The Rainbow Spirit in Creation
The Rainbow Spirit in Creation

Author: Jasmine Corowa

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780814627167

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Identifying God the Creator with the Rainbow Spirit, Aboriginal Christians see in Christ the incarnation of the Rainbow Spirit in human form. In "The Rainbow Spirit in Creation", the Rainbow Spirit Elders share the story of the creation of the land with colorful illustrations that show the Rainbow Snake as part of the seven days of creation, offering a new interpretation of the Aboriginal culture and a view of the Creator Spirit as within the earth, not apart from it.

Rainbow Spirit Theology
Rainbow Spirit Theology

Author: The Rainbow Spirit Elders

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781922582362

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This book is dedicated to those Aboriginal women, men and children who gave their lives for this land, and to those who survived but have lost their spiritual connection with the land

Aboriginal Church Paintings
Aboriginal Church Paintings

Author: Eugene Daniel Stockton

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780646532387

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Generously illustrated in full colour, this book explores the varied responses by several Aboriginal artists, and groups of Aboriginal artists, across Australia to the Christian message, its relevance to their traditional culture and their firmly held beliefs. The result is a revealing insight into the depth of understanding of the Gospels by the artists and the important relevance this understanding has to Australian spirituality today.

Calling the Rainbow Nation Home
Calling the Rainbow Nation Home

Author: E. Sundby

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2005-08

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0595336299

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"This book is a journey for truth."-Samuel Kader Sr., Pastor, Community Gospel Church, Dayton, Ohio, Openly Gay, Openly Christian, Leyland Publications. Am I going to hell because I am gay? Is homosexuality a sin? Should I remain celibate my entire life? If you or someone you love is struggling with these issues, this book is for you. Follow Reverend Elaine Sundby's journey as she takes us on her personal quest for truth and self-acceptance-a path that eventually led her to enter the ministry. Reverend Sundby was determined to discover God's plan for her and equally determined to do what was right in the eyes of God, without taking "the easy way out." Simple to understand, yet rooted in spiritual truth, Calling the Rainbow Nation Home has the potential to heal-to heal the battered soul of the Christians who are struggling to reconcile their homosexuality with their faith, and to heal their relationships with those who love them and want to understand. A new era is just beginning in the gay Christian community, as thousands begin to realize that God loves us all just as we are.

The Rainbow Serpent
The Rainbow Serpent

Author: Dick Roughsey

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books

Published: 1993-09-15

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780207174339

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Recounts the aborigine story of creation featuring Goorialla, the great Rainbow Serpent.

The Language of Creation
The Language of Creation

Author: Matthieu Pageau

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-29

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781981549337

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The Language of Creation is a commentary on the primeval stories from the book of Genesis. It is often difficult to recognize the spiritual wisdom contained in these narratives because the current scientific worldview is deeply rooted in materialism. Therefore, instead of looking at these stories through the lens of modern academic disciplines, such as sociology, psychology, or the physical sciences, this commentary attempts to interpret the Bible from its own cosmological perspective.By contemplating the ancient biblical model of the universe, The Language of Creation demonstrates why these stories are foundational to western science and civilization. It rediscovers the archaic cosmic patterns of heaven, earth, time, and space, and sees them repeated at different levels of reality. These fractal-like structures are first encountered in the narrative of creation and then in the stories of the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, and the flood. The same patterns are also revealed in the visions of Ezekiel, the book of Daniel, and the miracles of Moses. The final result of this contemplation is a vision of the cosmos centered on the role of human consciousness in creation.

Rainbow of Mysteries
Rainbow of Mysteries

Author: Norman C. Habel

Publisher: Wood Lake Publishing Inc.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1770644415

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Have you ever wondered how you can connect with the sacred in nature, or whether there is anything sacred in nature? Has the Christian tradition obscured the sacredness of nature? Is the Bible alive to the wonder of creation? How can we sustain a sense of mystery and an appreciation of the sacred in nature? In the biblical Flood narrative, the rainbow was the sign of God's covenant promise to never again to destroy the Earth with flood waters. The rainbow served to remind God of God's own bond with Earth. "My rainbow," says Habel, "represents my covenant promise to explore my bonds with Earth, my spiritual connections with creation." Each colour represents an often-overlooked aspect of creation and inspires the reader to consider our place in nature. Using poetry and prose, Norman Habel journeys deep into his personal experiences of the sacred in nature, from his initial sense of alienation from Earth to his eventual "homecoming." Along the way, he investigates seven wonders of nature and their spiritual dimensions or mysteries. He explores biblical texts that praise or suppress creation and examines each mystery through the lens of ecology and his own experiences. Ultimately his goal is to discern how to sustain each mystery and its spiritual dimension. The book includes a suggested workshop outline, and seven rites to explore mystery in nature.

Rainbow Spirit Journeys
Rainbow Spirit Journeys

Author: Wolf Moondance

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9780806905631

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The bestselling author of "Rainbow Medicine" presents a full-color collection of over 50 guided visits to the spirit world that can transform one's life. Each journey is a simple and brief trip prepared especially to open a person's heart to spirit and hear its messages. Full color.

Your God is Too Glorious
Your God is Too Glorious

Author: Chad Bird

Publisher: New Reformation Publications

Published: 2023-11-14

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1948969815

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Most of us are regular people who have good days and bad days. Our lives are radically ordinary and unexciting. That means they're the kind of lives God gets excited about. While the world worships beauty and power and wealth, God hides his glory in the simple, the mundane, the foolish, working in unawesome people, things, and places.In our day of celebrity worship and online posturing, this is a refreshing, even transformative way of understanding God and our place in his creation. It urges us to treasure a life of simplicity, to love those whom the world passes by, to work for God's glory rather than our own. And it demonstrates that God has always been the Lord of the cross--a Savior who hides his grace in unattractive, inglorious places.Your God Is Too Glorious reminds readers that while a quiet life may look unimpressive to the world, it's the regular, everyday people that God tends to use to do his most important work.

The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies
The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies

Author: James Cox

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-19

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1317546032

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Indigenous societies around the world have been historically disparaged by European explorers, colonial officials and Christian missionaries. Nowhere was this more evident than in early descriptions of indigenous religions as savage, primitive, superstitious and fetishistic. Liberal intellectuals, both indigenous and colonial, reacted to this by claiming that, before indigenous peoples ever encountered Europeans, they all believed in a Supreme Being. The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies argues that, by alleging that God can be located at the core of pre-Christian cultures, this claim effectively invents a tradition which only makes sense theologically if God has never left himself without a witness. Examining a range of indigenous religions from North America, Africa and Australasia - the Shona of Zimbabwe, the "Rainbow Spirit Theology" in Australia, the Yupiit of Alaska, and the Māori of New Zealand – the book argues that the interests of indigenous societies are best served by carefully describing their religious beliefs and practices using historical and phenomenological methods – just as would be done in the study of any world religion.