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1 online resource (342 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Beasts and Entangled Bank : A Dialogue; Creation In and Out of Focus; Models of Engagement; The Weight of a Theory; A Wager: Good Dialogue Partners; 2 "When We Look ... "; The Author and His Amazing Book; Core Insight; Science: Special Acts of Creation; A Religious Odyssey; The Beholder; 3 "Endless Forms Most Beautiful"; Starting with Farm and Garden; Two Key Elements: Variation and Struggle; The Theory: Natural Selection; The Tree of Life; A Crowd of Difficulties; Throughout Time; Across Space |
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Mutual Affinities"There is Grandeur in this View of Life"; 4 Evolution of the Theory; The Center Holds; Misuse of the Theory; Scientific Advances; A Cosmic Lens; An Ecological Lens; 5 The Dwelling Place of God; "We Are Fecund and Exuberantly Alive"; Obstacles; Life and Love: a Trinitarian Framework; Poetic Biblical Images; The Wisdom of Philosophy: Participation; God's Dwelling Place; 6 Free, Empowered Creation; Paradigm of the Lover; The Wisdom of Philosophy: Ultimate and Proximate Causes; Interplay of Law and Chance; Unscripted Adventure; Emergence: On Behalf of Matter and the Body |
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Beasts and Entangled Bank7 All Creation Groaning; "We Suffer and Die"; Framing the Issue; Deep Incarnation; The Christic Paradigm; The Cross and the Tree of Life; Deep Resurrection; 8 Bearer of Great Promise; Bookends; "We Are Created"; "We Are Finite and Will End"; Cosmic Redemption; Muir's Bear; 9 Enter the Humans; An Evolving Singularity; Eaarth [sic]; Extinction: Never Again; The Promise of Nature; Conversion to the Earth; 10 The Community of Creation; "We Are All Creatures"; The Dominion Paradigm; The Community of Creation Paradigm; "Where Were You ...?"; Creation's Praise and Lament |
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The Ecological VocationOnwards, for the Love of God; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human being̀s relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day, when species are going extinct at more than 1,000 times the natural rate, renders this question acutely important. Standard perspectives need to be |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-316) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmental degradation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Environmental protection -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Nature -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Environmental degradation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Environmental protection -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Nature -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472903754 |
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1472903757 |
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9781472903747 |
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1472903749 |
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