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

Intro -- Praise for Re-Imagining Nature -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Natural Theology: Questions of Definition and Scope -- The Aim of This Work -- A Brief Genealogy of Natural Theology -- Natural Theology: Six Approaches -- The Natural Theology Project: Thick and Thin Descriptions -- In Defense of a "Christian" Natural Theology Project -- The Christian Accommodation of Classic Natural Theology -- Chapter 2: Natural Theology and the Christian Imaginarium -- Sensorium and Imaginarium: Christianity and the Re-Imagination of Nature -- Modernity and the Suppression of the Imagination -- Metanoia: Seeing Things as They Really Are -- Imaginative Transformation: The Church as an Interpretive Community -- Theōria: Imaginative Beholding and Rational Dissection -- Nature as logikos: Reflections on the Doctrine of Creation -- Metaphors of Beauty and Order: Harmony and the Dance -- Chapter 3: Text, Image, and Sign: On Framing the Natural World -- Natural Theology as a Habitus -- The Intellectual Challenge of the Ambiguity of the World -- Nature as a Text: Natural Theology and the Book of Nature -- Nature as Image: Natural Theology and Landscapes -- Nature as a Sign: Natural Theology and Semiotics -- Chapter 4: Natural Theology: Contexts and Motivations -- The Importance of Cultural Location for Natural Theology -- A New Vocational Space: Natural Theology as a Religious Calling -- The Wasteland: Natural Theology and the Recovery of a Lost Nature -- Wonder and Mystery: Transcendent Experiences -- Re-Enchantment: Sustaining a Sense of Wonder -- The Rational Transparency of Nature and Faith -- Connectedness: The Human Longing for Coherence -- Meaning: Nature and Ultimate Questions -- Natural Theology as a "Natural" Quest -- Chapter 5: Natural Theology: Some Concerns and Challenges -- Natural Theology: Improper and Redundant?.

Ontotheology? Natural Theology and Philosophical "First Principles" -- David Hume: The Intellectual Inadequacy of a Deist Natural Theology -- Charles Taylor: Natural Theology and the "Immanent Frame" -- Barth and Brunner: The Debate which Discredited Natural Theology? -- Fideism: Natural Theology as Self-Referential and Self-Justifying? -- Chapter 6: The Promise of a Christian Natural Theology -- The Natural Sciences: Natural Theology and the Subversion of Scientism -- The Affective Imagination: Natural Theology and the Spirituality of Nature -- Boundaries and Trespass: Natural Theology and Systematic Theology -- Apologetics: Natural Theology and Public Engagement -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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