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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foltz, Bruce V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
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.