Introduction | |
The Meaning of Life and Other Enigmas | p. 1 |
The Recovery of Religion | p. 3 |
Longing for an Explanation | p. 9 |
A Christian Doctrine of Creation | p. 11 |
Reflections of God in Nature | p. 15 |
The Image of God in Humanity | p. 21 |
Respect for Nature: Christianity and Ecological Concern | p. 26 |
The Grand Tradition: Tending the Creation | p. 28 |
The Ecological Vision of Celtic Christianity | p. 32 |
Christian Responses to the Environmental Crisis | p. 36 |
The Restoration of Eden: Hope for Creation | p. 48 |
A Manifesto to Exploit: The Enlightenment and the Master Race | p. 53 |
The Rise of Anthropocentrism | p. 54 |
Religion and the Limits of Exploitation: The Case of Francis Bacon | p. 59 |
The Elimination of God | p. 61 |
A Temporary Alliance between the Sciences and Atheism | p. 64 |
Postmodernity, Religion, and Nature | p. 71 |
The Faustian Pact: Technology and the Domination of Nature | p. 77 |
Human Sin and the Degradation of the Environment | p. 79 |
The Faustian Pact and the Limitless Powers of Science | p. 81 |
Prometheus without Pandora: The Lure of Technology | p. 83 |
The Master Race: The Origins of the Autonomous Human | p. 86 |
The Master Race in Action: Stalinist Ecology | p. 88 |
The Rise of Technology | p. 92 |
Christianity and Technology | p. 96 |
The Mechanical Universe and the Desacralization of Nature | p. 100 |
Why "Models" of Nature? | p. 103 |
The Clockwork Universe: Nature as a Mechanism | p. 109 |
The Revival of Nonmechanical Models of Nature | p. 118 |
Dissatisfaction with Spiritual Emptiness: The Longing for Reenchantment | p. 128 |
Two Views of Nature: The Enlightenment and Romanticism | p. 129 |
The Dream of Romanticism: Glimpsing the Transcendent | p. 131 |
The Transcendence of Nature | p. 134 |
The Wonder of Nature and Intimations of Glory | p. 138 |
Heaven in Ordinary: The Concept of Transsignification | p. 143 |
Disenchanting Nature: The Case of Richard Dawkins | p. 150 |
Quackery: Richard Dawkins on Religion | p. 151 |
An Alternative Response: Freeman Dyson | p. 153 |
Faith, Reason, and Science: A Response to Dawkins | p. 155 |
Dawkins's Simplistic Take on Science | p. 161 |
Reenchanting Nature: Dawkins, Keats, and the Rainbow | p. 169 |
Dawkins on Unweaving the Rainbow | p. 170 |
A Critique of Scientific Naturalism | p. 176 |
The Reenchantment of Nature: Reclaiming a Lost World | p. 182 |
Works Consulted | p. 187 |
Index | p. 197 |
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