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

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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Autor principal: Bilbro, Jeffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; 1. Rediscovering the Roots: Learning to be Priests in God's Wild Temple; 2. "Watching for the Glory of God": Thoreau's Adaptations of Puritan History and Natural Philosophy; 3. Preserving "God's Wildness" for Redemptive Baptism: Muir and Disciples of Christ Theology; 4. "Lost and Saved in a Garden": Cather's Marian Restoration of Ecological Community; 5. "The Way of Love": Berry's Vision of Work in the Kingdom of God; Conclusion: Untangling the Roots; Notes; Works Cited; Index. 
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