Creation's Diversity Voices from Theology and Science

by Drees, Willem; Meisinger, Hubert; Smedes, Taede A.

• ISBN13: 9780567033284
• ISBN10: 0567033287
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Through a series of fascinating essays Creation's Diversity examines the concept of environmental engagement in the context of religious convictions.

Table of Contents

Creation's Diversity: Voices from Theology and Science	p. 1
Rationality and Mystery in the Universe: The Need for Dialogue between Science and Religion	p. 7
A Diversity of Visions of Creation	p. 13
Geohistory, Gaia Science and an Ecological Theology	p. 15
Humans as Part of Nature: The Concept of Life and the Temporal Implications of Actions	p. 26
The Noble Leviathan and the Twisted Serpent: An Eastern Orthodox Perspective on the Ecological Message of Genesis, Job and Isaiah	p. 43
The Creatures' Yes and No to their Creator: A Proposal in Evolutionary Theology, Kenotic Trinitarianism, and Environmental Ethics	p. 58
The Diversity of Environments : Nature and Technology as Competing Myths	p. 78
New Cosmologies and Sacred Stories: Re-imagining the Human-Environment Relationship via Religio-Scientific Metaphor and Myth	p. 89
Sustaining Creation's Diversity	p. 113
Sustaining Diversity or Developing Sustainably	p. 115
How Green is Progress? The Need for Science and Religion in Sustaining Biodiversity	p. 133
Is Sustaining Diversity Theologically Virtuous?	p. 155
Sustaining Diversity: From Science and Morality to Religion or just Economy?	p. 164
Objectivity, Truth and Diversity in Science and Religion: The Interplay of Ideas	p. 175
Sustaining Diversity: Religious Pluralism and the Challenge for Theology	p. 181
Index	p. 187
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