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Book SynopsisBeing in Creation asks about the role of humans in the more-than-human world from the perspective of human creatureliness, a perspective that accepts as a given human finitude and limitations, as well as responsibility toward other beings and toward the whole of which they are a part.
Trade Review"Being-in-Creation, edited by Benson, Treanor, and Wirzba is a well-conceived and beautifully-executed collection of essays on a vitally important topic. In a situation of acute ecological crisis, we require the resources of all of our philosophical, theological and religious traditions, including the rich veins opened up for us here by the contributors, to offer us new ways of thinking about and living in the world." -- -Clayton Crockett University of Central Arkansas "This is a marvelous collection of essays with immense creative potential. Indeed, Being-in-Creation is opening up the doors of continental philosophy to shape a rich ecological theology. A groundbreaking contribution!" -- -Mary Evelyn Tucker Yale University
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Human Place in the Natural World Brian Treanor 2. Creation, Creativity and Creatureliness Rowan Williams 3. Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality Jarrod Longbons 4. The Art of Creaturely Life Norman Wirzba 5. Face of Nature, Gift of Creation Bruce Foltz 6. Creativity as Call to Care for Creation Christina M. Gschwandtner 7. Creature Discomforts Jeffrey Hanson 8. Reflections from Thoreau's Concord Ed Mooney 9. Creation and the Glory of Creatures Janet Martin Soskice 10. Care of the Soil, Care of the Self T. Wilson Dickenson 11. Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World Susan Pyke Notes List of Contributors Index
