Toward an ecology of transfiguration orthodox Christian perspectives on environment, nature, and creation /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Chryssavgis, John.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10700265
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300 |a xiv, 487 p. 
490 1 |a Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
505 8 |a Machine 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. 
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