Creation's Diversity

Voices from Theology and Science

AvWillem Drees,Hubert Meisinger

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

This collection of substantial essays explores the question of how to relate environmental engagement in the context of religious convictions. In the first part of the book, 'A Diversity of Visions of Creation', six essays address various views of creation. In the second part of the book, 'Sustaining Creation's Diversity', the concept of sustainability is analyzed critically, given the dynamic character of natural reality as unveiled by the sciences. This is followed by some reflections on ethical and theological considerations regarding the idea that we ought to sustain diversity.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-03-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:472 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Issues in Science and Theology
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780567033284

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Willem B. Drees is professor of philosophy of religion and ethics at Leiden University, the Netherlands, President of ESSSAT, and author of Religion, Science and Naturalism (Cambridge UP, 1996), and Creation: From Nothing until Now (Routledge, 2001). Hubert Meisinger, Ph.D., is director for environmental affairs at the Center Social Responsibility in Mainz, associate director of studies for science and theology at the Protestant Academy Arnoldshain, associate lecturer in Systematic Theology at Darmstadt University of Technology and Vice-President of ESSSAT. He wrote a study on theological and sociobiological views of altruism: Liebesgebot und Altruismusforschung (Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 1996) and co-edited Physik, Kosmologie und Spiritualität (Lang, 2006). Taede A. Smedes is research fellow at the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, and Scientific Programme Officer of ESSSAT, and the author of Chaos, Complexity, and God: Divine Action and Scientism (Peeters, 2004) and God en de menselijke maat: Gods handelen en het wetenschappelijk wereldbeeld (Meinema, 2006).

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"A useful contribution to the continuing dialogue between theologies and the sciences on environmental issues." - Reviews in Science and Religion

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPreface and acknowledgementsList of contributorsChapter 1 Creation's diversity: Voices from theology and scienceWillem B. DreesChapter 2 Rationality and mystery in the UniverseDaniel Ciobotea, Metropolit of Moldavia and BucovinaPART ONE A DIVERSITY OF VISIONS OF CREATIONChapter 3 Geohistory, Gaia science and an ecological theologyAnna PrimavesiChapter 4 Humans as part of nature: The concept of life and the temporal implications of actionsRegina KatherChapter 5 The noble Leviathan and the twisted serpent: An Eastern Orthodox perspective on the ecological message of Genesis, Job, and IsaiahDavid K. GoodinChapter 6 The Creatures' Yes and No to their creator: A proposal in evolutionary theology, kenotic trinitarianism, and environmental ethics.Christopher C.B. SouthgateChapter 7 The diversity of environments: Nature and technology as competing mythsAlfred KracherChapter 8 New cosmologies and sacred stories: Re-imagining the human-environmentrelationship via religio-scientific metaphor and mythTony WatlingPART TWO SUSTAINING CREATION'S DIVERSITYChapter 9 Sustaining diversity or developing sustainablyR.J. BerryChapter 10 How green is progress?Jan J. Boersema