Creation's Diversity
Voices from Theology and Science
Published on 1. March 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-567-03329-1 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of substantial essays explores the question of how to relate environmental engagement in the context of religious convictions. In the first part of the book, 'A Diversity of Visions of Creation', six essays address various views of creation. In the second part of the book, 'Sustaining Creation's Diversity', the concept of sustainability is analyzed critically, given the dynamic character of natural reality as unveiled by the sciences. This is followed by some reflections on ethical and theological considerations regarding the idea that we ought to sustain diversity.
Reviews / Votes
"A useful contribution to the continuing dialogue between theologies and the sciences on environmental issues." - Reviews in Science and Religion "This collection of essays is the fruitful outcome of a conference on science and theology...Timely and relevant with thoughtful and balanced arguments. The question of sustainable living is not only a religious one but a cultural and political one as well. Drees and colleagues highlight the imminent need for theological reflection and dialogue, as the future of sustaining creation's diversity becomes more tenuous." -Ilia Delio, Worship, Vol. 83, July 2009More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
324 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-567-03329-1 (9780567033291)
DOI
CBID131906
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Persons
Willem B. Drees is professor of philosophy of religion and ethics at Leiden University, the Netherlands, President of ESSSAT, and author of Religion, Science and Naturalism (Cambridge UP, 1996), and Creation: From Nothing until Now (Routledge, 2001). Hubert Meisinger, Ph.D., is director for environmental affairs at the Center Social Responsibility in Mainz, associate director of studies for science and theology at the Protestant Academy Arnoldshain, associate lecturer in Systematic Theology at Darmstadt University of Technology and Vice-President of ESSSAT. He wrote a study on theological and sociobiological views of altruism: Liebesgebot und Altruismusforschung (Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 1996) and co-edited Physik, Kosmologie und Spiritualitaet (Lang, 2006). Taede A. Smedes is research fellow at the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, and Scientific Programme Officer of ESSSAT, and the author of Chaos, Complexity, and God: Divine Action and Scientism (Peeters, 2004) and God en de menselijke maat: Gods handelen en het wetenschappelijk wereldbeeld (Meinema, 2006).
Content
Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
List of contributors
Chapter 1 Creation's diversity: Voices from theology and science
Willem B. Drees
Chapter 2 Rationality and mystery in the Universe
Daniel Ciobotea, Metropolit of Moldavia and Bucovina
PART ONE A DIVERSITY OF VISIONS OF CREATION
Chapter 3 Geohistory, Gaia science and an ecological theology
Anna Primavesi
Chapter 4 Humans as part of nature: The concept of life and the temporal implications of
actions
Regina Kather
Chapter 5 The noble Leviathan and the twisted serpent: An Eastern Orthodox
perspective on the ecological message of Genesis, Job, and Isaiah
David K. Goodin
Chapter 6 The Creatures' Yes and No to their creator: A proposal in evolutionary
theology, kenotic trinitarianism, and environmental ethics.
Christopher C.B. Southgate
Chapter 7 The diversity of environments: Nature and technology as competing myths
Alfred Kracher
Chapter 8 New cosmologies and sacred stories: Re-imagining the human-environment
relationship via religio-scientific metaphor and myth
Tony Watling
PART TWO SUSTAINING CREATION'S DIVERSITY
Chapter 9 Sustaining diversity or developing sustainably
R.J. Berry
Chapter 10 How green is progress?
Jan J. Boersema
Preface and acknowledgements
List of contributors
Chapter 1 Creation's diversity: Voices from theology and science
Willem B. Drees
Chapter 2 Rationality and mystery in the Universe
Daniel Ciobotea, Metropolit of Moldavia and Bucovina
PART ONE A DIVERSITY OF VISIONS OF CREATION
Chapter 3 Geohistory, Gaia science and an ecological theology
Anna Primavesi
Chapter 4 Humans as part of nature: The concept of life and the temporal implications of
actions
Regina Kather
Chapter 5 The noble Leviathan and the twisted serpent: An Eastern Orthodox
perspective on the ecological message of Genesis, Job, and Isaiah
David K. Goodin
Chapter 6 The Creatures' Yes and No to their creator: A proposal in evolutionary
theology, kenotic trinitarianism, and environmental ethics.
Christopher C.B. Southgate
Chapter 7 The diversity of environments: Nature and technology as competing myths
Alfred Kracher
Chapter 8 New cosmologies and sacred stories: Re-imagining the human-environment
relationship via religio-scientific metaphor and myth
Tony Watling
PART TWO SUSTAINING CREATION'S DIVERSITY
Chapter 9 Sustaining diversity or developing sustainably
R.J. Berry
Chapter 10 How green is progress?
Jan J. Boersema