A World Alight with Splendour: Our Human Experience of the Holy Spirit

by Peter Hannan

This book is about the Holy Spirit. While we might believe that the Spirit is the most unreal, mysterious and remote of the three persons of the Trinity, this book contends that the Spirit is perhaps the most intimate and practical of the three, the one most deeply involved in our daily lives. To explain why this is so the author looks at two worlds we live our lives in, an outer and an inner one. The outer world is a hostile environment where there is a lot of emphasis on hatred and violence, on hostility and the breakdown of relationships; it is a world that is often unseemly and sad. The inner world is the caring environment our families and friends form for us by the ways they care for us and we for them. If we do not allow its shortcomings to dominate our vision of it, this is a world of good relationships where we find much beauty and joy. To our outer world what this book says about the Spirit will appear unrealistic. In terms of our inner world, however, of the caring environment our families and friends provide for us and of the love, beauty and the joy we generally find in this environment, this book will I hope make a lot of sense and be an inspiration.

208 pages, Paperback

First published July 21, 2009

About the author

PETER HANNAN is a writer, producer, creator, author/illustrator, and artist. He is the creator and executive producer of the Nickelodeon animated series, CatDog. He wrote and sang the CatDog theme song, which he will sing for you even if you don’t technically ask him to. He has developed properties for numerous studios and is currently working on a variety of film,TV, game, and book projects., including a new animated show in development called Dead Pets Society. Other stuff: Really Freaking Embarrassing, The Adventures of a Huge Mouth, My Big Mouth: 10 Songs I Wrote That Almost Got Me Killed, The Greatest Snowman in the World, Freddy, King of Flurb, The Sillyville Saga, and the forthcoming Petlandia, a book about a group of house pets who stage a revolution, kick out their human oppressors, and declare the house a sovereign nation.That's when the real trouble starts. He has done tons of illustrations and cartoons for magazines, newspapers, and advertising. He has exhibited paintings, illustrations, and cartoons lots of places. His work has been transformed into everything from toys to t-shirts to cheese crackers. He teaches at Arizona State University. He lives in sunny California and sunnier Arizona.