LEADER 07310nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910822614503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-5233-7 010 $a0-8232-5290-6 010 $a0-8232-5234-5 010 $a0-8232-5146-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823252343 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060599 035 $a(EBL)1192592 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000873189 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11471818 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873189 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10866521 035 $a(PQKB)11259572 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000173390 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239826 035 $a(OCoLC)844238441 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28538 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22197 035 $a(DE-B1597)555379 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823252343 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1192592 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239826 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10700265 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL491337 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1192592 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060599 100 $a20130401d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aToward an ecology of transfiguration $eorthodox Christian perspectives on environment, nature, and creation /$fedited by John Chryssavgis and Bruce V. Foltz 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (508 p.) 225 1 $aOrthodox Christianity and contemporary thought 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-5145-4 311 $a0-8232-5144-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Prefatory Letter by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew -- Foreword by Bill McKibben -- Introduction: "The Sweetness of Heaven Overflows onto the Earth": Orthodox Christianity and Environmental Thought -- John Chryssavgis and Bruce V. Foltz -- I. "Knowledge United to God": Environment, Nature, and Creation in Patristic Thought -- The Logoi of Beings in Greek Patristic Thought -- David Bradshaw -- Hierarchy and Love in St. Dionysius the Areopagite -- Eric D. Perl -- The Beauty of the World and Its Significance in St. Gregory the Theologian -- John Anthony McGuckin -- Natural Contemplation in St. Maximus the Confessor and St. Isaac the Syrian -- Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen) -- Man and Cosmos in St. Maximus the Confessor -- Andrew Louth -- II. "The Heart That Receives": Environment, Nature, and Creation In Twentieth-Century Orthodox Thought -- Ecology, Theology, and the World -- Savas Agouridis -- Through Creation to the Creator -- Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia -- Creation as Communion in Contemporary Orthodox Theology -- Aristotle Papanikolaou -- The Theological-Ethical Contributions of Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov) to Environmental Issues -- Perry T. Hamalis -- The Cosmology of the Eucharist -- George Theokritoff -- "A 'Tradition' That Never Existed": Orthodox Christianity and the Failure of Environmental History -- Jurretta Jordan Heckscher -- A New Heaven and a New Earth: Orthodox Christian Insights from Theology, Spirituality, and the Sacraments -- John Chryssavgis -- Proprietors or Priests of Creation? -- Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon -- III. "Love Comes from Meeting God": Historical, Theological, and Philosophical Dimensions Sedimentation of Meaning in the Concepts of Nature and the Environment -- James Carey -- Existential versus Regulative Approaches: The Environmental Issue as an Existential and Not a Canonical Problem -- Christos Yannaras -- Nature and Creation: A Comment on the Environmental Problem from a Philosophical and Theological Standpoint -- Nikos Nissiotis -- Physis and Ktisis: Two Different Ways of Thinking of the World -- John Panteleimon Manoussakis -- Human Image, World Image: The Renewal of Sacred Cosmology -- Philip Sherrard -- Environment and Security: Toward a Systemic Crisis of Humanity? -- Costa Carras -- Church Walls and Wilderness Boundaries: Defining the Spaces of Sanctuary -- L. Michael Harrington -- Orthodoxy and Ecopoetics: The Green World in the Desert Sea -- Alfred K. Siewers -- Perspectives on Orthodoxy, Evolution, and Ecology -- Gayle E. Woloschak -- Ecology, Morality, and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: The Earth in the Hands of the Sons of Noah -- H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. -- IV. "Sweetness Overflowing onto the Earth": Insights from Orthodox Spirituality -- The Fragile Surround -- Scott Cairns -- Liturgy, Cosmic Worship, and Christian Cosmology -- Elizabeth Theokritoff -- "All Creation Rejoices in You": Creation in the Liturgies for the Feasts of the Theotokos -- Christina M. Gschwandtner -- Traces of Divine Fragrance, Droplets of Divine Love: On the Beauty of Visible Creation -- Bruce V. Foltz -- Natural and Supernatural Revelation in Early Irish and Greek Monastic Thought: A Comparative Approach -- Chrysostomos Koutloumousianos -- Ecology and Monasticism -- Archimandrite Vasileios -- The Prophetic Charisma in Pastoral Theology: Asceticism, Fasting, and the Ecological Crisis -- Anestis Keselopoulos -- The Spirit of God Moved upon the Face of the Waters: Orthodox Holiness and the Natural World -- Donald Sheehan -- Appendixes -- A. Vespers for the Environment -- Translated by Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash) -- B. Environment, Nature, and Creation in Orthodox Thought: A Bibliography of Texts in English -- Compiled by John Chryssavgis and Bruce V. Foltz -- C. Glossary -- Compiled by Nicholas R. Anton -- Notes -- On the Contributors -- Index. 330 $a"Can Orthodox Christianity offer unique spiritual resources especially suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case that yes, it can. 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