Omelia e Commento sul Vangelo di Giovanni / Giovanni Scoto Eriugena ; introduzione, traduzione e note a cura di Giovanni Mandolino.
Johannes Scotus Erigena approximately 810-approximately 877 author
BookA fresh and more capacious reading of the Western religious tradition on nature and creation, Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking puts medieval Irish theologian John Scottus Eriugena (810–877) into conversation with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). Challenging the biblical stewardship model of nature and histories of nature and religion that pit orthodoxy against the heresy of pantheism, Willemien Otten reveals a line of thought that has long made room for nature's agency as the coworker of God. Embracing in this more elusive idea of nature in a world beset by environmental crisis, she suggests, will allow us to see nature not as a victim but as an ally in a common quest for re-attunement to the divine. Putting its protagonists into further dialogue with such classic authors as Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and William James, her study deconstructs the idea of pantheism and paves the way for a new natural theology.
Title |
Thinking nature and the nature of thinking : from Eriugena to Emerson / Willemien Otten. |
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Publisher |
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press |
Creation Date |
[2020] |
Notes |
Issued also in print. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Content |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction. Thinking Nature . . . (and the Nature of Thinking) -- 1. Thinking Nature in Eriugena and Emerson -- 2. Panchristology and the Liturgical Cosmos of Maximus the Confessor -- 3. Creation and the Hexaemeron in Augustine -- Postscript to Part 1. Nature as Conversation -- 4. Nature as Dispositive Thought in Schleiermacher’s Speeches on Religion -- 5. William James and the Science of Religious Selfhood -- Conclusion. (Thinking Nature) . . . and the Nature of Thinking -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Series |
Cultural memory in the present |
Extent |
1 online resource (xv, 284 pages). |
Language |
English |
Copyright Date |
©2020 |
National Library system number |
997012634546205171 |
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