The noetics of nature : environmental philosophy and the holy beauty of the visible / Bruce V. Foltz.

Contemplative or "noetic" knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where "theoria physike," or the illumined understanding of creation that follows the purificat...

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Main Author: Foltz, Bruce V.
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Series:Groundworks.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The Noetics of Nature
  • Whence the Depth of Deep Ecology? : Natural Beauty and the Eclipse of the Holy
  • Nature's Other Side : The Demise of Nature and the Phenomenology of Givenness
  • Layers of Nature in Thomas Traherne and John Muir : Numinous Beauty, Onto-theology, and Polyphony of Tradition
  • Sailing to Byzantium : Nature and City in the Greek East
  • The Resurrection of Nature : Environmental Metaphysics in Sergei Bulgakov's Philosophy of Economy
  • The Iconic Earth : Nature Godly and Beautiful
  • Seeing Nature : Theōria Physikē in the Thought of St. Maximos the Confessor
  • Seeing God in All Things : Nature and Divinity in Maximos, Florensky, and Ibn 'Arabi
  • The Glory of God Hidden in Creation : Eastern Views of Nature in Fyodor Dostoevsky and St. Isaac the Syrian
  • Between Heaven and Earth : Did Christianity Cause Global Warming?
  • Nature and Other Modern Idolatries : Kosmos, Ktisis, and Chaos in Environmental Philosophy
  • Traces of Divine Fragrance, Droplets of Divine Love : The Beauty of Visible Creation in Byzantine Thought and Spirituality.