Description

The human-made ecological crises of gigantic iportions hate led to the ‘dooms day’ prediction by the 2500 internationally renowned scientists. Mother Earth cries in anguish at the destruction of her environment.

We, human being^, are endowed with reason and power to create. But so far, we have been more of ‘destroyers’ than creators, imagining ourselves as the central nervous system of nature. Though we cannot put back the developmental dock, we need to be aware of our intrinsic connectedness to the web oflife.

Jlother Earth pleads with her children to k to her umbilical chord, and to promote harmony and sustain all forms of life on earth, especially of the poor- the most vulnerable to ecological crises.

_ — j is an urgent mission to restore the whole of creation – the primal expression and infinite manifestation of the Divine mystery of Love. The wake up call is to renew our commitment to the cosinotheandric covenant as love-able and response-able Children of the Cosmic Rainbow.

This book reflects on the present ecological crises and proposes a holistic vision and spirituality that would provoke our conscience and Inspire for radical action.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

1. ORIGINAL BLESSING CREATION AS THE DIVINE ECSTACY

Creation: An Expression of God’s Love and Goodness

The World as God’s Body

Divine Presence in Creation

The Trinitarian Communion in the Cosmos

The World as a Cosmotheandric Family
Hurran-made Climatic Chaos

Declining Health

Developmental Destruction

Fury of Globalization

Violence of Green Revolution

Stealing from the Farms of the Poor

Vidarbha – in the Death Trap

Condemned to Death

The Poor: ‘The Most Threatened Species’ on Earth 65

3. SHADOW OF DEATH

THE VIOLATION OF THE INTEGRAL VISION

Sin as Diminishing of Life
Sin as the Rupture of the Cosmotheandric Relationship 71

Sin: A Condition

Sin: A Power

Cosmic Sin and Consequences

Sin: A Violation of Rta (the Cosmic Order)

4. THE RETURN OF THE RAINBOW

INTEGRAL LIBERATION OF OUR PLANET

Salvation as Restoring the Lost Relationship

A Cosmic Covenant of Love

The Earth as God’s Gift 88

The Jubilee Vision and the Sabbath Tradition

Voices from the Wilderness

Jesus the Cosmic Liberator

Jesus the Liberator of the Poor and the Oppressed

The Risen Christ: The Cosmic Redeemer

The Enfleshed Logos

The Divinized Cosmos The Paradigm of the Asurs

A New Heaven and New Earth
5 COSMOTHEANDRIC SPIRITUALITY

A HOLISTIC PARADIGM FOR HEALING OUR WOUNDED PLANET 107

Learning from the’Leavers’

Cosmos as Extended Family

Non-Violence as Love for Creation

The Flow of Life

Rising from the Star-Dust

Eucharist as the Celebration of the Earth

Return of the Goddess
Agape as Cosmotheandric Love
Creation as the Grandeur of God

Sounding the Jubilee Trumpet

The World as the Divine Milieu
6. GO, SPREAD THE RAINBOW !

BUILDING A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH

A Call to Radical Action

Building an Eco-Just Society

Dialogue for Cosmic Healing APPENDICES

Isha Upanishad

The Mass on the World

The Canticle of All Creatures

To Serve Christ in All Creation 147 Chief Seattle’s Letter A New Decalogue

What is happening to Our Beautiful Land?
List of possible activities to protect the Earth

endnoVe?66 Y0U as 3 Friend of the Gods
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cosmic Interrelatedness and Interdependence

Humans as Part of the Cosmic Family
A Call to be Co-Creators

2. OUR PLANET IN CRISIS DEFORMED FACE OF THE MOTHER EARTH

Contaminated ‘Life-blood’ Skinning off the Bio-diversity Vanishing Species Cities Turned Slums Excess Consumption