Super, Natural Christians
How We Should Love Nature
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Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature
In a readable and concrete style, Sallie McFague crafts a Christian
spirituality centered on nature as the
focus of our encounter with the divine. Reorienting our religious
life from the "supernatural" to the "super,
natural," she suggests, can help us "see these earth others . . . as
both subjects in themselves and as
intimations of God."
In fascinating discussions of city planning and wilderness, of photography, hiking, gardening, recycling, urban decay, and poverty, but also of incarnation, embodiment, and sacramentality. McFague urges the reader's conversion from "the arrogant eye" to "the loving eye." She suggests many ways people can cultivate encounters with nature and engagement in justice.
McFague's marvelous and moving new book tutors us in wonder, delight, and love.
In fascinating discussions of city planning and wilderness, of photography, hiking, gardening, recycling, urban decay, and poverty, but also of incarnation, embodiment, and sacramentality. McFague urges the reader's conversion from "the arrogant eye" to "the loving eye." She suggests many ways people can cultivate encounters with nature and engagement in justice.
McFague's marvelous and moving new book tutors us in wonder, delight, and love.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800630768
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 207
- Publication Date April 4, 1997
Endorsements
"Super, Natural Christians is super! It is Sallie McFague's greatest book so far: powerfully focused, richly
intertextual, lucid yet elegant."
— Catherine Keller, Drew University
"Well done! No one else has turned their hand to this topic with such surety, calmness, insight, and an urgency that is utterly convincing. A beautiful book."
— Elizabeth A. Johnson, author of She Who Is
"Sallie McFague is a prominent figure among the growing number of theologians who have been attempting to rethink the Christian understanding of God's and humanity's place in the physical world."
— Chronicle of Higher Education
"Well done! No one else has turned their hand to this topic with such surety, calmness, insight, and an urgency that is utterly convincing. A beautiful book."
— Elizabeth A. Johnson, author of She Who Is
"Sallie McFague is a prominent figure among the growing number of theologians who have been attempting to rethink the Christian understanding of God's and humanity's place in the physical world."
— Chronicle of Higher Education
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
- Super, Natural Christians
Supernatural vs. Super, Natural Christians - Consider the Lilies of the Field: How Should Christians Love Nature?
- Christians and Nature: Past and Present
- The Arrogant Eye: Knowing Nature as Object
- The Loving Eye: Knowing Nature as Subject
- Down to Earth: Close Encounters with the Nature World
- Caring for the Others
Introduction
Christian Nature Spirituality
Two Ways to Seeing the World
The Arrogant Eye vs. the Loving Eye
The Subject-Subjects Model
Care or Rights?
Map or Hike?
Medieval vs. Ecological Relationship
The Medieval Picture
The Present: Our Loss of Nature
Knowledge: The Eye of the Mind
Nature: The Mirror of the Mind
Being and Knowing the Ecological Model
The Subject-Subjects Model and Nature
The Loving Eye
Nature Writing: Mediating the Second Naiveté
Geography vs. Autobiography: Three Examples of Nature
Halting the Extinction of Experience
The Ecological Model and Christian Spirituality
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Excerpts
"Years ago when I first came to British Columbia to hike, I was startled and delighted by the province's
tourist advertising slogan. It read: 'Super, Natural British Columbia.' I remember thinking, That is the
proper use of the word supernatural." It should always have a comma."