The Noetics of Nature : : Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible / / Bruce V. Foltz.
Contemplative or “noetic” knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where “theoria physike,” or the illumined understanding of creation that follows the purification of the heart, is...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Noetics of Nature
- 1. Whence the Depth of Deep Ecology?
- 2. Nature’s Other Side
- 3. Layers of Nature in Thomas Traherne and John Muir
- 4. Sailing to Byzantium
- 5. The Resurrection of Nature
- 6. The Iconic Earth
- 7. Seeing Nature
- 8. Seeing God in All Things
- 9. The Glory of God Hidden in Creation
- 10. Between Heaven and Earth
- 11. Nature and Other Modern Idolatries
- 12. Traces of Divine Fragrance, Droplets of Divine Love
- Notes
- Index of Terms in Greek, German, and Latin
- Index of Names and Places