Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration : Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (505 pages)
- Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought Series .
- Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought Series .
Toward an Ecol ogy of Transfiguration -- Contents -- Prefatory Letter -- Foreword -- Introduction. "The Sweetness of Heaven Overflows onto the Earth": Orthodox Christianity and Environmental Thought -- PART I "Knowledge United to God": Environment, Nature, and Creation In Patristic Thought -- The Logoi of Beings in Greek Patristic Thought -- Hierarchy and Love in St. Dionysius the Areopagite -- The Beauty of the World and Its Significance in St. Gregory the Theologian -- Natural Contemplation in St. Maximus the Confessor and St. Isaac the Syrian -- Man and Cosmos in St. Maximus the Confessor -- PART II "The Heart That Receives": Environment, Nature, and Creation in Twentieth- Century Orthodox Thought -- Ecology, Theology, and the World -- Through Creation to the Creator -- Creation as Communion in Contemporary Orthodox Theology -- The Theological-Ethical Contributions of Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov) to Environmental Issues -- The Cosmology of the Eucharist -- "A 'Tradition' That Never Existed": Orthodox Christianity and the Failures of Environmental History -- A New Heaven and a New Earth: Orthodox Christian Insights from Theology, Spirituality, and the Sacraments -- Proprietors or Priests of Creation? -- PART III "Love Comes from Meeting God": Historical, Theological, and Philosophical Dimensions -- Sedimentation of Meaning in the Concepts of Nature and the Environment -- Existential versus Regulative Approaches: The Environmental Issue as an Existential and Not a Canonical Problem -- Nature and Creation: A Comment on the Environmental Problem from a Philosophical and Theological Standpoint -- Physis and Ktisis: Two Different Ways of Thinking of the World -- Human Image, World Image: The Renewal of Sacred Cosmology -- Environment and Security: Toward a Systemic Crisis of Humanity?. Church Walls and Wilderness Boundaries: Defining the Spaces of Sanctuary -- Orthodoxy and Ecopoetics: The Green World in the Desert Sea -- Perspectives on Orthodoxy, Evolution, and Ecology -- Ecology, Morality, and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: The Earth in the Hands of the Sons of Noah -- PART IV "Sweetness Overflowing onto the Earth": Insights from Orthodox Spirituality -- The Fragile Surround -- Liturgy, Cosmic Worship, and Christian Cosmology -- "All Creation Rejoices in You": Creation in the Liturgies for the Feasts of the Theotokos -- Traces of Divine Fragrance, Droplets of Divine Love: On the Beauty of Visible Creation -- Natural and Supernatural Revelation in Early Irish and Greek Monastic Thought: A Comparative Approach -- Ecology and Monasticism -- The Prophetic Charisma in Pastoral Theology: Asceticism, Fasting, and the Ecological Crisis -- The Spirit of God Moved upon the Face of the Waters: Orthodox Holiness and the Natural World -- APPENDIXES -- APPENDIX A Vespers for the Environment: September 1 (or the first Sunday in September) -- APPENDIX B Environment, Nature, and Creation in Orthodox Thought: A Bibliography of Texts in English -- Glossary -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index of Names (Classical) -- Index of Names (Contemporary) -- General Index.
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Orthodox Eastern Church -- Doctrines. Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church. Nature -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church. Creation. Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church.