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Re-Imagining Nature - The Promise of a Christian Natural Theology

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ISBN13
9781119046356
יצא לאור ב
Hoboken
זמן אספקה
21 ימי עסקים
עמודים
256
פורמט
Paperback / softback
תאריך יציאה לאור
15 ביולי 2016
Reimagining Nature is a new introduction to the fast developing area of natural theology, written by one of the world s leading theologians. The text engages in serious theological dialogue whilst looking at how past developments might illuminate and inform theory and practice in the present.
Reimagining Nature is a new introduction to the fast developing area of natural theology, written by one of the world s leading theologians. The text engages in serious theological dialogue whilst looking at how past developments might illuminate and inform theory and practice in the present. * This text sets out to explore what a properly Christian approach to natural theology might look like and how this relates to alternative interpretations of our experience of the natural world * Alister McGrath is ideally placed to write the book as one of the world s best known theologians and a chief proponent of natural theology * This new work offers an account of the development of natural theology throughout history and informs of its likely contribution in the present * This feeds in current debates about the relationship between science and religion, and religion and the humanities * Engages in serious theological dialogue, primarily with Augustine, Aquinas, Barth and Brunner, and includes the work of natural scientists, philosophers of science, and poets
מידע נוסף
עמודים 256
פורמט Paperback / softback
ISBN10 1119046351
יצא לאור ב Hoboken
תאריך יציאה לאור 15 ביולי 2016
תוכן עניינים Introduction 1 1 Natural Theology: Questions of Definition and Scope 6 The Aim of This Work 8 A Brief Genealogy of Natural Theology 11 Natural Theology: Six Approaches 18 The Natural Theology Project: Thick and Thin Descriptions 22 In Defense of a Christian Natural Theology Project 25 The Christian Accommodation of Classic Natural Theology 35 2 Natural Theology and the Christian Imaginarium 41 Sensorium and Imaginarium: Christianity and the Re-Imagination of Nature 42 Modernity and the Suppression of the Imagination 47 Metanoia: Seeing Things as They Really Are 50 Imaginative Transformation: The Church as an Interpretive Community 55 Theoria: Imaginative Beholding and Rational Dissection 57 Nature as logikos: Reflections on the Doctrine of Creation 61 Metaphors of Beauty and Order: Harmony and the Dance 66 3 Text, Image, and Sign: On Framing the Natural World 69 Natural Theology as a Habitus 69 The Intellectual Challenge of the Ambiguity of the World 73 Nature as a Text: Natural Theology and the Book of Nature 78 Nature as Image: Natural Theology and Landscapes 87 Nature as a Sign: Natural Theology and Semiotics 93 4 Natural Theology: Contexts and Motivations 101 The Importance of Cultural Location for Natural Theology 101 A New Vocational Space: Natural Theology as a Religious Calling 105 The Wasteland: Natural Theology and the Recovery of a Lost Nature 107 Wonder and Mystery: Transcendent Experiences 110 Re-Enchantment: Sustaining a Sense of Wonder 113 The Rational Transparency of Nature and Faith 116 Connectedness: The Human Longing for Coherence 120 Meaning: Nature and Ultimate Questions 122 Natural Theology as a Natural Quest 124 5 Natural Theology: Some Concerns and Challenges 128 Natural Theology: Improper and Redundant? 128 Ontotheology? Natural Theology and Philosophical First Principles 133 David Hume: The Intellectual Inadequacy of a Deist Natural Theology 135 Charles Taylor: Natural Theology and the Immanent Frame 138 Barth and Brunner: The Debate which Discredited Natural Theology? 144 Fideism: Natural Theology as Self-Referential and Self-Justifying? 149 6 The Promise of a Christian Natural Theology 154 The Natural Sciences: Natural Theology and the Subversion of Scientism 156 The Affective Imagination: Natural Theology and the Spirituality of Nature 163 Boundaries and Trespass: Natural Theology and Systematic Theology 168 Apologetics: Natural Theology and Public Engagement 173 Conclusion 181 Bibliography 184 Index 240
זמן אספקה 21 ימי עסקים