0800637267
Hardcover
196 pages
Mar 2005
Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Finding God In The Singing River: Christianity, Spirit, Nature

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Excerpt:

Illustrations
Preface
Introduction

God Is Green
The Earth Crisis Is a Spiritual Crisis / Ecocidal Addiction
The Historic Agon of Spirit and Flesh
Earth, Air, Water, Fire
The Mother Bird God
God on the Wing / The Trinity and Paganism / Is God Female?
Biblical Imagery of the Earthen Mother Spirit
Green Spirituality, Brownfields, and Wilderness Recovery
The Current Environmental Debate
Toxic Sacrifice Zones and the Quest for Justice
Deep Ecology and Wilderness Activism
Mediating the Debate, Green Spirituality, and Market Values
Green Spirituality and the Problem of Humanism
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax / The Priority of Human Being
The Problem of Universal Reason in Humanist Thought
The Problem of Species Chauvinism in Humanist Thought
Extending the Horizon of Morality to Include All Life-forms
Green Spirituality and the Invitation of Postmodernism
The Challenge of Deconstructionism
Is Nature Real? / Riding the Cusp
Green Theology in a Postmodern, Constructionist Context
Kenneth Gergen's Social Constructionism
Earth God as the Wounded Spirit
In the Vatican Museums / The cruciform Spirit
Spirit and Earth, Union of Heart / The Wounded God
Eating the Body and Drinking the Blood of God
The World Is Alive with Spirit
A Council of All Beings Ritual
Sojourning in the Crum Woods
The Crum Woods under Siege
The Crum Woods as the Wounded Sacred
Is the Crum Woods an Idol? / My Return to the River

Notes
Index