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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Since the beginning of time, humankind has looked upon nature and seen the divine. In the writings of the great thinkers across religions, the natural world inspires everything from fear, to awe, to tranquil contemplation; God, or however one defined the sublime, was present in everything. Yet today, even as we admire a tree or take in a striking landscape, we rarely see nature as sacred. In this short but deeply powerful book, the best-selling historian...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"WISDOM OF THE WILD offers a deeper appreciation of life, relationships, and experiences through the exploration of nature's spiritual offerings. This collection of life lessons focuses on aspects of the natural world and their philosophical connection to our own lives, providing insights to daily living and a deeper connection to our spiritual selves. Each entry features a phenomenon found in nature, demonstrating how readers may connect the world...
Author
Publisher
OXFORD University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Great Conversation is Lane's multi-faceted treatise on a spiritually centered environmentalism. At the core is a belief in the power of the natural world to act as teacher. In a series of personal anecdotes, Lane pairs his own experiences in the wild with the writings of saints and sages from a wide range of religious traditions. A night in a Missourian cave brings to mind the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola; the canyons of southern...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"The widespread confusion of Nature with God and "natural" with holy has far-reaching negative consequences, from misinformation about everyday food and health choices to mistaken justifications of sexism, racism, and flawed economic policies"--
Many people love what's "natural": they say it is the best way to eat, to parent, even to act-- naturally, just as nature intended. Levinovitz demonstrates that "natural goodness" is not objective or scientific....
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
We live inside a nautilus of prayer--if only we open our senses and perceive what is infused all around. Throughout millennia and across the monotheistic religions, the natural was often revered as a sacred text. By the Middle Ages, this text was given a name, "The Book of Nature," the first, best entry point for encounter with the divine. The very act of "reading" the world, of focusing our attention on each twinkling star and unfurling blossom,...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Randy Woodley, an activist, scholar, and Cherokee descendant, guides us on a one-hundred-day journey to reconnect with the land around us, with the people native to that land, and with ourselves. Meditations, epigraphs, and ideas for reflection and action help us become rooted in our relationship with creation and Creator.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Millions of Americans, disillusioned with organized religion, yearn for meaning and transcendence in their lives, and many of them are finding that in nature. When pastor and theologian Tony Jones, Ph.D., had his crisis of faith, brought on by personal trauma and broken relationships, he sought solace in the outdoors - paddling a canoe, hunting with his dog, butchering deer. When he walked out of the church and into the woods, he left the orderly...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Since Perry Miller's 1940 essay on the connection between Puritan theology and Transcendentalism, "From Edwards to Emerson," there has been a dominant model for thinking about the relationship between American religion and nature. According to Miller, Emerson and his fellow New England elites were the only ones during the antebellum period to turn to nature for a direct, unmediated access to spirituality; this was part of their protest against the...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Love, Nature, Magic, Maria Rodale combines her love of nature and gardening with her experience in shamanic journeying, embarking on an epic adventure to learn from plants, animals, and insects--including some of the most misunderstood beings in nature. Maria asks each their purpose and listens as they share with her what they want us humans to know. From thistles to snakes, poison ivy to mosquitoes, the messages these nature beings convey are...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Esther Emery gives an honest, piercingly poetic account of a year without Internet - 365 days away from the good, the bad, and the ugly of our digital lives - in one woman's desperate attempt at a reset. Emery faces her addiction to electronica, her illusion of self-importance, and her longing to return to simpler days, but then the unexpected happens. Her experiment in analog is hijacked by a spiritual awakening, and she finds herself suddenly, inexplicably...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
For millennia, plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of humanity's relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day,...
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