Creation's Diversity - Voices from Theology and Science

Zusammenfassung Through a series of essays, this work examines the concept of environmental engagement in the context of religious convictions. It explores how to relate environmental engagement in the context of religious convictions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Preface and acknowledgements List of contributors Chapter 1 Creation's diversity: Voices from theology and science Willem B. Drees Chapter 2 Rationality and mystery in the UniverseDaniel Ciobotea, Metropolit of Moldavia and Bucovina PART ONE A DIVERSITY OF VISIONS OF CREATION Chapter 3 Geohistory, Gaia science and an ecological theology Anna Primavesi Chapter 4 Humans as part of nature: The concept of life and the temporal implications of actions Regina Kather Chapter 5 The noble Leviathan and the twisted serpent: An Eastern Orthodox perspective on the ecological message of Genesis, Job, and Isaiah David K. Goodin Chapter 6 The Creatures' Yes and No to their creator: A proposal in evolutionary theology, kenotic trinitarianism, and environmental ethics. Christopher C.B. Southgate Chapter 7 The diversity of environments: Nature and technology as competing myths Alfred Kracher Chapter 8 New cosmologies and sacred stories: Re-imagining the human-environmentrelationship via religio-scientific metaphor and myth Tony Watling PART TWO SUSTAINING CREATION'S DIVERSITY Chapter 9 Sustaining diversity or developing sustainably R.J. Berry Chapter 10 How green is progress? Jan J. Boersema

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• Authors: Willem Drees, Willem B. (EDT)/ Meisinger Drees, Hubert Meisinger, Taede Smedes
• Assisted by: Willem Drees (Editor), Hubert Meisinger (Editor), Meisinger Hubert (Editor), Taede Smedes (Editor), Taede A. Smedes (Editor), Smedes Taede (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2008
• EAN: 9780567033284
• ISBN: 978-0-567-03328-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Issues in Science and Theology; Issues in Science and Theology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Science: general issues, SCIENCE / General, RELIGION / Theology, Theology