Cosmology, Ecology, and the Energy of God

摘要

When it comes to scholarship and activism for ecological awareness, our world's monotheistic religions have not produced as rich an array of approaches and strategies as philosophy or the sciences. If you suspect that theology could do more than it has to convert human hearts toward environmentalism, your hopes will be encouraged by the potential energy offered with this new compilation of essay s from Arkansas' 2009 Interdisciplinary Conference on Theology and Ecology (ICTE). The book investigates our energy scarcities (material and creative), reflects theologically on the meaning of cosmological dark energy, and then, drawing on process and postmodern thought, extends these explorations into a discussion of spiritual energy. The book's two-part structure addresses first physical science then culture and religion, mixing them together, chapter by chapter, into an organic concept of energy as phenomenon, symbol, source, light, attitude and creativity.