CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO CHRISTIANITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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PUBLICATION | AUGUST 2022 | CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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The radical alteration of the state of the planet by anthropogenic factors has prompted a deeper critical awareness and active engagement of our inherited collective conceptualisation of the natural environment and our place within it. Increasingly this critical awareness questions the deeply-embedded concepts that structure the human-nature relationship itself. To address environmental crisis therefore involves not just scientific knowledge and technological solutions, but also a critical understanding, and re-evaluation of the cultural and civilizational framework in which these are deployed. This addition to the authoritative Cambridge Companion series brings together eighteen international experts to consider the role of religion in the western tradition in forming our collective global concept of nature. In doing so, it will offer both a historical and conceptual resource for understanding our problematic relationship with the environment, and an intellectual resource for reconceptualizing nature and the place of humans within it.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction
Alexander J. B. Hampton
PART I: CONCEPTS
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Naturalism, Supernaturalism, and our Concern for Nature
Fiona Ellis, University of Roehampton
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From Disenchantment to Enchantment: Mind, Nature, and the Divine Spirit
Jörg Lauster, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
Human and Nonhuman Animals from Secular and Sacred Perspectives
Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College
Anthropocentrism, Biocentrism, Stewardship and Co-creation
Robin Attfield, Cardiff University
Participation and Nature in Christian Theology
Andrew Davison, University of Cambridge
The Book of Nature
Jacob Holsinger Sherman, California Institute of Integral Studies
PART II: HISTORIES
Environmental Perspectives in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Religion
Crystal Addey, University of Cork
Medieval Nature and the Environment
Kellie Robertson, University of Maryland
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Natural Philosophy in Early Modernity
Nathan Lyons, University of Notre Dame (Sydney)
Protestantism, Environmentalism, and Limits to Growth
Mark Stoll, Texas Tech University
Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and Ecological Thought
Laura Dassow Walls, Notre Dame University (South Bend)
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Contemporary Religious Ecology
Sean J. McGrath, Memorial University
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PART III: ENGAGEMENTS
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The Sublime and Wonder
Emily Brady, Texas A& M University
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Religious Traditions and Ecological Knowledge
Michael S. Northcott, Universitas Gadjah Mada
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Venerating Earth: Three Sacramental Perspectives
Jame Schaefer, Marquette University
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Nature and Aesthetics: Methexis, Mimēsis and Poiēsis
Alexander J.B. Hampton, University of Toronto
Sophia and the World Soul
Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge
Creation and Gender: A Theological Appraisal
Willemien Otten, University of Chicago
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Index
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Contributors at the initial workshop, held online during the early stages of the pandemic.