The Nature of Things: Rediscovering the Spiritual in God's Creation

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In 2015 a conference on "Rediscovering the Spiritual in God's Creation" was held at the Serafino winery complex in the McLaren Vale region of South Australia. The aim of the conference was not to seek consensus but to survey the landscape with a view to intentional responsible action in caring for God's creation. Delegates were challenged to recognize their own worldviews and to widen their horizons to encompass the enormity of the transcendence and immanence of God's presence in all creation. A group of leading international scholars and experts in the fields of science, ecology, theology, and ethics participated in a multidisciplinary conversation on the spiritual in creation, with the aim of discovering fresh horizons with regard to creation care, liturgy, justice, and discipleship within the Christian community. The chapters in this volume reflect the diversity of perspectives summarized in The Serafino Declaration, which was crafted towards the end of the conference. This declaration (which opens the volume) outlines a range of views relating to the presence of the spiritual in creation, views that are both traditional and radical. This volume highlights the current concern over ecological destruction and finds sources of inspiration in the deepest roots of our traditions and forms of spirituality to sustain efforts towards custodianship of the land and care for God's creation.

Contributors:
David Rhoads
Paul Santmire
Denis Edwards
Bob White
Heather Eaton
Ernst Conradie
Vicky Balabanski
Celia Deane-Drummond
Mark Worthing
Emily Colgan
Dianne Rayson
Anne Gardner
Mark Liederbach
Patricia Fox
Anne Elvey
Mick Pope

About the author

Graham Buxton is a Senior Research Fellow at the Graeme Clark Research Institute at Tabor College of Higher Education in Adelaide, South Australia, and currently serves as a Professor of Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in California. His most recent books are An Uncertain Certainty (Cascade Books, 2014) and a revised edition of Dancing in the Dark (Cascade Books, 2016). Norman Habel is a Professorial Fellow at Flinders University. He has taken the lead internationally in the field of ecological hermeneutics, specializing in ecology and the Bible, as well as Wisdom literature. His writing initiatives include The Land Is Mine (1995), Exploring Ecological Hermeneutics (2008), and The Season of Creation (2011).

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