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Towards a New Consciousness

Mark Tully explores a new spirituality that might change attitudes to the environment by bringing science and religion together, leading to a new level of consciousness.

Mark Tully explores how a new way of thinking about spirituality might change our attitude to the environment. By looking at modern and historical ideas about the relationship between the cosmos and God, he encounters an emerging theology which brings science and religion together, and claims to make possible a new level of consciousness.

He discovers how this ecological spirituality might have profound ethical implications for us as we struggle to develop ways of protecting our planet. The programme also considers how this green theology might reconcile both the sacred and scientific stories of evolution.

Drawing from a diverse selection of music, from Gustav Holst to Joni Mitchell, and readings from Margaret Atwood and the Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo, Mark Tully describes the development of a theology and philosophy that hopes to meet the challenges posed by the crisis our natural world faces.

Producer: Adam Fowler
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30 minutes

Last on

Sun 3 Feb 2013 23:30

Music Played

  • Michael Brook

    Science

    Performer: Michael Brook

    • An Inconvenient Truth.
    • High Wire.
    • CST 8112.2.
  • Joni Mitchell

    Woodstock

    Performer: Joni Mitchell

    • Hits.
    • Reprise.
    • 9362463262.
  • Edmund Rubbra

    Rubbra: Symphony #8, Op.132, "Hommage A Teilhard De Chardin"

    Performer: Philarmonia Orchestra, Norman Del Mar

    • Symphony #6 & 8, Soliloquy For Cello & Orchestra.
    • Lyrita.
    • SRCD .234.
  • Gustav Holst

    Hymn of the Travellers

    Performer: Netherlands Chamber Choir

    • English Choral Music.
    • Globe.
    • GLO 5170.
  • Arthur Bliss

    The World is Charged With the Grandeur of God

    Performer: The Finzi Singers directed by Paul Spicer, Andrew Lumsden (organ)

    • Bliss: Choral Works.
    • Chandos.
    • CHAN 8980.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 3 Feb 2013 06:05
  • Sun 3 Feb 2013 23:30