Sometimes it is helpful to take one step backward, in order to take two steps forward. In this insightful volume, H. Paul Santmire draws on his long-standing and widely recognized engagement with ecological theology to propose that the traditions of the Protestant Reformation, rightly read, offer rich resources today for those who are struggling to move forward to respond theologically to the crisis of a planet in peril and thereby to celebrate nature by faith.
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H. Paul Santmire. Celebrating Nature by Faith
Celebrating Nature by Faith
Table of Contents
Preface
Living with Nature according to the Bible
Martin Luther’s Theology of Nature
Joseph Sittler’s Pioneering Vision of the Cosmic Christ
The Theology of Nature as an Emergent Field of Promise
Celebrating Nature by Faith
Bibliography
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Studies in Reformation Theology in an Era of Global Emergency
H. Paul Santmire
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Early in his professional life, Karl Barth published a book of lectures with the title The Word of God and the Word of Man.2 That title told at least as much about what Barth’s theology was to become as about any single theme in the book itself. Barth’s mature theology was to be primarily reflections about God and humanity. Of course, following the Scriptures and the theological tradition, Barth did discuss nature from time to time. But when he did, it was primarily in terms of its meanings for the two other poles of theological reflection.
Barth stated emphatically in volume three of his multi-volumned Church Dogmatics, as a matter of fact, that there can be no substantive Christian doctrine of nature—as there must be, in his view, a substantive Christian doctrine of the human creature. Barth’s mature theology was in this respect, to invoke his own terminology, theoanthropocentric. Call this Barth’s fundamental theological paradigm. He read the Scriptures and he wrote his theology, voluminously, throughout his long and distinguished theological career, with that focus.
