(The)re-enchantment of nature : science, religion and the Human sense of wonder

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Introduction = ⅸ
• 1 The Meaning of Life and Other Enigmas = 1
• The recovery of religion = 3
• Longing for an explanation = 9
• A Christian doctrine of creation = 11
• Reflections of God in nature = 16
• The image of God in humanity = 21
• 2 Respect for Nature : Christianity and Ecological Concern = 26
• The grand tradition : tending the creation = 28
• The ecological vision of Celtic Christianity = 32
• Christian responses to the environmental crisis = 36
• Roman Catholicism = 40
• Evangelicalism = 42
• Liberal Protestantism : process thought = 46
• The restoration of Eden : hope for creation = 48
• 3 A Manifesto to Exploit : The Enlightenment and the Master Race = 53
• The rise of anthropocentrism = 54
• Religion and the limits of exploitation : the case of Francis Bacon = 59
• The elimination of God = 61
• A temporary alliance between the sciences and atheism = 64
• Postmodernity, religion and nature = 71
• 4 The Faustian Pact : Technology and the Domination of Nature = 77
• Human sin and the degradation of the environment = 79
• The Faustian pact and the limitless powers of science = 81
• Prometheus without Pandora : the lure of technology = 83
• The master race : the origins of the autonomous human = 86
• The master race in action : Stalinist ecology = 88
• The rise of technology = 93
• Christianity and technology = 96
• 5 The Mechanical Universe and the Desacralisation of Nature = 101
• Why 'models' of nature? = 104
• The clockwork universe : nature as a mechanism = 110
• The mechanism as the only valid model of nature = 116
• The revival of non-mechanical models of nature = 119
• The ghost in the machine : the rise of Cartesianism = 123
• Nature as 'Thou' : Martin Buber = 125
• 6 Dissatisfaction with Spiritual Emptiness : The Longing for Re-enchantment = 129
• Two views of nature : The Enlightenment and Romanticism = 130
• The dream of Romanticism : glimpsing the transcendent = 132
• The transcendence of nature = 135
• The wonder of nature and intimations of glory = 139
• Heaven in ordinary : the concept of transsignification = 144
• 7 Disenchanting Nature : The Case of Richard Dawkins = 151
• Quackery : Richard Dawkins on religion = 152
• An alternative response : Freeman Dyson = 154
• Faith, reason and science : a response to Dawkins = 157
• Dawkin's view of science = 162
• 8 Re-enchanting Nature : Dawkins, Keats and the Rainbow = 171
• Dawkins on unweaving the Rainbow = 172
• A critique of scientific naturalism = 179
• The re-enchantment of nature : reclaiming a lost world = 184
• Bibliography = 189
• Index = 203