Creation's Diversity Voices from Theology and Science [Hardcover]

This collection of substantial essays explores the question of how to relate environmental engagement in the context of religious convictions. In the first part of the book, 'A Diversity of Visions of Creation', six essays address various views of creation. In the second part of the book, 'Sustaining Creation's Diversity', the concept of sustainability is analyzed critically, given the dynamic character of natural reality as unveiled by the sciences. This is followed by some reflections on ethical and theological considerations regarding the idea that we ought to sustain diversity.

Contents

Preface and acknowledgements

List of contributors

Chapter 1 Creation's diversity: Voices from theology and science

Willem B. Drees

Chapter 2 Rationality and mystery in the Universe

Daniel Ciobotea, Metropolit of Moldavia and Bucovina

PART ONE A DIVERSITY OF VISIONS OF CREATION

Chapter 3 Geohistory, Gaia science and an ecological theology

Anna Primavesi

Chapter 4 Humans as part of nature: The concept of life and the temporal implications of

actions

Regina Kather

Chapter 5 The noble Leviathan and the twisted serpent: An Eastern Orthodox

perspective on the ecological message of Genesis, Job, and Isaiah

David K. Goodin

Chapter 6 The Creatures' Yes and No to their creator: A proposal in evolutionary

theology, kenotic trinitarianism, and environmental ethics.

Christopher C.B. Southgate

Chapter 7 The diversity of environments: Nature and technology as competing myths

Alfred Kracher

Chapter 8 New cosmologies and sacred stories: Re-imagining the human-environment

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