Seeing God Everywhere Essays on Nature and the Sacred

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Pub. Date: 2003-07-30
Publisher(s): World Wisdom
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Summary

This anthology, combining articles by Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Native American scholar, looks at the environmental crisis through a spiritual lens.

Table of Contents

List of Poetry
Preface
Foreword
Introduction: Sacred Nature
Seeing God Everywherep. 1
A Tibetan Buddhist Perspective on Spirit in Naturep. 17
The Firmament Sheweth His Handiwork: Re-awakening a Religious Sense of the Natural Orderp. 29
Christianity and the Survival of Creationp. 53
The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of the Environmental Crisisp. 73
Our Mother Earthp. 103
The Desanctification of Naturep. 109
O Hanami: Flower Viewingp. 133
Creation According to Ibn 'Arabip. 137
Of Metaphysics and Polynesian Navigationp. 161
The Underlying Order: Nature and the Imaginationp. 171
Hierophanic Naturep. 193
The Symbolism of Waterp. 205
Divine Beatitude: Supreme Archetype of Aesthetic Experiencep. 215
The Yin and the Yang in Naturep. 227
Creation, the Image of Godp. 241
The World of the Icon and Creation: An Orthodox Perspective on Ecology and Pneumatologyp. 253
Becoming Part of Itp. 269
Flowersp. 279
Acknowledgmentsp. 297
Contributorsp. 299
Poetsp. 307
Indexp. 311
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