RT Article
T1 The Sacramental Sea
JF Anglican theological review
VO 100
IS 1
SP 43
OP 60
A1 Newell, Edmund
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1571006095
AB This article contributes to environmental theology by exploring our ambivalent attitude toward the sea. It begins by examining the largely negative references to the sea in the Bible, arguing that this is due primarily to the sea's association with the precreation state of chaos. As such, the sea plays an important role in the biblical salvation narrative, the goal of which is a perfected creation in which "the sea was no more" (Rev. 21:1). It then looks at positive attitudes to the sea related to exploration, religious experience, and the development of natural theology. It concludes that this ambivalent theological attitude gives the sea a highly sacramental nature that speaks to both the contrasting apophatic and kataphatic traditions in theology, which highlight, respectively, God's revelation and unfathomable nature.
K1 Experience (Religion)
K1 Natural Theology
K1 Negative Theology
K1 Ocean
K1 Religious Aspects
K1 Sacraments
K1 Sea in the Bible
DO 10.1177/000332861810000107