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Being-in-Creation : Human Responsibility in an Endangered World / Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson; Brian Treanor.
De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benson, Bruce Ellis, Author.
- Wirzba, Norman, Author.
- Series:
- Groundworks : ecological issues in philosophy and theology.
- Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Creation.
- Theological anthropology--Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- What is the proper relationship between human beings and the more-than-human world? This philosophical question, which underlies vast environmental crises, forces us to investigate the tension between our extraordinary powers, which seem to set us apart from nature, even above it, and our thoroughgoing ordinariness, as revealed by the evolutionary history we share with all life.The contributors to this volume ask us to consider whether the anxiety of unheimlichkeit, which in one form or another absorbed so much of twentieth-century philosophy, might reveal not our homelessness in the cosmos but a need for a fundamental belongingness and implacement in it.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Human Place in the Natural World
- Creation, Creativity, and Creatureliness: The Wisdom of Finite Existence
- Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality
- The Art of Creaturely Life: A Question of Human Propriety
- Face of Nature, Gift of Creation: Thoughts Toward a Phenomenology of Ktisis
- Creativity as Call to Care for Creation? John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien
- Creature Discomforts: Levinas’s Interpretation of Creation Ex Nihilo
- Refl ections from Thoreau’s Concord
- Creation and the Glory of Creatures
- Care of the Soil, Care of the Self: Creation and Creativity in the American Suburbs
- Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World: Topographies of the Eco-Divine
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Forrest Clingerman and Brian Treanor, series editors
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-6502-1
- OCLC:
- 913915092
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