Views of Nature and Dualism

Rethinking Philosophical, Theological, and Religious Assumptions in the Anthropocene

Thomas John Hastings, Knut-Willy Sæther

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9783031429019
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031429026
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

In the face of the anthropogenic threats to the singular planetary habitat we share with other human beings and non-human species, humanities scholars feel a renewed sense of urgency 1) to acknowledge the ways our species has funded particular histories of environmental exploitation, alienation, and collapse, 2) to unpack inherited assumptions that impact our views of nature and interspecies relations, and 3) to suggest ways of thinking and acting that seek to repair the damage and promote mutual flourishing for all of earth inhabitants. This volume brings together scholars in philosophy, theology, and religion who take up this urgent ethical task from a broad range of perspectives and locations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Attending to the Human-Nature Relationship: Approaches, Contexts, and Challenges
• 2. Seeing Nature as a Whole: Ecospirituality and the Human-Nature Relationship
• 3. The Role of Panentheism and Pantheism for Environmental Well-Being
• 4. Landscapes of the Unconscious and the Longings of Nature
• 5. Ferd Toward a Joyful Change: Nature, Mountaineering Philosophers, and the Dawn of “Higher” Friluftsliv Education
• 6. An Overview of Natural, Human, Philosophical, and Theological Dualisms
• 7. Reading the Signs of the Times: Nature-Culture Dualism and Human Feeling in the Anthropocene
• 8. One Reality, Not Two: Bonhoeffer, Jesus Christ, and a Membraned World
• 9. Pentecostal Emotive (Non)Dualism: Pneumatology, Worship, and Context
• 10. The Role of Formal Distinction in the Articulation of Univocity of Being: “Neutral” and “Expressive” Univocity of Being in the Thinking of Duns Scotus and Spinoza
• 11. You Are What You See: Environmental Ethics from Aesthetic Experience Via David Bentley Hart and Gilles Deleuze
• 12. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Ecological Imagination
• 13. Lines of Distinction and Circles of Connection: Toward a Holistic Epistemology
• Back Matter