On earth as it is in heaven : cultivating a contemporary theology of creation

With the 2015 publication of Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si’, many people of faith have found themselves challenged to seek new ways of addressing serious ecological questions -- issues essential to the flourishing of all creatures and not just human beings. This volume brings...

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Other Authors: Meconi, David Vincent (Editor)
Format: Book
Published: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • The beauty of centipedes and toads / Robert Louis Wilken
  • The place of faith in the geography of hope / Christopher J. Thompson
  • The teleological grammar of the created order in Catholic moral discourse / Steven A. Long
  • Kingship and kinship: opposing or complementary ways of envisaging our relationship to material creation? / Marie George
  • "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth": was this and is this a good idea? / Matthew Levering
  • Bonaventure of Bagnoregio's imitatio Christi as an agapistic virtue ethics / Dawn M. Nothwehr, OSF
  • Restoring land stewardship through household prudence / John A. Cuddeback
  • Flourishing and suffering in social creatures / Faith Pawl
  • Unfinished creative business: Maximus the Confessor, evolutionary theodicy and human stewardship in creation / Paul M. Blowers
  • Knowing our place: poverty and providence / Christopher A. Franks
  • Nature and the common good: Aristotle and Maritain on the environment / Jonathan J. Sanford
  • Knowing the good of nature: St. Augustine and George Grant / Paige E. Hochschild
  • Rethinking gluttony and its remedies / Chris Killheffer
  • Establishing an I-thou relationship between Creator and creature / David Vincent Meconi, SJ
  • The liturgical theology of the participation of creation in the sacred triduum / Esther Mary Nickel, RSM.