Cosmology, Ecology, and the Energy of God / ed. by Clayton Crockett, Donna Bowman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauman, Whitney, Contributor.

Bowman, Donna, Contributor.

Bowman, Donna, Editor.

Crockett, Clayton, Contributor.

Crockett, Clayton, Editor.

Dickinson, T. Wilson, Contributor.

Higgins, Luke B., Contributor.

Keller, Catherine, Contributor.

Lorentzen, Oz, Contributor.

McDaniel, Jay B. (Jay Byrd), 1949- Contributor.

Robbins, Jeffrey W., Contributor.

Rubenstein, Mary-Jane, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book brings together process and postmodern theologians to reflect on the crucial topic of energy, asking: What are some of the connections between energy and theology? How do ideas about humanity and divinity interrelate with how we live our lives? Its contributors address energy in at least three distinct ways. First, in terms of physics, the discovery of dark energy in 1998 uncovered a mysterious force that seems to be driving the expansion of the universe. Here cosmology converges with theological reflection about the nature and origin of the universe. Second, the social and ecological contexts of energy use and the current energy crisis have theological implications insofar as they are caught up with ultimate human meanings and values. Finally, in more traditional theological terms of divine spiritual energy, we can ask how human conceptions of energy relate to divine energy in terms of creative power.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I Engaging Physical Sciences

Chapter 1 The Energy We Are: A Meditation in Seven Pulsations

Chapter 2 The Fire Each Time : Dark Energy and the Breath of Creation

Chapter 3 Solar Energy: Theophany and the Theopoetics of Light in Gregory of Nyssa

Chapter 4 Beyond Heat : Energy for Life

Chapter 5 Emergence, Energy, and Openness : A Viable Agnostic Theology

Part II Engaging Ecology and Culture

Chapter 6 Ecological Civilizations : Obstacles to, and Prospects for, Religiously Informed Sustainability Movements in a Post-American World

Chapter 7 “One More Stitch” : Relational Productivity and Creative Energy

Chapter 8 Energy, Ecology, and Intensive Alliance : Bringing Earth Back to Heaven

Chapter 9 “Go Big or Go Home” : A Critique of the Western Concept of Energy/ Power and a Theological Alternative

Chapter 10 God Is Green; or, A New Theology of Indulgence

Notes

Contributors

Index of names and titles

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9128-6

OCLC:

1350688481