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| Titre : | At Home in the Cosmos |
| Auteurs : | David Toolan, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Maryknoll [USA] : Orbis Books, 2001 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-57075-341-1 |
| Format : | xiii + 257 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | MI/F (Science et foi) |
| Résumé : |
An original synthesis of science and theology. At Home in the Cosmos sheds new light on the meaning of the world, and reveals the poetry that fills our universe.
In the spirit of Teilhard de Chardin, David Toolan unites the spiritual with the scientific in a stunning new way. By accenting the positive idea that our evolutionary cosmos is filled with promise he shows how a Christ-centered, incarnational faith provides the most appropriate setting for contemporary scientific cosmology. The result is a fresh basis for an ecological ethic—in effect, a new social contract with nature. At once visionary and practical At Home in the Cosmos offers a holistic vision sure to expand our awareness of our place and purpose on earth and in the universe. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Acknowledgments - Introduction PART I - THE BIBLICAL VISION OF CREATION - 1. Does Yahweh Care about Whales?: Is Christianity to Blame for the Problem? / New Developments / The Priestly “Steward" vs. the Yahwist’s “Service” of Nature - 2. Nature Symbolic of Promise: Not Anthropocentrism but Theocentrism / Promise and the Land / Transcendence and Negation / Nature as Sacrament / Sacrament as Human Deed PART II - THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM - 3. Imperial Ecology and the Death of Nature: Literacy and Detachment from the Earth / Imperial Ecology / Enter Isaac Newton: The Death of Nature / Classical Physics and Economic Materialism / The Clockmaker God - 4. The Competitive Ethos Triumphant: How the Industrial World Works / Arcadian Ecology / The Harsh Lesson of the Galapagos / Are Ecologists the Good Guys? PART III - STATE OF THE EARTH - 5. Is There an Environmental Crisis?: The Case against Environmental Hype / Reading Earth’s Vital Signs: Soil and Food Production, Water, Forests, Biodiversity - 6. Pushing the Limits: Built-in Blindness to Limits / Energy Consumption / Pollution and Other Garbage / Global Warming / Preventive Action? - 7. The Dynamics of Unsustainability: Scientific Uncertainty / Fitting into the Great Economy / Driving Forces behind Environmental Damage / Malthusian, Structuralist, and Economistic Arguments / The Debate Continues / The New Colonialism / Sustainable Development vs. Sustainable Communities / Civilizing the Global Marketplace PART IV - THE NEW COSMOLOGY - 8. Evolution and Theological Repair: Theology in a Static Cosmos / Time and the Chancy Universe of the Prophets / Hubble’s Expanding Universe / The Cosmic Clock / No God of the Gaps or Big Explainer / Christian Spirituality in an Evolving Universe / Causality vs. Vision - 9. A Physics of Promise: Cosmic Pessimism / Arrows of Time: Darwinian vs. Thermodynamic / Open, Nonequilibrium Systems / Dissipative Structures and Emergent Complexity / The Big Bang and the Anthropic Principle - 10. The. Voice of the Hurricane: The Unpredictability and Interconnectedness of Matter-Energy / A Semiotic Universe / Order Out of Chaos / The Anthropological Fallout PART V - EARTH ETHICS: DOING JUSTICE TO CREATION - 11. The Fallout for Spirituality: A Big Enough God and the Spirituality of Ascent / Pneumatology and a Spirituality of Descent / Christology and the Dream of Earth / Eucharist: Oneness with Earth / Converting Matter-Energy into Sacrament - 12. Citizens of Earth: Love of the Wild / Extending the Social Contract to Earth / What a Sustainable Society Would Look Like / The Great Work - Appendix A: The Relationship between Science and Religion / B: The Churches in the Environmental Movement - Index |
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