Spiritual Paths to an Ethical and Ecological Global Civilzation

. This book by three notes scholars in the fields of philosophy, religion and social ethics explores how a global spirituality needs to take expression to in a regenerative global civilization marked by a new ecology of the natural world and the human spirit. It provides an ecological and holistic vision which draws upon the wisdom of the ages as well as contemporary philosophy and science.

In this visionary book, John Raymaker, and Gerald Grudzen with Joe Holland -- pioneering scholars of religion, philosophy and culture -- first try to read the contemporary signs of the times which indicate that late modern civilization and our planet earth are in a crisis and need renewal and reform. For this purpose they draw upon a "New Cosmology" which views evolution as a co-creative and artistic/mystical process in which everyone can participate. The authors draw upon the "wisdom of the ages" to develop an inclusive, global spirituality which resonates with the ecological-mystical cosmology presently arising on the frontiers of philosophy and science. This book also links global spirituality with global ethics in the search for a regenerative global civilization. A true global ethics must be rooted in a new economic and social model which supports human beings and the natural world and protects workers, families and the bioregions of the world on which all humanity depends

Doctor Gerald Grudzen teaches courses in Philosophy and Comparative Religion at San Jose City College and the University of Phoenix. He also teaches graduate courses for Global Ministries University in the history of Christianity and Islam. He has written five previous books on philosophical and religious topics. He and his wife also do volunteer work in interfaith education in the nation of Kenya.