Creation Walk
The Amazing Story of a Small Blue Planet
Published on 1. April 2021
64 pages
978-1-78812-135-4 (ISBN)
Description
This booklet offers an unique presentation of the unfolding of our universe. It interweaves the insights of contemporary science with Christian faith, and reveals the divine orchestration of the Creation Story in a dramatic, fresh and appealing way.
Part One offers a brief background to the new story of creation which has emerged over the past century with the discovery of the expanding universe. We now know that the universe is 13.8 billion years old.
Part Two takes the reader through thirty stages of the development of the cosmos and of our Earth from the big bang to the present day. Each stage is succinctly outlined and offers material for prayerful pondering.
Part One offers a brief background to the new story of creation which has emerged over the past century with the discovery of the expanding universe. We now know that the universe is 13.8 billion years old.
Part Two takes the reader through thirty stages of the development of the cosmos and of our Earth from the big bang to the present day. Each stage is succinctly outlined and offers material for prayerful pondering.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
File size
22,33 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78812-135-4 (9781788121354)
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Brian Grogan SJ is a former President of Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin, and is Emeritus Associate Professor of Spirituality. A best-selling author, he has devoted most of a lifetime to mining and circulating the rich treasures of Ignatian spirituality. He has also written God, You're Breaking My Heart, Finding God in a Leaf and I am Infinitely Loved, all available from Messenger Publications.
Content
- Cover
- Book title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- Part One The New Story of Creation
- 1: The New Cosmology
- 2: Science and Scripture
- 3: Finding God in Creation
- 4: A Loving Gaze
- 5: Climate Grief and Christian Hope
- Part Two The Creation Walk
- Making the Most of the Creation Walk
- Step 1 The Birth of the Cosmos: 13,800,000,000 years ago
- Step 2 Galaxies: 12,800,000,000 years ago
- Step 3 Molecules: 11,800,000,000 Years Ago
- Step 4 Sun and Earth:4,600,000,000 years ago
- Step 5:The Moon: 4,300,000,000 years ago
- Step 6 Water and Earth: 4,100,000,000 years ago
- Step 7 The First Cells: 4,000,000,000 years ago
- Step 8 Photosynthesis: 3,700,000,000 years ago
- Step 9 A Breathing World: 2,000,000,000 years ago
- Step 10 Multi-celled Life:1,000,000,000 years ago
- Step 11 Fish and Sight:525,000,000 years ago
- Step 12 Plants and Animals:460,000,000 years ago
- Step 13 Five Mass Extinctionsof Species:From 444,000,000 years ago
- Step 14 Flying Insects:400,000,000 years ago
- Step 15 Forests:335,000,000 years ago
- Step 16 Dinosaurs and OtherReptiles:235,000,000 years ago
- Step 17 Mammals:200,000,000 years ago
- Step 18 Birds and Flowers:150,000,000 years ago
- Step 19 The Carnival of the Animals: 60,000,000 years ago
- Step 20 The Ancestorsof Homo Sapiens:6,000,000 years ago
- Step 21 Homo Sapiens:200,000 years ago
- Step 22 Ireland's Ice Cap Melts:16,000 years ago
- Step 23 Agriculture: 11,000 years ago
- Step 24 Empires and Religions:5,000 years ago
- Step 25 The New Creation: 2,000 years ago
- Step 26 Irish Christianity: 1600 years ago
- Step 27 The Anthropocene Era: 250 years ago
- Step 28 Our Expanding Universe: 90 years ago
- Step 29 A Small Blue Planet: 50 years ago
- Step 30 The God of Galaxies,Glow-worms and Grace: Now and Forever
- Part Three What Hope for a Small Blue Planet?
- 1: The God of Small Things
- 2: Laudato Si' Speaks of Hope
- 3: Divine Power Is at Work
- 4: God Makes the Barren Fruitful
- 5: The New Creation Has Begun
- 6: The Cosmos is Already Being Divinised
- 7: May Nothing be Lost!
- Sources
- Notes
