Ravished by beauty: the surprising legacy of reformed spirituality
Beauty, desire for God and delight in creation -- Prologue: Ring Lake Ranch, Wyoming -- The double irony of Reformed spirituality : nature, desire, and the easily diverted quest for God's beauty -- The whole world singing : a journey to Iona and Taizé -- John Calvin on the world as a theater of...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford New York Auckland
Oxford University Press
[2011]
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| In: | Year: 2011 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Environmental ethics (motif)
/ Spirituality
/ Reformed theology
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| Further subjects: | B
Nature Religious aspects Christianity
B Reformed Church Doctrines B Nature Religious aspects Christianity B Reformed Church Doctrines |
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| Summary: | Beauty, desire for God and delight in creation -- Prologue: Ring Lake Ranch, Wyoming -- The double irony of Reformed spirituality : nature, desire, and the easily diverted quest for God's beauty -- The whole world singing : a journey to Iona and Taizé -- John Calvin on the world as a theater of God's glory -- Can we chant Pslams with all God's creatures? -- Nature and desire in seventeenth-century Puritanism -- Open the kingdom for a cottonwood tree -- The schooling of desire : nature's purifying role in affliction -- Biodiversity and the holy trinity -- Jonathan Edwards on beauty, desire, and the sensory world -- On pilgrimage with Jonathan Edwards -- Transformed by beauty ; environmental ethics and the wildness of God -- Epilogue: Dead Creek, East Saint Louis |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-293) and index |
| ISBN: | 0199755086 |