transistion, where the old ways of relating to the world and each other are now redundnat; he argues that the coming together over thelast thirty years of ecological concerns, scientific exploration,human seeking and spiritual consciousness is the only way forward if we are to continue to be able to live on this planet.

Our World in Transition: Making Sense of a Changing World

Here, best-selling author Diarmuid O'Murchu presents a vision of the intersection of quantum physics and spirituality. It is now revised to reflect the most recent advances in physics. From black holes to holograms, from relativity theory to the discovery of quarks, this book is an original and rich exposition of quantum theory and the way it unravels profound theological questions.

Viewing prose as a limited way to convey the dream and spirit of the Gospels, this text instead relies upon the power of poetry to provide immediate access to a fresh, radical interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. The original work here separates itself from similar anthologies by showing an ability to rethink everyday faith through empowerment and liberation. O’Murchu uses language in its most direct form to accept the challenge of these prophetic teachings in the modern world. Through the unique freedom of poetry such as this, the full depth and vitality of these beliefs can be grasped and held by a new generation.

Jesus in the Power of Poetry: A New Voice for Gospel Truth

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Drawing from the best contemporary scholarship, bestselling author Diarmuid O’Murchu deconstructs the history of Christianity, and specifically the life of Jesus Christ, as it has evolved over the past two thousand years. With rich language and clear metaphors, O’Murchu speaks to every Christian who is fed up with a revisionist Christian doctrine based on banal ideas and who desperately seeks affirmation that the Christian faith is a much bigger, deeper, and more challenging institution than churches have ever acknowledged or proclaimed. According to O’Murchu, Jesus was never an earthly prince, but rather the first rebel, a countercultural outsider who sought to empower the oppressed and marginalized while questioning the core beliefs of longstanding institutions—and ultimately paying a mortal price for his convictions. Using this portrait of Jesus, each chapter addresses a range of common human problems that Christ himself overcame, such as understanding others, resolving hostilities, discovering empowerment by suffering, and preserving personal identity in a globalized world. O’Murchu’s stunning conclusions serve to reintroduce the world to the revolutionary Jesus, giving His story new life and relevance for the modern age.

Christianity's Dangerous Memory: A Rediscovery of the Revolutionary Jesus

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Reclaiming Spirituality

Religion in Exile: A Spiritual Vision for the Homeward Bound

Poverty Celibacy & Obedience : A Radical Option for Life

Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics

Reclaiming Spirituality

Religion in Exile: A Spiritual Homecoming

Our World in Transition: Making Sense of a Changing World

Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics

Jesus in the Power of Poetry: A New Voice for Gospel Truth

Christianity's Dangerous Memory: A Rediscovery of the Revolutionary Jesus