The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology

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Fortress 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 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
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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
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THE ECOLOGICAL MOTIF
200
THE INFLUENCE OF THE SPIRITUAL MOTIF
210
THE TRAVAIL OF NATURE AT THE END OF ALL THINGS
216
NOTES
219
INDEX
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Página 204 - He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities — all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things and in him all things hold together.
Página 17 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass ; methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer....
Página 111 - Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.
Página 17 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines How silently ! Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black — An ebon mass. Methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought. Entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Página 27 - Though nature's strength decay, And earth and hell withstand, To Canaan's bounds I urge my way At His command : The watery deep I pass With Jesus in my view, And through the howling wilderness My way pursue.
Página 21 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom. All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Página 209 - Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.
Página 23 - Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. "Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Página 202 - Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has corne also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

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