Without nature? [[electronic resource] ] : a new condition for theology / / edited by David Albertson and Cabell King

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (479 p.)
• Disciplina: 231.7
• Soggetto topico: Nature - Religious aspects - Christianity; Ecotheology
• Altri autori: AlbertsonDavid KingCabell
• Note generali: Proceedings of a conference held in 2005 at the University of Chicago.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Without nature? / David Albertson -- The world in order / Lorraine Daston -- Our common responsibility to nature / Peter H. Raven -- With radical amazement : ecology and the recovery of creation / William French -- In the world : Henri Lefebvre and the liturgical production of natural space / Cabell King -- Renatured biology : getting past postmodernism in the life sciences / Stuart A. Newman -- Synthetic biology : theological questions about biological engineering / Ronald Cole-Turner -- Nature as given, nature as guide, nature as natural kinds : return to nature in the ethics of human biotechnology/ Gerald McKenny -- Seeing nature spatially / Edward W. Soja -- The decline of nature : natural theology, theology of nature, and the built environment / Timothy J. Gorringe -- The body of the world : our body, ourselves / Sallie McFague -- Emergent forms of un/natural life / Michael M.J. Fischer -- Nature, change, and justice / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Technological worlds and the birth of nature : on human creation and its theological resonance in Heidegger and Serres / Thomas A. Carlason -- Should we reverence life? : reflections in the intersection of ecology, religion, and ethics / William Schweicker -- The end of nature and the last human? : thinking theologically about 'nature' in a postnatural condition / Kathryn Tanner.
• Sommario/riassunto: Is nature undergoing fundamental change? What role does nature play in theological ethics? And how might ethical deliberation proceed 'without nature' in the future? This book brings leading natural and social scientists into conversation with prominent Christian theologians and ethicists to wrestle with these difficult questions.
• Titolo autorizzato: Without nature
• ISBN: 0-8232-3722-2; 0-8232-4866-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817244703321
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