Ravished by beauty : the surprising legacy of reformed spirituality

Ravished by beauty : the surprising legacy of reformed spirituality / Belden C. Lane.

This study looks at the historical development - from Calvin to Jonathan Edwards - of a theology of beauty and desire, expressed in the metaphors of the world as a theatre of God's glory and nature as a school of desire. In doing so, it lays a theological foundation for an environmental ethic b...

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Main Author: Lane, Belden C., 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Nature > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Reformed Church > Doctrines.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
Nature > Religious aspects > Christianity
Reformed Church > Doctrines
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 psalms 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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