Loving God's Wildness : The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature /

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When the Puritans arrived in the New World to carry out the colonization they saw as divinely mandated, they were confronted by the American wilderness. Part of their theology led them to view the natural environment as "a temple of God" in which they should glorify and serve its creator....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bilbro, Jeffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Environmental protection in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Christian ethics in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Écocritique > États-Unis.
Environnement > Protection, dans la litterature.
American Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
English.
Ecocriticism > United States.
American literature > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:When the Puritans arrived in the New World to carry out the colonization they saw as divinely mandated, they were confronted by the American wilderness. Part of their theology led them to view the natural environment as "a temple of God" in which they should glorify and serve its creator. The larger prevailing theological view, however, saw this vast continent as "the Devil's Territories" needing to be conquered and cultivated for God's Kingdom. These contradictory designations gave rise to an ambivalence regarding the character of this land and humanity's proper relation to it. Loving God's W.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (239 pages).
ISBN:9780817388010

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