Without Nature? : A New Condition for Theology.

Without Nature? -- C o n t e n t s -- A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s -- Without Nature? -- The World in Order -- PART I Ecology and Nature -- Our Common Responsibility to Nature -- With Radical Amazement: Ecology and the Recovery of Creation -- In the World: Henri Lefebvre and the Liturgical Production of Natural Space -- PART II Genetics and Nature -- Renatured Biology: Getting Past Postmodernism in the Life Sciences -- Synthetic Biology: Theological Questions about Biological Engineering -- Nature as Given, Nature as Guide, Nature as Natural Kinds: Return to Nature in the Ethics of Human Biotechnology -- PART III Geography and Nature -- Seeing Nature Spatially -- The Decline of Nature: Natural Theology, Theology of Nature, and the Built Environment -- The Body of the World: Our Body, Ourselves -- PART IV Anthropology and Nature -- Emergent Forms of Un/Natural Life -- Nature, Change, and Justice -- TechnologicalWorlds and the Birth of Nature: On Human Creation and Its Theological Resonance in Heidegger and Serres -- PART V Theology without Nature? -- Should We Reverence Life? Reflections at the Intersection of Ecology, Religion, and Ethics -- The End of Nature and the Last Human? Thinking Theologically about ''Nature'' in a Postnatural Condition -- Grace without Nature -- N o t e s -- C o n t r i b u t o r s -- I n d e x.

Does nature still exist? Common wisdom now acknowledges the malleability of nature, the complex reality that circumscribes and constitutes the human. Some thinkers have suggested that nature has disappeared entirely and that we have entered a postnatural era; others note that nature is an ineradicable context for life. If nature is becoming increasingly destabilized, what does this mean for contemporary bioethics and environmental ethics, as well as for the religious visions that inform them? Christian theology, in particular, finds itself in an awkward position. Its Western traditions have long relied upon a static nature to express the dynamism of grace, making nature a foundational category within theology itself. This book brings leading natural and social scientists into conversation with prominent Christian theologians and ethicists to wrestle collectively with difficult questions. Is nature undergoing fundamental change? What role does nature play in theological ethics? How might ethical deliberation proceed without nature in the future?.

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