Lane, Belden C.,  1943- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-293) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199755080 (hpb) 0199755086 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010019023 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nature--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Reformed Church--Doctrines.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT695.5  / .L36 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>231.7