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Loving God's wildness : the Christian roots of ecological ethics in American literature / Jeffrey Bilbro.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780817388010
  • 081738801X
Other title: 潌楶杮䜠摯猧圠汩湤獥 Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Loving God's wildnessDDC classification:
  • 810.9/355 23
LOC classification:
  • PS169.E25 B55 2015eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Acknowledgments; 1. Rediscovering the Roots: Learning to be Priests in God's Wild Temple; 2. "Watching for the Glory of God": Thoreau's Adaptations of Puritan History and Natural Philosophy; 3. Preserving "God's Wildness" for Redemptive Baptism: Muir and Disciples of Christ Theology; 4. "Lost and Saved in a Garden": Cather's Marian Restoration of Ecological Community; 5. "The Way of Love": Berry's Vision of Work in the Kingdom of God; Conclusion: Untangling the Roots; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
Summary: When the Puritans arrived in the New World to carry out the colonization they saw as divinely mandated, they were confronted by the American wilderness. Part of their theology led them to view the natural environment as "a temple of God" in which they should glorify and serve its creator. The larger prevailing theological view, however, saw this vast continent as "the Devil's Territories" needing to be conquered and cultivated for God's Kingdom. These contradictory designations gave rise to an ambivalence regarding the character of this land and humanity's proper relation to it. Loving God's W.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)956935

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Acknowledgments; 1. Rediscovering the Roots: Learning to be Priests in God's Wild Temple; 2. "Watching for the Glory of God": Thoreau's Adaptations of Puritan History and Natural Philosophy; 3. Preserving "God's Wildness" for Redemptive Baptism: Muir and Disciples of Christ Theology; 4. "Lost and Saved in a Garden": Cather's Marian Restoration of Ecological Community; 5. "The Way of Love": Berry's Vision of Work in the Kingdom of God; Conclusion: Untangling the Roots; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

When the Puritans arrived in the New World to carry out the colonization they saw as divinely mandated, they were confronted by the American wilderness. Part of their theology led them to view the natural environment as "a temple of God" in which they should glorify and serve its creator. The larger prevailing theological view, however, saw this vast continent as "the Devil's Territories" needing to be conquered and cultivated for God's Kingdom. These contradictory designations gave rise to an ambivalence regarding the character of this land and humanity's proper relation to it. Loving God's W.

English.