H. Paul Santmire

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  Before Nature : A Christian Spirituality

  $65.00

  Contents:
  Prologue
  Part 1: Considering The Journey
  1. Blessedly Scything With God: You Are Invited
  2. Introducing A Way Of Prayer
  3. The World In Which We Pray
  Part 2: The First Steps Of The Journey
  4. Praying To Jesus
  5. The Ambiguous Case Of One Who Prays To Jesus
  Part 3: Contemplating The Triune God
  6. The Heart Of The Trinity Prayer
  7. The Presence Of The Triune God In Nature
  8. The Works Of The Triune God In Nature
  Part 4: Calling On The Holy Spirit
  9. Calling On The Holy Spirit
  10. Sauntering In The Spirit
  Epilogue
  Appendix
  Index

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  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. 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.

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  Season Of Creation

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  As the global climate crisis worsens, many churches have sought to respond by instituting a movement to observe a liturgical season of creation. Scholars who have pioneered the connections between biblical scholarship, ecological theology, liturgy, and homiletics provide here a comprehensive resource for preaching and leading worship in this new season. Included are theological and practical introductions to observance of the season, biblical texts for its twelve Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, and astute commentary to help preachers and worship leaders guide their congregations into deeper connection with our imperiled planet.

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  Nature Reborn : The Ecological And Cosmic Promise Of Christian Theology

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  Santmire’s much-acclaimed Travail of Nature documented the unfortunate legacy of many Christian theological notions in the use, abuse and destruction of the natural world, along with its positive aspects. His new work returns to the fray, this time to reclaim classic, mostly premodern Christian themes and reenvision them in light of the global environmental and cultural crisis. This revisionist work – “To revise the classical Christian story in order to identify and to celebrate its ecological and cosmic promise”- mines Christian cosmology, Christology, Creation, Eucharist, so that the Christian “story” can be then rediscovered (history), reshaped (theology), reexperienced (spirituality), and reenacted (ritual).

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  Travail Of Nature

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  274 Pages

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  H. Paul Santmire answers the accusation that Christianity is directly responsible for the present ecological crisis with an historical survey of the theology of nature. He demonstrates that while a theology of nature has not enjoyed a dominate place in the history of Christian thought, there lie within the Christian tradition the building blocks for a positive theology of nature. He contrasts the metaphor of ascent, which has led Christians to the Gnostic tendancy to devalue the natural world, with the metaphors of fecundity and migration to a good land, which include the natural world in the scope of our theological and biblical thought. Finally, Santmire makes limited suggestions for the development of a new perspective on biblical interpretation. H. Paul Santmire is a Lutheran pastor in Hartford Connecticut.

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