The Noetics of Nature : Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible / Bruce V. Foltz.
2013
BD581 .F65 2013
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The Noetics of Nature : Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible / Bruce V. Foltz.
Author
Foltz, Bruce V., author.
ISBN
9780823254675
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
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©2013
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English
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In English.
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1 online resource (320 p.)
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10.1515/9780823254675 doi
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BD581 .F65 2013
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113
Summary
Contemplative or "noetic" knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where "theoria physike," or the illumined understanding of creation that follows the purification of the heart, is seen to provide deeper insights into nature than the discursive rationality modernity has used to dominate and conquer it.Working from texts in Eastern Orthodox philosophy and theology not widely known in the West, as well as a variety of sources including mystics such as the Sufi Ibn 'Arabi, poets such as Basho, Traherne, Blake, Hölderlin, and Hopkins, and nature writers such as Muir, Thoreau, and Dillard, The Noetics of Nature challenges both the primacy of the natural sciences in environmental thought and the conventional view, first advanced by Lynn White, Jr., that Christian theology is somehow responsible for the environmental crisis.Instead, Foltz concludes that the ancient Christian view of creation as iconic-its "holy beauty" manifesting the divine energies and constituting a primal mode of divine revelation-offers the best prospect for the radical reversal that is needed in our relation to the natural environment.
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Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Noetics of Nature
1. Whence the Depth of Deep Ecology?
2. Nature's Other Side
3. Layers of Nature in Thomas Traherne and John Muir
4. Sailing to Byzantium
5. The Resurrection of Nature
6. The Iconic Earth
7. Seeing Nature
8. Seeing God in All Things
9. The Glory of God Hidden in Creation
10. Between Heaven and Earth
11. Nature and Other Modern Idolatries
12. Traces of Divine Fragrance, Droplets of Divine Love
Notes
Index of Terms in Greek, German, and Latin
Index of Names and Places
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Noetics of Nature
1. Whence the Depth of Deep Ecology?
2. Nature's Other Side
3. Layers of Nature in Thomas Traherne and John Muir
4. Sailing to Byzantium
5. The Resurrection of Nature
6. The Iconic Earth
7. Seeing Nature
8. Seeing God in All Things
9. The Glory of God Hidden in Creation
10. Between Heaven and Earth
11. Nature and Other Modern Idolatries
12. Traces of Divine Fragrance, Droplets of Divine Love
Notes
Index of Terms in Greek, German, and Latin
Index of Names and Places