Toward an ecology of transfiguration orthodox Christian perspectives on environment, nature, and creation /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10700265 |
Table of Contents:
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- 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.