Introduction
Chapter One—The Integration of Science in Sacramental Creation
Spirituality: Relatedness, Responsibility, Redemption
Chapter Two—The Recovery Of Nature Mysticism in Sacramental
Creation Spirituality: The Via Positiva, Panentheism,
Sacramentalism
Chapter Three—Teilhard De Chardin and the Case for New Theology in
Light of a New Creation Story
Chapter Four—Sacramental Creation Spirituality in Maximus the
Confessor and Nicholas of Cusa
Chapter Five—The Coincidence and Convergence of Natural and
Eucharistic Sacraments
Chapter Six—The Coincidence and Convergence of Ecological and
Eucharistic Ethics in a Consecrated Universe
Conclusion—Whole-Earth Ethics for Holy Ground
Postlude—Sacramental Creation Spirituality in On Care for Our
Common Home by Pope Francis and the Earth Charter
Bibliography
Stephen Hastings, PhD, is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.
The publication of Christian thinkers’ Earth care and creation care
books has been regarded as a welcome, recent addition to efforts to
address increasing devastation of our home planet. Whole-Earth
Ethics for Holy Ground provides a corrective to that inaccurate
historical view: it describes how elements of Christian concern for
Earth have developed over millennia; they are evident in the
developing sacramental creation thread that integrates the related
insights of Maximus the Confessor (7th century), Nicholas of Cusa
(15th century), and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (20th century).
Whole-Earth Ethics for Holy Ground brings the sacramental Christian
ecological tradition from the past into the present, integrating
concepts of natural sacrament and ritual sacrament, and carries it
toward the future. In doing so, it waters the seeds of the thinking
that promotes the interrelated and interdependent well-being of
Earth and the community of all living beings. An insightful
contribution to creation consciousness.
*John Hart, Boston University, author of "Cosmic Commons and
Sacramental Commons: Christian Ecological Ethics"*
This is a fine, thoughtful contribution to the growing body of work
on ecological theology, and a clear, forceful evocation of
sacrament as crucial to the work of rekindling our relationship
with the natural world.
*Douglas E. Christie, Loyola Marymount University*
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