The reenchantment of nature : the denial of religion and the ecological crisis /
Alister McGrath.
Bok Engelsk 2002 Alister E. McGrath,· Electronic books
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| Utgitt | New York : : Doubleday, , 2002.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xviii, 204 p. )
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | 1. The meaning of life and other enigmas -- The recovery of religion -- Longing for an explanation -- A Christian doctrine of creation -- Reflections of God in nature -- The image of God in humanity -- 2. Respect for nature: Christianity and ecological concern -- The grand tradition: Tending the creation -- The ecological vision of Celtic Christianity -- Christian responses to the environmental crisis / Roman Catholic / Evangelicalism / Liberal Protestantism: Process thought -- The restoration of Eden: hope for creation. - 3. A manifesto to exploit: The Enlightenment and the master race -- The rise of anthropocentrism -- Religion and the limits of exploitation: The case of Francis Bacon -- The elimination of God -- A temporary alliance between the sciences and Atheism -- Postmodernity, religion, and nature -- 4. The Faustian pact: Technology and the domination of nature -- Human sin and degradation of the environment -- The Faustian pact and the limitless powers of science -- Prometheus without Pandora: The lure of technology -- The master race: The origins of the autonomous human -- The master race in action: Stalinist ecology -- The rise of technology -- Christianity and technology. - 5. The mechanical universe and the desacralization of nature -- Why "models" of nature? -- The clockwork universe: Nature as a mechanism -- The revival of nonmechanical models of nature -- 6. Dissatisfaction with spiritual emptiness: The longing for reenchantment -- Two views of nature: The Enlightenment and Romanticism -- The dream of Romanticism: Glimpsing the transcendent -- The transcendence of nature -- The wonder of nature and intimations of glory -- Heaven in ordinary: The concept of transsignification. - 7. Disenchanting nature: The case of Richard Dawkins -- Quackery: Richard Dawkins on religion -- An alternative response: Freeman Dyson -- Faith, reason, and science: A response to Dawkins -- Dawkins's simplistic take on science -- 8. Reenchanting nature: Dawkins, Keats, and the rainbow -- Dawkins on unweaving the rainbow -- A critique of scientific naturalism -- The reenchantment of nature: Reclaiming a lost world.
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| ISBN | 0-385-50826-3. - 1-299-06908-8
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