Before nature : a Christian spirituality / H. Paul Santmire.
Publisher: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2014Description: xxvii, 253 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781451473001 (paperback)
- 1451473001 (paperback)
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| BT695.5 M21 The comforting whirlwind : | BT695.5 M77 2014 Let creation rejoice : | BT695.5 R54 Patching God's garment: environment and mission in the 21st century / | BT695.5 Sa5 2014 Before nature : | BT695.5 W78 2007 Witnessing in the midst of a suffering creation : Report and papers from an international consultation at the John Knox Centre, Geneva, from 17 to 21 September, 2006 / | BT696 G69 The Gospel of life (evangelium vitae) / | BT701.2 C46 1993 Christian perspectives on being human : |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Christian spirituality of nature for today's seekers and their teachers and pastors -- Blessedly scything with God: you are invited -- Introducing a way of prayer: the practice and the knowing of the Trinity prayer -- The world in which we pray: the eclipse of God and a fragile theology of faith -- Praying to Jesus: the revelation of God and the light of Christ -- The ambiguous case of one who prays to Jesus: the twilight and the encounter -- The heart of the Trinity prayer: contemplating the mystery of the Triune God -- The presence of the Triune God in nature: contemplating God in all things -- The works of the Triune God in nature: contemplating the cosmic ministries of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit -- Calling on the Holy Spirit: the integrity and the travail of nature -- Sauntering in the Spirit: practicing the Trinity prayer -- The Trinity prayer as spiritual exercise.
Before Nature caps a set of themes first brought to the fore in Santmire's previous work, most notably the classic The Travail of Nature. Here Santmire continues the pursuit of a theology bound up with nature and its condition, especially the fragility and fervent expectation of nature's redemption. Out of this concern, Santmire invites readers on a theological and spiritual journey to a prayerful and contemplative knowledge of the Triune God, in which practitioners are inducted into a bountiful relationship with the cosmic and universal ministry of Christ and the Spirit uniting all of nature in a single vision of hope and anticipation. Scholarly, practical, and accessible.
