Living With Tiny Aliens - The Image of God for the Anthropocene

Living with Tiny Aliens imagines in theological terms how an individuals' meaningful existence persists within a cosmos pregnant with living-possibilities. In doing so, it works to articulate an astrobiological humanities.

List of contents

Introduction: Being in Outer Space | 1

1 Exoplanets and Icy Moons and Mars, Oh My! | 15

2 Astrobiology's Intra-Active Aliens | 32

3 Being a Living-System | 46

4 The imago Dei as a Refractive Symbol | 62

5 Conceptualizing Nature | 86

6 The Anthropocene as Planetarity in Deep Time | 104

7 An Artful Planet | 128

8 Living-Into Presence, Wonder, and Play | 146

Epilogue: Ad Astra Per Aspera | 188

Acknowledgments | 201

Notes | 203

Bibliography | 241

Index | 263

About the author

Adam Pryor is Assistant Professor of Religion at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas.

Summary

Living with Tiny Aliens imagines in theological terms how an individuals’ meaningful existence persists within a cosmos pregnant with living-possibilities. In doing so, it works to articulate an astrobiological humanities.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Pryor, Tbd
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780823288311
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8831-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Groundworks: Ecological Issues; Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous