Book ID: CBB290088360

Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking: From Eriugena to Emerson (2020)

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Otten, Willemien (Author)


Stanford University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 312
Language: English

A fresh and more capacious reading of the Western religious tradition on nature and creation, Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking puts medieval Irish theologian John Scottus Eriugena (810–877) into conversation with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). Challenging the biblical stewardship model of nature and histories of nature and religion that pit orthodoxy against the heresy of pantheism, Willemien Otten reveals a line of thought that has long made room for nature's agency as the coworker of God. Embracing in this more elusive idea of nature in a world beset by environmental crisis, she suggests, will allow us to see nature not as a victim but as an ally in a common quest for re-attunement to the divine. Putting its protagonists into further dialogue with such classic authors as Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and William James, her study deconstructs the idea of pantheism and paves the way for a new natural theology.

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Authors & Contributors
Roberts, Michael B.
McGrath, Alister E.
Morgan, David
Simone Morandini
Howell, Christopher
Moritz, Joshua M.
Concepts
Science and religion
Christianity
Creationism
Natural theology
Evolution
Intelligent design (teleology)
Time Periods
Medieval
20th century
19th century
Ancient
9th century
21st century
Places
United States
Germany
Europe
India
Great Britain
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