Earth-friendly : re-visioning science & spirituality through Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and Rudolf Steiner / Adrian M. Hofstetter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hofstetter, Adrain M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science.

Aristotle.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Steiner, Rudolf, 1861-1925.

Steiner, Rudolf.

Physical Description:

xii, 196 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Great Barrington, MA : Lindisfarne Books, 2004.

Summary:

Earty-Friendly collects the fruits of a lifetime of study and teaching in search of a holistic, organismic, living science, respectful of the sacredness of nature and the ubiquity of the spirit. As a biology philosopher, Adrian M. Hofstetter's first teachers were Aquinas and Aristotle; later she came to know the work of Goethe and Rudolf Steiner.

These articles trace the development of Sister Adrian's conviction that "the spiritual science flowing from the thought of St. Albert and St. Thomas, as developed seven hundred years later by Rudolf Steiner, could recapture the true greatness of the West as it reaches out to the East to create an 'earth-friendly re-visioning of science and spirituality.'"

Contents:

Food : a lost mystery of creation

Ancient wisdom and modern science

Liberal education, a Dominican challenge

Science, education and the Christian person

New or traditional earth spirituality?

Thomas Aquinas and the new cosmology : faith encounters science anew

Viruses : are they alive?

Nature's law : competition or cooperation?

The cell and the organism : a reexamination

The new biology : Barbara McClintock and an emerging holistic science

Universe coding, not genetic coding

A Rudolf Steiner sustainable community

Is this the time?

Women scientists, ancient wisdom, and modern science

A call to Dominican religious women.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-196).

ISBN:

1584200235

OCLC:

55066979