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Book Description
Motivation for the Great Work: Forty Meaty Meditations for the Secular-Religious. We know we cannot do the great work of care for creation deeply and for long without tending to our spirits. Therefore, this book is about the next step in our human journey: to become less human-centered and more creation- and spirit-centered. We are here to care for the good creation, including human reconciliation. The meditations are held under five dynamics of profound human living: community, awakenment, formation, engagement, and sustenance. Thomas Berry, author of The Dream of the Earth and The Great Work has written in the foreword: “What is needed is closer to the conversion process of the great religious transformations. Such is the benefit of this book of meditations. With its guidance we might begin a new phase of existence . . . with a primacy of appreciation for . . . the natural world.” The great work is our common mission and vocation. Let us be refocused and remotivated for the sake of all and, in so doing, our own sakes.
READERS' COMMENTS
"What is needed is closer to the conversion process of the great religious transformations. . . . Such is the benefit of this book of meditations. With its guidance we might begin a new phase of existence. . . ."
--Thomas Berry, from his Foreword to the book; cultural historian and geologian, author of The Great Work, The Dream of the Earth, and The Universe Story (with Brian Swimme)
"With each new book, John Cock makes clearer his unusual ability to address effectively issues of faith and the inner life. He speaks with a freshness to those searching deeply for meaning and direction."
--Bishop James K. Mathews, Ph.D., author of A Global Odyssey and The Matchless Weapon: Satyagraha
"Herman, I loved John's book! I have asked the conference organizers to include one of John's beautiful Great Work quotes. . . ."
--Connie Barlow, author and coordinator EarthSpirit Rising Conference 2001
"These forty meaty meditations intersect with the 'stuff' of life and offer us the challenge to become fruit-bearing trees planted by streams of water."
--Evelyn Laycock, D.Min., Director of the Lay Ministry Center and author of Hope for the Future and co-author of Awaken the Giant
"These meditations run wide and they run deep. John Cock has covered the length and the breadth of life's waterfront in this masterly set of pensees.
--R. Brian Stanfield, Director of Publications, The Canada ICA, and author or The Courage To Lead and The Art of Focused Conversation
CONTENTS . . . Read excerpts from the book by clicking its cover on amazon.com
Foreword by Thomas Berry
Preface
Prologue
Forty Three-page Meditations with Reflective Questions
Under Five Headings of the Profound Human Journey:
Epilogue
List of References
About the Author
200 page paperback, published by iUniverse, December 2000
$13.95 USD
