Nature Reborn: The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian TheologySantmire's much-acclaimed The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology documented the unfortunate legacy of many Christian theological notions in the use, abuse, and destruction of the natural world, along with its positive aspects. This new brief, but penetrating, look at Christian theological concepts of nature returns to the fray, this time to reclaim classic, mostly pre-modern Christian themes and re-envision them in light of the global environmental and cultural crisis. This revisionist work-"to revise the classical Christian story in order to identify and to celebrate its ecological and cosmic promise"-mines Christian cosmology (the Great Chain of Being), Christology, Creation, and Eucharist, so that the Christian "story" can be then rediscovered (history), reshaped (theology), re-experienced (spirituality), and re-enacted (ritual). |
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The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian Theology H. Paul Santmire. To Jean C. Santmire and in memory of Harold C. Santmire Contents Preface 1. Revising the Classical Christian Story : The.
The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian Theology H. Paul Santmire. To Jean C. Santmire and in memory of Harold C. Santmire Contents Preface 1. Revising the Classical Christian Story : The.
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... Classical Christian Story : The Theological Challenge before Us 2. Reclaiming the Story Historically : Beyond the Ecological Critique 3. Rediscovering the Story Biblically : Beyond Anthropocentric Interpretations 4. Retelling the Story ...
... Classical Christian Story : The Theological Challenge before Us 2. Reclaiming the Story Historically : Beyond the Ecological Critique 3. Rediscovering the Story Biblically : Beyond Anthropocentric Interpretations 4. Retelling the Story ...
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... Christian sacraments , the Eucharist . " Even the crows , she suggests , by no means must be read nihilistically , as numerous critics have done . On the contrary , in ... Classical Christian Story The Theological Challenge X Nature Reborn.
... Christian sacraments , the Eucharist . " Even the crows , she suggests , by no means must be read nihilistically , as numerous critics have done . On the contrary , in ... Classical Christian Story The Theological Challenge X Nature Reborn.
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The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian Theology H. Paul Santmire. Chapter 1 Revising the Classical Christian Story The Theological Challenge before Us " We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until ...
The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian Theology H. Paul Santmire. Chapter 1 Revising the Classical Christian Story The Theological Challenge before Us " We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until ...
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The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian Theology H. Paul Santmire. of waging thermonuclear warfare . The sociopolitical dynamics of the global environmental crisis , which prophets in the 1960s announced ... Classical Christian Story ...
The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian Theology H. Paul Santmire. of waging thermonuclear warfare . The sociopolitical dynamics of the global environmental crisis , which prophets in the 1960s announced ... Classical Christian Story ...
Contents
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Reclaiming the Story Historically Beyond the Ecological Critique | 16 |
Rediscovering the Story Biblically Beyond Anthropocentric Interpretations | 29 |
Retelling the Story Narratively Beyond Evolutionary Anthropocentrism | 45 |
Reenvisioning the Story Interpersonally Beyond Anthropocentric Personalism | 61 |
Reenacting the Story Ritually Beyond the Milieu of the Gothic Spirit | 74 |
Reexperiencing the Story Spiritually Beyond the Ecology of Death | 93 |
Reliving the Story Ethically A Personal Testament of Nature Reborn | 115 |
Notes | 129 |
Index | 149 |
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Page 16 - For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
Page 61 - And out of the ground made the Lord GOD to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. The tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 14 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Page 37 - The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the falling together, and a little child shall lead them.
Page 45 - For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Page 133 - He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent.
Page 14 - God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope ; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.