Earth-Friendly

by HOFSTETTER, ADRAIN M.

• ISBN13: 9781584200239
• ISBN10: 1584200235
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-22
• Publisher: Lindisfarne Pr

Summary

Earth-Friendly collects the fruits of a lifetime of study and teaching in search of a holistic, organic, living science, respectful of the sacredness of nature and the ubiquity of the spirit. As a biology philosopher, Sister Adrian’s first teachers were Aquinas and Aristotle; later she came to know the work of Goethe and Rudolf Steiner.Earth-Friendly traces the development of Sister Adrian’s conviction that 'the spiritual science flowing from the thought of St Albert and St Thomas, as developed seven hundred years later by Rudolf Steiner, could recapture the true greatness of the West as it reaches out to the East to create an "earthfriendly re-visioning of science and spirituality"'.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Christopher Bamford
Introduction	1	(16)
Food: A Lost Mystery of Creation	17	(6)
Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science	23	(15)
Liberal Education, a Dominican Challenge	38	(5)
Science, Education, and the Christian Person	43	(11)
New or Traditional Earth Spirituality?	54	(6)
Thomas Aquinas and the New Cosmology: Faith Encounters Science Anew	60	(9)
Viruses: Are They Alive?	69	(14)
Nature's Law: Competition or Cooperation?	83	(16)
The Cell and the Organism: A Reexamination	99	(18)
The New Biology: Barbara McClintock and an Emerging Holistic Science	117	(17)
Universe Coding, not Genetic Coding	134	(9)
A Rudolf Steiner Sustainable Community	143	(3)
Is This the Time?	146	(4)
Women Scientists, Ancient Wisdom, and Modern Science	150	(12)
A Call to Dominican Religious Women	162	(7)
Epilogue	169	(7)
Acknowledgements	176	(5)
Notes	181