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Being-In-Creation : Human Responsibility in an Endangered World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology SeriesPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823265039
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Being-In-CreationDDC classification:
  • 261.8/8
LOC classification:
  • BT695.5 -- .B43 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Front -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Creation, Creativity, and Creatureliness: The Wisdom of Finite Existence -- Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality -- The Art of Creaturely Life: A Question of Human Propriety -- Face of Nature, Gift of Creation: Thoughts Toward a Phenomenology of -- Creativity as Call to Care for Creation? John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien -- Creature Discomforts: Levinas's Interpretation of Creation -- Reflections from Thoreau's Concord -- Creation and the Glory of Creatures -- Care of the Soil, Care of the Self: Creation and Creativity in the American Suburbs -- Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World: Topographies of the Eco-Divine -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Being in Creation asks about the role of humans in the more-than-human world from the perspective of human creatureliness, a perspective that accepts as a given human finitude and limitations, as well as responsibility toward other beings and toward the whole of which they are a part.
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Front -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Creation, Creativity, and Creatureliness: The Wisdom of Finite Existence -- Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality -- The Art of Creaturely Life: A Question of Human Propriety -- Face of Nature, Gift of Creation: Thoughts Toward a Phenomenology of -- Creativity as Call to Care for Creation? John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien -- Creature Discomforts: Levinas's Interpretation of Creation -- Reflections from Thoreau's Concord -- Creation and the Glory of Creatures -- Care of the Soil, Care of the Self: Creation and Creativity in the American Suburbs -- Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World: Topographies of the Eco-Divine -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

Being in Creation asks about the role of humans in the more-than-human world from the perspective of human creatureliness, a perspective that accepts as a given human finitude and limitations, as well as responsibility toward other beings and toward the whole of which they are a part.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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