Ravished by beauty : [manuscript] : the surprising legacy of Reformed spirituality /
Lane, Belden C., 1943-
Ravished by beauty : the surprising legacy of Reformed spirituality / [manuscript] : by Belden C. Lane. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - ix, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-293) and index.
Beauty, desire for God and delight in creation -- Prologue: Ring Lake Ranch, Wyoming -- The double irony of Reformed spirituality : nature, desire, and the easily diverted quest for God's beauty -- The whole world singing : a journey to Iona and Taiz -̌- John Calvin on the world as a theater of God's glory -- Can we chant Pslams with all God's creatures? -- Nature and desire in seventeenth-century Puritanism -- Open the kingdom for a cottonwood tree -- The schooling of desire : nature's purifying role in affliction -- Biodiversity and the holy trinity -- Jonathan Edwards on beauty, desire, and the sensory world -- On pilgrimage with Jonathan Edwards -- Transformed by beauty ; environmental ethics and the wildness of God -- Epilogue: Dead Creek, East Saint Louis.
9780199755080 (hpb) 0199755086
2010019023
Nature--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Reformed Church--Doctrines.
BT695.5 / .L36 2011
231.7
Ravished by beauty : the surprising legacy of Reformed spirituality / [manuscript] : by Belden C. Lane. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - ix, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-293) and index.
Beauty, desire for God and delight in creation -- Prologue: Ring Lake Ranch, Wyoming -- The double irony of Reformed spirituality : nature, desire, and the easily diverted quest for God's beauty -- The whole world singing : a journey to Iona and Taiz -̌- John Calvin on the world as a theater of God's glory -- Can we chant Pslams with all God's creatures? -- Nature and desire in seventeenth-century Puritanism -- Open the kingdom for a cottonwood tree -- The schooling of desire : nature's purifying role in affliction -- Biodiversity and the holy trinity -- Jonathan Edwards on beauty, desire, and the sensory world -- On pilgrimage with Jonathan Edwards -- Transformed by beauty ; environmental ethics and the wildness of God -- Epilogue: Dead Creek, East Saint Louis.
9780199755080 (hpb) 0199755086
2010019023
Nature--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Reformed Church--Doctrines.
BT695.5 / .L36 2011
231.7