Without Nature?: A New Condition for Theology

Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Without Nature?......Page 10
David Albertson: Without Nature?......Page 12
Nature without Us......Page 26
Norms from Nature: Nature as Justice and Nature as the Will of God......Page 29
The Very Idea of an Order......Page 36
Conclusion: Chaos Is Unnatural......Page 41
Part I: Ecology and Nature......Page 46
Peter H. Raven: Our Common Responsibility to Nature......Page 48
The Long View......Page 49
Extinction: The End of Life......Page 53
Our Perceptions of Nature......Page 59
Our Response: Possible Strategies......Page 60
William French: With Radical Amazement: Ecology and the Recovery of Creation......Page 65
The Legacy of Metaphysical Dualism and Anthropocentrism......Page 69
Twentieth-Century Christian Theology’s Turn away from Creation......Page 73
Technological, Economic, and Strategic Thinking without Nature......Page 76
Divergent Frames and Distinctive Spotlights in Modern and Postmodern Thought......Page 82
Ecological Threat and the Recovery of Awe......Page 86
Cabell King: In the World: Henri Lefebvre and the Liturgical Production of Natural Space......Page 91
Wild Nature......Page 93
Social Nature......Page 97
Nature as Fetish......Page 102
Natural Space......Page 104
Part II: Genetics and Nature......Page 110
Stuart A. Newman: Renatured Biology: Getting Past Postmodernism in the Life Sciences......Page 112
Biology during the Transition from the Modern to the Postmodern......Page 116
Biological Postmodernism: Three Domains......Page 121
Conclusion......Page 144
Ronald Cole-Turner: Synthetic Biology: Theological Questions about Biological Engineering......Page 147
What Is Synthetic Biology?......Page 148
Social, Ethical, and Theological Implications of Synthetic Biology......Page 155
Gerald McKenny: Nature as Given, Nature as Guide, Nature as Natural Kinds: Return to Nature in the Ethics of Human Biotechnology......Page 163
Nature as Normative: Three Conceptions......Page 165
Nature as Given: Sandel......Page 168
Nature as Guide: Kass......Page 176
Nature as Natural Kinds: Fukuyama......Page 182
Conclusion......Page 187
Part III: Geography and Nature......Page 190
Edward W. Soja: Seeing Nature Spatially......Page 192
The Chicago School and the Urbanization of Nature......Page 193
Ontological Struggles over Space and Time......Page 198
Rethinking the Spatiality of Human Life......Page 203
Reflections on the Urban Spatiality of Nature......Page 206
Epilogue......Page 211
The Decline of Nature and the Rise of the City......Page 214
Natural Theology as a Response to the Decline of Nature......Page 216
Natural Theology and Ideology Critique......Page 219
Developing a Theology of Creation......Page 221
Responding Theologically to the Decline of Nature: Critique......Page 223
Responding Theologically to the Decline of Nature: Construction......Page 225
Responding Theologically to ‘‘Second Nature’’......Page 226
Sallie McFague: The Body of the World: Our Body, Ourselves......Page 232
Nature Encompasses the City......Page 234
Thinking Differently......Page 237
God Encompasses the World......Page 241
The Body of God......Page 243
Part IV: Anthropology and Nature......Page 250
Michael M. J. Fischer: Emergent Forms of Un/Natural Life......Page 252
Narrating First Nature: Catastrophe, Deep Play, Repetition, and Social-Ecological Learning......Page 253
Second Natures: German Modes of Production, French Parliaments of Things, and American Regulatory Sciences......Page 261
Nature inside Out: The Double Career of Bioethics in Cultures of Trust, Procedure, and Skepticism......Page 268
Companion Species: Animal Models, Sentinels, Alterities, Phenomenologies......Page 277
Conclusions: The Four Trials of Anthropologies to Come......Page 289
Preliminaries......Page 293
Continuity and Change in Human Nature and Its Goods......Page 296
The ‘‘Goods’’ of Human Nature......Page 300
The ‘‘Bads’’ of Human Nature......Page 304
Transforming Nature: Roles of Religion and Theology......Page 309
Thomas A. Carlson: Technological Worlds and the Birth of Nature: On Human Creation and Its Theological Resonance in Heidegger and Serres......Page 315
Part V: Theology without Nature?......Page 332
William Schweiker: Should We Reverence Life? Reflections at the Intersection of Ecology, Religion, and Ethics......Page 334
Conceptual Confusions......Page 336
The Range of Questions......Page 340
Absolute Reverence for Life......Page 343
From Reverence to Integrity......Page 346
Conclusion......Page 352
Part I......Page 353
Part II......Page 363
Human ‘‘Nature’’......Page 374
Grace......Page 379
David Albertson: Without Nature?......Page 388
Lorraine Daston: The World in Order......Page 391
Peter H. Raven: Our Common Responsibility to Nature......Page 394
William French: With Radical Amazement: Ecology and the Recovery of Creation......Page 396
Cabell King: In the World: Henri Lefebvre and the Liturgical Production of Natural Space......Page 401
Stuart A. Newman: Renatured Biology: Getting past Postmodernism in the Life Sciences......Page 403
Ronald Cole-Turner: Synthetic Biology: Theological Questions about Biological Engineering......Page 414
Gerald McKenny: Nature as Given, Nature as Guide, Nature as Natural Kinds: Return to Nature in the Ethics of Human Biotechnology......Page 417
Edward W. Soja: Seeing Nature Spatially......Page 420
Timothy J. Gorringe: The Decline of Nature: Natural Theology, Theology of Nature, and the Built Environment......Page 423
Sallie McFague: The Body of the World: Our Body, Ourselves......Page 429
Michael M. J. Fischer: Emergent Forms of Un/Natural Life......Page 431
Lisa Sowle Cahill: Nature, Change, and Justice......Page 447
Thomas A. Carlson: Technological Worlds and the Birth of Nature: On Human Creation and Its Theological Resonance in Heidegger and Serres......Page 450
William Schweiker: Should We Reverence Life? Reflections at the Intersection of Ecology, Religion, and Ethics......Page 454
Peter Manley Scott: The End of Nature and the Last Human? Thinking Theologically about ‘‘Nature’’ in a Postnatural Condition......Page 458
Kathryn Tanner: Grace Without Nature......Page 461
Contributors......Page 464
Index......Page 468