TY  - BOOK
AU  - Santmire,H.Paul
TI  - Before nature: a Christian spirituality 
SN  - 9781451473001 (paperback)
AV  - BT695.5 .S252 2014 16225
U1  - 261.8/8 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Nature
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Ecotheology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; A Christian spirituality of nature for today's seekers and their teachers and pastors -- Blessedly scything with God: you are invited -- Introducing a way of prayer: the practice and the knowing of the Trinity prayer -- The world in which we pray: the eclipse of God and a fragile theology of faith -- Praying to Jesus: the revelation of God and the light of Christ -- The ambiguous case of one who prays to Jesus: the twilight and the encounter -- The heart of the Trinity prayer: contemplating the mystery of the Triune God -- The presence of the Triune God in nature: contemplating God in all things -- The works of the Triune God in nature: contemplating the cosmic ministries of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit -- Calling on the Holy Spirit: the integrity and the travail of nature -- Sauntering in the Spirit: practicing the Trinity prayer -- The Trinity prayer as spiritual exercise
N2  - Before Nature caps a set of themes first brought to the fore in Santmire's previous work, most notably the classic The Travail of Nature. Here Santmire continues the pursuit of a theology bound up with nature and its condition, especially the fragility and fervent expectation of nature's redemption. Out of this concern, Santmire invites readers on a theological and spiritual journey to a prayerful and contemplative knowledge of the Triune God, in which practitioners are inducted into a bountiful relationship with the cosmic and universal ministry of Christ and the Spirit uniting all of nature in a single vision of hope and anticipation. Scholarly, practical, and accessible
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