Before Nature: A Christian Spirituality

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Index Althaus, Paul, 154n36 Analogy/ies, 98-100, 124n6, of being (analogia entis) 155n40, of faith (analogia pistis) 155n40; Roughly hewn narratives as 103, 123, 144-151 Animals: Self-sacrifice of 149; Suffering of 63, 167-168, 203-204, 208-209; Eschatological fulfilment of 201-202 Anthropocentrism, 108, 129, 188, 197 Augustine, St., xxivn19, 94n21, 127n23, 153n22, 184n36, 202, 237n3, 238n8 Augustus Caesar, 206-208 Bach, J. S., 75, 227 Baer, Jr., Richard A., 25-26, 35 n. 8, 222 Baptism, 9-15, 39, 43, 62, 109, 176, 226; Ambiguities of 11, 13-15; and the problematic Trinitarian name 13; and a baptismal mysticism 10-13 Barth, Karl, 38, 39, 41, 65, 94n2, 127n21, 127n25, 154n40, 214n24, 238n4 Bartholomew, Craig G., xxivn18 Basil of Caesaria, St., 183n31 Bass, Dorothy, 33n2 Bauckham, Richard, 69n20, 213n11 Beavis, Mary Ann, 66n2 Before Nature: meanings of xv-xvii Begbie, Jeremy S., 238n7 Bellini, Giovanni, xii-xiv, xxiiin11 Berger, Peter, xxin2, xxiin3 Berry, Thomas, 214n15 Bethlehem Steel, Lackawanna, NY, 82, 109, 115-119 Billings, J. Todd, 126n16 Birch, Charles, 214n15 Bloom, Harold, 215n31 Body, the human, xiii, xvii, 16, 25, 133, 143, 148, 192-193, 202, 242, See also Spirituality and interiority, visceral and Prayer, bodily involvement in Bonaventure, St., xxivn19, 29, 105 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 37, 46, 49n18, 59, 61, 65, 69n22, 71, 75, 91n1, 93n14, 94n21, 149, 230, 231, 242; and identity issues 82-83; and resistance to Hitler 40 Book of nature, see Nature, book of Borg, Marcus, 93n16 Bornkamm, Heinrich, 153n20, 153n26 Bouma-Prediger, Stephen, xxivn18, 18n1 Braaten, Laurie J., 215n32, 216n40 Britten, Benjamin, 227 Brown, Raymond, 54, 58, 66nn3-4, 181n8 Brueggeman, Walter, 154n39 Brunner, Emil, 66n7 Buber, Martin, 39, 41, 48n2, 98 Buckley, James J., 34n4 Burrows, Ruth, 34n7 Burton-Christie, Douglas, 48n4 Calvin, John, 10, 55, 126, 139, 141, 153n24, 155n40, 166, 200, 213n12, 229 Campbell, David E., xxin1 Canlis, Julie, 139, 153n24 Case-Winters, Anna, 127n24 Chapel of St. Mary and St. John, Society of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge, MA, 53-55, 59, 79, 89, 227 247 Charles River, Cambridge, MA, 39, 41, 47, 53, 54, 89, 105, 130, 132, 142, 147, 219, 227, 229 Chase, Stephen, xxivn16 Christ, See Jesus/Christ Christianity and other religions, 14, 200, 214n23 Clayton, Philip, 49n17, 67n7 Clinton, Hilary Rodham, 77, 227 Coakley, Sarah, 92n9, 93n15, 125n8, 127n18, 155n45 Cobb, John, 214n15 Cosmos, See Nature Cranmer, Thomas, 35n15 Cross/es: Celtic 193-194, 206, 223; Pectoral 225-226; Sign of the 29, 86, 225-228; Wall 86, 225, 226, 240, 242; See also Jesus/Christ, cross of Cunningham, David S., 154n38 Cunningham, Lawrence S., 20n16 Dahill, Lisa, 48n1, 92n8 Daly, Mary, 18n 6, 77 Dante, Alighieri, 139 Dark night of the soul, 72-73, 91; See also Twilight of our times Davies, Paul, 182n13 Dawkins, Richard, 49n 5 Dawson, Christopher, 66n6 Day, Dorothy, 21, 29 Deane-Drummond, Celia E., 183n31 Deism, 136-137 Domitian, 60 Downey, Michael, 126n17 Duerer, Albrecht, 192 Dupré, Louis, 20n16 Dykstra, Craig, 33n2 Earth Bible Project, 213n8 Eating practices, 81, 93n13 Ecojustice crisis, xix, 6, 41 Edwards, Denis, 182n15, 213n5, 214n26, 216n 44 Edwards, Jonathan, 104, 127n19, 154n38, 158 Emergence, cosmic (See: History, cosmic) Enlightenment, spiritual, See Spirituality and enlightenment “Eternal feminine”, See Nature and “the feminine” Eucharist (Communion), 47-48, 62, 143, 160 Faith, See Theology of faith Fiddes, Paul S., 48n3, 69n23, 128n33, 213n13 Francis of Assisi, St., 21, 29, 47, 149, 152n8, 193, 202, 213n10, 218, 223; and Canticle of Brother Sun xiv, xxiin9, xxiin12, 196, 223; and Nature xxiiin12; Legacy of xii-xv Fretheim, Terence E., 69n25, 196, 213n9, 213n11 Freud, Sigmund, 49n5, 79 Gnosticism, 60, 66n2, 189, 202-203, 212, 215n27, See also Cosmic despair and Nature, gnostic view of God: Accommodating Godself to a variety of creatures 200-201, 213n12; and evil (theodicy) 22, 43, 62-64, 69n23, 69n27, 74, 212, See also Jesus/Christ and the problem of evil; as immanent xvii 129-143, 232; as joyful process 104-107, as natural as well as spiritual 108-109, 127n25; as self-giving savior 113-119; as the Beyond and the Immediate, not the Above 136, 142; as torrential flow 109-113; as Trinity See Trinity; as wholly other 38, 46, 61, 63, 65, 74, 97, 98, 103, 129, 135, 174, 175, 232; attributes of 104, 127n21; Beyond images of 125n12; Crucified 113-115, 122; Eclipse of 23, 31, 248 | Before Nature 38-39; Fecundity of 105, 148; Immanence...