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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: noetics of nature
    sub title: environmental philosophy and the holy beauty of the visible
  name:
    name part: Foltz, Bruce V.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 296 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 seen to provide deeper insights into nature than the discursive rationality modernity has used to dominate and conquer it. Working from texts in Eastern Orthodox philosophy and theology not widely known in the West, as well as a variety of sources including mystics such as the Sufi Ibn 'Arabi, poets such as Basho, Traherne, Blake, Hölderlin and Hopkins, and nature writers such as Muir, Thoreau and Dillard, The Noetics of Nature challenges both the primacy of the natural sciences in environmental thought and the conventional view, first advanced by Lynn White, Jr., that Christian theology is somehow responsible for the environmental crisis. Instead, Foltz concludes that the ancient Christian view of creation as iconic its "holy beauty" manifesting the divine energies and constituting a primal mode of divine revelation offers the best prospect for the radical reversal that is needed in our relation to the natural environment.
  table of contents: Preface -- Introduction: The Noetics of Nature -- 1. Whence the Depth of Deep Ecology? Natural Beauty and the Eclipse of the Holy -- 2. Nature's Other Side: The Demise of Nature and the Phenomenology of Givenness -- 3. Layers of Nature in Thomas Traherne and John Muir: Numinous Beauty, Onto-theology, and Polyphony of Tradition -- 4. Sailing to Byzantium: Nature and City in the Greek East -- 5. The Resurrection of Nature: Environmental Metaphysics in Sergei Bulgakov's Philosophy of Economy -- 6. The Iconic Earth: Nature Godly and Beautiful -- 7. Seeing Nature: Theôria Physikê in the Thought of St. Maximus the Confessor -- 8. Seeing God in All Things: Nature and Divinity in Maximus, Florensky, and Ibn 'Arabi -- 9. The Glory of God Hidden in Creation: Eastern Views of Nature in Fyodor Dostoevsky and St Isaac the Syrian -- 10. Between Heaven and Earth: Did Christianity Cause Global Warming? -- 11. Nature and Other Modern Idolatries: Kosmos, Ktisis, and Chaos in Environmental Philosophy -- 12. Traces of Divine Fragrance, Droplets of Divine Love: the Beauty of Visible Creation in Byzantine Thought and Spirituality -- Notes -- Index.
  note: Bruce V. Foltz.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of nature
  subject:
    topic: Nature
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Environmental ethics
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Environmental Science
  classification: BD581 .F65 2014
  classification: 113
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Groundworks
  identifier: 9780823254644 (hardback)
  identifier: 082325464X (hardback)
  identifier: 9780823254651 (paper)
  identifier: 0823254658 (paper)
  identifier: 2013025652
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130911
    record change date: 20151206090231.0
    record identifier: in00003385113