The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian TheologyFortress Press, 1985 M01 1 - 274 páginas The Travail of Nature shows that the theological tradition in the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long-forgotten, ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crisis and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find. This is why it is appropriate to speak of the ambiguous ecological promises of Christian theology. |
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THE UNCERTAIN VOICE OF CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY | 3 |
THE NEED FOR HISTORICAL STUDY | 7 |
THE AMBIGUOUS ECOLOGICAL PROMISE OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY | 8 |
THE APPROACH Discerning the Roots of Classical Christian Thought About Nature | 13 |
METAPHORS AND MOTIFS | 14 |
THE METAPHORS OF ASCENT AND FECUNDITY | 17 |
THE METAPHOR OF MIGRATION TO A GOOD LAND | 23 |
THE ASCENDANCY OF THE AMBIGUITY AND AN EMBODIMENT OF THE PROMISE Bonaventure Dante and Francis of Assisi | 97 |
NATURE AS A LADDER TO HEAVEN | 98 |
THE EMBRACE OF NATURE | 106 |
THE LIABILITIES OF THE AMBIGUITY Reformation Theology and the Modern Secularization of Nature | 121 |
THE ANTHROPOCENTRIC DYNAMICS OF GRACE AND THE WONDERS OF NATURE | 122 |
THE REFORMATION TRADITION AND THE MODERN SECULARIZATION OF NATURE | 133 |
THE TRIUMPH OF PERSONALISM Karl Barth and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | 145 |
THE HUMANITY OF GOD | 146 |
THE THREE METAPHORS AND THE FORMATION OF THE SPIRITUAL AND ECOLOGICAL MOTIFS | 25 |
THE HISTORICAL BEGINNINGS Irenaeus and Origen | 31 |
THE MESSAGE OF AN ALIEN GOD AND AN EVIL EARTH | 32 |
THE DYNAMICS OF CREATION HISTORY AND THE AFFIRMATION OF NATURE | 35 |
ALIENATION FROM NATURE IN AN AGE OF ANXIETY | 44 |
THE DYNAMICS OF THE HIERARCHY OF BEING AND THE DEGRADATION OF NATURE | 49 |
THE FLOWERING OF THE PROMISE Augustine | 55 |
BEYOND THE LEGACY OF THE MANICHEES | 56 |
CREATION HISTORY AND THE OVERFLOWING GOODNESS OF GOD | 60 |
THE HEIGHTENING OF THE AMBIGUITY The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century and the Theology of Thomas Aquinas | 75 |
ALIENATION FROM NATURE IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES | 77 |
THE REBIRTH OF NATURE IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY | 80 |
THE SUBORDINATION OF NATURE | 84 |
A PERSONALISTIC UNIVERSE | 155 |
THE UNSPOKEN ECOLOGICAL PROMISE | 171 |
RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT From Classical Christian Thought to the Bible | 175 |
THE HISTORY OF THE SPIRITUAL AND ECOLOGICAL MOTIFS | 176 |
BEYOND THE CLAIMS OF THE SPIRITUAL MOTIF | 183 |
A NEW OPTION IN BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION An Ecological Reading of Biblical Theology | 189 |
THE ECOLOGICAL MOTIF | 190 |
THE ECOLOGICAL MOTIF | 200 |
THE INFLUENCE OF THE SPIRITUAL MOTIF | 210 |
THE TRAVAIL OF NATURE AT THE END OF ALL THINGS | 216 |
NOTES | 219 |
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The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology H. Paul Santmire Vista de fragmentos - 1985 |
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