The noetics of nature : environmental philosophy and the holy beauty of the visible /
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 purificat...
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Groundworks.
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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.